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