ilex
Below are two songs from this release, rexaling and improving
Tracklist:
1- A remix for Leanbh
2- Improving
3- Safe
4- Dismissed
5- Rexaling
6- Untitled
ABCnet : Chairs
free download here
Review from Nialler9.com
I found Fringes MySpace page a few months ago and have been hooked on her tunes ever since. Her page is pretty impressive: 2790 friends, loads of strange images/random videos and of course, the tunes. Fringe makes beautiful ambient electronic music, sometimes singing on her arrangements. I was immediately hooked to Improving from the first time I heard it. Its got a soothing feel to it with lovely repeating synth phrases. I cant pinpoint exactly what it is I like about the song all I know is that it makes me feel good. In early June, Fringe was playing here first ever gig in the cozy but confined settings of the Ice Bar so myself and my friends popped along. When I walked in the door, she was playing this tune. I was enraptured by it and just stood there trying not to look silly in an otherwise quiet enough bar. It was another of those moments.
Review by Pascals Country Sounds
Ilex
Music to ly in the park to as the girls/boys of summer go by, makes you long for summer days. Its almost reminiscent to "Summer Make Good LP" in it's subtle and understated beauty, creating a world that only these creature exist, with birds and glitch glitch grasshoppers jumping from ear to ear, sounds out pops and bangs to each other high up on in the forest canopy.
You can download Ilex's (then under the alias of Fringe) album "Chairs" for free from the Alphabet set. Click on the photo of the faceless airpilot on the right hand side of the page.
Review of 'Chairs' By Alphabet Set
Holly McGowan AKA Fringe presents a lovely, thoughtful and engaging release as her debut 'Chairs'. Combining at times stuttering motorik beats with space, melody and voice, it weaves, pulses and slides through different rooms echoing with activity down the hall. Glitches, sqelches and cascading piano melodies shift and repeat in the foreground as drones and subtle artifacts modulate and open into a warm glow. A haze of steam condensation reveals an intimate musical converstation of interaction and emotion, melancolia and joy. Have a listen :)
Review from the Irish Times
Animation graduate Holly McGowan's glitchy soundscapes are perfect for sun-haze afternoons and the wee small hours.
This is a cover i made for the alphabet set release
A flyer or one of my shows
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