Setsubun (節分), came out in February, and the spring release,
Yamawarau (山笑う), arrived May 7. All three albums are credited to Jusell, Prymek, Sage, Shiroishi, but in a Cached newsletter announcing
Yamawarau, Sage proposed an alternative: fans could refer to the group as Fuubutsushi, a Japanese word that more or less means evoking nostalgia for a season, like cherry blossoms in spring. It s a fitting term for a group whose music echoes the subtle shifts of natural processes. On the
Yamawarau track Kodama, Shiroishi s soft, seraphic singing seems to summon a gradually intensifying instrumental interplay gently arpeggiating guitars, pitter-pattering percussion, duvet-plush horns and violins that s suggestive of a field of lilies coming into bloom.
Daryl Worthington
, May 5th, 2021 09:22
From drip powered cave orchestras to raw sax improvisations and stunning electronics, Daryl Worthington finds hope and strangeness on cassettes in May
Eilien aka Ellen Virman
Back in 1992 Bruce Sterling described cyberspace as the place where a phone conversation seems to happen – not in the devices themselves but some imagined zone in between. The boundaries of that space have expanded exponentially since the nineties, but perhaps the biggest surprise is that much of the romance and wonder promised in its sublime digital potential is currently finding its way onto a supposedly archaic format – the trusty cassette.
The Outside Published March 15, 2021 at 7:19 PM EDT
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Playlist for Ep. 66, 3/14/21:
Tongue Depressor - SIDE A
Leila Bordreuil - Past Continuous
Patrick Shiroishi - The Very Heart of Things
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Jon Mueller - Endlessness
Lea Bertucci - Axis/Atlas
Golden Retriever - Emergent Layer
Caboladies - Reweaving The Charity Basket
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Listen to Evan every Sunday night from 11 PM-1 AM on The Outside.
Tags Evan Miller is a percussionist, lover of sound, and is probably buying too many cassette tapes online right now. Evan got his start in radio in 2012 at WWSU at Wright State University, where he was studying percussion performance. He followed through with both endeavors and eventually landed a lucrative dual career playing experimental music at home and abroad, and broadcasting those sounds to unsuspecting listeners Sunday nights on
Daryl Worthington
, March 4th, 2021 09:12
From restaurant themed sound art to saz led psych jams and pogoing black metal, Daryl Worthington finds the tape scene continues to shine a light throughout these weird days
A/C Repair School is the Brazilian duo of Rafael de Toledo Pedroso and Carolina Simionato (who also makes music as Soft Verges), and on new album Órfãs, they produce something remarkably lucid from the barest instrumentation. Their songs deal with abandonment (the album’s title translates to orphans), and not just in the lyrics – it’s inscribed into the very music itself. Simionato’s vocals on ‘bom demais pra ser mentira’ have a torch song quality, but pulled into the fuzz it feels fragile and isolated – a love song broadcast into the void.