Blank Forms 10: Alien Roots: Éliane Radigue vinyl recordThe tenth and final anthology from Blank Forms explores the early electronic work of French composer Eliane Radigue, whose radical approach to feedback, analog synthesis, and composition on tape has long evaded historical and technical interpretation. Combining key texts, newly translated primary documents, in depth interviews, and commissioned essays, this compendium interrogates the composers idiosyncratic compositional practice, which both embraces
The record is a shapeshifting suite that fits veiled commodity critique
and the album’s final track “Monkey Chant
who is increasingly subject to Davis’s temper—fueled by both his professional envy and substance abuse—reckons with her strict upbringing
Jarman sings praise for the self-awareness realization possible through the martial arts
passionate musicality
following April is the cruellest month
Lambkin’s lyrics obfuscate his expressionist tendencies filtering them through the codes and languages of officialdom
Pitched against the steady trickle of Lambkin’s shower faucet (a nod to field recording artist Moniek Darge’s “Rain”) and a low
Selections from 100 Models of Hegikan Roku is the second in an ongoing series of archival records of the unheard music of Swedish composer
the trademark of her ensemble The Deontic Miracle which
Davis’ verse takes free flight with its muses
through a fateful meeting with Lena Horne
