Author Archives: postrockcafe

Morgan Szymański & Tommy Perman ~ Music for the Moon and the Trees

Music for the Moon and the Trees is a warm album that honors its title.  Morgan Szymanski‘s guitar is made from an Italian red spruce selected by Luciano Lovadina under a full moon; the album was conceived in Tommy Perman‘s family woodland

Morgan Szymański & Tommy Perman ~ Music for the Moon and the Trees

Music for the Moon and the Trees is a warm album that honors its title.  Morgan Szymanski‘s guitar is made from an Italian red spruce selected by Luciano Lovadina under a full moon; the album was conceived in Tommy Perman‘s family woodland

Gabríel Ólafs ~ Solon Islandus

What’s the next step for an artist after becoming a teenaged global phenomenon?  For Gabríel Ólafs, the answer is to become a grown-up global phenomenon.  This was also the path taken by Ólafur Arnalds, and we suspect his younger Icelandic

Gabríel Ólafs ~ Solon Islandus

What’s the next step for an artist after becoming a teenaged global phenomenon?  For Gabríel Ólafs, the answer is to become a grown-up global phenomenon.  This was also the path taken by Ólafur Arnalds, and we suspect his younger Icelandic

Amirtha Kidambi & Luke Stewart ~ Zenith/Nadir

Genres are a fact of contemporary musical life: they categorize, organize, and make manageable the sea of sounds that is the current musical landscape. Traditionally, artists are meant to find a genre or a style and stick with it —

Amirtha Kidambi & Luke Stewart ~ Zenith/Nadir

Genres are a fact of contemporary musical life: they categorize, organize, and make manageable the sea of sounds that is the current musical landscape. Traditionally, artists are meant to find a genre or a style and stick with it —

Felicia Atkinson ~ Image Language

Across her body of work, Felicia Atkinson has explored the gap between experience and its capture.  She creates spacious electroacoustic soundscapes drenched in landscape and imagery, fusing a variety of sonic genres from spoken word to sound collage.  Through the

Felicia Atkinson ~ Image Language

Across her body of work, Felicia Atkinson has explored the gap between experience and its capture.  She creates spacious electroacoustic soundscapes drenched in landscape and imagery, fusing a variety of sonic genres from spoken word to sound collage.  Through the

Blomfelt & Narby ~ Peter, Barbara, Beth & Friends

By sheer coincidence, Gaspar Narby and Henrik Blomfelt both grew up in Switzerland— though Blomfelt was born in Finland— but didn’t meet each other until they were grown and both studying in London. This is the kind of happy accident one

Blomfelt & Narby ~ Peter, Barbara, Beth & Friends

By sheer coincidence, Gaspar Narby and Henrik Blomfelt both grew up in Switzerland— though Blomfelt was born in Finland— but didn’t meet each other until they were grown and both studying in London. This is the kind of happy accident one

Esmerine ~ Everything Was Forever Until It Was No More

A few weeks ago, Esmerine surprise-dropped a new digital album, with the official physical release set for August 26.  This is a pretty rare feat, typically reserved for the likes of Beyoncé, but Esmerine is a luminary in the post-rock world.  Way

Esmerine ~ Everything Was Forever Until It Was No More

A few weeks ago, Esmerine surprise-dropped a new digital album, with the official physical release set for August 26.  This is a pretty rare feat, typically reserved for the likes of Beyoncé, but Esmerine is a luminary in the post-rock world.  Way

Nicholas Maloney ~ passage

The exciting word in the press release: hide.  Over the course of two seasons, Nicholas Maloney brought his equipment to the Port of Cork and the Marina Market Warehouse and Commercial Park, recording over a variety of times: day and night, crackling

Nicholas Maloney ~ passage

The exciting word in the press release: hide.  Over the course of two seasons, Nicholas Maloney brought his equipment to the Port of Cork and the Marina Market Warehouse and Commercial Park, recording over a variety of times: day and night, crackling

The Hardy Tree ~ Common Grounds

Footsteps in the snow; a creaky gate; the daily walk begins.  For Frances Castle (The Hardy Tree), these excursions took on new meaning during lockdown.  More attention was paid to the history of things: an abraded sign, a vintage street

The Hardy Tree ~ Common Grounds

Footsteps in the snow; a creaky gate; the daily walk begins.  For Frances Castle (The Hardy Tree), these excursions took on new meaning during lockdown.  More attention was paid to the history of things: an abraded sign, a vintage street