Magazine Sixty
Music reviews and artist interviews
Magazine Sixty brings you reviews and interviews with some of the worlds leading independent artists. Discover excitng new electronic music, revisit seminal classics and hear from the people behind the sounds.
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Greg Fenton reviews Gråzon, Hame, Pango and Tren – Pintai 001 Gråzon’s rapturous Dealing Is Healing begins the celebration of this first release from Pintai, a label centered around the Amsterdam based parties of the same name. An inward-looking yet joyous declaration of the universal the music is powered by a series of contrasts as…
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Greg Fenton reviews Scanner – Columns – The Vinyl Factory It’s easy to throw cliques around such as journey, narrative, or immersive to describe music. All are brilliant signifiers although have a definite air of over-familiarity in the current moment. So for the sake of argument and risk of running approval let’s use the perennial…
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Greg Fenton reviews Snowdrops – Singing Stones (Volume 1) – Gizeh Records Listening to Singing Stones is an experience filled with wonder. Captivated by unfolding, unknown sounds as they suggest bigger pictures in the mind while pouring nourishing tones into your soul is always a gratefully received prospect. Perhaps the two pieces initially grabbing your…
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Greg Fenton reviews Afterlife & Moonseed present – Primal Virtue – Subatomic Dancing around notes engulfing a sonic path while heading toward enlightenment this enticing collaboration has dared to produce music sprinkled with the achievement of wonder. Afterlife and Moonseed weave spells like they fashion sounds enriched by the air of mystery unfolding across the…
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Greg Fenton reviews boycalledcrow – eyetrees – Hive Mind Records Time again to engage with boycalledcrow and his weird, pastoral, funky folk completed by a heavy dose of psychedelic soul – I was never one for sticking with any one genre – which as with previous albums fuses the delight of discovering together with a…
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Greg Fenton reviews Angel Lin – All Of These Are In Me – Full Spectrum Records Are there fresh ways of describing music that doesn’t rely upon words to convey a message? Probably not. But I guess what is important is the intensity of emotions that get stirred by listening to sounds without boundaries. Angel…
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Greg Fenton reviews Richard Norris – Music For Healing: Equinox Reading remains essential as does listening. Two things Richard Norris has made exemplary both with his recent illuminating book, Strange Things Are Happening, and via his creation of sound such as this compilation of twelve seasonal pieces of music. The word music is key here.…
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Greg Fenton reviews Tuccillo – Serial Deeper Vol.1 – Volumo Direct Serial Deeper is a great piece of music that travels in differing directions gathering momentum through rhythm and melodic flourishes. Capturing the heart of eight intriguing minutes the title track deftly explores the dividing line between rigorous, grainy drums and bass, and the lighter…
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Greg Fenton reviews N2N and Rob Marion – Shake That Acid – Nervous Records This is all sorts of funkiness rolled into one. The drums undulate like excitable liquid offset by an array of fired-up modulated sounds that punch and punctuate to operate this fabulous rhythm device. Voices are clipped yet pertinent: Shake That Acid…
