ACL 2019 ~ Top Ten Drone

Drone music doesn’t need to be scary; there’s nothing inherently frightening about elongated tones.  Yet the drone genre does seem predisposed toward darkness.  Just look at the cover art for Black to Comm; or the compositional corpses found in the BABEL hardback

9T Antiope & Siavash Amini ~ Harmistice

Tehran’s Siavash Amini has been turning in some fascinating soundscapes on Hallow Ground over the years, beginning with TAR and continuing with FORAS.  Fellow Iranians Sara Bigdeli Shamloo and Nima Aghiani (9T Antiope) are now based in France, but their friendship with Amini continues, and

9T Antiope ~ Isthmus/Nocebo

As Nocebo is the second of a trilogy, we’re traveling back in time to start with Isthmus.  Two years ago, the Iranian duo of Nima Aghiani and Sara Bigdeli Shamloo (9T Antiope) released their second album as part of Eilean Records’ winter slate.  The

Various Artists ~ Tiny Portraits

Flaming Pines’ Tiny Portraits series returns with four singles inspired by international streetscapes.  This is the best of the batches to date, offering an incredible array of variety and a few sonic surprises.  The series’ subtitle is “small renderings of