CROSSWHEN EPISODE 1.1 : Ship of Theseus
It’s a cause for celebration when I discover a new album to fall completely head over heels with and it is with great happiness that I announce the 2017 album from Visible Cloaks entitled ‘Reassemblage’ as the next album I’ll obsess over for months.
What with my returning to the Land of Milk and Honey known as my Parents’ basement I’ve been in dire straights when it comes to new music but no longer! Reassemblage is a hard album to describe without using that awful word that begins with an A and rhymes with Bambient but with my distaste for popular electronic music nomenclature aside this album kicks ass. Emotional, dissonant confusing and elegant are my adjectives of choice in describing this body of work. I was considering doing a show dedicated to this album and this album alone tonight but there was also so much other fantastic music I discovered this week that I’ll have to save that for a later date.
In semi-related affairs, I’ve spent the better half of this morning listening to Holly Herndon (another feature on tonight’s show) and Mat Dryhurst’s podcast titled ‘Interdependance’ . If you have any concerns or speculations regarding AI, music in a post dot come bubble world, crypto, culture, internet etc. I highly recommend this podcast. Herndon and Dryhurst are incredibly intelligent but don’t present their show in any way that could be perceived as standoffish or pretentious.
I am also, and have been for a few years now, a massive Holly Herndon fan who thinks that she is the future when it comes to not just electronic music but the idea of music as a whole. I could gush about PROTO and SPAWN for forever so I’ll save you some time and brain matter by redirecting you to their patreon.
I hope you tune in tonight, great show lined up. As always you can reach me here through the ask section on my blog or via email at [email protected]
Stay Safe
Nico Rock
“Now begin in the middle, and later learn the beginning; the end will take care of itself.”
- Harlan Ellison
SETLIST
Cokiyu - Cloudburst
MOTTRON - Noon
Visible Cloaks & Miyako Koda - Valve
Holly Herndon - Chorus
Visible Cloaks - Bloodstream
Amnesia Scanner - AS Rewild
Blanck Mass - Please (Zola Jesus Remix)
Pharmakon - Autoimmune
Jenny Hval - Female Vampire
Puce Mary - Red Desert
Pan Daijing - Lucid Morto
Croatian Amor - LA Hills Burn At The Peak Of Winter
Ariel Kalma - Manege
Laurel Halo - Carcass
Lucrecia Dalt - Esotro
Maria Arnal i Marcel Bages & Holly Herndon - Cant de la Sibil-la
