Posts Tagged: Late Music

ACL 2024 ~ The Top 20 Albums of the Year

This year, A Closer Listen received thousands of submissions and reviewed hundreds; today our international staff chooses twenty.  Three former chart-toppers appear on this year’s list, while one artist appears for the fifth time, but half are new, while our

ACL 2024 ~ The Top 20 Albums of the Year

This year, A Closer Listen received thousands of submissions and reviewed hundreds; today our international staff chooses twenty.  Three former chart-toppers appear on this year’s list, while one artist appears for the fifth time, but half are new, while our

ACL 2024 ~ Top Ten Drone

In each of the past six years, a female composer has taken the top spot in our overall year-end list.  If this happens again next week, the eventual winner may come from the land of drone, as seven of our

ACL 2024 ~ Top Ten Drone

In each of the past six years, a female composer has taken the top spot in our overall year-end list.  If this happens again next week, the eventual winner may come from the land of drone, as seven of our

ACL 2024 ~ Music for Stained Glass

In our very first year (2012), ACL ran a year-end list called Music for Synagogues and Cathedrals.  Since then, the boundaries of spiritual music have greatly expanded.  From haunted organ to repurposed hymn, spoken meditation to abraded choir, these artists have experimented

ACL 2024 ~ Music for Stained Glass

In our very first year (2012), ACL ran a year-end list called Music for Synagogues and Cathedrals.  Since then, the boundaries of spiritual music have greatly expanded.  From haunted organ to repurposed hymn, spoken meditation to abraded choir, these artists have experimented

Sarah Davachi ~ The Head As Form’d In The Crier’s Choir

Our review of Two Sisters, Sarah Davachi’s 2022 album, compared the listening experience to going to church. It’s a similar feeling playing her latest release, except possibly on a grander scale, akin to finding a pew in an ancient cathedral

Sarah Davachi ~ The Head As Form’d In The Crier’s Choir

Our review of Two Sisters, Sarah Davachi’s 2022 album, compared the listening experience to going to church. It’s a similar feeling playing her latest release, except possibly on a grander scale, akin to finding a pew in an ancient cathedral

ACL 2022 ~ The Top 20 Albums of the Year

Thousands of submissions, hundreds of reviews, and it all comes down to this: The Top 20 Albums of 2022!  Our headlines: women dominate, filling the top five spots, and a former champion returns to the top. The top three albums

ACL 2022 ~ The Top 20 Albums of the Year

Thousands of submissions, hundreds of reviews, and it all comes down to this: The Top 20 Albums of 2022!  Our headlines: women dominate, filling the top five spots, and a former champion returns to the top. The top three albums

Sarah Davachi ~ Two Sisters

Listening to Two Sisters is like going to church ~ not a modern church, or even a medieval church, but a church liberated from doctrine and dogma, where emotion and spirit are carried by notes and amplified by the spaces in-between.

Sarah Davachi ~ Two Sisters

Listening to Two Sisters is like going to church ~ not a modern church, or even a medieval church, but a church liberated from doctrine and dogma, where emotion and spirit are carried by notes and amplified by the spaces in-between.