Author Archives: postrockcafe

Collectress ~ Different Geographies

We first shared news of the new Collectress album in January, when we listed it as one of our top picks of the season.  This week, it’s finally out!  The female quartet (with guest appearances by a man and a dog) offers

Collectress ~ Different Geographies

We first shared news of the new Collectress album in January, when we listed it as one of our top picks of the season.  This week, it’s finally out!  The female quartet (with guest appearances by a man and a dog) offers

Pantha du Prince ~ Conference of Trees

As a forester, Pantha du Prince is attuned to the symbiotic relationship between humans and nature.  Conference of Trees is a tribute to a seldom publicized phenomenon: the communication of our tall brethren.  Their conversations may be slow, as portrayed by

Pantha du Prince ~ Conference of Trees

As a forester, Pantha du Prince is attuned to the symbiotic relationship between humans and nature.  Conference of Trees is a tribute to a seldom publicized phenomenon: the communication of our tall brethren.  Their conversations may be slow, as portrayed by

Geographic North ~ Sketch for Winter Series

Is it still winter where you are?  Today is the first day of meteorological spring In the Northern Hemisphere, and in Atlanta, Georgia, the home of Geographic North, it’s cold enough to snow at night and warm enough to wear shorts

Geographic North ~ Sketch for Winter Series

Is it still winter where you are?  Today is the first day of meteorological spring In the Northern Hemisphere, and in Atlanta, Georgia, the home of Geographic North, it’s cold enough to snow at night and warm enough to wear shorts

Pablo Diserens ~ on australian shores: listening to birds, insects and molluscs

Pablo Diserens was either in the right place at the right time, or just before the incredibly wrong time.  Only three months ago, he was walking the Australian shores, recording the sounds of the local wildlife.  The bushfires had already begun,

Pablo Diserens ~ on australian shores: listening to birds, insects and molluscs

Pablo Diserens was either in the right place at the right time, or just before the incredibly wrong time.  Only three months ago, he was walking the Australian shores, recording the sounds of the local wildlife.  The bushfires had already begun,

OOIOO ~ nijimusi

Opening with one minute of cathartic hardcore and ending with seven minutes of Beatlesque art rock, YoshimiO’s experimental outfit OOIOO finds an organically unique stride on nijimusi. The Boredoms’ drummer has spent decades carving out a specific psychedelic sound forged

OOIOO ~ nijimusi

Opening with one minute of cathartic hardcore and ending with seven minutes of Beatlesque art rock, YoshimiO’s experimental outfit OOIOO finds an organically unique stride on nijimusi. The Boredoms’ drummer has spent decades carving out a specific psychedelic sound forged

Botany ~ Fourteen 45 Tails

Fourteen 45 Tails is about endings or eternity, depending on how one receives the piece and its underlying theory.  Comprised of fourteen “downbeats” of 45 records, the half-hour work unfolds as a sequence of overlapping, interacting, undulating loops. Botany is a curious artist, in that every

Botany ~ Fourteen 45 Tails

Fourteen 45 Tails is about endings or eternity, depending on how one receives the piece and its underlying theory.  Comprised of fourteen “downbeats” of 45 records, the half-hour work unfolds as a sequence of overlapping, interacting, undulating loops. Botany is a curious artist, in that every

Midori Hirano ~ Invisible Island

Invisible Island is a place of comfort without trivialization: a collection of simple songs that invite blissful quietude without any of the hollowness us cynics often see in anything optimistic. Berlin-based, Tokyo-born Midori Hirano instead tells us— through the transcendental language

Midori Hirano ~ Invisible Island

Invisible Island is a place of comfort without trivialization: a collection of simple songs that invite blissful quietude without any of the hollowness us cynics often see in anything optimistic. Berlin-based, Tokyo-born Midori Hirano instead tells us— through the transcendental language

Toundra ~ Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari

A hundred years ago, citizens across Europe were concerned about the rise of authoritarianism, the powers of demagogues, the moral repercussions of scapegoating and the blindness of following a crowd. Either history is cyclical, humankind has not learned from its

Toundra ~ Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari

A hundred years ago, citizens across Europe were concerned about the rise of authoritarianism, the powers of demagogues, the moral repercussions of scapegoating and the blindness of following a crowd. Either history is cyclical, humankind has not learned from its