Sunday, April 23, 2006

ALEX SMOKE



ARTIST / BAND: ALEX SMOKE
SONG (MP3): A MOMENT TO MYSELF
ALBUM: Paradolia
FILE UNDER: dub, electro, grime and minimal techno
LABEL: soma records
INFO: Glaswegian based artist Alex Smoke recently released his second album, 'Paradolia' on Soma Records.Paradolia is defined as the human ability to creatively perceive coherentimages in randomness. This is an unusual word by anyone’s standard but thenAlex Menzies (aka Mr Smoke) is an artist very far from the usual. ARorschach test this is not, more a sonic experiment that explores theparameters of Alex Smoke’s potent psyche.Alex remarks on its significance “I guess the album is the pattern and thetracks the randomness as I didn't have a plan to tie everything together. Ialso think it describes really well the appeal of music that at first soundsrandom but makes sense as a whole.”
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