50 Arkansas artists who made good noise in 2020
50 Arkansas artists who made good noise in 2020
December 29, 20207:43 pm (top left to top right) Bazi Owenz, Bailey Bigger, Joshua Asante, (bottom left to bottom right) The Eulogy Brothers, Elise Davis, DOT
Creators are going to create, and whether the upheaval of a year like 2020 stifles or fuels that process probably depends on the artist, and on the day. Many, undoubtedly, made music in 2020 at their own expense, investing time, money or both into projects they couldn’t support or promote with live performance, at least not for the foreseeable future. A good number of them, especially those who make music for a living, have spent the year devoted to an industry and to a live music landscape that may well emerge from Post-Pandemic Times looking very different than it did in 2019. But I’m willing to bet that by the time some of this quarantine-crafted music reaches the stage, congregants’ ears
Dean De Benedictis - Salvaging the Past - Spotted Peccary Music
Desensitized - Hemispherica Portalis - Spotted Peccary
Fringo Chills - .Cooled - SynGate/Luna
Ian Boddy - Axiom - DiN
Jim Ottaway - When Eternity Touches Time - none
Juta Takahashi - Music for Urban Promenades II - Lunisolar
Michael Brückner and Detlev Everling - Reiseziel Mond - SynGate/Wave
Mythos - Berliner Schule Sequencing - Cargo
Philippe Petit - A Modern Atlantis Under a Wave of Greed - TruthTable
Rapoon - Call Fires to Cloud - Winter-Light
Ron Boots and Synth.nl - BorkHavn - Groove Unlimited