Month: November 2018

Quiet Space — #73 — Bionulor: 100% sound recycling

Bionulor is a one-man music project founded in 2006 by the Polish actor and educationist Sebastian Banaszczyk using his own working method named “100% sound recycling”. This means that every track is created solely on the basis of processing only one sample deriving of a specially selected source sound, without any additional sounds or instruments.

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1/2/3/4 — #78 — Under a Midnight Moon

Monteagle is the solo project of American singer-songwriter Justin Giles Wilcox. Known primarily for his work in the band Nassau, Wilcox’s new album blends traditional Americana with some softer, more atmospheric elements creating a hauntingly unique experience. A program with plenty of lazy, hazy psych folk and rock.

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1/2/3/4 — #77 — Anna Tivel, Onipa and Yowo Music

Portland artist Anna Tivel creates wide-eyed celestial folk with a confessional edge. She has a wonderful new single out ahead of her album next year and we’ll feature that on this edition of the podcast. As well, William Elliot Whitmore who can seamlessly meld country, blues, folk, and punk together, he does this with aplomb on his new collection of covers, Kilonova. Plus bouncy electronic Afrofuturistic pop from Onipa, the excellent new release from the Yowo Music collective – dedicated to nurturing/encouraging high school aged girls and GNC youth and much more.

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Quiet Space — #72 — Ghost In The Machine

Inspired by the hours spent on travelling on tour and all the isolated landscapes he encountered, Canadian composer Cédric D. Lavoie’s 88 was composed on the piano with bowed and plucked upright basses, some discrete percussion and sound effects.  88 is Cédric D. Lavoie’s first album for Preserved Sound and our featured work on this edition of the Quiet Space. As well the excellent new Yamaneko release on Longform Editions plus Panoptique Electrical, Ben Chatwin and more….

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Quiet Space — #71 — The Slowcraft of James Murray

James Murray is a composer specialising in minimal electronic and electroacoustic music. His recordings have been issued by respected labels worldwide since 2004 and often have strong conceptual themes inviting personal or emotional reflection. Our focus is on his most recent release, Landscape of Lovers. Romantic music can fall into saccharine, soppy, and sickly-sweet traps, but on this release Murray eschews and avoids these dangerous tropes, instead honing in on and finding the essence of love, and of what it means to love.

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