Category: Magazine Sixty reviews
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Trentemøller
Greg Fenton reviews Trentemøller – Dreamweaver – In My Room Listening to A Different Light casts your mind back to a time when music was crafted by a human hand, sketched out and created to shift your soul around, maybe even break it into pieces. The exceptional thing about Trentemøller is the way he makes…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Claudio Iacono
Greg Fenton reviews Claudio Iacono – Nishane – Pins and Needles Magazine Sixty is as much about things that sound the same as it is about seeking to highlight sounds that don’t fit the mold. Claudio Iacono’s darkly, tempting excellent production falls into the later proposition with smoldering rhythms and voices exposing chiming rocky guitars…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Juliet Mendoza & Ben Dragon
Greg Fenton reviews Juliet Mendoza & Ben Dragon – I Wish I Was Your Record – Rules Don’t Apply If you are endlessly tempted by the excitement of late nights and the fizz of early mornings then I Wish I Was Your Record was created just for you. First and foremost is the breathy voice…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Genius of Time
Greg Fenton reviews Genius Of Time – The Genius of Time Vocal series Vol.2 – Aniara Recordings Closer sounds like the smoldering essence of contemporary music for the soul it so obviously is. By combining a rush of sweet strings, bump and grind drums alongside a set of heavenly, harmonious voices that dream as they…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Giash
Greg Fenton reviews Giash – Végtelen Derengette – Archipel Musique Canada The breathless undulating funk that greets you upon igniting play on Raquettelig is beautiful and deeply satisfying, albeit hitting twists and turns in the gathering storm of its process. Much like the uncertain path weaved through life does. Watch out for the sudden ending.…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with John Haycock
Greg Fenton reviews John Haycock – Resonance – Before I Die I couldn’t let summer pass me by without talking up this record. When music is long for a reason, as is the case here with Reasonance, it can say a thousand words. John Haycock’s drifting, movable landscapes of sound signify change and possibility –…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Sasha
Greg Fenton reviews Sasha – How To Wear Raybans Well – Last Night On Earth Apart from the blazingly obvious, brilliant title How To Wear Raybans Well captures the fizz of urgency and that probing excitement of contemporary art realized as sonic release. An instrumental that speaks for itself, driven by keys lifting and falling…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Loleatta Holloway
Greg Fenton reviews Loleatta Holloway – We’re Getting Stronger – SoulMusic Records (SMR) Catching up on some summer releases not to be missed. Let’s begin with this brilliant compilation from the singer who needs little or no introduction. Her soul-saving voice has graced a string-filled array of classic numbers across the Disco cannon featured on…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with GAS
Greg Fenton reviews GAS – GAS – Kompakt 491 Time travels fast and lose these days and this welcome reissue of GAS from 1996 is timely and significantly provides enough reason to revisit and relive the experience in full. Wolfgang Voigt’s alias sounds as impactful now as then with each piece of music exposing deep-felt…