{"id":2799,"date":"2019-11-27T12:05:51","date_gmt":"2019-11-27T12:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rlsto.net\/Nooz\/?page_id=2799"},"modified":"2026-01-05T00:39:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T00:39:15","slug":"quotable-quotes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.rlsto.net\/Nooz\/2b-press\/quotable-quotes\/","title":{"rendered":"The Press Speaks"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Press Speaks – Quotable Quotes<\/h1>\n

\"\"<\/a>\u201cStone makes music that can hit your ear holes like a DMT flash.\u201d<\/span>
\n\u2013 Richard Gehr, Relix 2019<\/em><\/h3>\n

“Avant-garde computer music pioneer Carl Stone\u2019s newest is a Max\/MSP powered deep dive into unsettled dreamworld sampledelica, warping pitch-fuct pop garbles into hiccuping noise spirals and quasi-techno ethno-pop bumpers. Properly off the dial material that sounds like a plunderphonic take on the Sublime Frequencies catalog, or ABBA reworked by Oval.”<\/span>– BoomKat 2022<\/em><\/h3>\n

“Veteran US electronic experimentalist Carl Stone is making some of the most purely fun music of his career….<Bojuk>is a masterful study in the recombinant and plastic nature of popular music, and way more fun than that sounds.\u00a0<\/span>
\n\u2013Ben Beaumont-Thomas, The Guardian 2020<\/em><\/h3>\n

\u201cStone is still ahead of the game when it comes to his knack for discovering a world of music in a grain of sound.\u201d<\/span>
\n\u2013 Julian Cowley, The Wire 2019<\/em><\/h3>\n

Stolen Car<\/em>\u00a0celebrates the universality of music while acknowledging the singular attributes that make styles and traditions appealing, bringing us closer to a unified understanding of the power of listening.<\/span>
\n\u2013 Jonathan Williger, Pitchfork 2020<\/em><\/h3>\n

“(Carl Stone’s Baroo<\/em> is) like a dance party in a room made of funhouse mirrors.”<\/span>
\n– Pitchfork\u00a0 “Best Experimental Albums of 2019”<\/em><\/h3>\n

“(Baroo<\/em> and Himalaya<\/em>) bubble with ideas and careen with dizzying juxtapositions….the process is brainy, but both albums are also full of glee, as fun to listen to as they are to contemplate.” <\/span>
\n– Bandcamp “Best Experimental Albums of 2019”<\/em><\/h3>\n

“The relationship between Himalaya<\/em> and Stone\u2019s release from earlier this year, Baroo<\/em>, mirrors that between Miles Davis\u2019s Bitches Brew and In A Silent Way \u2013 the later album building on the textural and harmonic palette of all that went before, while clawing open fresh expressive possibilities\u2026. (Stone) reconnects your soul with the stuff of sound itself as you ruminate on an epic journey, both exhilarating and affecting.”<\/span>
\n– Philip Clark, The Wire 2019<\/em><\/h3>\n

“Read anything about Carl Stone online and you will notice people tying themselves into knots even trying<\/em> to describe what his music sounds like. Here\u2019s my try: he takes samples and does outrageous things with them using musical coding. You will hear all types of songs smashed together<\/a>, stretched out<\/a>, rearranged<\/a>, or parodied<\/a> in a way that runs through an enormous range of emotions, and along the spectrum of gorgeous<\/a> to difficult<\/a>. What makes him extra noteworthy is that in addition to being part of the California experimental scene while he was younger, he suddenly started putting out a torrent of daring albums while in his 60s. It\u2019s like Scott Walker<\/a>, except Carl was weird the whole time.<\/span>“<\/span>
\n– Catherine Sinow, freelance critic 2025<\/em><\/h3>\n

“The title track (Baroo<\/em>) is an entrancing salsa kaleidoscope that would stimulate Steve Reich\u2019s jealousy …a sunray piercing the black clouds and the cold fog to warm human plants whose flourishing is delayed. When you\u2019re down and troubled \u2013 but don\u2019t need a helping hand \u2013 it will work wonders, improving the mood much better than any antidepressant. Keep it close.”<\/span>
\n– Massimo Ricci Touching Extremes 2019<\/em><\/h3>\n

\u201c{Stone\u2019s music is} a powerful stimulant, with lingering euphoric effects.\u201d<\/span>
\n– Steve Smith, New York Times 2010<\/h3>\n

\u201cOne of American experimental music\u2019s most eloquent advocates\u201d<\/span>
\n– Time Out New York 2014<\/h3>\n

\u201cHe just opens up time in this marvelous way that I\u2019ve never heard another composer do.\u201d<\/span>
\n– Jonathan Gold, Vogue Magazine 2016<\/h3>\n

“A trailblazing electronic composer and improviser whose works mix eloquence, economy and wit” <\/span>
\n– Time Out New York 2012<\/h3>\n
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Photo: Joe Elliot Purtell<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cCarl Stone\u2019s (‘Electronic Music from the Eighties and Nineties<\/em>\u2019) is four hallucinatory new planes of ambient enquiry yielding some of the most interesting electronic music we\u2019ve never heard before.\u201d<\/span>
\n– BoomKat 2018<\/em><\/h3>\n

\u201cCan an album be un-turnoffable? If so, this one is!\u201d<\/span>
\n– Emily Blick, The Wire 2018<\/em><\/h3>\n

\u201cSo beautiful and accomplished, that words can only fail\u2026.unquestionably one of the most important releases of 2018. Absolutely essential. Stunning on every count. I can\u2019t recommend it enough.\u201d<\/span>
\n– Bradford Bailey, The Hum 2018<\/em><\/h3>\n

“Once again the California master makes use of his ability to transform the rhythm into the atmosphere, the beat song, the pop music into art\u2026.A world of suffused beauty: a rarefied and dreamy soundscape, rippled by a persuasive, melancholic, ecstatic song.”<\/span>
\n– Kathodik E-Zine 2019<\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n

“Criminally neglected”<\/span>
\n– someone on Instagram 2019<\/em><\/h3>\n

“A negligent criminal”<\/span>
\n– Stone’s parole officer<\/em><\/h3>\n
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The Press Speaks – Quotable Quotes \u201cStone makes music that can hit your ear holes like a DMT flash.\u201d \u2013 Richard Gehr, Relix 2019 “Avant-garde computer music pioneer Carl Stone\u2019s newest is a Max\/MSP powered deep dive into unsettled dreamworld sampledelica, warping pitch-fuct pop garbles into hiccuping noise spirals and quasi-techno ethno-pop bumpers. Properly off … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":1507,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2799","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsto.net\/Nooz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsto.net\/Nooz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsto.net\/Nooz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsto.net\/Nooz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsto.net\/Nooz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2799"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsto.net\/Nooz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4907,"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsto.net\/Nooz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2799\/revisions\/4907"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsto.net\/Nooz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsto.net\/Nooz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}