Travis or Alice ~ Travis Goes Deep
Some lives are difficult to imagine unless one has experienced something similar. Alisa Nedashkovska (Travis or Alice) wrote her debut EP during her first two years as a Ukrainian refugee in Berlin, and uses the music to bridge the gap
Travis or Alice ~ Travis Goes Deep
Some lives are difficult to imagine unless one has experienced something similar. Alisa Nedashkovska (Travis or Alice) wrote her debut EP during her first two years as a Ukrainian refugee in Berlin, and uses the music to bridge the gap
ALT ~ Nature’s Engineers
Once in a while, we realize we’ve created a closed loop. In 2023, when ACL reviewed ALT (Abby Lee Tee)’s Disputed Territory and the single “Beavers,” we lamented that “Beavers” was not on the album. Rising to the challenge, ALT has now
ALT ~ Nature’s Engineers
Once in a while, we realize we’ve created a closed loop. In 2023, when ACL reviewed ALT (Abby Lee Tee)’s Disputed Territory and the single “Beavers,” we lamented that “Beavers” was not on the album. Rising to the challenge, ALT has now
Ukrainian Field Notes ~ LVII
Summertime, and the living is not so easy, not if you are Ukrainian as Russia has upped its ballistic missiles attacks. Quinte apt then that this month we spoke to Air Defence System from Kharkiv. He told us about his
Ukrainian Field Notes ~ LVII
Summertime, and the living is not so easy, not if you are Ukrainian as Russia has upped its ballistic missiles attacks. Quinte apt then that this month we spoke to Air Defence System from Kharkiv. He told us about his
anthéne ~ Air Signs
Inspired by a bird landing on a city windowsill, Air Signs by anthéne looks to the skies for meaning or assurance. We don’t find a feathery, avian energy here. Instead, this is an airborne album of open expanse and surging
anthéne ~ Air Signs
Inspired by a bird landing on a city windowsill, Air Signs by anthéne looks to the skies for meaning or assurance. We don’t find a feathery, avian energy here. Instead, this is an airborne album of open expanse and surging
too_basicc ~ عهد الأصدقاء
too_basicc is a digital audio-visual, modular synthesis project based in Beirut, Lebanon. Over the months of march-april they released three albums in quick succession with the latest being عهد الأصدقاء [“The Covenant of Friends”] — a title that refers to
too_basicc ~ عهد الأصدقاء
too_basicc is a digital audio-visual, modular synthesis project based in Beirut, Lebanon. Over the months of march-april they released three albums in quick succession with the latest being عهد الأصدقاء [“The Covenant of Friends”] — a title that refers to
Jonáš Gruska – Juggler / ジャグラ
Jonáš Gruska‘s Juggler / ジャグラ does more than what it says on the tin. Originally assembled from covert recordings made inside an Akihabara pachinko parlour, the album documented a moment of revelation: Gruska discovering that beneath the assaultive barrage of gambling
Jonáš Gruska – Juggler / ジャグラ
Jonáš Gruska‘s Juggler / ジャグラ does more than what it says on the tin. Originally assembled from covert recordings made inside an Akihabara pachinko parlour, the album documented a moment of revelation: Gruska discovering that beneath the assaultive barrage of gambling
Omar Cheikh ~ The Garden
Deeply rooted in the idea of the garden as a place of refuge and quiet transformation, Omar Cheikh’s The Garden unfolds like a series of nocturnal wanderings through an imagined landscape. The title evokes not only Voltaire’s famous injunction to
Omar Cheikh ~ The Garden
Deeply rooted in the idea of the garden as a place of refuge and quiet transformation, Omar Cheikh’s The Garden unfolds like a series of nocturnal wanderings through an imagined landscape. The title evokes not only Voltaire’s famous injunction to
Vittorio Guindani ~ la porta bianca
There is something fitting about Vittorio Guindani finding a home for these recordings in Vilhelm Hammershøi’s The White Door. Before becoming an album, La Porta Bianca existed in a kind of limbo: music without a place, waiting for the image
Vittorio Guindani ~ la porta bianca
There is something fitting about Vittorio Guindani finding a home for these recordings in Vilhelm Hammershøi’s The White Door. Before becoming an album, La Porta Bianca existed in a kind of limbo: music without a place, waiting for the image
a closer listen 