Mind Over Mirrors is the work of Chicago’s Jaime Fennelly (formerly of Peeesseye), who may be familiar to Foxy readers from his releases on Digitalis and Gift Tapes (reissued on Aguirre).
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Travis Bird
Mind Over Mirrors, “Near Your Dwelling” 7″
Eleh, “Radiant Intervals”
There’s not much to say in words about the latest release by the still-anonymous Eleh.
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Heavy Chains, “A Very Real Hell” EP
Vancouver hardcore here, keeping the torch alive.
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Awaken!, “Trancendation Activation: The Love Amplification Channel”
This could be, in its own way, an extraordinarily ambitious project.
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Bacanal Intruder, “Do If, While Else” tape
Bacanal Intruder is the decade-long project of Spain’s Luís Solís, who pursues what you might call the intersection between folk and electronic music “in a digital environment.”
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Rob, “Make It Fast, Make It Slow”
I reviewed the first album by Ghana’s enigmatic Rob (Reindorf), impressed by the, ahem, militant tightness of his backing band Mag-2 (they were actually culled from a military unit) and Rob’s charmingly off-kilter frontman energy.
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Hobo Cubes, “Molecular Geometry” tape
A humble missive from the Hobo Cubes camp, this tape compiles two live recordings of Montreal cosmic improvisation.
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Bryter Layter, “Two Lenses” LP
I’ve been traveling for the past several weeks (not doing anything notable, just moving from place to place in a semi-ritualistic way), and as a result I haven’t listened to much music lately, let alone written much in the way of reviews.
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German Army, “Turkish Bath” CDr
Can’t find out too much about German Army, but this artist has a very diverse palette of dark ambient textures on this Kill Shaman release.
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Kantnagano, “Se Resigner Au Silence Extra-Terrestre” tape
This tape was an adventure to figure out, one of the more irritating-and-then-kind-of-cool conceptual commentaries on old-new forms of communication.
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Guardian Alien, “Drums>Space>Jam” tape
Listening to one of the handful of Guardian Alien tapes released recently reminded me of an important truism – although it’s far less common, an actual human being projecting intense emotions is way more affecting than a simple wall of noise.
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Yellow Crystal Star, “8 Faces of Ixchel in Autumn” tape
Although his live performances have still been engaging guitar-drone excursions, Yellow Crystal Star’s Mark Billings has been pushing the boundaries of his meditative minimalism further and further as he continues his journeying.
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Michael Northam’s Owl Songs, “Shapeshifter”
Somehow, this was my first experience reviewing or listening closely a Michael Northam release.
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