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.
Zanmi kanmarad – Claudette et Ti Pierre
24 March 2020
“Zanmi kanmarad” was first released in 1979 on Claudette et Ti Pierre’s second Macaya Records album, Camionette. Information on the duo themselves beyond Discogs’ dedicated archivist community proved to be more difficult to piece together…
The Fatal Bite – From Nursery To Misery
25 February 2020
In the late 1980s, twins Gina and Tina Fear joined childhood friend Lee Stevens to form From Nursery To Misery…
Aqua Density – Jean-Jacques Perrey
11 February 2020
A headache in reverse, pulsing out in one flourish.
Suggestion of a bird….
Por Quê – Anno Luz
4 February 2020
The short-lived Anno Luz released a single, self-titled record in 1988 on the small Prog Rock label Som Interior. The record is awash in bright, sometimes eerie, synthesizers paired with the organic textures of acoustic guitars, flutes and piano…
Horizontal – Fritz Gosh and the Goshbrokers
28 January 2020
Positioned towards the end of Obscure Independent Classics Volume 3, “Horizontal” functions as a brief glimpse into the creative practice of J. Ashurst…
Incubation – Saw
14 January 2020
Seeking respite, we enter a foyer clad in metallic beads. The chrome refracts white midday light, figures waltz on the concrete floor…
Konfusion – Jonas Meyer
3 December 2019
Seeking respite, we enter a foyer clad in metallic beads. The chrome refracts white midday light, figures waltz on the concrete floor…
Teresa, Lark of Ascension – Broadcast
5 November 2019
As our October rituals wash away crimson and seep into the impending winds of winter, I am revisiting a foundational text of Music to Scry To in the form of Broadcast…
Ex Igne Infernali – Dylan Packard
29 October 2019
Under a heavy moon last October, synth magus Dylan Packard loosed Ritus Accersendi from its tomb. An unwieldy alloy formed of sizzling noise and percussive wallops, the project saw Packard’s more unholy urges crystalize in satanic electronics. Of its four tracks, named solely in unflinching Latin, “Ex Igne Infernali” could be considered its moment of respite…
The Lord Is My Shepherd – Diamanda Galás
22 October 2019
We fixate on the spots where light leaks in. The windows always amber, the wooden always weathered. Rats trail as we look onward in defiance of reality…
