“'Open' by The Penal Colony is a work of minimalist post-punk that explores themes of pessimism vs. optimism in the face of traumatic experiences.”
Strip it down and let it breathe: Mike Zellers' drift weaves experimental minimal ambient flute into multi-level collaged textures, while bricolage layers bansuri and bass flute improvisations into something meditative and peaceful. The Penal Colony's Bodies goes cold with post-industrial minimalism, the human body recast as a deterministic, self-surveilling machine. gon pulvo's HOME 8GAIN asks how much a 30-second loop can become — three distinct house takes answer with movement and texture. Zane Alexander's Outer Darkness Between Worlds closes with lo-fi acoustic songs on identity and belonging, sung across cultures in French and Spanish.
“'Open' by The Penal Colony is a work of minimalist post-punk that explores themes of pessimism vs. optimism in the face of traumatic experiences.”
“'Bodies' is a work of post-industrial minimalism inspired by the human body conceptualized as a deterministic, self-surveilling structure that is itself a component of larger, deterministic structu...”