Ricardo Donoso ~ Calibrate

With Calibrate, Ricardo Donoso continues to offer the best of 21st-century industrial dance music.  Preserving the sci-fi and factory tinges of 80s industrial, he adds THX-volume drama and grime-tinged, off-kilter beats, resulting in a sound unique to this era. “Rendering the Ineffable” is

Ricardo Donoso ~ Calibrate

With Calibrate, Ricardo Donoso continues to offer the best of 21st-century industrial dance music.  Preserving the sci-fi and factory tinges of 80s industrial, he adds THX-volume drama and grime-tinged, off-kilter beats, resulting in a sound unique to this era. “Rendering the Ineffable” is

V/A ~ Anthology of Electroacoustic Lebanese Music

A black and white picture of a fence and the wreckage of a modern(ist) building: that is our welcome to this Anthology of Electroacoustic Lebanese Music, featuring artists primarily based in Beirut. EAM and its more extreme sibling EAI are

V/A ~ Anthology of Electroacoustic Lebanese Music

A black and white picture of a fence and the wreckage of a modern(ist) building: that is our welcome to this Anthology of Electroacoustic Lebanese Music, featuring artists primarily based in Beirut. EAM and its more extreme sibling EAI are

Bjarni Gunnarsson ~ Lueur

Four years have passed since the last release from Tartaruga Records (Glottalstop’s unique Woodsmoke), and two since Bjarni Gunnarsson‘s Paths.  Neither artist nor label is in a hurry.  Their patience defies the pace of the outside world.  Lueur (Glow) is an intricate

Bjarni Gunnarsson ~ Lueur

Four years have passed since the last release from Tartaruga Records (Glottalstop’s unique Woodsmoke), and two since Bjarni Gunnarsson‘s Paths.  Neither artist nor label is in a hurry.  Their patience defies the pace of the outside world.  Lueur (Glow) is an intricate

Tajak ~ Ciclos

A swirl at the edge of an emotional cliff, a bright light pouring from a crack in the back of your skull – the psychedelic pathways opened by Mexican band Tajak are diverse and multiple, but they all come back

Tajak ~ Ciclos

A swirl at the edge of an emotional cliff, a bright light pouring from a crack in the back of your skull – the psychedelic pathways opened by Mexican band Tajak are diverse and multiple, but they all come back

Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt ~ Brace Up!

What’s in an involuntary gesture? We’re used to framing it as a loss of control, but we could also conceive of tics and physiological tremors as a bodily effort to take said control back, to call the attention of an

Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt ~ Brace Up!

What’s in an involuntary gesture? We’re used to framing it as a loss of control, but we could also conceive of tics and physiological tremors as a bodily effort to take said control back, to call the attention of an

R.A.N. ~ Şeb-i Yelda

Şeb-i Yelda, a Syriac-Persian term signifying “the longest night”, is R.A.N.’s way of romantically historicizing the current situation of the Middle East she calls a homeland. The term, however, also makes reference to an Iranian festival celebrated on the winter

R.A.N. ~ Şeb-i Yelda

Şeb-i Yelda, a Syriac-Persian term signifying “the longest night”, is R.A.N.’s way of romantically historicizing the current situation of the Middle East she calls a homeland. The term, however, also makes reference to an Iranian festival celebrated on the winter

Styrofoam ~ We Can Never Go Home

The title is sad, but the music is upbeat.  Active from 2000-2010, Belgium’s Styrofoam then went silent for nearly a decade.  We Can Never Go Home is a welcome return to the sound of a warmer time, an indication that in some

Styrofoam ~ We Can Never Go Home

The title is sad, but the music is upbeat.  Active from 2000-2010, Belgium’s Styrofoam then went silent for nearly a decade.  We Can Never Go Home is a welcome return to the sound of a warmer time, an indication that in some

Lubomyr Melnyk ~ Fallen Trees

The Lubomyr Melnyk story is one of the best in music, a sonic parallel to that of J.K. Rowling with more than a touch of magic.  After a lifetime of making “continuous music,” the Ukrainian pianist entered the public eye in 2013,

Lubomyr Melnyk ~ Fallen Trees

The Lubomyr Melnyk story is one of the best in music, a sonic parallel to that of J.K. Rowling with more than a touch of magic.  After a lifetime of making “continuous music,” the Ukrainian pianist entered the public eye in 2013,