01/21/22: Divergent Layers
Featuring Tyondai Braxton, Victoria Bourne, Jim Tetlow, and Steve Roach
Happy Friday, and welcome to Keeping Score. This week I have three new releases.
The Music
Something Fun
American composer Tyondai Braxton released Multiplay. Sharing the name with his upcoming residency at Public Records in Brooklyn, these three pieces are Braxton’s first new music in five years. The unique stuttering rhythm and minimalist use of repetition come together in different ways for each of the pieces and really become something special.
Listen on Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, etc.
Something Electro-acoustic
British composers Victoria Bourne and Jim Tetlow released The Duality Shroud, marrying Tetlow’s electronic experiments with Bourne’s Eastern-inspired expressionism. The album is their first full album together, after years of collaborating, and it is excellent.
Listen on Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, etc.
Something Ambient
American composer Steve Roach released Zones, Drones & Atmospheres, a long, nearly three and a half hour album of soundscapes. Exposé Online writes:
[The release] offers a wellspring of expressive soundscapes that encompass all of what the title bluntly suggests: zones of alluring beauty and nuanced shades of light and darkness; drones that offer a persuasive vision that engulfs the listener completely; and atmospheres that shimmer and weave, swirling in hazy heady textures and opening out into the vast reaches of the cosmos.
Be sure to dive into this one.
Listen on Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, etc.