Posts Tagged ‘ Locrian ’

I already reviewed “The Clearing” way back when it was released on vinyl.  
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Back in March, we lost one of my friends, and one of Foxy Digitalis’ earliest contributors and supporters (and inspirations, really) when he passed away after a battle with ALS.  Lee Jackson was one of experimental music’s biggest and best champions, always available to listen to something with a thoughtful ear and give an...
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Haptic quietly returns with Scilens, an electro-acoustic collage of shapeless textures and subtle flashes of eerie clatter.  
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Locrian returns with what might be their most meditative release yet.  
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On this long awaited collaboration between Mamiffer and Locrian, the two artists waste no time getting straight to the point.
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Chicago’s recent legend Locrian is back on 7”s of shiny black vinyl.  
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Here’s a release that is sure to bring a tear of joy to the eye and a fresh well of drool to the lips.  It’s an instant classic!  Everything about this record is aimed to please.  
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Once or twice a year an instant classic is released of epic proportions. 
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The summing up of a full year of any enterprise is difficult to do.  Annual reports from businesses are often an exercise in self-congratulation; to me critics’ year-end lists are ubiquitous, and I have found the act of writing one to be similar to the act of holding running water in the hand–it is...
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Here are some things I enjoyed in 2010: Best Album Sun City Girls, “Funeral Mariachi” (Abduction) Part of the Sun City Girls’ appeal for me was always their unpredictability, their total refusal to play by anyone’s rules but their own.  So it was fitting then, not only as a tribute to the late Charles...
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1. Emeralds – Does it Look Like I’m Here? (Editions Mego) Such an impressive, beautiful and multi-dimensional record.  What I love the most is how Emeralds manage to push their drone into the outer realms of pop, while still maintaining a strong sense of experimentation.  There are moments where the boys get lost in...
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André Foisy is best-known for his work with Locrian, but this solo effort shows that he’s capable of creating some excellent music all by himself.  
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Century Plants are the duo of Ray Hare and Eric Hardiman (who also runs the Tape Drift label). 
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