2018 Archives - HearFeel

Lee Yi – Dissimilar Lake Pigments (Rottenman Editions, 2018)

Chris — Wed, 16 Jan 2019 18:27:58 +0000

My mum’s been quilting for about 2 years now, and she’s made quite a few pieces in that time: I’m partially underneath one of them now in fact, an earlier work of simple, gradated colour blocks. I’ve been grateful for it, not just because it’s helped keep myself and others surprisingly warm, but also because […]

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The Top 20 Records of 2018

Chris — Mon, 10 Dec 2018 18:15:33 +0000

Sitting down to write up HearFeel’s sixth end-of-year list I find myself looking out over the vista of downtown Miami at sunset and it strikes me just what a year this has been in so many ways. I find myself in a strange period of life, one that has been interesting and exciting and filled […]

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Aaron Martin – Touch Dissolves (IIKKI, 2018)

Chris — Sat, 01 Dec 2018 18:34:43 +0000

Your fingertips have such incredible capacity for feeling that you can perceive imperfections in a surface on the order of nanometers. Of all the senses, touch bridges the gap between ourselves and objects or others in a way that nothing else can, and this extreme sensitivity lended to physicality creates a powerful bond. It isn’t […]

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Tomasz Bednarczyk – Illustrations For Those Who (Room 40, 2018)

Chris — Fri, 23 Nov 2018 18:48:07 +0000

I don’t sketch. I wish that I could, along with many other artistic endeavours, but I’ve never been very good at putting pen to paper and drawing. It’s unclear whether Tomasz has an aptitude for drawing either, but what is apparent is his ability to conjure distinct visions musically, to trace a particular environment not […]

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FOUDRE! – Kami (Gizeh, 2018)

Chris — Tue, 20 Nov 2018 17:32:36 +0000

Before the more rigorous application of science, for millenia humans used (and indeed still use in some cases) religion to explain certain natural phenomena. In a time when wind could not be explained as the movement of air from high to low pressure regions, it was the will of the god of the wind. Without […]

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Frédéric D. Oberland – Labyrinth (Nahal Recordings, 2018)

Chris — Sat, 10 Nov 2018 18:02:06 +0000

What is Hell and where can it be found? More importantly, what does it look like when you get there? Dante’s construction of Hell, with its descending circles of punishment tailored to the sinner, is the classical impression. Oberland’s is the labyrinth, writ here in the music of his latest record. A place of […]

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Ian William Craig – Thresholder (130701, 2018)

Chris — Thu, 08 Nov 2018 17:30:11 +0000

Life is a grazing notion, a minor event in the passage of non-life. We are all “thresholders”, walking the fine line between existence and non-existence, just trying to make our own way before returning to elemental nothingness again. In the same way that the universe ballooned from nothingness, and our incidental lives along with it, […]

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Less Bells – Solifuge (Kranky, 2018)

Chris — Thu, 25 Oct 2018 18:09:01 +0000

After some fruitless searching for the word “solifuge”, I turned to the press release that I probably should have read in the first place to learn that it is, in fact, a portmanteau of “solitude” and “refuge”. This blending of distance & isolation with a feeling of safety and security speaks to my introversion and […]

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Kevin Verwijmeren – Dett (2018)

Chris — Sun, 07 Oct 2018 15:25:27 +0000

It is hard to make a decision that we know to be the right course of action when we know that that path will lead to pain. It is the burden of conscience and morality, of responsibility. How we perform in those moments defines who we are, and perhaps shapes who we want to become: […]

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Tim Hecker – Konoyo (Kranky, 2018)

Chris — Sun, 30 Sep 2018 15:09:59 +0000

The universe strains towards entropy, a state of low energy disorder. Complex structures are anathema to it, and there will come a time, trillions of years from now when the last vestige of order in space disappears and the distance between subatomic particles will be thousands of light years. The fact that you are alive […]

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