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In A Place Of Such Graceful Shapes
I was going to hold fire and not mention this until the review is ready to roll (not long now), but then I started thinking that some things are to good to hold back on and so a ‘heads up’ was the...
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Taylor Deupree and Marcus Fischer – In A Place Of Such Graceful Shapes
Over its nearly 15 years of existence, Pound Ridge-based label 12k has been known to foster and nurture a diminutive roster of artists and support their collaborative endeavors, either between...
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Flaming Pines – Rivers Home 1-5
In the short time since the label’s launch, Kate Carr’s Australia-based Flaming Pines has made quite an impact on the ambient/experimental music scene, with environmental and location themed releases...
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Marcus Fischer – Collected Dust
I enjoy listening to a wide range of music, but it’s rare that I come across something that completely changes my understanding of how music can be made and listened to. One such occasion was the...
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Sounds and Textures: The Marcus Fischer Interview
In late 2010 12k released “Monocoastal”, an album by Portland, Oregon-based musician and multimedia artist Marcus Fischer. The CD edition sold out within weeks, and 2011 brought well-received...
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Cory Allen & Marcus Fischer – Two / Twenty-Two
Learning to speak another language is hard: I translate my words into your words, but voice them according to my own rules. You filter them through your own set of associations and nuances, and what...
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Unrecognizable Now: Two Rooms
What experiments are possible when ‘ambient’ music is played loud? This line of enquiry forms the basis for the new album by Unrecognizable Now, a collaboration between Portland, Oregon-based...
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Marcus Fischer and The OO-Ray – Tessellations
Collaboration: the theory goes that two people working together can achieve much more than they could on their own, but often this turns out not to be the case, not entirely. The working methods of...
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Between – Between
Among the outcomes of 12k’s tour of Japan in 2010 was the beautiful live album “Tasogare”, so when the label announced a return to the country for a number of shows last autumn, hopes were raised for...
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Marcus Fischer – On Shore
An ocean isn’t an easy thing to tear yourself away from, especially when it’s as big as the Pacific. On one side there is home, family, familiarity, a mental map built up over the years from layers of...
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Marcus Fischer: The Crow / Gail Priest: The Common Koel (Birds of a Feather...
Given the huge amount of music being released these days, labels are increasingly in need of strategies to catch and hold the attention of listeners. Australian imprint Flaming Pines gained...
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Tulong is Tagalog for aid or assistance. All Proceeds will be donated to Humanitarian Response Philippines, a charity that is assisting in the rebuilding of homes of those devastated by Haiyan… Marcus...
View ArticleFischer / The OO-Ray
Tulong ‘Tulong’ is the second collaborative record between multi-instrumentalist Marcus Fischer and cellist The OO-Ray, the first being 2012’s ‘Tesselations’, though they also make music together in...
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Taylor Deupree and Marcus Fischer created their expansive debut In A Place Of Such Graceful Shapes (12k2021, 2011) over four days in a frigid, snow-covered New York only a few short months after they...
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Twine In signal processing terms, an artefact is information that is not considered part of the signal being transmitted, but is rather the result of external interference or internal technical...
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Public Works Marcus Fischer’s “Public Works” was compiled for a Japanese tour that a shoulder injury unfortunately caused the Portland, Oregon-based artist to pull out of at the last minute. The album...
View ArticleMarcus Fischer – Film Variations
“Lovely music with an undercurrent of dread”: this was the brief given to Marcus Fischer when he was commissioned to create the score for the short film “Youth” by Brett Marty and Joshua Izenberg. The...
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Marcus Fischer – The Loss Interview
Just off the coast of Lee County, Florida lies the island of Captiva. Once inhabited by a community of Native Americans known as the Calusa, today its white sands are lined with luxury homes for the...
View ArticleMarcus Fischer & Simon Scott – Shape Memory
Friendship is a kind of music that plays in stereo on a two-way street. When two people sync up with each other, it’s a honey-sweet harmony in the making. Shape Memory brings together two friends,...
View ArticleMarcus Fischer & Burke Jam – Vanitas
“Sound is a haunting, a ghost, a presence whose location in space is ambiguous and whose existence in time is fleeting. The intangibility of sound is uncanny – a phenomenal presence both in the head,...
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