Digital Rabbit's Music Blog

This was originally going to be an artist spotlight on one of the two musicians who make up the ensemble Fermented Brain, but their self titled album released through Full Spectrum Records on December 31st of 2020 is so full of amazing music that I am wary of my ability to maintain brevity. Fermented Brain is a duo composed of William Corrigan and CC Sorenson, the latter of whom is the artist I intended to spotlight. William is based out of Lubbock and CC is based out of San Antonio, both are dear friends of mine and are amazing musicians, composers, and sound artists on their own. I have had the luck of seeing Fermented Brain perform live as the duo and also as an expanded ensemble. The music is always amazing and deeply meditative; enveloping the listener in masses of sound. However, listening to their self-titled album led me on a deep meditative journey that I, frankly, wasn't prepared for. Llano Discs: Fermented Brain by Fermented Brain Track "I" begins with a medita...

Let's get this started with an album that is easy to write about.  The Thousand Birds in the Earth, The Thousand Birds in the Sky by Andrew Weathers Ensemble With nods to to Riley/Reich style minimalism, Bluegrass inspired rock, drone, jazz, and a plethora of other styles and genres The Andrew Weather's Ensemble's final release "The Thousand Birds in the Earth, The Thousand Birds in the Sky" is a true tour de force of new music. From the very onset of "A Mountain of Snakes, The High Plains, A Knee in the Earth" we can hear a simultaneous slow drone of harmony holding deep the musical motion while above it saxophone, piano, percussion, guitar, and a whole orchestra of sounds build into an impressively complex but simultaneously simple sonic environment. Imitative of one's feeling standing in the openness of nature with the depth of stability in the ground below while life and nature move all around you. The orchestration is phenomenal and the blending...