Wilderness of Mirrors Lawrence English You can purchase a copy of the album and listen to samples here. Lawrence English is one of the most important sound artists working today. I was lucky enough to get a chance to listen to his amazing new album, Wilderness of Mirrors this week, which resulted in my writing about […]
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July
24
Lisa chat’s with Lawrence English about Wilderness of Mirrors. (Music Interview)
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July
21
Lawrence English – Wilderness of Mirrors (Music Review)
posted by lisathatcher
These with a thousand small deliberations Protract the profit of their chilled delirium, Excite the membrane, when the sense has cooled, With pungent sauces, multiply variety In a wilderness of mirrors. What will the spider do, Suspend its operations, will the weevil Delay? De Bailhache, Fresca, Mrs. Cammel, whirled Beyond the circuit of the shuddering […]
February
04
Chair – Simon James Phillips sits in a room. (Music Review)
posted by lisathatcher
Chair by Simon James Phillips is available through Room 40 When Simon James Phillips fills the cathedral ceilings with his sonorous repetitions, the act of creation forces the sound to live, as a changing formulating thing, obeying certain laws of mathematics and phenomenology, and at the same time building on itself, a musical repetition being […]
January
21
The Unintentional Sea – Rafael Anton Irisarri and the sound of the erosion of life. (Music Review)
posted by lisathatcher
Is man-made environmental tragedy suicide? If, according to Camus, suicide is an open admission that life is not worth living, then perhaps environmental degradation is a subliminal declaration of the same? What does it mean when we will not act to repair our own environmental damage? For Rafael Anton Irisarri, an artist inspired by existentialists […]
April
02
Mike Cooper – White Shadows in the South Seas: Exotica for the dawn of a new age. (music review)
posted by lisathatcher
When Arthur Lyman shouted those bird calls into the audience at the Shell Bar in 1951, he had no idea he was teetering drunk on the edge of a revolution. Not just a revolution in sound with the birth of Exotica, but a revolution with the discovery of Island Kitsch igniting a national mania for all […]
