by eyes cast down | Feb 21, 2011 | Album Reviews
Tennessee space musicians Mark Mahoney and Michael Peck team up for their fourth duo album, A Life Incandescent (Waiting World Records 009), a feast of classic analog sounds with a strong science-fiction, exploratory vibe. The music was recorded live (at the Gathering...
by eyes cast down | Feb 16, 2011 | Poems
This poem was the next one written after Camille Claudel, and the thematic connections are clear enough. I was reading books like The Beauty Myth as my daughter approached her third birthday, and contemplating her place in this… well, Marilyn French’s...
by eyes cast down | Feb 14, 2011 | Album Reviews
Rudy Ensueno’s long-form Burundanga plays like a film-noir soundtrack. Juggling a small number of elements to carve out his piece, Ensueno builds a series of scenes, ratcheting up the tension and letting it fall, carrying us along as a great film always does. He...
by eyes cast down | Feb 10, 2011 | Album Reviews
The Relaxed Machinery label celebrates its first anniversary with its 9th release: sleepMODE, a compilation featuring all 13 of the label’s artists. As can be discerned from the track titles, some of the artists used the Philip K. Dick-inspired question...
by eyes cast down | Feb 9, 2011 | Poems
Back in the mid-90s, I wrote some poems to indulge my love of wordplay, which also served as helpful venting. Some of them were published in various periodicals from 1993-96. I was going to publish them as a book called Divinations, but circumstance intervened. Maybe...