Category Archives: Drone

2023 Spring Music Preview ~ Drone

Our definition of drone has continued to expand, and now includes everything from steady hum to walls of sound, from cello drone to factory noise.  Sustain and decay are typical elements, as emphasized in Owen Coggins’ book of the same

2023 Spring Music Preview ~ Drone

Our definition of drone has continued to expand, and now includes everything from steady hum to walls of sound, from cello drone to factory noise.  Sustain and decay are typical elements, as emphasized in Owen Coggins’ book of the same

Asher tuil Automatism

Asher Tuil ~ Automatism

Asher Tuil’s Automatism is a celebration of audio technology’s sound and texture.  Across the album’s ten tracks Tuil questions the relationship between the noise of audio technology and its signals.  The basis of each track are field recordings Tuil made

Asher tuil Automatism

Asher Tuil ~ Automatism

Asher Tuil’s Automatism is a celebration of audio technology’s sound and texture.  Across the album’s ten tracks Tuil questions the relationship between the noise of audio technology and its signals.  The basis of each track are field recordings Tuil made

Long Drove Album Cover

Simon Scott ~ Long Drove

Simon Scott describes Long Drove, his latest release on Room40, as a “site-specific sound study which shifts the Anthropocene discourse from spectatorship to musical participation, accountability and creative engagement.”  Across the album he demonstrates his own collaboration with nature while

Long Drove Album Cover

Simon Scott ~ Long Drove

Simon Scott describes Long Drove, his latest release on Room40, as a “site-specific sound study which shifts the Anthropocene discourse from spectatorship to musical participation, accountability and creative engagement.”  Across the album he demonstrates his own collaboration with nature while

J.WLSN 1993 Album Cover

J.WLSN ~ 1993

We may be living in the era of pandemic records for a while yet. J.WLSN’s 1993 is another entry into the canon but it’s one which, although a product of the artist’s extended stay in Australia’s lockdowns, resonates far beyond

J.WLSN 1993 Album Cover

J.WLSN ~ 1993

We may be living in the era of pandemic records for a while yet. J.WLSN’s 1993 is another entry into the canon but it’s one which, although a product of the artist’s extended stay in Australia’s lockdowns, resonates far beyond

Chimaera I Album Cover

Colin Stetson ~ Chimaera I

Colin Stetson is one among a number of contemporary experimental musicians who have carved out careers as composers for film and television. In 2022 alone the artist released soundtracks for two films and a docuseries about NASA.  It seems only

Chimaera I Album Cover

Colin Stetson ~ Chimaera I

Colin Stetson is one among a number of contemporary experimental musicians who have carved out careers as composers for film and television. In 2022 alone the artist released soundtracks for two films and a docuseries about NASA.  It seems only

2023 Winter Music Preview ~ Ambient & Drone

Starting today, we delve more deeply into the winter release schedule, which already includes hundreds of titles: a boon for those who have packed away their 2022 playlists and are looking for something new. Our earliest 2023 submissions arrived in

2023 Winter Music Preview ~ Ambient & Drone

Starting today, we delve more deeply into the winter release schedule, which already includes hundreds of titles: a boon for those who have packed away their 2022 playlists and are looking for something new. Our earliest 2023 submissions arrived in

ACL 2022 ~ Top Ten Drone

A lost father, a lost artist, a lost village, lost files; and on the other hand, grace, peace, worship, epiphanies.  The drone genre is home to seeming opposites that swirl about each other in a dance of yin and yang.

ACL 2022 ~ Top Ten Drone

A lost father, a lost artist, a lost village, lost files; and on the other hand, grace, peace, worship, epiphanies.  The drone genre is home to seeming opposites that swirl about each other in a dance of yin and yang.

Angelo Harmsworth ~ Singe

On Singe, the most recent release from the Berlin-based musician Angelo Harmsworth, Harmsworth toys with the limits of ambient music. Across each of the album’s seven tracks he toes the line between harsh noise and gentle ambience, querying whether or

Angelo Harmsworth ~ Singe

On Singe, the most recent release from the Berlin-based musician Angelo Harmsworth, Harmsworth toys with the limits of ambient music. Across each of the album’s seven tracks he toes the line between harsh noise and gentle ambience, querying whether or