Fall Music Preview 2023 ~ Experimental

This season’s experimental albums showcase an incredible wealth of sounds, including tap dancing, suitcases, buckets, scaffolding, woodblock, lemurs and a variety of homemade instruments.  One album is based on the alphabet, while another is inspired by a series of glass

Fall Music Preview 2023 ~ Experimental

This season’s experimental albums showcase an incredible wealth of sounds, including tap dancing, suitcases, buckets, scaffolding, woodblock, lemurs and a variety of homemade instruments.  One album is based on the alphabet, while another is inspired by a series of glass

Fall Music Preview 2023 ~ Electronic

Does any genre ever truly die?  Everything old is new again this fall, as the slate reads like a classic DJ Mag list: trip-hop, breakbeat, electro, psychedelic trance, drum ‘n’ bass.  The 80s and 90s continue to cast long shadows.

Fall Music Preview 2023 ~ Electronic

Does any genre ever truly die?  Everything old is new again this fall, as the slate reads like a classic DJ Mag list: trip-hop, breakbeat, electro, psychedelic trance, drum ‘n’ bass.  The 80s and 90s continue to cast long shadows.

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.

Jóhann Jóhannsson ~ A Prayer to the Dynamo

Hearing new music from Jóhann Jóhannsson is a bittersweet honor; we never know when it will be the last.  A debt of gratitude goes to Daniel Bjarnason, the Iceland Symphony Orchestra and the sublime imprint Deutsche Grammophon for sharing this treasure.

Jóhann Jóhannsson ~ A Prayer to the Dynamo

Hearing new music from Jóhann Jóhannsson is a bittersweet honor; we never know when it will be the last.  A debt of gratitude goes to Daniel Bjarnason, the Iceland Symphony Orchestra and the sublime imprint Deutsche Grammophon for sharing this treasure.

Paavoharju ~ Yön mustia kukkia

Hearing new music from Paavoharju comes as an unexpected treat.  The Finnish collective made a big splash with Yhä hämärää (2005) and Laulu laakson kukista (2008), both on Fonal Records, and the ascetic Christian brothers and their friends seemed ready to cross over to

Paavoharju ~ Yön mustia kukkia

Hearing new music from Paavoharju comes as an unexpected treat.  The Finnish collective made a big splash with Yhä hämärää (2005) and Laulu laakson kukista (2008), both on Fonal Records, and the ascetic Christian brothers and their friends seemed ready to cross over to

Matthew Halsall ~ An Ever Changing View

As the title and cover art suggest, Matthew Halsall’s ninth album celebrates a subtle change in approach to his music. In contrast to much of his earlier work, he didn’t write this album in his studio in Manchester but in

Matthew Halsall ~ An Ever Changing View

As the title and cover art suggest, Matthew Halsall’s ninth album celebrates a subtle change in approach to his music. In contrast to much of his earlier work, he didn’t write this album in his studio in Manchester but in

Poor Isa ~ dissolution of the other

Since 2017, the record label Aspen Edities has been harboring a group of (mostly) Belgians who don’t seem to put much stake in “genre”. On the one hand, the label’s most recent release, a surging, nearly abrasive exploration of speaker-vibrated

Poor Isa ~ dissolution of the other

Since 2017, the record label Aspen Edities has been harboring a group of (mostly) Belgians who don’t seem to put much stake in “genre”. On the one hand, the label’s most recent release, a surging, nearly abrasive exploration of speaker-vibrated

A Glimpse of the Post-World ~ An Interview With Babe, Terror

Claudio Szynkier is an experimental multi-media artist from São Paulo, Brazil who records music under the names of Babe, Terror and Zpell Hologos. Through sound collage and an archivist’s mindset, he wills together an art of subterranean connections, random encounters in time and

A Glimpse of the Post-World ~ An Interview With Babe, Terror

Claudio Szynkier is an experimental multi-media artist from São Paulo, Brazil who records music under the names of Babe, Terror and Zpell Hologos. Through sound collage and an archivist’s mindset, he wills together an art of subterranean connections, random encounters in time and