We’ve seen Mary Knoblock’s work before on Da Da Da Music, with her previous release, Halo, a haunting neo-classical dive into surreal, almost spiritual depths. Her sound, drenched in echoes and reverb, seems to blur the line between traditional music and an immersive art installation. With Excuse Me While I Go Fall in Love, she steps onto a different path, though it’s still uniquely her own, with a lightness that feels like a prelude to Halo—a reverie before the storm.
Lolita Terrorist Sounds’ latest release, “Living-in-glory,” feels like a meditation on tension—personal, political, and historical. The track, an avant-garde blend of drone, industrial clatter, and the unnerving intimacy of ASMR, doesn’t hold your hand through a narrative but instead invites you to sit with a strange discomfort. It’s unsettling and oddly hypnotic, a soundscape that is as much about the space between the notes as the tones themselves.
In a Munich record store in 2018, John Beckmann, the enigmatic frontman for Mortal Prophets, stumbled upon a mysterious acetate record titled “Meine Liebe.” Bearing no artist’s name, the record’s haunting strains of German opera mingled with European electronica and new-wave echoes instantly captivated Beckmann. He surmised it hailed from 1977, but his extensive search for its creators yielded no results. The enigma of “Meine Liebe” ignited a creative fire in Beckmann, compelling him to resurrect and reimagine this lost musical artifact.
“Halo” – Mary Knoblock Artist: Mary Knoblock Album: Halo Genre: Avant-Garde, Ambient Release Date: February 29, 2024 Enigmatic and unrestrained,…