MEMORA8ILIA
a filing cahinet for 8sided.blog
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/
❝ Toral has released several sparse epics, but Violence… is his finest, in part because he focuses his efforts on a more intimate scale. A track such as the opening “Desirée” might overwhelm and cause mental drift at album-side length; at three and a half minutes, its lush northern-lights shimmer envelopes you, ravishes you and moves on. Still, this is, more than Toral’s previous efforts, a guitar record. You can hear the contour and grain of actual straight-outta-the-amp feedback amid the shifting timbres on “Maersk Line” and “Liberté.” ❞ *
https://memora8ilia.com/index.php/2022/05/08/rafael-toral-desiree-toral-has-released/
❝ [The two producers] looked for thematic connections within their individual practices that might match Kamaru’s meditative soundscapes with Désiré’s crumbling cyberpunk expressionism, and surprisingly for two artists renowned for their grasp of minimalism, it was the opposite that drew their attention. Watching the world shift as it reacted to the spiraling pandemic, Kamaru and Désiré were moved to experiment with volume, physicality, and intense emotionality. ❞ *
This thing gets nuts and in the best possible way.
https://memora8ilia.com/index.php/2022/04/29/kmru-aho-ssan-resurgence-edit-the-two/
❝ The show explored the aesthetics of non-performance, object-made music, online self-surveillance, and the fragile utopia embodied by the music platform SoundCloud. A unifying point of reference is the seemingly utopian space provided by this platform; its apparent non-hierarchical openness to all producers of audio material, while also being deeply embedded in the structures of surveillance capitalism… I presented ‘Standard Documents,’ which was a sound installation reworking my earlier suite of works focusing on surveillance, using the indiscrete signals pulled down from the ether, including private mobile phone conversations. ❞ *
https://memora8ilia.com/index.php/2022/04/20/the-show-explored-the-aesthetics-of/