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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 [...]

The original vinyl press of this was gone in an instant but thankfully Digitalis have gone a second round with Seeping Though the Veil of the Unconscious this time on white vinyl. MSoTT is the alter-ego of Hooker Vision co-curator, Rachel Evans and her bubbling, alchemical pop hovers close to the edge of consciousness usually staked out for Grouper, Higuma and a few other conspirators of the ethereal plane. Though admittedly Evans' version of delirium is often much more innocent sounding than some of her contemporaries, it does retain their spectral sense of bittersweet ennui. With each listen [...]
Good times last night at the Whitehorse. Mark's birthday party. I didn't get nearly as intoxicated as Friday night, but I still managed to have a good time. It just goes to show, kids: you don't need an excessive amount of alcohol to have a good time. Sure, it helps - and boy does it ever help - but you can't always rely on it. You're only supposed to rely on it when it's really imperative that you do so. You know, like a crutch. A social crutch. You wouldn't want to walk around in public [...]
Today I actually had the displeasure of hearing the most-recent Arcade Fire album for the first time. It was forced on me at work. And here are the tweets I tweeted as I listened to it: - "Forced to listen to the new Arcade Fire record at work. Sucks. Springsteen meets the Cars? I thought these losers were supposed to be good." - "Just because you date your bandmate doesn't mean you should let her sing on your album. @arcadefire #suburbs #thisalbumsucks." - "This one sounds like a sped-up version of Bowie's 'Slip Away' [...]
I feel like we should all be jamming out to "Right Now" (and drinking Crystal Pepsi?), because this is the day we've all been waiting for. It's time to stop living in the past and start living in the moment: my annual list of the one-hundred best albums of 2010 is finally ready for you to feast your eyes on it. Look at it. Look at it how you would a naked slut as she spreads her legs for you. It's here for the taking. As is customary now, I've decided not to write blurbs for all 100 [...]

motion sickness of time travel mental projection 2010 (française version) 1. rachel evans, lagrange, Ga /ˈdʒɔrdʒə / 2. à l'écoute de mes rêves, ceux d'un autre temps, plus ancien - un temps où j'ignorais que, déjà, j'étais moi - surgissent. à leurs voix, je me reconnais. (englikhtonian version) . 1. rachel evans, lagrange, Ga /ˈdʒɔrdʒə/ 2. listening to my dreams, arise those from another time, [...]
OMG, you guys, for the first time in my 27 years…I puked as a result of drinking. It happened early this morning, or so I hear, I was blacked out at the time. The last thing I remember was playing an intense best-of-13 series of flip cup with two teams of seven drinkers. After that, your guess is as good as mine. I discovered today that I was "incoherent" (according to Ken), that I stole the handle off a child's tricycle, and gifted it to a sleeping Nicci right before I threw up and passed out on her bathroom floor. [...]
MOTION SICKNESS OF TIME TRAVEL - Everything Must Die from Moduli TV on Vimeo . MOTION SICKNESS OF TIME TRAVEL - http://www.myspace.com/motions icknessoftimetravel
What a weekend. Friday night I got to see Emeralds and drink some good beers, last night I saw Enter The Void , and tonight I am watching Best Worst Movie as I pen this entry. It's kind of amazing to think that I saw Troll 2 for the first time on HBO almost twenty years ago, and now there's a documentary about its "cult classic" status. What's next, an Cinefamily-approved Airborne screening at the Silent Movie Theater? Hmm...that gives me an idea... Nah, not now. I've got a mix tape [...]