A new recreation for evenings in with Mr & Mrs Evans of Lagrange, Georgia: the lulling, blurry CI - either Coyote Image or, after a shape shift for Space Slave (whose "manipulated rhodes and guitar amble in the tall grass" is as spot-on a take on the murky, languid, almost defiantly unfussed CI sound as you're likely to get) , Courtly Illusion . Though there's hardly anything from the Evans household that [...]
As promised , a trainspotter's delight to complete the unveiling of & revelling in our Improbably Late 80 - the broader counterpoint to our earlier Furtive 30 & some kind of a conclusion to our end of year-listing for 2012 (though, as noted , there's still a label profile/interview to come as we explore the outer limits of improbable lateness...). This final batch of pieces from (& previews of) IL80 [...]
The Perennials by Motion Sickness of Time Travel Via the widget above, hear a few cuts off the latest EP from ambient songstress Motion Sickness of Time Travel. Grab the vinyl here , and make sure to hear some of her longer, more ambitious projects here .
Imperial Topaz est l'alliance créative de deux plasticiens / musiciens, Caroline Teagle - qui est également connue comme la directrice artistique de Tranquility Tapes - et Zachary Zierden. Le duo décrit leur musique telle des odes lunaires à la terre et à tout ce qui est au-delà - probablement la meilleure description que l'on pourrait en faire. Periphery - morceau fraîchement révél é via leur soundcloud et bandcamp - dilapide une pop atmosphérique, captivante, douce et évanescente comme un clair de lune. Ledit morceau se retrouve sur un split, partagé avec les admirables et prolixes Motion Sickness of Time Travel , paru aujourd'hui via Tranquility Tapes. Vidéo
This time of the year can be a strain, to say the least — between finding last-minute presents, the ensuing financial headaches, most likely traveling out of wherever you are to wherever it is you're from, and dealing with your family when you get there, the festive season can feel less festive than stressful as fuck. But wait, we're here to help! This has been a fine year for music that's designed to relax you and soothe a troubled soul, so we thought we'd put together a playlist of the finest such records of 2012 for your tranquility-inducing enjoyment. Click through [...]
Honestly, you would think Taylor would have the hang of this by now. But no, instead it once again falls to me to fill in the gaps left by his recent Best Albums of 2012 (So Far) list . To his credit, my Rest of the Best list is significantly shorter this year, but these omissions are still pretty unforgivable. I don't even know why you guys listen to him anymore. You all need to ask yourselves: How can someone with no interest in music run a music blog? Chairlift - Something [...]
Summer is in full swing, and if you haven't melted yet, you're probably looking forward to getting hold of some of the surfeit of new music that's being released over the next month. In all honesty, July is shaping up as something of a strange month for music — lots of album releases, but not a whole heap of really, really exciting ones. But happily, we're here to help — we've sorted the wheat from the chaff, the diamonds from the rough, the sheep from the goats, and all that. And so after the jump we've selected what we reckon are [...]
Kyoto, Japan's Cuushe isn't afraid of a little complexity, even more restraint, and a healthy dose of bliss. Those sensibilities have resulted in a contemplative and astutely nuanced music that fully capitalizes on her soft but controlled alto vocals to shape tracks which are as self-contained as they are sprawling. Turns out that there's a whole lot to love in the happy dream pop zone between spartan minimalism and chilly effects slabs. "I Dreamt about Silence" embodies that balance as it flows unchallenged through its six minutes. From the opening notes, it's clear that this track ideal fodder for [...]
Motion Sickness of Time Travel is the solo project of ambient music artist Rachel Evans, and she's pretty prolific as well, having released three hefty projects this year. She had even more releases in 2011. The release list on her Bandcamp is pretty overwhelming. Below are three of her recently released material. The self-titled album is the lengthiest of the three, tipping the scales with over eighty minutes of material. Chinaberry is shorter, a bit more disjointed, but shows Rachel experimenting with some noticeably rougher textures and sounds. Finally, Traces is made [...]
Laurel Halo's debut album Quarantine is out this week, and it's just as good as we were hoping it might be, full of strange and wonderful sounds, all topped by Halo's distinctive vocals. Experimental music has a long and proud history of female involvement, from the work of electronic pioneers like Daphne Oram and Delia Derbyshire through Cosey Fanni Tutti and Ikue Mori and Laurie Anderson to latter-day examples like Diamanda Galas and Gudrun Gut. To celebrate the release of Quarantine , and the fact that there seem to be more fascinating female [...]
Listening Station is an AiMT feature dedicated to exploring full new retail release streams via Spotify, SoundCloud, Bandcamp, etc. You must have Spotify installed on your machine to play the Spotify streams (duh). New stuff from Chocolate Industries , Motion Sickness of Time Travel , Beach House , Auntie Flo , Lex Records and Hivern Discs .
Hate the name, love the music. Motion Sickness of Time Travel is the alias of Rachel Evans, under which she makes beautiful, drifty ambient electronica. I understand she's released about 20 albums since 2008, and while that in itself might be a bad sign, there's no denying that Magnetism is quite gorgeous. The suggests something rather harder-edged than what you get, which is plenty of stretched out synth tones and angelic, wordless vocals. Imagine a room filled with vaporisers, into each of which a different essential oil has been poured. As you meander [...]
51. Gem Club - "Breakers" Stunning beautiful, simple piano piece. I can feel the whole world slowing down around me. 52. M83 - "New Map - vimeo Along with "Midnight City" and "Steve McQueen", this track got played a whole hell of a lot this year. While the album as a whole had some weak spots (I've found very few double LPs that wouldn't benefit from a shorter length), the high points were very high. This song stays with the basic formula [...]
After a dry summer, my acquisitive streak seems to have returned, both for old and new records. Here's a rundown, in the order I picked things up. Motion Sickness of Time Travel: Luminaries & Syntastry This has been a fantastic year for the ambient/nü-kosmiche genre—I count albums by Tim Hecker, Rene Hell, and Mountains all among my favorites of 2011 so far. That means the bar is pretty high for the genre right now. Which is bad news for Motion Sickness of Time Travel (aka Rachel Evans). I find Luminaries & Synatry [...]
Motion Sickness of Time Travel’s Luminaries sounds like flowing water in parts and in others a kind of slowed-down Pheonix. The opening to “The Walls were Dripping with Stars” uses a metronome that seems to disperse into the rest of the song, as if Rachel put a drop of meter into a particularly viscous drone note and let it slowly spiral out. Sped up, the album could have approached something like a chillwave beat. This is less chillwave and more ethereal. Motion Sickness of Time Travel captures the water on certain tracks, with notes of water bubbling in the background [...]
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Der kosmische DronePop von Motion Sickness of Time Travel ist das Sprungbrett in einen tiefen Klangfluss, der jenseits des gewohnten Wahrnehmungshorizonts ins Sternenmeer mündet. Rachel Evans hat die üblichen Songwriter-Strukturen überwunden, die Gitarre vorerst an den Nagel gehängt und sich hinter Synthesizer und Effektgeräte gesetzt. Die Stimme wurde zum Instrument, zum flüchtigen Irrlicht über einem dunklen Klangfluss, worauf man rücklings im gespiegelten Sternenmeer treibt. Das geschmeidige An- und Abschwellen der Tonwellen und sanfte Schwanken im Hall kann zu leichter Hypnose, Nostalgie und Schwindel führen. Zu kleinen Einbrüchen der Realität, [...]
Imagine the vastness of space. The stars, the nebula, the staggering distances covered by the elegant glide of galaxies. This is how we can measure what's small. The European Space Agency's Integral gamma-ray observatory floats serenely above us, a metallic proof of Kubrick's waltz. It sits and absorbs, sending its results to the eager consumers of its data below. Here it is in its artist rendered glory: Quantum theory suggests that, at the smallest scales, space should be grainy and that these grains would affect the way gamma rays travel [...]
Motion Sickness of Time Travel — Synastry From Luminaries & Synastry , out now on Digitalis
Two lovers on a beach, walking along the waterside. Side by side, hand in hand - a romantic scene, obviously. Yet the colors are dark, gloomy, and the slow drones and eerie vocals of the piece accompanying the visuals suggest that after all, something might not be right in this picture. Synastry "is the branch of astrology that studies relationships by comparing natal horoscopes" , but in this mis en scène the viewer is left in uncertainty about the actual compatibility of the couple, despite the ostensible harmony. Synastry appears on [...]
The overall state of the universe has just improved considerably tonight with the release of the next installment of awesomeness in its purest form (we apologize for our probably inappropriate enthusiasm), the latest collaborative effort of our dearest Beko Digital Singles Label with one of our all-time favorite labels, Montréal's Hobo Cult Records . Naturally, the ten-track compilation features many NFOP darlings we've been featuring repeatedly, among them Rachel Evans aka Motion Sickness Of Time Travel , Sundrips , Panabrite , Grant Evans aka Nova Scotian Arms , and label founder [...]
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