Posts Tagged ‘Alex Geoffrey Frank’

Infinity Window: An Interview with Taylor Richardson and Daniel Lopatin

Sunday, March 15th, 2009


Infinity Window is a bit of a game-changer. Not that there’s anything drastic about them, but listening to their atmospheric lull is bound to effect you. Try putting on “Artificial Midnight” on a late, dark Saturday afternoon with your friends, like I did, and see the change. If your friends are anything like mine, they’ll sink into the couch and won’t budge an inch. But that doesn’t mean they aren’t traveling.

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Pocahaunted: An Interview with Bethany Cosentino

Saturday, February 21st, 2009


Bethany Cosentino is one half of Los Angeles duo Pocahaunted (with Amanda Brown), known for their long, spooky, and almost meditative drone compositions. Their music is both calming and foreboding, often simultaneously, and can feel like being lullabyed into a nightmare-filled sleep. Amid war drums, lulling guitar, and howling voices, Pococaunted always seem to be beating, guiding, and gathering towards some sonic place, a place where we’ll probably never arrive. But if we can’t know where Pocahaunted are going, we can at least find out where they come from.

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Pocahaunted : Interview avec Bethany Cosentino

Saturday, February 21st, 2009

l_5555b62243288821162efaf6d6736139Bethany Cosentino forme avec Amanda Brown Pocahaunted, duo de Los Angeles connu pour ses compositions longues, éthérées et presque méditatives. Sa musique est à la fois apaisante et anxieuse, et donne parfois l’impression d’être plongé dans un sommeil peuplé de rêves cauchemardesques. Entre une batterie conquérante, une guitare paisible et des voix rugissantes, Pocahaunted semble toujours palpiter, tendre et converger vers un univers sonique que l’on n’atteindra probablement jamais. Mais si l’on ne peut pas savoir où les filles de Pocahaunted nous emmènent, on peut au moins savoir d’où elles viennent.

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