Michael Vallera ~ Window In

To look in is to look out: the world is a vision rooted upon our imagination and our experience, or so believed a few early Romantics. The “window” of painting and then photography was not really a look into how

Michael Vallera ~ Window In

To look in is to look out: the world is a vision rooted upon our imagination and our experience, or so believed a few early Romantics. The “window” of painting and then photography was not really a look into how

Koki Nakano ~ Pre-Choreographed

This season we’ve witnessed a quiet explosion of choreographed piano videos, the most memorable from Koki Nakano.  The title of the pianist’s latest album hints at its origins, as the artist was inspired while watching a dance performance in France.  He

Koki Nakano ~ Pre-Choreographed

This season we’ve witnessed a quiet explosion of choreographed piano videos, the most memorable from Koki Nakano.  The title of the pianist’s latest album hints at its origins, as the artist was inspired while watching a dance performance in France.  He

aswekeepsearching ~ sleep

Puma, India post-rock quartet aswekeepsearching is about to release its first ambient album.  Reflecting its title, Sleep is meant to induce rapid eye movement, and is accompanied by a series of restive videos, along with a different sunflower illustration for each track.  The sunflowers

aswekeepsearching ~ sleep

Puma, India post-rock quartet aswekeepsearching is about to release its first ambient album.  Reflecting its title, Sleep is meant to induce rapid eye movement, and is accompanied by a series of restive videos, along with a different sunflower illustration for each track.  The sunflowers

the new objective presents ‘KINDA BLUE’ [mix]

I put together a mix entitled EVERYONE IS BORED during my first weekend social distancing, and was soon after approached to create a Spotify playlist for Wolves & Vibrancy Records, a German label specializing in “dark and dreamy music,” including

the new objective presents ‘KINDA BLUE’ [mix]

I put together a mix entitled EVERYONE IS BORED during my first weekend social distancing, and was soon after approached to create a Spotify playlist for Wolves & Vibrancy Records, a German label specializing in “dark and dreamy music,” including

Cites and Memory ~ Sounds for Lifting Hearts

The Cities and Memory label has been quiet this year, but they’ve returned with a timely gift.  Having scoured their massive archive of sounds, they present Sounds for Lifting Hearts, a collection of cheerful selections that can be put to good use right

Cites and Memory ~ Sounds for Lifting Hearts

The Cities and Memory label has been quiet this year, but they’ve returned with a timely gift.  Having scoured their massive archive of sounds, they present Sounds for Lifting Hearts, a collection of cheerful selections that can be put to good use right

Rone ~ Room With a View

Room With a View is a life-affirming album whose impact goes far beyond its theme of climate change.  The overall impression is that of humans getting together, pooling their resources, working as one in a positive, imaginative fashion in order to

Rone ~ Room With a View

Room With a View is a life-affirming album whose impact goes far beyond its theme of climate change.  The overall impression is that of humans getting together, pooling their resources, working as one in a positive, imaginative fashion in order to

Tilman Robinson ~ CULTURECIDE

Tilman Robinson‘s CULTURECIDE asks all the right questions, without providing answers.  The album asks why we’ve allowed so many bad things to go on for so long: colonialism, climate change, economic inequality, technological dehumanization.  In a way, our species has committed culturecide.  In

Tilman Robinson ~ CULTURECIDE

Tilman Robinson‘s CULTURECIDE asks all the right questions, without providing answers.  The album asks why we’ve allowed so many bad things to go on for so long: colonialism, climate change, economic inequality, technological dehumanization.  In a way, our species has committed culturecide.  In

Roedelius ~ Selbstportrait Wahre Liebe

Imagine creating one image of yourself now, and another after forty years. How different would they be? Inevitably, a lot would have changed. Not just your body, but your sense of identity; your way of looking; your approach to the

Roedelius ~ Selbstportrait Wahre Liebe

Imagine creating one image of yourself now, and another after forty years. How different would they be? Inevitably, a lot would have changed. Not just your body, but your sense of identity; your way of looking; your approach to the