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Album Review: Quayola/Seta – Transient : an evocative debut album from these multi-media originals.
Acclaimed media artist Quayola is a visualiser who works within the confluence of sound and vision. As well as his extensive globe-trotting catalogue of solo exhibitions he has collaborated with Jamie XX, Plaid and the late, great Mira Calix, converging his imagery with their soundscapes. More recently he has paused and re-focused, taking what feels …
New Track: Multi-media originals Quayola/Seta preview their evocative debut album ‘Transient’
Sound and vision, vision and sound, acclaimed media artist Quayola is a visualiser who works with convergence and endless flow, breaking down boundaries, exploring possibilities and creating experiences. Having collaborated with Jamie XX, Plaid and the late, great Mira Calix, weaving imagery into their soundscapes, more recently he has been developing his own music-focused project, …
Droppin’ Knowledge: On His LP Border Patrol, Singer-Songwriter Farees Turns Trauma Into Art, With Humor, Grace and Righteous Anger
When Farees, the singer-song writer, released his stirring debut solo album in 2015, Mississippi to Sahara, (under the name Faris), he did what many artists do; he planned a tour to support the album. The tour would traverse the United States, with stops at summer festivals and storied music venues, including the Public Theater in …
Say Psych: Video Premiere: Modern Stars – Jesus Walks Alone
Modern Stars are Andrea Merolle, Barbara Margani and Andrea Sperduti. Andrea and Andrea played in several bands of the Latium underground scene, while Barbara is a lyric soprano. Their music is instinctive and at the same time flickering, fuzzy, aerial, groovy, bizarre, distorted, harmonious and dissonant. They are heavily influenced by Spacemen 3, Primal Scream, …
Say Psych: Track: Black Rainbows – Radio 666
Italians Black Rainbows have recently announced the release of their eight studio album Cosmic Ritual Supertrip, to be released on Heavy Psych Sounds, and unveil new track ‘Radio 666’. Recorded at Forward Studios in Rome on a Neve desk by Fabio Sforza, Cosmic Ritual Supertrip has a monolithic force; guitars, drums and bass are all glued together to give the …
Say Psych: Premiere: Crimen – Six Weeks
BSM and Fuzz Club Records are pleased to bring you the premiere of ‘Six Weeks’, the first rack to air from Italian trio Crimen, taken from their forthcoming debut album. Silent Animals may be the debut album from them, but it arrives over a decade into their career. Simone Greco (bass, voice, sound engineering) and Patrizio …
Say Psych: Album Review: Killer Boogie – Acid Cream
Rating: 7/10 Rome’s Killer Boogie are the latest in a sequence of Italian bands bringing out great albums and thrusting their way unashamedly to prominence. Comprised of Gabriele Fiori (guitars, vocals), Luigi Costanzo (drums) and Nicola Cosentino (bass) they released their latest album Acid Cream this month of Heavy Psych Sounds Records. The band are …
Track: Snow In Mexico – Juno Beach
Out this week on Saint Marie Records is the new, third, EP from Italian electronic duo Snow In Mexico, aka Andrea Novelli and Massimiliano Cruciani. Titled Juno Beach, it sits somewhere between the perfect electronic pop of the Pet Shop Boys, with nuances of Indie Pop and M83 somewhere along the way. Think a more …