Category Archives: Drone
Fall Music Preview ~ Drone
Drone has an incredible tonal range. With sounds that range from calm to abrasive, drone can soothe or unsettle, like the distance between a refrigerator hum and an attack copter. These albums not only reflect the sounds that flow
Fall Music Preview ~ Drone
Drone has an incredible tonal range. With sounds that range from calm to abrasive, drone can soothe or unsettle, like the distance between a refrigerator hum and an attack copter. These albums not only reflect the sounds that flow
zakè ~ Tide Requiem for the Low Sea
Summer is ending. We must not say this out loud; it is a hard pill to swallow. For many people, summer has already ended; vacations are over, classes have begun, the water has cooled. zakè‘s Tide Requiem for the Low Sea is
zakè ~ Tide Requiem for the Low Sea
Summer is ending. We must not say this out loud; it is a hard pill to swallow. For many people, summer has already ended; vacations are over, classes have begun, the water has cooled. zakè‘s Tide Requiem for the Low Sea is
Sarah Davachi ~ The Will of Tongues
Sarah Davachi has topped our year-end chart twice, in 2018 and 2022 ~ sonically and mathematically, this may be her year yet again. Ambitious, immersive and enveloping, The Will of Tongues seems like the natural successor to Two Sisters, despite the fact that
Sarah Davachi ~ The Will of Tongues
Sarah Davachi has topped our year-end chart twice, in 2018 and 2022 ~ sonically and mathematically, this may be her year yet again. Ambitious, immersive and enveloping, The Will of Tongues seems like the natural successor to Two Sisters, despite the fact that
phoanøgramma ~ dream flow
After the void on a distant sun (2023) and [limen memoriae] (with Luca Ferro, 2024), Angelo Panebianco and Matteo Mariano return as phoanøgramma with dream flow, a single long-form composition presented in six movements. Although divided into individual tracks for
phoanøgramma ~ dream flow
After the void on a distant sun (2023) and [limen memoriae] (with Luca Ferro, 2024), Angelo Panebianco and Matteo Mariano return as phoanøgramma with dream flow, a single long-form composition presented in six movements. Although divided into individual tracks for
IUGA ~ Meldrop
IUGA‘s debut album Meldrop is an intensely personal meditation on grief, nature and renewal, rooted in the forests of the Tuscan Apennines where the composer now lives. Inspired by the loss of his dog Toki and by the untamed landscape
IUGA ~ Meldrop
IUGA‘s debut album Meldrop is an intensely personal meditation on grief, nature and renewal, rooted in the forests of the Tuscan Apennines where the composer now lives. Inspired by the loss of his dog Toki and by the untamed landscape
Aleksandra Słyż ~ I Carry the Strength
If C.S. Lewis’s A Grief Observed remains one of the most penetrating accounts of bereavement because it refuses consolation, Aleksandra Słyż‘s I Carry the Strength approaches grief with a similar honesty. Lewis famously describes grief not as sadness but as
Aleksandra Słyż ~ I Carry the Strength
If C.S. Lewis’s A Grief Observed remains one of the most penetrating accounts of bereavement because it refuses consolation, Aleksandra Słyż‘s I Carry the Strength approaches grief with a similar honesty. Lewis famously describes grief not as sadness but as
Androctonyx ~ AXISTE PAS
AXISTE PAS feels like the shadow cast by Androctonyx’s debut, Respawning as a Pearl. If that earlier record was concerned with transformation and ecstatic becoming, this new album turns toward absence and the desire to drift beyond reach. Released on
Androctonyx ~ AXISTE PAS
AXISTE PAS feels like the shadow cast by Androctonyx’s debut, Respawning as a Pearl. If that earlier record was concerned with transformation and ecstatic becoming, this new album turns toward absence and the desire to drift beyond reach. Released on
Cherim ~ Ğymaq / VA ~ Shyshagh: Imaginary Circassian Underground
Built entirely from fragments from the Ored Recordings catalogue, Cherim’s Ğymaq reconfigures the label’s archival focus into something spectral and unstable by ways of heritage not preserved, but dissolved, stretched, and made to echo. Working with Circassian vocal traditions, shichepshin
Cherim ~ Ğymaq / VA ~ Shyshagh: Imaginary Circassian Underground
Built entirely from fragments from the Ored Recordings catalogue, Cherim’s Ğymaq reconfigures the label’s archival focus into something spectral and unstable by ways of heritage not preserved, but dissolved, stretched, and made to echo. Working with Circassian vocal traditions, shichepshin
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