Tag: From Pac-Man to Pop Culture: "Rok" and the Art of Emotional Synth

Lucid Phase To Release Single Record On February 13th

Lucid Phase To Release Single Record On February 13th Lucid Phase, today, announced a new single release set for Saturday, February 13th, 2021 by Los Angeles-based band, Lucid Phase, called Spelunkin’. Inspired by metaphor art, Spelunking is defined by Oxford Languages as the exploration of caves, especially as a hobby. "The track Spelunkin' is a metaphor of finding yourself and digging deep to explore truth," explains...

Listen Deep: Sound Liberation’s Complex “Elegy”

Sound Liberation’s “Elegy” isn’t so much an album as it is an unbolting of several sonic cages, letting the inhabitants mingle, argue, and eventually, find a strange, compelling harmony. Gene Pritsker and his rotating ensemble are, as ever, on a crusade against the "segregation of sound vibration," and here, their weapon of choice is grief, remembrance, and an absolutely defiant refusal to sit still...

From Pac-Man to Pop Culture: “Rok” and the Art of Emotional Synth

If the Pac-Man arcade cabinet at the corner of a musty Scottish pub could talk, it might recount something akin to Rok's self-titled odyssey....