Posts tagged with “YlangYlang”
February 13, 2016
#1 – 2.8.16 – Northern Spy unveiled a teaser for their new LP with Horse Lords, a little more fuel heaped on their already stout seeming 2016 pyre of releases (fleshed out by Ravi Shenkar, Horselover Fats, Odetta Hartman, and more). The album, titled Interventions, will be available in…
December 5, 2015
“I had mentioned at the end of the last episode that a feature on Pumice was in the works for the weeks ahead, and I can assure you that is indeed still the case. But, in the interest of showcasing some more new music, along with a few recent record fair scores, I thought I’d go ahead and squeeze…
November 18, 2015
“No Exist is about being mind-blown, deconstructing and starting again with a fresh, curious openness, somewhere on the edge of the world. Self-sufficiency, self-discovery, transcending survival by establishing new rules, interacting in new instinctive and true ways.” In truth this description…
April 25, 2015
Though the official announcement is now nearly a week out of date, I can’t help but direct attention to Baro Records’ wonderful cassette reissue of Julian Lynch’s 2009 Orange You Glad LP for Olde English Spelling Bee. When I bought that record, shortly before escaping my fiendish…
April 4, 2015
“It took a few different studios and a few extra hours to bring you this latest FFFoxy Podcast, but I couldn’t be more excited about the range of sounds covered within this particular episode. Included are some major new works from personal favorites Graham Lambkin & Michael Pisaro, Joey…
January 24, 2015
We’re beginning this Week in Review with a couple exciting announcements. From now on, Free Form Freakout’s exceptional, ongoing FFFoxy Podcast will be co-hosted every weekend in the Week in Review, heading up alternate installments. The FFFoxy Podcast was born out of the free range approach…
June 21, 2014
#1 – 6/15/2014 – “…one person’s hard-won virtuosity is another person’s competent conventionality.” My week began with an entertaining essay from The New Republic’s art critic Jed Perl, riffing obliquely on the contemporary art scene’s search for authenticity…
June 20, 2014
Hazy Montagne Mystique is Montreal based experimentalist/hierophant Chittakone Baccam, one of the three “wyrd” coagulations responsible for Jeunesse Cosmique, a growing refuge for psychedelic recorders of all types. Though a cursory perusal of his Bandcamp and web presence may give the…
February 15, 2014
Happy morning after Valentine’s Day! We took the day off but it was still an exciting week for new releases, cassettes and otherwise. This installment ended up looking a little light on mixes, so here’s a four hour live-set that amounts to one; found courtesy of AT/NU (whose excellent…
January 15, 2014
In 2013, my favourite song had a simple, catchy melody and the following lyrics:
Row, row, row your boat
Gently down the stream;
If you see a crocodile
Don’t forget to SCREAM!
This past year was my first full year of fatherhood, with all the associated glories and challenges, and by far the most…
October 22, 2013
Montreal-based YlangYlang, aka Catherine Debard, one of three musicians behind the Jeunesse Cosmique imprint, recently unveiled a beautiful new video for “Temporary Opalescent Death,” off her upcoming album Blossom. Directed and edited by Jane L. Kasowicz, the video is a perfect companion…
September 19, 2013
As a general rule, glorious sounds emanate from Montreal. This gentle cassette, with one side each from Jeunesse Cosmique label owners Catherine Debard (YlangYlang) and Chittakone Baccam (Hazy Montagne Mystique), is but one example of the staggeringly remarkable stream of audible bliss that leaks in…
