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On a collaboration between Austin’s More Eaze and Orange Milk co-founder Seth Graham, the music’s frequent rests and lacunae lend its jazz-tinged electroacoustic mesh a stony, severe quality.
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 intensi...
Daryl Worthington , April 14th, 2021 09:02 Solo trumpet doom, flamenco free jazz, and new ways of playing the room. Daryl Worthington finds thrilling experiments going down in the tape world this month Neo Geodesia by Emmanuel Ojomo This month starts on the sad news that the man who made this all possible, Lou Ottens, has died. The Dutch engineer is credited with inventing the cassette tape, presenting the first version at a Berlin electronics fair in 1963. He passed away 6 March at his home in the Netherlands. Marketed with the tagline “smaller than a pack of cigarettes,” portability an...
Daryl Worthington , December 18th, 2020 09:21 Daryl Worthington brings the year in cassettes to a close, with 2020’s best tapes, and the year’s best tape label Mariam Rezaei What’s the point of releasing music on cassette in 2020? It’s a dated format and surely we could all be doing something better with our time in a year marked by tragedy. Clearly spouting off nonsense about better art being made in times of adversity isn’t the answer. It’s inaccurate, a gross disservice to those suffering, and a privileged misunderstanding of the reality that for many adversity didn’t come ...