Scry To
intimate, uncompromising sounds. divine, hoary, hovering. we listen. with psetta
featuring artists like
Jonas Meyer, naran ratan, Anno Luz, Saw, Kelly Lee Owens, Mort Garson, Jean-Jacques Perrey, Dylan Packard, Emerald Webb, Massimo e Massimo, Clara Rockmore, Dylan Packard, Jonas Meyer, Broadcast, Automatic, From Nursery to Misery, Cindy Lee
This playlist serves as a repository for uncanny musical minutiae, holding outsider sounds & odd strangers in reverence. Borne from late-night musical rabbit holes & rabid record store hunts, “Music to Scry To” is a product of a need to deconstruct ‘mood’ music.
It concerns the spaces between genres, aiming for the chalk outline of a sound.
Inspired by record labels Dark Entries, Ghost Box, Music From Memory, & Efficient Space, to name a few.
Day Without Success – Chandra
15 October 2019
Unreleased until last year, teenager Chandra Oppenheim penned “Day Without Success” among other razor-sharp kiss-offs around 1983. Her music provides an individual and uncompromising glimpse into the mind of youth…
Humanoid – Automatic
8 October 2019
Automatic functions on restraint. To the touch they are dry and cool, ectothermic. Slinking out of the pool of water that birthed ESG, Young Marble Giants and Au Pairs, their sound is recognizable but hyper-focussed, sleek…
Silver Wings – Inca Ore
24 September 2019
“Birthday of Bless You” was released a little over a decade ago. What little we can find of Eva Saelens’ experimental project Inca Ora is gossamer and sometimes demonic––sound collages of weathered acoustic and electronic instruments and voice…
opterà – massimo e massimo
10 September 2019
Existing squarely in the imaginary realm, Massimo e Massimo’s “Opterà” soundtracks its titular film on a “compilation EP [that draws] from the duo’s time producing soundtracks for Italian thriller, horror, and giallo films throughout the 1970s…”
Sunlight Glide – Mandrake Paddle Steamer
4 September 2019
An accompaniment to the Swedish film “Skottet,” our song this week was written by the film’s producers and performed by Mandrake Paddle Steamers under the abbreviated moniker “Mandrake”, released in 1969 as a 7″. While the b-side indulges in a bluesy guitar lead with mid-tempo pomp, “Sunlight Glide” ambles into more sinister territory…
Forevertime Journeys II – naran ratan
27 August 2019
Quietly released in 2015, our track is nestled close to the eleven-minute rewind of tasty morsel’s “Trees etc.” Described as “a collection of spirit quest music, herbaceous miniatures and beginner clarinet jams” the sounds here are soft, sometimes a bit sour…
Air – Clara Rockmore
21 August 2019
The theremin can often make for an uncomfortable listen. While a historical achievement in electronic instruments, it has been relegated as a novelty rather than a ubiquity, something its admirers would likely bemoan. However muddled its application and relevance has become, its early performers were virtuosos, fitting the instrument among entire orchestras in place of vocals and stringed instruments…
ESP – Mort Garson
12 August 2019
Under the moniker “Lucifer”, composer Mort Garson released the album “Black Mass” in 1971. With song titles like “Incubus”, “Philosopher’s Stone”, and “Voices of the Dead (The Medium),” he paired his virtuosic explorations of Moog synthesis with imagery of the occult, witchcraft & Satanic worship…
See You See Me – Anhai
3 August 2019
To be perceived, to perceive, in reverse.
Improvisation, radical positivity…
Flight of the Raven – Emerald Web
3 August 2019
An arpeggio, a whisper.
Reeds, strings, silvery.
A disturbance, a revelation, a return to form…
