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Our guest this week is musician, producer, and artist Angel Marcloid, also known as Fire-Toolz! Angel grew up in church, and has seen their relationship with faith evolve substantially, over the years. Whether you're talking about their music, visual art, or adventurous, open-minded approach to spirituality, Angel is a fascinating person and Fire-Toolz is a truly unique passion project! For links to anything and everything, go to www.linktr.ee/fire_toolz!
Mike, Joe, Jamie, Matty, and Ryan tweak the Top 200 Tapes of 2023. Guest callers include Angel Marcloid and Lexie Mountain. Artists featured include: Staraya Derevnya, Tiger Village, Captain / Magill / Wood, K/S/R + Wind Tide, Cop Funeral, Fire-Toolz, Mukqs, En Attendant Ana, Endless Fog, Lexie Mountain, Embarker, Dustin Wong, b.michaael, V/A from FTAM-100, Cunningham/Shiroishi/Ackerley/Smith, Ryley Walker & Jeff Tobias, Nyokabi Kariũki, hyphyskazerbox, Clang Quartet, Heejin Jang, Mattie Barbier, Amy Cutler, and V/A from Synthetic Bird Music
Producer / composer / multi-instrumentalist Angel Marcloid records music under the moniker Fire-Toolz. Though Marcloid's output emerges in a litany of distinct aliases and projects — from the jazz fusion / new age of Nonlocal Forecast to the vaporous nostalgia of MindSpring Memories — the Fire-Toolz catalog remains the central focus of the prolific artist's musical universe and a home for Marcloid's most ambitious and combinatory work. 'I am upset because I see something that is not there.', the fifth Fire-Toolz album to join the Hausu Mountain catalog since 2017, follows 2021's sprawling double-album Eternal Home (HAUSMO111) and 2022's self-released EP I will not use the body's eyes today. I am upset […] offers listeners a prismatic cross-section of juxtaposed genres and compositional contortions to explore, maintaining Fire-Toolz's signature density and complexity while tightening the scope of Marcloid's experimentation into the project's most focused song cycle to date. Perhaps more than any previous Fire-Toolz album, I am upset […] presents some form of pop music, carried in Marcloid's passages of clean vocals, in the bright synth and keyboard tones that animate its tracks, in the yearning saxophone lines that pour into view and whisk the narrative onto a new path. The format of a one-person “band” carries a different weight in a landscape of solo artists crafting abstract modernist productions that don't allude in the slightest to various twentieth-century rock-related traditions. Fire-Toolz exists on both sides of this divide.Fire-ToolzSRTN Podcast
Fire-Toolz is an experimental music project from Chicago-based producer, composer, and multi-instrumentalist Angel Marcloid. In this interview with Features Co-Director Mick R., she discusses how her spiritualism informs her work, responses to her latest album I am upset because I see something that is not there, and her complicated relationship with vaporwave. I am upset because I see something that is not there is out on Hausu Mountain Records. "My earliest memories are of people not really knowing what to do with me. I'm used to not being understood. That's always been really hard for me, but I can't be inauthentic and conform, or else I feel like I'm suffocating." - Angel Marcloid Produced by Mick R. Image Credit: Eliza Janus
Beauty in djent-adjacency, solo-Jeep-screamo-touring, "bad guy" music. The multi-genre multi-instrumentalist discusses three important albums.Angel's picks:The Contortionist – LanguageSuis La Lune – HeirRush – Hold Your FireThe new Fire-Toolz album, I am upset because I see something that is not there., is out now on Hausu Mountain. Check it out on Bandcamp. Fire-Toolz had a website and is also on Instagram and Twitter.Donate to Crucial Listening on Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/cruciallistening
Meet GNOM, the forthcoming solo project of Anders Bach, and hear how an ethereally ambient album developed into a noisy and extreme musical expression shaped by tragedy. Confronting grief, his approach to making music went from intellectual and subtle to musically clear and deeply personal. His album “Bitumenic” releases June 9th. To begin with, the first sketches for the album were spiritual and abstract. By first adding physical drums, he connected to a feral instinct and a melodic emotionality. He worked with Fire-Toolz aka. Angel Marcloid, further driving the album in a direction resonating with Anders' explosive emotional proces. It became an album that emphasizes and embraces the pleasure part of "guilty pleasure", expressing joy in the face of fear or even death. Produced by Louise Tandrup Esbensen Supported by The Danish Arts Foundation and The Augustinus Foundation TRACKLIST: GNOM - This Strain Of The Self (feat. Fire-Toolz) GNOM - Unreleased sketch GNOM - Unreleased sketch GNOM - Unreleased sketch GNOM - Coagulate GNOM - Hark Hark! The Lark Does Liquesce Fire-Toolz - It is Happening Again (Thank You, Council Of Saturn!) GNOM - This Strain Of The Self (feat. Fire-Toolz) GNOM - O Is For Obedience GNOM - Coagulate GNOM - Sister: Let Hel Hold What She Has GNOM - The Bile GNOM - Entry Plug, The Vessel Of The Heart GNOM - Foot (feat. Seiðr)
Super cool to sit down and talk with Angel Marcloid! We talk about inspirations and deep dive into all things music. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/forestkidspodcast/support
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We close out the year with a little help from Angel Marcloid, Ryley Walker, Rachel & Grant Evans (Hooker Vision), Tim Thornton (Suite 309/Tiger Village), Headboggle, and Mike Nigro (Oxtail Recordings). Tracks by Fire-Toolz, ΜΜΜΔ & ALEM, Tiger Village, DIDA, Steve Gunn and Ryley Walker, Sparkling Wide Pressure, Bitchin Bajas, Headboggle, and Bastian Void
We close out the year with a little help from Angel Marcloid, Ryley Walker, Rachel & Grant Evans (Hooker Vision), Tim Thornton (Suite 309/Tiger Village), Headboggle, and Mike Nigro (Oxtail Recordings). Tracks by Fire-Toolz, ΜΜΜΔ & ALEM, Tiger Village, DIDA, Steve Gunn and Ryley Walker, Sparkling Wide Pressure, Bitchin Bajas, Headboggle, and Bastian Void
Angel Marcloid is the producer and visionary behind the boundary-pushing and Chicago-based electronic music project Fire-Toolz. She spoke with Features Co-Director Mick R. about her latest album Eternal Home and how it ended up being her longest release to date, as well as how she manages to maintain such a relentless work ethic, and the role empathy plays in the writing and performance of her music. Eternal Home is available from Hausu Mountain Records If you're not trying to see the full perspective, then you're doing yourself a disservice... and that's something that Fire-Toolz is all about... that sort of non-duality and trying to see all the shades of something... all angles, because that's that's the wisest thing and the healthiest thing that we can be doing for ourselves when we are interpreting our experiences. - Angel Marcloid Production by Mick R. Photo Credit: Lyndon French
This week on "Hot Takes", we got to host Angel Marcloid! The mastermind behind avant-garde fusion project Fire-Toolz and slushwave act Mindspring Memories, Angel showed up to regale us with tales, dole out advice to young up-and-coming vaporwave artist, and of course gush with us about favorite acts and genres of music. An extremely prolific provocateur, Angel has performed in countless bands and performed alongside numerous big players in the metalcore and other scenes. She has mixed and mastered a plethora of releases and does her own graphic design for many of her releases. On this episode, we get to geek out about emo music, scene kids, post-metal, and The Anniversary. We get to hear Angel's recommendations to independent artists and labels about how to be taken seriously by big publications. Best believe she also had some hot takes regarding performing live and audience behavior at live hardcore shows. At least tune in so you can see who Skelly said should go fuck themselves on this ninth episode of this vaporwave talk show! "Hot Takes" is a safe space for all opinions! Join the conversation at https://linktr.ee/hottakesvapor
Angel Marcloid is the composer/multi-instrumentalist behind Fire-Toolz, some of the most beautifully difficult to pigeon-hole music around today. We talk vaporwave, ancient mysticism, gender, jazz fusion, nu-metal, and her wholly unique and colorful artistic realm.
In this interview, I talk with Angel Marcloid aka Fire-Toolz! Angel talks about making her music into a career, getting salty on Twitter, her experiences in therapy, Eckhart Tolle and other spiritual teachings, how she’s coping during the pandemic, and more! Fire-Toolz: https://fire-toolz.bandcamp.com/
On this episode of the show multi-talented musician and producer Anger Marcloid is here to talk about the new Fire-Toolz album “Rainbow Bridge”We’re also going to premiere two tracks from the album: “(((Ever-Widening Rings)))” and “Dreamy #ex Code”Visit https://fire-toolz.bandcamp.com/album/rainbow-bridge to hear/purchase the new album, also visit https://www.angelmarcloidav.com/ for all things Angel.
A conversation with Angel Marcloid aka Nonlocal Forecast aka Fire-Toolz. We talk about music, cats, meditation, transfemme, and LaserDisc. [0:00] Opening Conversation with @ntnfrno & @tyleretters [15:24] Celestial Nervous System & Intro [17:57] Musical Influences [22:05] The “V” Word [29:42] Categorizing Music [34:12] Nonlocal Forecast [40:03] Live Performances [45:18] Sampling [48:40] Transfemme Being [52:46] Hopes [57:12] One Message for Everyone [58:21] angelmarcloid.com Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license. For additional attribution information, please visit: https://apodcastfornow.com
Hello, Earth. Welcome to Coordinated Universal Time. There is no easy way to explain the beginning. It is holographic, amorphous, multivalenced. [00:00] To Realize a Commoner Earth [03:10] A Shard of the Origin Story [08:29] The Final Dialogue Between Kublai Khan and Marco Polo [13:08] San Jose International Airport / Shortwave Radios / Virtual Rushkoff [17:01] Angel Marcloid [24:04] It's Time Again to Follow St. Antony Into the Desert [32:26] June Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license. For additional attribution information, please visit: https://apodcastfornow.com
DVN005 Angelwings Marmalade "World Music" Album preview and interview with Angel Marcloid @angelwingsmarmalade
DVN001 Limited Edition of 100 Mastered by: Eric Trude C20 released August 9th, 2018 Special thanks to my friends who helped materialize this vision. Chemise Cagoule, Mr.666, Amy Reid, Mr.14th, Josh Stokes, Above Ground Studios, SELF, Angel Marcloid, Jacob Seaton, & Audrey Gatewood
DVN001 Limited Edition of 100 Mastered by: Eric Trude Produced & Mixed by: Angel Marcloid C20 released August 9th, 2018 Special thanks to my friends who helped materialize this vision. Chemise Cagoule, Mr.666, Amy Reid, Mr.14th, Josh Stokes, Above Ground Studios, SELF, Angel Marcloid, Jacob Seaton, & Audrey Gatewood
DVN001 Limited Edition of 100 Mastered by: Eric Trude C20 released August 9th, 2018 Special thanks to my friends who helped materialize this vision. Chemise Cagoule, Mr.666, Amy Reid, Mr.14th, Josh Stokes, Above Ground Studios, SELF, Angel Marcloid, Jacob Seaton, & Audrey Gatewood
DVN001 Limited Edition of 100 Mastered by: Eric Trude C20 released August 9th, 2018 Special thanks to my friends who helped materialize this vision. Chemise Cagoule, Mr.666, Amy Reid, Mr.14th, Josh Stokes, Above Ground Studios, SELF, Angel Marcloid, Jacob Seaton, & Audrey Gatewood
DVN001 Limited Edition of 100 Mastered by: Eric Trude C20 released August 9th, 2018 Special thanks to my friends who helped materialize this vision. Chemise Cagoule, Mr.666, Amy Reid, Mr.14th, Josh Stokes, Above Ground Studios, SELF, Angel Marcloid, Jacob Seaton, & Audrey Gatewood
DVN001 Limited Edition of 100 Mastered by: Eric Trude Co-produced by: Chemise Cagoule Inspired by: Mr.666 "Esteban" C20 released August 9th, 2018 Special thanks to my friends who helped materialize this vision. Chemise Cagoule, Mr.666, Amy Reid, Mr.14th, Josh Stokes, Above Ground Studios, SELF, Angel Marcloid, Jacob Seaton, & Audrey Gatewood
DVN001 Limited Edition of 100 Mastered by: Eric Trude Produced by: (SELF) SOULSELF C20 released August 9th, 2018 Special thanks to my friends who helped materialize this vision. Chemise Cagoule, Mr.666, Amy Reid, Mr.14th, Josh Stokes, Above Ground Studios, SELF, Angel Marcloid, Jacob Seaton, & Audrey Gatewood
DVN001 Limited Edition of 100 Mastered by: Eric Trude Co-produced by: Mr.14th Songwriting Contribution by: Josh Stokes Mixed by: Mr.14th C20 released August 9th, 2018 Special thanks to my friends who helped materialize this vision. Chemise Cagoule, Mr.666, Amy Reid, Mr.14th, Josh Stokes, Above Ground Studios, SELF, Angel Marcloid, Jacob Seaton, & Audrey Gatewood