To experience a Juana Molina concert is to be swept away in a most particular sort of rapture. In the late 80s and early 90s, the Argentine singer-songwriter had a successful career in television and comedy before changing gears to pursue music. An early proponent of combining South American folk music and electronica, Molina introduced […]
Tag: electronica
Jazz drummer Gerald Cleaver explores electronica on Signs
Drummer Gerald Cleaver has explored the edges of jazz in a career that’s already stretched over more than four decades. On last year’s What Is to Be Done (Clean Feed) he joined saxophonist Larry Ochs and Wilco guitarist Nels Cline for a set that swayed and jerked about in the space between free playing, ambience, […]
Eve Maret builds new bodies for a new age
When asked by online magazine Earhart whether she’s a musician or a performance artist, Nashville multi-instrumentalist and composer Eve Maret described herself as “a spiritual being that seeks to know herself and the divine within-without her through creative acts.” If that sounds like a quote from the liner notes of a new age album, well, […]
12 O’Clock Track: The soft-beat lushness of Shigeto’s “Detroit Part 1”
The standout track off of the Detroit producer’s No Better Time Than Now
12 O’Clock Track: Violetness’s chilly, fuzzy “The Mighty Moss”
Before summer arrives with its flock of sunburned melodies, enjoy Violetness’s icily brooding “The Mighty Moss.”
Hola! The return of Señor Coconut
Latin beats on the Autobahn: the return of Señor Coconut
Festival de Música Latina Electrónica
It’s a great weekend for big music festivals, but don’t sleep on the little Festival of Latin Electronic Music in Pilsen.
Acid Mothers Temple/Spaceheads
The sprawling psychedelia of the Japanese collective Acid Mothers Temple–more formally known as Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O.–makes the neohippie trappings of their countrymen in Ghost seem downright subtle. On their recently released second album, Pataphisical Freak Out MU!! (P.S.F.), about 15 of the 30-some “famous and unknown musicians, artists, dancers, farmers, […]