Author Archives: captainfreakout

Walks on the Beach ~ Adoption Tapes

Integrating two genres or more is a very difficult feat to pull off, mostly because it implies the articulation of different, often even opposing, ideas about how music works. That Adoption Tapes is presented to the audience as a unified,

Walks on the Beach ~ Adoption Tapes

Integrating two genres or more is a very difficult feat to pull off, mostly because it implies the articulation of different, often even opposing, ideas about how music works. That Adoption Tapes is presented to the audience as a unified,

Pan Gu ~ The People Are Panthers

Integral to experimentation in music is the consciousness of context and space, the opening of old grounds to new acoustic experiences, and The People Are Panthers is precisely a short document that details one such breach. Composed by Lasse Marhaug

Pan Gu ~ The People Are Panthers

Integral to experimentation in music is the consciousness of context and space, the opening of old grounds to new acoustic experiences, and The People Are Panthers is precisely a short document that details one such breach. Composed by Lasse Marhaug

Aki Onda with Loren Connors & Alan Licht ~ Lost City

Aki Onda is known for his work on memory and the musical implications of technologies that help us remember how to hear, and in Lost City, created in collaboration with veteran experimentalists Loren Connors and Alan Licht, the composer and

Aki Onda with Loren Connors & Alan Licht ~ Lost City

Aki Onda is known for his work on memory and the musical implications of technologies that help us remember how to hear, and in Lost City, created in collaboration with veteran experimentalists Loren Connors and Alan Licht, the composer and

Ali Helnwein ~ Voyage

If you’ve ever wondered where all those chamber ensembles spawned in the wake of Rachel’s could have gone if only they had kept evolving, well, wonder no more, for Ali Helnwein has an answer. We’ve covered the composer’s music before,

Ali Helnwein ~ Voyage

If you’ve ever wondered where all those chamber ensembles spawned in the wake of Rachel’s could have gone if only they had kept evolving, well, wonder no more, for Ali Helnwein has an answer. We’ve covered the composer’s music before,

Charlemagne Palestine ~ Ssingggg Sschlllingg Sshpppingg

For a long while now, outsider artist Charlemagne Palestine has been producing a variety of works that lay claim to a deep sense of spirituality, and Ssinggg Sschlllingg Sshpppingg grows that sense further into a psychedelic land of noise and

Charlemagne Palestine ~ Ssingggg Sschlllingg Sshpppingg

For a long while now, outsider artist Charlemagne Palestine has been producing a variety of works that lay claim to a deep sense of spirituality, and Ssinggg Sschlllingg Sshpppingg grows that sense further into a psychedelic land of noise and

Beatriz Ferreyra ~ GRM Works

GRM Works, by France-based Argentinian composer Beatriz Ferreyra, is perhaps a key new entry in the wonderful Recollection GRM series by Editions Mego, which represents an important documentary move towards producing a new set of archival materials of one of

Beatriz Ferreyra ~ GRM Works

GRM Works, by France-based Argentinian composer Beatriz Ferreyra, is perhaps a key new entry in the wonderful Recollection GRM series by Editions Mego, which represents an important documentary move towards producing a new set of archival materials of one of

Lightning Bolt ~ Fantasy Empire

Lightning Bolt have returned with one of their best albums yet, a pop-surrealist force that revels in the broken, expansive conquest of any and all space by hyperactive imaginations. Delivered by means of a different kind of punk than before

Lightning Bolt ~ Fantasy Empire

Lightning Bolt have returned with one of their best albums yet, a pop-surrealist force that revels in the broken, expansive conquest of any and all space by hyperactive imaginations. Delivered by means of a different kind of punk than before

Devon Loch ~ Sleep Scale

Devon Loch‘s Sleep Scale is a mini-album that can, perhaps, be described as a minimal ambient work, in the sense that it bares sounds and structure down to very basic forms while providing an invitation to become lost in the

Devon Loch ~ Sleep Scale

Devon Loch‘s Sleep Scale is a mini-album that can, perhaps, be described as a minimal ambient work, in the sense that it bares sounds and structure down to very basic forms while providing an invitation to become lost in the