Category: Magazine Sixty reviews
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Magazine Sixty Music Review With Philippa
Greg Fenton reviews Philippa – Port Chalmers EP – SlothBoogie Recordings Philippa is one of the few artists handling Disco and its associated strains of rhythm and blues creatively, not merely replaying the past over a click track but shaping, and altering its design into something that feels worth its place in time. For me,…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review With Quiet Village
Greg Fenton reviews Quiet Village – Reunion – Quiet Village Placing the words quiet and village beside each other suggests serenity and security. However, underpinning the calm are waves of underlying intensity coursing throughout the lifelines of Reunion via hard, shuffling drums, alongside tense piano amid a warm glow of musical fortitude espousing the rewards…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review With Barac
Greg Fenton reviews Barac – Hypnotic Grayscale EP – Yecad Barac’s deep dive into pace, movement, and esoteric atmospheres rewards in equal measure. Driven by a punchy tempo and various offset keys, sounds, and notes the rhythm section is soon joined by the hypnotic pulse of splashing snares and quick-fire percussion resulting in ten-plus minutes…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review With Finn Rees
Greg Fenton reviews Finn Rees – Dawn Is A Melody – Mr Bongo Sounding like falling into grace Finn Rees plays like tomorrow is a forever shining possibility. The players accompanying him throughout the album deftly add time and space defining each piece as an enticing listen while you experience all the joys of being…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review With Kenneth James Gibson & Paul Carman
Greg Fenton reviews Kenneth James Gibson & Paul Carman – Murals For Immersion – Cassauna Murals For Immersion sounds like an announcement. Spoken in a bruising fashion the music builds anticipation and then rests while you react to what’s been said. This collaboration between Kenneth James Gibson and Paul Carman is exquisite, yet tense and…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review With Warriors of the Dystotheque
Greg Fenton reviews Warriors of the Dystotheque – A Good Morning & Telepathic Tacos – Disappear (DSPPR) This is great. Not least of all because of the superbly played double bass as its strings intertwine with probing guitar and horns and sparkling drums warming up the heart and elevating the imagination. Flying free alongside the…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review With PC Nackt
Greg Fenton reviews PC Nackt – Angabe Der Person – Naked Records I have long been fascinated by the language exchanged between actors, visual cues, and the musical soundtracking of that expression. PC Nackt’s haunting interpretation of Elfriede Jelinek’s play, Angabe Der Person strikes a chord with all of the inner turmoil playing out in…
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Magazine Sixty Music review with Manuel Tur
Greg Fenton reviews Manuel Tur – Intertextural – Spaced Repetitions Full of intentional surprises this brilliantly exciting album from Manuel Tur sounds like a homage to the fever of nightfall amidst unknown situations and tempting propositions. It sounds excellent too, defined with a wealth of lounge possibilities reclining into laidback positions amid the breadth of…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review With Shcaa
Greg Fenton reviews Shcaa – Neptune EP – Placidum Dancing with an uneasy grace Shcaa’s ultra-intense production, executing the extremely comprehensive title, Her Conscious Drift To Neptune’s Frozen Reliefs combines sinister cool alongside simmering electrical chaos, yet somehow remains rather beautiful communicating a sense of the world surrounding us at this point. The brilliant bass…