TJ Norris/Toneshift: Hey, afternoon Jason, how are you doing and what’s up with you lately? Jason Lamoreaux/The Corrupting Sea/Somewherecold Records: Well, mostly spending my days recording, working on the record label, and getting things moving for the releases that will finish off 2019. It’s been a banner year for Somewherecold Records in a lot of […]
Nicholas Maloney | Water Studies Somewherecold Records (CD/DL) Mississippi-based Nicholas Maloney brings his debut solo EP via Somewherecold Records, two Water Studies (Study for Moving Water and Study for Still Water). It’s also limited to only forty-five copies if you dig bespoke handmade and numbered discs. Recorded in Iceland as well as on the Pearl […]
There’s a chill in the air… Jason Lamoreaux (aka The Corrupting Sea) and company have begun a quasi re-vamp on the Somewherecold imprint that was born back in 2005, based in the American South. This year, alone, they have already released eight new recordings, and here we focus on two of the latest by the […]
Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson | OK Computer Music Some (CD) This new one from Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson is a quasi self-produced in a limited edition of only 100, and likely only available via the artist directly. If you are unfamiliar with the Icelandic artist (who may be based in Belgium or Germany these days), his output […]
Thee Koukouvaya | Tο παρελθόν περιέχει το μέλλον Somewherecold Records (CD/DL) Thee Koukouvaya is a duo made up of John O’Hara and Brian Wenckebach, and it’s all Greek to me on Somewherecold. The album title translates to “the past contains the future” – so here’s hoping this will be a spacey trip. The cover, alone, […]
The Corrupting Sea Reflections (Somewherecold Records; CS/DL) The Corrupting Sea (Jason T. Lamoreaux) has only been releasing ambient music for a couple of years, but has already put out a handful of tapes on his own Texan imprint. It starts with a reverie of percussion layered with slightly twangy synths on Triumph. Mostly what I […]
