Hersendood na weer een geweldige editie van het KRAAK festival? Nee, een kleine hoeveelheid cellen houdt dapper stand. De auditieve cortex is in ieder geval nog intact, want ook deze maand is het gelukt het kaf van het koren te scheiden. Van de akoestische black metal van Urpf Lanze , via de minimalistische drones van Éliane Radigue naar de slidegitaar improvisaties van Jon Collin ; op het eerste gehoor rustige muziek, doch met een intense uitwerking. Intens was ook het release schema van maart, vooral in de staart. [...]
I hope you're all relaxing and enjoying this Sunday evening. I on the other hand am completely exhausted. Two Christmas parties last night on opposite sides of town and late-night drinking escapades handicapped my workday. Now here I sit, trying to put together a mix tape for you when really all I want to do [...]
Ancient Ocean's side - Decomposition // Decay is a sublime procession of pulsating texture, a hazing of the subconscious. Electron false colours filled with droplets of distended keystrokes and singing bowl reverberations. Mellow actions of dronic love unravelling in zero gravities, punctured in a un-tethering of romantic glisten … Aural drama, magnified in a gorgeous acidic pour of guitar… a starlit gargantuan of fizzing expectation amongst the neurological vapours… a chemical ascension on gliss-kissed guitar lay lines and veiny spiders of nocturne, inching root balls clouded in carouselled confetti's… The flipside [...]
O trabalho sonoro de Justin Wright enquanto Expo 70 tem sido uma das mais recentes celebrações nos meandros do drone e da música exploratória. Desde 2003 que as edições se têm seguido com alguma regularidade, especialmente nos últimos dois anos, altura em que Wright chegou a um público mais vasto. Quase todo o seu material parte de longas sessões de improviso que posteriormente são condensadas em álbuns. Beguiled Entropy é um desses casos; criado sob o conceito de uma transmissão espacial em que o próprio se encontra a desenvolver, Sunseekers é, simultaneamente, excerto e ilustração da [...]
Early this year Justin Wright laid down a heavy piece of one-sided vinyl for the limited label Sound of Cobra. The two songs that came out of that session were dark, nebulous and even raga oriented pieces but the concentrated recording sessions that birthed those two tracks didn't stop there. Along with his three-piece recording unit, Wright delved deep into some embryonic space transmissions that seem to bounce shimmering vibes at a subatomic level. Those extended recording hours turned into Beguiled Entropy a full album's worth of psychedelic float that sees Expo 70 team up with the venerable [...]
Since venturing out on his own as Umberto, Expo 70’s Matt Hill has bounced everywhere from chromatic horror scores to Miami Vice-style soundtracks, merging his synth expertise with a particular flair for the theatrical. With ... read more
Maandag is het zover: dan gaat Incubate editie 2012 van start. Het festival dat Tilburg helemaal doet opleven is nog meer dan voorgaande jaren een allesomvattend evenement, met kunst, film, theater, debat en muziek. Je kan natuurlijk niet overal verstand van hebben, dus concentreer ik mij komende week op dat laatste. Een overzicht van de door mij uitgestippelde route, op de woensdag, zaterdag en zondag. Op woensdag 12 september ben ik twee uur lang niet weg te slaan uit de Paradox . Daar staat als het goed is het drumstel klaar van de Australische percussionist [...]
We consider Expo ’70 one of the most interesting musician of the North America’s new kosmische music scene and with this album he continues his travel into a sound made of hypnotic vibes, ecstasy and cosmic oneness. The two tracks of the album are played with synth, guitar, analogue electronics and percussions and trough a wise use of repetitons and loops they are able to conduce into altered
(More here ) On the 19th of January 2012, a zillion innocent songs faced obliteration . They had been caught in the middle of a battle pitting a Mount Rushmore of severe lawyerly faces, pockmarked with threatening takedown tendrils, and the khaki lords of the cloud, bloated by the windfall of a thousand network effects. No-one cared for the songs. They had long lived miserable existences locked in the zip cells of a cybernetic prison, crammed between adverts for scantily dressed ladies and pills supposedly [...]
Justin Wright’s Expo 70 project has been pushing experimental, drone and Kosmiche Musik to new realms for nearly a decade now. Constant touring and a string of critically acclaimed albums released on labels such as Kill Shaman, Beta-lactam Ring, Peasant Magik, Aguirre, and Wright’s own Sonic Meditations label have clearly brought Expo 70’s name to the forefront of modern drone and Kosmiche
French label Radar Swarm will be releasing a limited split LP next week from Justin Wright's Expo 70 and the French experimental duo Altair Temple . The 123 is limited to 300 copies and features 3 tracks from Altair Temple and "Land Of the Midnight Sun" from Expo 70, which also made an appearance on the 100 copy cassette only release "Paralyzed" last year. The split should be available to order soon from the label , but in the meantime, you can listen to the Altair Temple side below! ALTAÏR TEMPLE [...]
Two unearthed recordings from the vault. Side A features McKinley Jones (Breathing Flowers) and Justin Wright both improvising on Realistic Moogs from 2008. Side B is Wright and Matt Hill (Umberto) from 2009. From; Expo 70 Links; Expo '70 - Radiance сs Password (if needed); wws Expo '70 Expo '70 @ LastFM BUY!!!
Two extended (inter)zone-outs by Justin Wright, recorded live on tour in late 2078. A-side 'Hynotic Brain Cloud Float' was captured at Zebulon Bar, New York, accompanied by visuals from the film Fantastic Planet. At the start you can even hear cash registers ringing in the background, and we're soon transported far away from civilization and into an utterly deserted dronescape, a plangently
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Seit nem halben Jahr ist "Where Does Your Mind Go?" von Expo '70 die perfekte Platte zum Abdriften und Eindösen. SpaceAmbient, der ins All schiesst und doch zu einem selbst zurückführt. Grad mal eine kreative Nacht hat der Experimentalmusiker Justin Wright (in Zusammenarbeit mit Matt Hill aka Umberto) gebraucht, um den Schall ausm All zu vier Klangteppichen zu verweben, die sich während 70 Minuten im Kopf des Hörers zum neuen Kosmos ausrollen. Wie Sterne werden Gedanken und Weltbilder aus dem Nichts geboren; manche glänzen fix um die Wette, die meisten aber erlöschen [...]
seem to be doing this shit in pairs just now... two massive fuck-off acid (in every sense) live jams from expo '70. in numbers: two sides, two thirty one minute sets from ithaca and manhattan, october ought nine, two fellas (justin wright, matt hill), two guitars, one korg, one moog, one drum machine. it's as bad-ass as semi-drone gets. it's as gentle and exploratory as this sorta psych metal shenanigans gets. but reductive and lazy, descriptively. [...]
N ew awesome live stuff from or favourite psych/ drone dude Justin Wright from Expo '70. Check it it's great! [mr.A] Two live sets from the 2009 East Coast tour that spawned the Immune 2xLP, "Where Does Your Mind Go?" , between the touring duo of Justin Wright and Matt Hill ( Umberto ). Track 1 consist of the stellar set from Ithaca, NY two days prior [...]
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Tape labels are abundant these days, as are new cassette releases, and Stars on C-30 includes reviews of some of these releases, the occasional band or label profile, and a look at the culture surrounding cassettes. Let’s face it, when you name your label Fuck It Tapes , you’ve instantly raised the bar for anything you release. With a name like that you quickly come to the conclusion, how can anything they release be bad? Fortunately, I have yet to have a bad experience with Fuck It Tapes. As the cassette arm of [...]
Friends, Invalids, Basement-dwelling agoraphobics, lend me your ears! It's time for another Sunday Mix Tape, and have I ever got "the goods" for you. You've probably been asking yourselves why I am not posting daily MP3s anymore, or why the treasures from my collector's slum have been few and far between these past few weeks. The reason is, I've been advised to watch what I post in regards to the music I often share here. Cryptic, yes, but I am not really one to test boundaries. So until further notice there might be less music than many of you click [...]
Sufjan Stevens Hey Chicago! Like most other weekends in our fair city, there's no shortage of music. We've got shows both large and small including Sufjan Stevens at the Chicago Theatre , King Sparrow at Schubas , Ume at Mayne Stage and so much more. Let's get to it, shall we? FRIDAY SUFJAN STEVENS [...]
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