Crisopa “Transhumante” Reviewed at [sic] Magazine
“I’m a minute in, and I already feel that this is an exciting record that’s going to take me some where new. Indeed, I was not expecting the trancy beats to burst into the synthy shoegazeness, nor the heavily vocodered vocals. And that’s only track 1. ‘I am the...Crisopa “Transhumante” Reviewed at Igloo Magazine
“In late January 2017, Crisopa (aka Madrid-based Santiago Lizón) took a splinter break from n5MD and released Transhumante, an extended 7-track digital album. His previous two titles on n5MD were vibrant shoegaze-electronics etched with fuzzy melodic treasures...Crisopa “Transhumante” Reviewed at Norman Records
“Athens’ fairweathered Sound In Silence label has released some of the most kindly music of our last couple years, having slowly expanded their ambient roster outwards into beatwork and bravado. This release from Crisopa sees them break out of their cosy cocoon...Chloe March ‘Calypso Wants’ Reviewed at The Sunday Experience
Utterly enchanting, snow fallen beguilement courtesy of Chloe March. Second single from her recent Hidden Shoal full length ‘blood red spark’, this be ‘Calypso Wants’ – a beautifully harvested lunar lullaby delicately tripped and teased in the subtle spray and vibrant fusion of jazz noir dialects, torch lit tailoring and ethereal electronic murmurs all sweetly stationed between the flutter by advances of Laetitia Sadier and the dreamy demurs of Musetta and Heather Duby, simply arresting.
Summon the Birds “Blood Love” Reviewed at Emerging Indie Bands
The Australian alt-rock band Summon The Birds were introduced last year. Earlier in the month they released the six track LP Blood Love, which is available on bandcamp. A set of songs in to which the listener digs their spoon in sumptuous dumplings of warming music that makes life better for its very presence.
The material is drawn from that well of the creativity of early ’70s progressive psychedelia which they approach from the direction of that materials folk inspired derivative, to create songs that hold a calm, yet multilayered and slightly trippy, texturing without throwing the mind in to a full on psychotropic trip, rather stretching out on scattered cushions while gazing at a ceiling aglow with spinning purple hued crystal refractions of light.
The just under eight and a half minutes antepenultimate track is Journey To The Centre Of The Earth being my pick of the release.