Yeah I Know It Sucks wrote a love fest on their blog this morning highlighting my solo duet (?) cover of Lionel Richie and Diana Ross’s original ❤ Head over to the blog and share in the adulation!
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EJK on A Little Bit of Sol
Thank you to A Little Bit of Sol for the review of my music, including Music for the DMV, Starchild, Concert Music, and If I Told Him:
“If there was ever the perfect example of ‘soundscapes’ this is it. So much to take in, so much to get lost in. Sometimes twisted but always enchanting.”
See the full post over on the blog!
Orca, Attack! on In Memory Of John Peel Show
Zaph Mann reached out to me with some kind words after the Wormhole World sampler led him to listen to Music for the DMV. He didn’t stop there, though — thanks to his sonic exploration, Orca, Attack!, my project with husband David Miller Rodriguez, has had its radio/podcast debut! Zaph playlisted my remix of Dave’s brilliant song “Only Midnight Knows” on his January 25 show and had some really nice things to say about our Composer Challenges project.
Catch the full show below, and view the playlist on the In Memory of John Peel on the website.
#M4DMV reviewed on Trust The Doc
A little late on this one, but big thanks to Neil March for reviewing Music for the DMV on Edition 15 of Trust-The-Doc! Read it here.
#M4DMV reviewed on Concrete Islands
Thanks so much to Stewart Gardiner and Concrete Islands for a superb review of Music for the DMV! Read the full review here.
#M4DMV on An Earful’s Best Of 2018: Electronic
Thank you to An Earful for including Music for the DMV on their Best Electronic Albums of 2018 (along with Eno, the man himself)! An excerpt:
While one would think that relaxing sounds would be the best thing to help survive another license renewal, Kelly uses a variety of shiny textures and bright melodies to instead provide distraction. And there’s plenty of that to be found here, as well as charm, especially in the three tracks classed as Gymnopedies. Best of all, however, is Call My Number, which has an almost comical sense of yearning and absolutely reminds me of that time when the scheduling system crashed at the DMV and I lost my place in line.
Full list here.
#M4DMV Best of 2018 on Recent Music Heroes
Thank you so much to Recent Music Heroes for naming Music for the DMV to their list of Best Albums 2018!!!
Beau Travail on BBC Lancashire’s On the Wire
My song “Beau Travail” from the Wormhole World sampler A Picture Of Good Health was played on BBC Lancashire’s legendary On The Wire yesterday 🤩 Listen to the whole show here or below!
#Starchild review on Yeah I Know It Sucks
An absurd but superb review from Yeah I Know It Sucks, this time for #Starchild, my two-song release with Xqui! Per usual it’s full of amazing quotes, but here’s a taster:
“Thanks to their production my mind started to flow weightless through mystique hallways that come to me across as a maze of tunnels and doors. Sometimes the music bursts through those doors, knocking them open to go deeper into this fairy kind of minimal surrealism & to be fair; get slightly lost in this place that seems to be the starting point of many more adventures.”
tinymixtapes water-themed playlist
I contributed a mixtape track listing to tinymixtapes for the theme “I do not know how to swim but can’t stop thinking about the sea,” requested by Tracey Thorn (THAT Tracey Thorn? I don’t know, but I hope so!). My track list is below with links to purchase the songs, and I also made a YouTube playlist. Enjoy!
01. Elizabeth Joan Kelly – “In A Chill Mood”
02. Orbit Stern & Q – “The River”
03. Tsegue-Maryam Guebrou – “The Jordan River Song”
04. Maarja Nuut & Ruum – “Haned kadunud”
05. Low – “Sea”
06. Library Tapes & Julia Kent – “A Summer By The Sea I”
07. Haruomi Hosono, Shigeru Suzuki, & Tatsuro Yamashita – “Saigo no Rakuen”
08. Sealionwoman – “Siren”
09. Jumping Back Slash feat. Nonku Phiri – “The Sirens Call”
10. Orca, Attack! – “Deep Blue” (missing from youtube playlist)
Elizabeth Joan Kelly 