Category Archives: Drone

Ross Gentry ~ House as a Person

Next week we’ll take a deep breath and plunge into fall with another bottle of wine from VISUALS Wine’s Ritual of Senses Wine Club, along with Dark Sines’ The Space Time Paradox.  Today we’re pleased to present Ceremony of Seasons’

Ross Gentry ~ House as a Person

Next week we’ll take a deep breath and plunge into fall with another bottle of wine from VISUALS Wine’s Ritual of Senses Wine Club, along with Dark Sines’ The Space Time Paradox.  Today we’re pleased to present Ceremony of Seasons’

Fall Music Preview 2023 ~ Ambient & Drone

Could this be the best fall slate we’ve ever heard?  We started to get this impression in mid-summer, as the autumn announcements gained momentum.  While summer may be the biggest season for movies, fall is the biggest season for music.

Fall Music Preview 2023 ~ Ambient & Drone

Could this be the best fall slate we’ve ever heard?  We started to get this impression in mid-summer, as the autumn announcements gained momentum.  While summer may be the biggest season for movies, fall is the biggest season for music.

Lawrence English & Lea Bertucci ~ Chthonic

In 2021, Lawrence English‘s Room40 was our Label of the Year and Lea Bertucci‘s A Visible Length of Light was our #1 album.  This year they’ve joined forces on American Dreams.  Chthonic is a deep, dark, immersive album, its cover photo

Lawrence English & Lea Bertucci ~ Chthonic

In 2021, Lawrence English‘s Room40 was our Label of the Year and Lea Bertucci‘s A Visible Length of Light was our #1 album.  This year they’ve joined forces on American Dreams.  Chthonic is a deep, dark, immersive album, its cover photo

Kirin McElwain ~ Viriditas

On Viriditas, the tracks begin as modern composition and end up as drone, an alchemical development that exposes the porous membrane between the two fields.  This is the premiere release for Brooklyn cellist Kirin McElwain, who also adds voice and synth

Kirin McElwain ~ Viriditas

On Viriditas, the tracks begin as modern composition and end up as drone, an alchemical development that exposes the porous membrane between the two fields.  This is the premiere release for Brooklyn cellist Kirin McElwain, who also adds voice and synth

Ensemble Dedalus / Ryoko Akama ~ ELIANE RADIGUE

A separation has many stages. It starts with an ellipse, a kind of alienation, and slowly unfolds into an opposition or even better a difference before it moves on to a departure. We can understand a separation as a way

Ensemble Dedalus / Ryoko Akama ~ ELIANE RADIGUE

A separation has many stages. It starts with an ellipse, a kind of alienation, and slowly unfolds into an opposition or even better a difference before it moves on to a departure. We can understand a separation as a way

Muna Torso Album Cover

Phill Niblock ~ Muna Torso

Given the long history of collaboration between experimental music and the visual arts and film, it’s no surprise that a lot of music we cover on this site was designed in to be presented alongside a moving image. The composer

Muna Torso Album Cover

Phill Niblock ~ Muna Torso

Given the long history of collaboration between experimental music and the visual arts and film, it’s no surprise that a lot of music we cover on this site was designed in to be presented alongside a moving image. The composer

Arbee ~ La place est prise / Glacial Anatomy ~ Field

One of the pleasures of watching Montreal’s Florina Cassettes is matching their cover art with the original paintings.  The young label’s unified cover aesthetic is particularly appealing as it zeroes in on abstractions ~ even in otherwise straightforward art, as

Arbee ~ La place est prise / Glacial Anatomy ~ Field

One of the pleasures of watching Montreal’s Florina Cassettes is matching their cover art with the original paintings.  The young label’s unified cover aesthetic is particularly appealing as it zeroes in on abstractions ~ even in otherwise straightforward art, as

KMRU Glim Cover

KMRU ~ Glim

Glim is grounded from the outset in a sense of place. Or is it? Although field recordings are an important part of the artist who goes under the moniker KMRU’s own listening practice and sonic output, the opening track of

KMRU Glim Cover

KMRU ~ Glim

Glim is grounded from the outset in a sense of place. Or is it? Although field recordings are an important part of the artist who goes under the moniker KMRU’s own listening practice and sonic output, the opening track of