Best New Videos: Animation Edition

This past season has been healthy for animation, as demonstrated in these nine scored videos (plus one bonus video related to Voyager‘s golden disc).  These directors share a keen sense of imagination as well as a great deal of patience.  Animation

Best New Videos: Animation Edition

This past season has been healthy for animation, as demonstrated in these nine scored videos (plus one bonus video related to Voyager‘s golden disc).  These directors share a keen sense of imagination as well as a great deal of patience.  Animation

rabbitsquirrel ~ Nectar from a Stone / by a thousand pricks and tiny lacerations

Which is better: 33 one-minute tracks or one 33-minute track?  It’s a question that will never be asked in an AT & T commercial, but is relevant here.  Grant Meachem, also known as rabbitsquirrel, has completed the hat trick of

rabbitsquirrel ~ Nectar from a Stone / by a thousand pricks and tiny lacerations

Which is better: 33 one-minute tracks or one 33-minute track?  It’s a question that will never be asked in an AT & T commercial, but is relevant here.  Grant Meachem, also known as rabbitsquirrel, has completed the hat trick of

Monte Isola ~ Niebla

Now this is how to create an effective soundscape.  Visit a different land (in this case Chile, a far cry from Monte Isola / Myriam Pruvot’s native Brussels), record the local sounds, add music of your own, and incorporate literature pertinent

Monte Isola ~ Niebla

Now this is how to create an effective soundscape.  Visit a different land (in this case Chile, a far cry from Monte Isola / Myriam Pruvot’s native Brussels), record the local sounds, add music of your own, and incorporate literature pertinent

Bluhm ~ In The Vale Of Tears

‘In Heaven, everything is fine. You’ve got your good things and you’ve got mine’. Love is elusive; you can feel it, but you can’t touch the emotion, at least not in a physical way. Love is shy to show her

Bluhm ~ In The Vale Of Tears

‘In Heaven, everything is fine. You’ve got your good things and you’ve got mine’. Love is elusive; you can feel it, but you can’t touch the emotion, at least not in a physical way. Love is shy to show her

Thuoom ~ Resonant

Alarm clock, bird cage and wine glasses are the only instruments used in this recording, which gives hope to aspiring musicians everywhere.  One doesn’t need a big budget in order to create memorable music ~ those who can’t afford a

Thuoom ~ Resonant

Alarm clock, bird cage and wine glasses are the only instruments used in this recording, which gives hope to aspiring musicians everywhere.  One doesn’t need a big budget in order to create memorable music ~ those who can’t afford a

LCNL 027: Ross Baker presents Mind in the Shadow Mix

LCNL 027: Mind in the Shadow (Ross Baker) Ross Baker collages together some influential tracks alongside his own compositions and field-recordings to bring us out into the country. MINI-INTERVIEW Introduce yourself.  What do you do, where are you based? I

LCNL 027: Ross Baker presents Mind in the Shadow Mix

LCNL 027: Mind in the Shadow (Ross Baker) Ross Baker collages together some influential tracks alongside his own compositions and field-recordings to bring us out into the country. MINI-INTERVIEW Introduce yourself.  What do you do, where are you based? I

Marihiko Hara ~ Flora

The latest release from Drone Sweet Drone contains a tiny bit of drone, but it’s not a drone album.  Instead, Flora is a humble collection of piano pieces, the fifth solo album from Kyoto’s Marihiko Hara.  Hara calls the disc “a collective of

Marihiko Hara ~ Flora

The latest release from Drone Sweet Drone contains a tiny bit of drone, but it’s not a drone album.  Instead, Flora is a humble collection of piano pieces, the fifth solo album from Kyoto’s Marihiko Hara.  Hara calls the disc “a collective of

Ralph Koper ~ Ancient Pulsations

“For Hindus, there is no holier place than Varanasi”, writes Ralph Koper in his fine introduction to Ancient Pulsations, a collection of field recordings collected on a visit to India.  The city is sustained, physically and spiritually, by the Ganges, used for both

Ralph Koper ~ Ancient Pulsations

“For Hindus, there is no holier place than Varanasi”, writes Ralph Koper in his fine introduction to Ancient Pulsations, a collection of field recordings collected on a visit to India.  The city is sustained, physically and spiritually, by the Ganges, used for both