Cut/Paste

So lately I’ve found myself listening a lot to Lucky Dragons’ new album Widows. Lucky Dragons is Luke Fischbeck, a one man sound collager/musician from Prividence, RI who cuts and pastes clips of sound to make some of the most simultaneously beautiful and abrasive music I’ve ever heard. Field recordings abound in his music, mixed with a deft electronic hand with odd blips and bleeps and the occasional acoustic riff that compose the backbone of his sound. He has the amazing ability to create rhythms and beats out of the everyday sounds of our lives, a method which is best showcased on the collection of his material released last year on State's Rights Records, entitled A Sewing Circle. His new album focuses on the softer side of his music- analog acoustic dabblings intermingling with beeps of a digital origin. This album washes over you in waves, and every once in a while you are jolted by the calculated beauty of it all.

His live shows are not to be missed and are always interesting. See video evidence here.

Listen to New Alium, off Lucky Dragons’ new album Widows.

Burn Sand and Make Music

In some forest outside of Portland, Maine, Angus Maclaurin, a music teacher and a particularly strange fellow, recorded an album in the basement of his log cabin. The album is called Glass Music, and it is, befittingly, an ambient work in which, save for one or two tracks, Maclaurin uses strictly glass as his instrument. I have no clue what he did to or with the glass, but the result is quite beautiful.


My initial reaction was that although the concept of the album sounded 'cool', upon actually listening I would find that the work would not transcend its gimmickry. I was wrong, however; the album is damn good. If you're into ambiance or long form experimentation, check it out and be wow-ed that you are listening to glass.

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