Category Archives: Drone
Spring Music Preview 2020 ~ Ambient & Drone
The world is worried. On top of our normal concerns (war, famine, politics, economics, relationships), now we have a virus to contend with as well. Ambient music offers calm in the midst of anxiety, peace in the midst of turmoil.
Spring Music Preview 2020 ~ Ambient & Drone
The world is worried. On top of our normal concerns (war, famine, politics, economics, relationships), now we have a virus to contend with as well. Ambient music offers calm in the midst of anxiety, peace in the midst of turmoil.
Giulio Aldinucci ~ Shards of Distant Times
As Shards of Distant Times is the third album Giulio Aldinucci has recorded for Karlrecords, one might consider the set a triptych. Borders and Ruins was an incredibly timely work, appearing in the early days of Brexit and Trump’s wall, while 2018’s Disappearing in a Mirror examined the
Giulio Aldinucci ~ Shards of Distant Times
As Shards of Distant Times is the third album Giulio Aldinucci has recorded for Karlrecords, one might consider the set a triptych. Borders and Ruins was an incredibly timely work, appearing in the early days of Brexit and Trump’s wall, while 2018’s Disappearing in a Mirror examined the
Sontag Shogun, Stijn Hüwels ~ The Floating World & The Sorrowful World
The Floating World & The Sorrowful World was always meant as a diptych, but for nearly a year the two tracks were cut off from one another, set adrift, seeking the balance of their complementary twin. Ironically, this temporary excision adds
Sontag Shogun, Stijn Hüwels ~ The Floating World & The Sorrowful World
The Floating World & The Sorrowful World was always meant as a diptych, but for nearly a year the two tracks were cut off from one another, set adrift, seeking the balance of their complementary twin. Ironically, this temporary excision adds
Thomas Dimuzio ~ Sutro Transmissions
All the music on A Closer Listen wishes to communicate with listeners. Some of it also thinks about communication – the processes, technologies, difficulties, and contradictions that happen when information is transmitted. Last year, one album channelled the radio waves
Thomas Dimuzio ~ Sutro Transmissions
All the music on A Closer Listen wishes to communicate with listeners. Some of it also thinks about communication – the processes, technologies, difficulties, and contradictions that happen when information is transmitted. Last year, one album channelled the radio waves
Phill Niblock ~ Music for Organ
Phill Niblock has a penchant for anagrams, as this record makes clear with the names of its two compositions, “Unmounted / Muted Noun” and “Nagro (aka Organ)”. In the same spirit, I note that Music for Organ might be rendered
Phill Niblock ~ Music for Organ
Phill Niblock has a penchant for anagrams, as this record makes clear with the names of its two compositions, “Unmounted / Muted Noun” and “Nagro (aka Organ)”. In the same spirit, I note that Music for Organ might be rendered
2020 Winter Music Preview ~ Ambient & Drone
Today we shift from the best music of the 10s to the first music of the 20s. This one is our biggest Winter Music Preview ever, listing nearly 200 albums in five days! A new year starts with new hopes
2020 Winter Music Preview ~ Ambient & Drone
Today we shift from the best music of the 10s to the first music of the 20s. This one is our biggest Winter Music Preview ever, listing nearly 200 albums in five days! A new year starts with new hopes
A Closer Listen’s Best Drone Albums of the Decade
Drone can be as soft and comforting as a refrigerator hum, or as loud and abrasive as a jackhammer. The full range is represented here, from hum to noise, sine wave to distortion. Some call drone the sibling of ambience,
A Closer Listen’s Best Drone Albums of the Decade
Drone can be as soft and comforting as a refrigerator hum, or as loud and abrasive as a jackhammer. The full range is represented here, from hum to noise, sine wave to distortion. Some call drone the sibling of ambience,
ACL 2019 ~ Top Ten Drone
Drone music doesn’t need to be scary; there’s nothing inherently frightening about elongated tones. Yet the drone genre does seem predisposed toward darkness. Just look at the cover art for Black to Comm; or the compositional corpses found in the BABEL hardback
ACL 2019 ~ Top Ten Drone
Drone music doesn’t need to be scary; there’s nothing inherently frightening about elongated tones. Yet the drone genre does seem predisposed toward darkness. Just look at the cover art for Black to Comm; or the compositional corpses found in the BABEL hardback
a closer listen 