MEMORA8ILIA
a filing cahinet for 8sided.blog
❝ My music does not try to evoke emotions like joy, love, or pain from the audience. It just goes with the image, because I work in the moment. ❞ — Vangelis
ALThttps://memora8ilia.com/index.php/2022/05/19/my-music-does-not-try-to-evoke-emotions-like/
❝ All of these compositions were commissioned specifically by the choreographers for their projects, many of which might not be performed again (and one that never did get staged). ❞ *
Another fine installment of this series, with the song “Dote” being the highlight — it’s a singular masterpiece IMO.
https://memora8ilia.com/index.php/2022/05/17/loscil-blue-all-of-these-compositions-were/
Tokyo’s Minamo fuse acoustic guitar and electronic manipulations within elegantly improvised sound pieces. Beautiful mind-scapy stuff.
The album above as well as Durée and Shining are available as ‘name your price’ on Bandcamp for the week. Definitely worth grabbing.
https://memora8ilia.com/index.php/2022/05/16/minamo-yarn-tokyos-minamo-fuse-acoustic-guitar/
❝ “I decided to take the surrealist approach of ‘pure psychic automatism’ to see what poured out of me,” she recalls. “Woodland Encounter,” “Under a Glass Bell,” “The Grotto,” “The Mechanical Age,” “The Flaneur,” and “Psychic Sweeping” are all products of those sessions; the through line holding them together is their exploratory spirit and clarity of vision. ❞ *
https://memora8ilia.com/index.php/2022/05/16/patricia-wolf-woodland-encounter-i-decided/
A nice, leisurely house music track that feels like it’s played on a gamelan.
❝ The melody — a bright, expressive yet straightforward synth pattern — dates back to 2014. After seeking the therapy of dance clubs in New York City, the producer dusted it off and revamped the sequence into a pulsing track indebted to that backdrop of ephemeral bliss. ❞ *
https://memora8ilia.com/index.php/2022/05/09/ghostly-international-star-city-the-melody/