Journeys in Sound & Music
Hailing from Motherwell, a town southeast of Glasgow once known as the steel capital of Scotland, A Sudden Burst of Colour is an instrumental rock trio that has been making music for the better part of a decade now. After a string of stellar EPs and singles in recent years, the band has just released…
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Phoebe Dubar is a classically trained multi-instrumentalist and producer based in Melbourne/Naarm. As a practicing sound alchemist, Dubar facilitates sound baths and conducts training workshops both locally and abroad. Under the hopeful moniker of IKSRE (I Keep Seeing Rainbows Everywhere), however, she engages in alchemy of a different kind by creating music that features field recordings from…
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Back in the spring, we had a chance to visit with Sofia Nystrand aka Vargkvint and talk about her new album Månens Hav (‘oceans of the moon’), a collection of songs that extended her lifelong fascination with the sea into the realms of symbolism and mythology. The record also marked her debut on Nils Frahm’s…
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For the past decade, French producer Franck Zaragoza has been making music under the moniker of Ocoeur that fuses electronics, glitch, and intricate sound design with atmospheric compositions drawing influences from both classical and cinematic sources. This week will see the release of his latest album for the project called Nouveau Départ which is rooted…
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Jimmy LaValle has been making music as either the sole or lead member of The Album Leaf for a long time. The founding of the project goes back to the late 90’s when LaValle played in a variety of California post-genre bands and began developing the distinctive blend of synths, electronics, and Rhodes piano that…
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Deepriver is a recently formed intercontinental project from Jason van Wyk, based in Cape Town, and Joni Ljungqvist, based in Stockholm. With Volume One set for release next month on n5MD, the two musicians open a new chapter in a long history of collaboration dating back over a decade. The project, which Van Wyk subtly…
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Since her impressive DIY album debut Brus in 2017, multi-talented artist Sofia Nystrand has enchanted listeners with the music of Vargkvint, her solo music project which draws its inspiration from the oceans, forests and folklore of her native Sweden. 2019 saw the release of her concept album Hav, a record steeped in the folklore, language,…
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Tom Adams is a critically acclaimed artist living and working in Cornwall, England whose recorded output spans a broad emotional spectrum and a diverse array of musical styles from melancholic piano-ambient works and intimate vocal performances to synth driven electronic beats and distortion-driven walls of sound. Wherever in this expansive and eclectic range he is…
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It was the fall of 2021 when Spanish composer Pepo Galán and Australian dream pop vocalist/musician Karen Vogt (now based in Paris) unveiled their first album as GALÁN / VOGT. The Sweet Wait is a mesmeric weave of dark ambient, dream pop, shoegaze, slowcore, experimental, drone and neo-classical music equally indebted to the potency of…
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