Category Archives: Experimental
Lisa Ullén ~ Heirloom
In Heirloom, Lisa Ullén moves between worlds and, doing so, disproves several commonplace fallacies. Take note of the cover image, shown left: it’s important. Fallacy one. No matter how many versions of a musical piece exist, somewhere there’s an “ultimate”
Lisa Ullén ~ Heirloom
In Heirloom, Lisa Ullén moves between worlds and, doing so, disproves several commonplace fallacies. Take note of the cover image, shown left: it’s important. Fallacy one. No matter how many versions of a musical piece exist, somewhere there’s an “ultimate”
Koenraad Ecker ~ Raw Materials
The album starts with a splash, a quick dive through a silvery veil of sonic bubbles that quickly transforms to crackling, evaporating static. Pulsing waves of slow hiss follow, rising and thickening and pulling the listener further into the uncertainty
Koenraad Ecker ~ Raw Materials
The album starts with a splash, a quick dive through a silvery veil of sonic bubbles that quickly transforms to crackling, evaporating static. Pulsing waves of slow hiss follow, rising and thickening and pulling the listener further into the uncertainty
Khodumodumo ~ What The Fuck Are You Doing This Side
The liner notes for Khodumodumo’s debut album, What The Fuck Are You Doing This Side, speak of an attempt to create a “horrific” listening experience. Much of what makes this bold album so unnerving and so riveting is the decision
Khodumodumo ~ What The Fuck Are You Doing This Side
The liner notes for Khodumodumo’s debut album, What The Fuck Are You Doing This Side, speak of an attempt to create a “horrific” listening experience. Much of what makes this bold album so unnerving and so riveting is the decision
Folklore Tapes ~ Larksong / Brown Wardle Hill
Two new LPs from the ever-reliable Folklore Tapes connect music, history and landscape. One is a sonic collage that includes the score to a film; the other is a celebration of local legends played by a brass band. Larksong (pictured above)
Folklore Tapes ~ Larksong / Brown Wardle Hill
Two new LPs from the ever-reliable Folklore Tapes connect music, history and landscape. One is a sonic collage that includes the score to a film; the other is a celebration of local legends played by a brass band. Larksong (pictured above)
ACL 2024 ~ Winter Music Preview: Experimental
Here’s where the most unique music is found: the music that either captures the imagination or – in its use of abstraction, dissonance, atonalism and more – makes one swim back to the safety of shore. While the outer edge
ACL 2024 ~ Winter Music Preview: Experimental
Here’s where the most unique music is found: the music that either captures the imagination or – in its use of abstraction, dissonance, atonalism and more – makes one swim back to the safety of shore. While the outer edge
Armand Hammer ~ We Buy Diabetic Test Strips
On the last verse of “As the Crow Flies,” the final track on billy woods and Kenny Segal’s Maps, released earlier in 2023, woods rhymes: I’m in the park with the baby on the swings When it hits me crazy,
Armand Hammer ~ We Buy Diabetic Test Strips
On the last verse of “As the Crow Flies,” the final track on billy woods and Kenny Segal’s Maps, released earlier in 2023, woods rhymes: I’m in the park with the baby on the swings When it hits me crazy,
ACL 2023 ~ Top Ten Experimental
If not for experimental musicians, music might never move forward. These artists challenge what is while wondering what could be. They ask if instruments might be played in a different manner, or they make their own instruments – in one
ACL 2023 ~ Top Ten Experimental
If not for experimental musicians, music might never move forward. These artists challenge what is while wondering what could be. They ask if instruments might be played in a different manner, or they make their own instruments – in one
Various Artists ~ Common Ground Volumes 1-3
The comforting concepts of safe ground and common ground could not be more timely, although one might argue that they have always been timely. The first is the name of the Brussels label, the second the name of its yearly compilation series, which
Various Artists ~ Common Ground Volumes 1-3
The comforting concepts of safe ground and common ground could not be more timely, although one might argue that they have always been timely. The first is the name of the Brussels label, the second the name of its yearly compilation series, which
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