#Cole Pulic

[dustedmagazine]

Signal Quest — Hypermyth (Orange Milk

Hypermyth is audio-only virtual reality. It’s an immersive, open-ended journey through a strange and fascinating world, an environment that beckons exploration. The Signal Quest trio have hewn this uncanny landscape using analog and digital implements, crafting a craggy geology replete with crystalline, multi-hued flora. Their music reflects a fascination with 1990s computer games, specifically the unique mythology of Myst. Unlike the nascent open-world gaming experience of decades past, Signal Quest’s music flows free of technological limitation. There’s no waiting between scenes for the CD-ROM to spin up. Cole Pulice, Lynn Avery and Mitch Stahlmann create a seamless stream of sound, with breathtaking high-resolution imagery limited only by the imagination of your mind’s eye.

Pulice, Avery and Stahlmann are long-time friends and collaborators, coming from Minneapolis but now calling Oakland, California home. They’ve added their unique talents to each others’ records, such as on Avery’s Carpet Cocoon, released under the name Iceblink. That record’s warm new age vibe took on a multitude of dimensions when augmented by the alien ECM stylings of Pulice’s saxophone and Stahlmann’s flute. Equally lush but veering into more abstract territory was Avery and Pulice’s collaborative work To Live & Die in Space & Time. Its moody vibe unfurled delicately but bristled with layers of electronics.  Years before those two records arrived, the trio was finding their footing, experimenting under the name LCM and creating hallucinatory sound worlds that set the stage for even bolder adventures to come.

Hypermyth is indeed Pulice, Avery, and Stahlmann’s most intrepid venture thus far. The textures are deeper, with larger cracks and crevices within which to get lost. Tones often twist and bend in many directions, like light refracting through glass. Musique concrète techniques adhere to the trio’s new age and ambient signifiers, conjuring fractalized patterns that glitch and writhe beneath Pulice and Stahlmann’s breath-modulated melodies. At times these more arcane sonorities lie beneath the surface of the trio’s soundscapes, such as on album opener “Sparkling Node Network.” In other moments, like on the ultra-short piece “moonVR” or the more drawn out “mailer-daemon.exe,” the abstract shapes infect and subsume the more delicate passages, withering and distorting the harmonies.

The musicians often find a delicate balance between pure beauty and sheer experimentation, and gentleness. Pulice, Avery, and Stahlmann have immersed themselves in a unique, unexplored sonic world, but haven’t lost themselves completely in its knotty, rough-textured depths.

Bryon Hayes

#signal quest #hypermyth #orange milk #bryon hayes #albumreview #dusted magazine #Cole Pulice #Lynn Avery #Mitch Stahlmann #electronics #musique concrete #myst

[becausegoodbye]

my favourite albums of 2022

Cole Pulice – Scry

A tipsily gorgeous collection of electroacoustic experiments, pulse and breath, woodwinds and worms. Saxophone is one of my favourite instruments when played quietly, and one of my least favourite when played loud – and here it's not only soft, but held aloft by beds of gorgeous synthesisers and signal processing and piano: a diamond on a velvet pillow. A cat luxuriantly rolling around in textures. There's a focus and a bliss here, a dreamy pushing of fingers through soil, that I find beautiful and rare.

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Stella Donnelly – Flood

I get the sense that some of Stella's fans were disappointed with this album, but I encounter it differently. If you only see it in conversation with Beware of the Dogs, then I can understand it coming across like its paler and more withdrawn cousin, but if you go back to the Thrush Metal EP, the chain of songwriting provenance is clearer, and it's Dogs that starts looking like the outlier. Once you approach it on those terms, Flood reveals itself as a frequently sublime album of chamber pop: an exhale alone over a cup of tea, a wistful gathering of self, and a series of minimalist choices leveraged to maximum effect. The parts that work the least, imo, are when she's trying to be more like Beware of the Dogs (the prime example probably being the odd decision to start the album with the chin-thrust-out drumbeat of 'Lungs', a song that can't keep that up for long before unfolding into the gorgeous soft melodic reverie it really wants to be, and only begrudgingly switching back for the close). Likewise, the parts that work the best are when it's allowed to settle into its own understated catharsis: the devastating hummed suggestions of 'Underwater', for example, or the unknowable clear-eyed kindness of 'Flood', which for me is one of the songs of the year.

[Bandcamp]

lee (asano+ryuhei) – FK_LV

Like a homeless king, magisterial and unafraid, with loose bits hanging off him and a roar like a broken engine. There was a period around 2011-2014 where it felt like lee (asano+ryuhei) released a new album of genius sample-mashing beats every few months, and needing to buy them all was a genuine strain on my budget. Nowadays the pace has slowed, but the albums themselves haven't much; there's a particular vein they mine, and they simply do it better than anyone else. There are moments when all the constituent pieces are clashing in ways that are ugly or incomprehensible, but then they resolve, transcendently, into a wretched and ragged kind of beautiful that you can't quite get anywhere else.

[Bandcamp]

The Beths – Expert in a Dying Field

An absolute corker of an album, spirited and thoughtful and brimming with ideas for making this kind of pop-rock reach above itself. 'Knees Deep' was my most-watched music video this year by a comically large degree – it remains, just, my favourite thing – and when that and the straightforwardly brilliant single 'Expert in a Dying Field' were all that was out, I thought there was a chance that this album would be a genuine all-timer. When it came out and I heard the full album, it wasn't quite consistent enough to reach those heights, but it's still great, with '2am' in particular capping the album off with vulnerable and shambolic verve. Liz Stokes is so skilled at writing lyrics that you only really notice on the third or fourth listen, once they've already worked their way inside you, and a lot of my favourite lines of the year belong to her.

[Bandcamp]

Florist – Florist

"19 tracks that culminate the decade-long journey of friendship and collaboration". Within this overgrown opus lie some of the most gorgeous songs you'll hear, surrounded by the quieter sounds of the people who made them, the place they were made in, and the exploratory muddling sounds of people in place and place in people. Part of me can't help wishing that Florist had reigned it in and made a perfect album – which you could absolutely do here purely with cuts, without needing to add a thing – but I also appreciate the weight of this more fulsome gesture. This is an album that understands music not as a thing that stands separate from the world, but as an enmeshed product of its material and social environment, and it wants everybody – every snail, every leaf – credited.

[Bandcamp]

Horsegirl – Versions by Modern Performance

The influences are written all over this record – it's a reverent restewing of 80s and 90s indie-rock, with the flags of Sonic Youth and the Flying Nun roster flying the highest – but there's a youthful communal vitality that makes it more than that. Even though the vocals are deadpan, the lyrics cryptic, and the sonic palette full of dissonance and dissolution, this is a plainly joyous album. These teenagers from Chicago are having a great time making this. Even before reading about it, I could have told you that there has to be a whole community behind these kids, and a golden thread of that knits itself into every song.

[This music video captures something of it I think]

[Bandcamp]

Time Wharp – Spiro World

Kaye is brilliant, and this spindly gem of an album goes where it wants. In a way, it wears its influences as openly as Horsegirl; they're just so much more all over the place. Here's a dense Steve Reich instrumental pulse; here's a krauty Popol Vuh prog breakdown; here's a tightly-produced Aphex Twin scatterbeat; here's some loose and traipsing piano reminiscent of Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou. But far more than these by-the-numbers descriptions imply, it's an instrumental album that ultimately feels guided by sensory experience more than anything: how does this feel? how does this feel? how does this feel? Underpinned by the experience of taking feminising hormones (the 'Spiro' of the title refers to spironolactone, and the album's alternative title is One Must First Become Aware Of The Body), it's an album that comes over you as a series of electroacoustic waves, swelling around you in foam, dissolving the distractible mind until you're lifted out of it.

[Bandcamp]

Julia Jacklin – PRE PLEASURE

I liked this album when I first heard it, but it was only after sitting with it for some months that I realised I loved it. The things it succeeds at are all totally familiar – an emotionally vulnerable singer-songwriter, writing songs with lyrically distinct focuses, paced such that they build on each other thematically – but this album succeeds so wholly that it made me remember why lyricists even attempt that kind of thing in the first place. 'Magic' feels infinitely deeper and harder-earned when you've already heard 'Ignore Tenderness'; 'End of a Friendship' hits so much harder when you already know the familial emotional groundline established by 'Less of a Stranger'. Every song is its own perfect short-story universe, but it's only in conversation with the others that the real miracle – the overstory, the impression of the life behind them – takes place. A lot of the music I'm drawn to these days is either instrumental or ambient or otherwise concerned with unsayable truths; it's startling to be reminded of the things we do have to try to say.

All my love is spinning round the room

if only it would land on something soon

but all my words are caught up in a cloud

you know someday you'll have to say it out loud

[Bandcamp]

#julia jacklin #time wharp #horsegirl #florist #the beths #lee (asano+ryuhei) #stella donnelly #cole pulice

[theories-of]

CLOSING_THE_NIGHT WITH THEORIES FAVORITE 2022 ALBUMS | 3

Cole Pulice - Scry

Panda Bear & Sonic Boom  - Reset

Lambchop - The Bible

Perfume Genius - Ugly Season

Cole Pulice - Scry

Cate Le Bon  - Pompeii

#Panda Bear #Sonic Boom #Lambchop #Perfume Genius #Cole Pulice #Cate Le Bon #Favorite Music #best music #best albums #closing the night

[this-boy-is-exhausted]

#music #cole pulice #Youtube

[revilermpls]

Drone Not Drones 2024: This Friday! (Lineup and Ticket Info for 9th Annual 28 Hour Drone Show at the Cedar)

One of the best weekends of the year, Drone Not Drones is a beacon of light each January where the Cedar Cultural Center hosts 28 straight hours of cosmic righteousness featuring a collage of local and national artists, all raising money for Doctors Without Borders. As anyone paying even a modicum of attention knows, Doctors Without Borders are needed now more than ever, so even leaving aside the…

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#alan sparhawk #Chuck Johnson #Claire Rousay #cole pulice #drone not drones #Drone Not Drones 2024 #low

[richurds]

#Cole Pulice #this may be the single best piece of music ive heard this year #Spotify

[radiophd]

powers / pulice / rolin -- hidden nook

#2020s #jazz #saxophone #jen powers #cole pulice #matthew rolin

[senorboombastic]

“You have so much to learn when you collaborate with other people” - An interview with Rozi Plain

Words: Andy Hughes The preamble for this interview has literally been derailed in the past 24 hours with the news that Rozi Plain, the Winchester raised artist of solo adventures and This Is The Kit fame, will be opening up for Paramore this spring! Bloody nora! Alright, right back down to earth. You see, before that massive slice of news received this week, there was a slightly smaller matter…

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#Agreeing For Two #Alabaster DePlume #Birthday cake for breakfast #Cole Pulice #Complicated #Dinked #Lost Map Records #Memphis Industries #Painted The Room #Prize #Rozi Plain #Silent Fan #Total Refreshment Centre #What A Boost

[sinceileftyoublog]

Rozi Plain Album Review: PRIZE

(Memphis Industries)

BY JORDAN MAINZER

Take a listen to English musician Rozi Plain’s discography over the past decade and a half, and you can hear it as a precursor to a lot of today’s best jam-jazz-folk fusion. After touring her 2019 album and Memphis Industries debut What A Boost, she spent a week on the Isle of Eigg recording new music with Jamie Whitby Coles and Gerard Black; lockdown persisted, and what was supposed to be an EP became a full-fledged album’s worth of material. PRIZE, the result, is chock full of contradictory feelings, divergent instrumentation, and ambiguous wordplay, the perfect soundtrack to reemergence.

What immediately stands out on PRIZE is its qualities, namely warmth and playfulness. Lead single and opening track “Agreeing For Two” is an effective microcosm of the record as a whole. With words in reference to empathy and humility, Plain sings beneath a swaying melody, staccato guitars, panning synths, Alabaster dePlume’s buttery saxophone, Black’s springing piano, and backing vocals from This Is The Kit’s Kate Stables. “If nothing’ll do, it’s nothing we’ll do,” Plain winks, supportive and in solidarity of whoever she’s simply existing with. She knows that humans are imperfect. On “Prove Your Good”, she, Coles, Black, and banjo player Rachel Horwood gently chant, “What do we want? / Less / Do you want more? / Yes,” confident in only their confusion atop layers of disintegrating guitar that mirror their state of mind. On the off-kilter “Help”, Plain sings, “If it’s a feeling that’s going / When it goes, you won’t even know,” not quite a mantra, not quite absurdist, fitting comfortably between instruments that emulate other instruments, like Cole Pulice’s saxophone swelling like an orchestra and James Howard’s guitar processed like an accordion.

PRIZE is also forward thinking and reflective at once. Though to these ears it mostly fits within Plain’s already prescient discography, it prominently adds electronics and further percussion to the mix. Danalogue of The Comet Is Coming duels with Black on “Painted The Room”, transforming a pulsating trip hop song into a solo-laden shuffle. Synths waver around Eiichi Shimasaki’s steel drums on “Complicated”. On the retro end of the spectrum, “Sore” recalls the drama of Aughts-era Baroque indie, highlighted by Emma Smith’s weepy violin and Yoshino Shigihara’s choral harmonies, while “Spot Thirteen” is like a Hail to the Thief jazz freakout, dePlume’s honking saxophone recalling live Bon Iver-era Colin Stetson. It’s these tracks that are the most effective on PRIZE. That is, when the words coming out of your mouth are enigmas, it’s best to let your music express itself to the fullest.

#rozi plain #album review #memphis industries #Eiichi Shimasaki #prize #what a boost #jamie whitby coles #gerard black #alabaster deplume #this is the kit #kate stables #rachel horwood #cole pulice #james howard #danalogue #the comet is coming #emma smith #yoshino shigihara #hail to the thief #bon iver #colin stetson

[digbydog10]

Old Fellas New Music Episode 37

Old Fellas New Music Episode 37

This is our 37th episode and the music is staying interesting for sure show 37 link: https://www.mixcloud.com/paul-mcguire3/old-fellas-new-music-episode-37-dec-16/ Jim White and Mary Margaret O’Hara – And the Angels Sing (Rising Singles Club) Panda Bear, Sonic Boom – Edge of the Edge CMAT – Every Bottle (Is My Boyfriend) Cole Pulice – City in a City The Beths – “Expert In A Dying…

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#CMAT #Cole Pulice #Ethel Cain #Exclaim! Magazine #Jim White #Mary Margaret O&039;Hara #MixCloud #Old Fellas New Music #Panda Bear and Sonic Boom #Phoebe Bridgers #Pitchfork Magazine #Porridge Radio #The Beths #Weyes Blood

[postambientlux]

• cole pulice • scry • bit.ly/cEpE-sY

#cole pulice #bandcamp #ambient #music #2022

[inthewindtunnel]

Cole Pulice & Nat Harvie

Parrish Blue

#Cole Pulice & Nat Harvie #Parrish Blue #Bandcamp

[complexdistractions]

Lynn Avery & Cole Pulice : To Live & Die In Space & Time

Lynn Avery & Cole Pulice : To Live & Die In Space & Time

There’s a strange and beautiful sort of peace that comes over you listening to Lynn Avery and Cole Pulice’s collaborative album To Live & Die In Space & Time. A kind of middle ground between jazz and experimental electronic. A sound that lays over you as if Sun Ra and Mort Garson put together the sweetest tomes the 70s never saw. Lynn Avery and Cole Pulice are alums of Moon Glyph Records; Avery…

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#cole pulice #electronic #experimental #jazz #lynn avery #moon glyph records #to live & Die in space& time

[burlveneer-music]

Black Market Brass - Hox - the heaviest Afrobeat band around (with the possible exception of The Budos Band)

Black Market Brass is proud to present Hox, due out on Colemine Records on September 8, 2023. Their third LP is a new take on afrobeat that combines traditional grooves with heavy, hypnotic, sci-fi sounds that reflect the band’s myriad of influences as record collectors across genres. “We didn’t leave the traditional afro-beat sound behind, but we did allow ourselves to pull from different places with less hesitation.” Shared saxophonist Cole Pulice. Like their previous albums, the 9-piece band recorded Hox live to tape. “The sound and aesthetic of the analog recording process is important for this kind of music,” Pulice explained. “We’re looking to capture lightning in a bottle.” With that, the album features several sections of heavily processed synthesizers, harsh glitches, fuzzed out guitars, and a burning percussion section that pays homage to the traditional drumming cultures of Nigeria and Ghana. The performances are dynamic and confident. The grooves are infectious and hypnotic. BMB has pushed further into musical experimentalism, but at the end of the day, they’re still making dance music. Krautrock, free-jazz, doom metal – the inspirations for Hox stem from all kinds of musical backgrounds, but the sound is far from scattered. It’s a polished, innovative record that’s sure to exceed expectations and keep the listener engaged from start to finish.

#Bandcamp #Black Market Brass #afrobeat #funk #minneapolis #2023 #colemine records

[thomasmartinnutt]

Chance Encounters #005

https://www.mixcloud.com/thomasmartinnutt/chance-encounters-005/

Magdaléna Manderlová, Akio Suzuki, Alessandro Bosetti, Stephen Vitiello, Aho Ssan (feat. Nyokabi Kariūki), Biliana Voutchkova & Charmaine Lee, Coppice, Douglas Quin, William Parker & Hamid Drake, Rajesh Mehta, Gabi Losoncy, Thomas DeAngelo, Carlos Niño and Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, Laraaji, Voice Actor, Jen Powers, Cole Pulice & Matthew J. Rolin, Lilien Rosarian, Dick Raaijmakers, John Grzinich, Eric La Casa & Seijiro Murayama, Heiner Goebbels, Erlend Apneseth Trio, Erik Griswold, Natalie Beridze, Joep Beving, Timothy Leary, Brian Eno with Jon Hopkins & Leo Abrahams

[deep-dive]

2022

albums: Alex G - God Save the Animals Alex G - We're All Going to the World's Fair Anthony Naples + DJ Python - Air Texture VIII Big Thief - Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You Björk - Fossora Bladee & Ecco2k - Crest Broadcast - Maida Vale Sessions Carla dal Forno - Come Around Carly Rae Jepsen - The Loneliest Time Cass McCombs - Heartmind Charli XCX - Crash Daphni - Cherry Dawn Richard & Spencer Zahn - Pigments Hikaru Utada - Bad Mode Huerco S. - Plonk Isabella Lovestory - Amor Hardcore Junior Boys - Waiting Game Kali Malone - Living Torch Malibu - Palaces of Pity Marina Herlop - Pripyat Oren Ambarchi - Shebang Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling & Andreas Werliin - Ghosted Organ Tapes - 唱着那无人问津的歌谣 / Chang Zhe Na Wu Ren Wen Jin De Ge Yao Phoenix - Alpha Zulu Physical Therapy - Teardrops on My Garage PPJ - Trindade Rachika Nayar - Heaven Come Crashing Raum - Daughter Sally Shapiro - Sad Cities Sam Prekop - The Sparrow Sam Prekop & John McEntire - Sons Of Shinichi Atobe - Love of Plastic Shygirl - Nymph The Soft Pink Truth - Is It Going to Get Any Deeper Than This? Torus & DJ Lostboi - The Flash Two Shell - Icons The Weeknd - Dawn FM William Basinski & Janek Schaefer - “ . . . On Reflection “

songs: Alex G - JLB's Drawing Bibio - Off Goes the Light Björk - Ancestress (ft. Sindri Eldon) Bladee & Ecco2k - Faust Bladee & Ecco2k - The Flag is Raised Call Super - Swallow Me Carla dal Forno - Side by Side Carly Rae Jepsen - Anxious Carly Rae Jepsen - Talking to Yourself Cass McCombs - Belong to Heaven CFCF - After the After (Bodysync Remix) Charli XCX - Sorry If I Hurt You Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul - Haha Coco & Clair Clair - Bad Lil Vibe Cole Pulice - City in a City Daphni - Take Two Dawn Richard & Spencer Zahn - Sandstone Demi Lovato - Substance DJ Heartstring - Can't Stop the Night Doss - Look (All Night Mix) Doss - Strawberry (Singin' Club Mix) Double Virgo - Kicked Out by Seven Ecco2k & Bladee - Amygdala Ela Minus & DJ Python - Pájaros En Verano Embaci - Tiniest Whisper Hikaru Utada - Somewhere Near Marseilles Hudson Mohawke - Bicstan Isabella Lovestory - Exibisionista Job - Lore Junior Boys - Thinking About You Calms Me Down Kelela - On the Run Luis - Jack Anderson Malibu - Iliad Marina Herlop - Abans Abans Merely - The Killing Sun Mr Twin Sister - Resort Mura Masa & Erika de Casier - e-motions Objekt - Ballast Oren Ambarchi - I Organ Tapes - Burnout Organ Tapes - heaven can wait Physical Therapy - Chain Reaction PinkPantheress - Boy's a liar PPJ - Dar Um (Lauer Remix) Purelink - Butterfly Jam Rachika Nayar - Gayatri Raum - Walk together Sally Shapiro - Sad City SG Lewis & Tove Lo - Call on Me (SG's Dub Edit) Shinichi Atobe - Love of Plastic 1 Shygirl - Firefly Two Shell - Unrequited Yasmine - Doce Atração Yung Lean - Lips Yves Tumor - God Is a Circle

games: Elden Ring Kirby and the Forgotten Land Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak Signalis Sonic Frontiers Squaredle Tactics Ogre: Reborn

film: Aftersun (Charlotte Wells) Ambulance (Michael Bay) Avatar: The Way of Water (James Cameron) Crimes of the Future (David Cronenberg) Decision to Leave (Park Chan-wook) I Thought the World of You (Kurt Walker) Jackass Forever (Jeff Tremaine) Kimi (Steven Soderbergh) Nope (Jordan Peele) Orphan: First Kill (William Brent Bell) Pacifiction (Albert Serra) Sharp Stick (Lena Dunham) Stars at Noon (Claire Denis) Tár (Todd Field) Three Thousand Years of Longing (George Miller)