Truncador – Strong Arm (bandcamp)
While live music is only just starting to peep out from under the pandemic blanket,…
Author Melonie Bayl-Smith
Melonie Bayl-Smith
architect and self proclaimed music nerd. classical pianist and accompanist by trade, currently bassist and singer by choice. early music education (thx Mum and Dad) involved Sixties folk/protest icons, the classical canon, flamenco guitar, jazz, and Neil Diamond... ensuing musical preoccupations have included synth pop, rock, be-bop, fusion, new wave, prog jazz, electronica, dub, shoegazers, lo-fi, house in its many varieties), industrial, noise rock, ambient, electro-acoustic, minimalism, found-sounds, glitch, post-rock, metal, contemporary art music... and back to folk (thx Tunng). Actually, i hate pigeonholing music, but its the quickest way of telling others where my musical journey has been and continues on to. i tweet at @bijlarchitect and Instagram at @melkbayl
A Soundtrack of their Own Imagining: Ears have Ears’ Brooke Olsen and Scarlett Di Maio in conversation with Melonie Bayl-Smith
Experimental music – one of those turns of phrase that can strike terror into the…
33 1/3: Paul’s Boutique – Dan LeRoy (Continuum/ Bloomsbury Publishing)
In the 1993 book “Will Pop Eat Itself?†Jeremy Beadle attempted to interrogate the ever-shifting…
The seed of an idea – Eve Klein interview
Pubs, alternative arts festivals and roller derby meets. These places have little to nothing in…
Amiina interview by Melonie Bayl-Smith
There’s no doubt that Icelandic sextet Amiina are an intriguing bunch. Most recently, they delighted…
Gold Panda: “I like music where, well, where nothing happens.” Interview by Melonie Bayl-Smith
Ahead of his Australian appearance in January at Sydney Festival 2011, Cyclic Defrost spoke with…
The Necks – Silverwater (ReR/Vitamin)
The Necks need little in the way of an introduction – which perhaps is simply…
Efterklang & the Danish National Chamber Orchestra – Performing Parades (Leaf/Inertia)
Perhaps it’s the weather. Or maybe the impressive number of trained musicians per head of…
Aus – Light in August, Later (Something Good)
Aus, otherwise known as Yasuhiko Fukuzono, is a prolific young Japanese musician whose past recordings…
Ian Hawgood – Snow Roads (Dragon’s Eye) / Wolfskin (Hibernate)
Undertaking a parallel listening of these two most recent albums of Ian Hawgood’s, Snow Roads…
Porzellan – The Fourth Level of Comprehension (Hibernate)
On The fourth level of comprehension, Porzellan’s second album release, we hear many “classic” synth…
Port-Royal – Dying in Time (n5md)
When listening to Dying in Time – Port-Royal’s tenth studio release and third full length…
Volcano Choir – Unmap (Jagjaguwar/Inertia)
One would hesitate to say that this is the latest offering from Justin Vernon (aka…