Posts Tagged: Richard Allen

Molly Joyce ~ Perspective

How are we defined, and who has the right to define a human being?  Is disability a weakness, and is anyone truly whole?  These questions and more are tackled on Molly Joyce‘s ambitious Perspective, a musical collage incorporating 47 interviews with persons

Molly Joyce ~ Perspective

How are we defined, and who has the right to define a human being?  Is disability a weakness, and is anyone truly whole?  These questions and more are tackled on Molly Joyce‘s ambitious Perspective, a musical collage incorporating 47 interviews with persons

Daniel Avery ~ Ultra Truth

Daniel Avery has pulled out all the stops for Ultra Truth.  There’s a little bit of everything here, then something more.  The album straddles multiple genres, from ambient to modern composition to electronic to pop.  The release was announced six months in

Daniel Avery ~ Ultra Truth

Daniel Avery has pulled out all the stops for Ultra Truth.  There’s a little bit of everything here, then something more.  The album straddles multiple genres, from ambient to modern composition to electronic to pop.  The release was announced six months in

Indignu ~ Adeus

There’s a slight disadvantage to leading with one’s best, fullest track, as Indignu has done with “urge decifrar no céu.”  One expects the entire album to sound like the (extended) single.  Only after hearing the piece in context does the whole make

Indignu ~ Adeus

There’s a slight disadvantage to leading with one’s best, fullest track, as Indignu has done with “urge decifrar no céu.”  One expects the entire album to sound like the (extended) single.  Only after hearing the piece in context does the whole make

Bekah Simms ~ Bestiaries

Bestiaries is enthralling and unique.  The music is a reflection of its cover art: a melange of intricacies, colorful, yet frightening, grotesque, yet intriguing.  Centrediscs calls it “accessible yet uncompromising.”  This is a fitting album for October, or for any time

Bekah Simms ~ Bestiaries

Bestiaries is enthralling and unique.  The music is a reflection of its cover art: a melange of intricacies, colorful, yet frightening, grotesque, yet intriguing.  Centrediscs calls it “accessible yet uncompromising.”  This is a fitting album for October, or for any time

Nonsemble ~ Archaeopteryx

2022 might be the Year of the Birds.  First came the massive compilation For the Birds: The Birdsong Project, then Christopher Tin’s opera The Lost Birds, and now Nonsemble‘s Archaeopteryx.  Many of today’s birds – even some of the most popular ones –

Nonsemble ~ Archaeopteryx

2022 might be the Year of the Birds.  First came the massive compilation For the Birds: The Birdsong Project, then Christopher Tin’s opera The Lost Birds, and now Nonsemble‘s Archaeopteryx.  Many of today’s birds – even some of the most popular ones –

Angus MacRae ~ Vivarium

Enter the Vivarium, a place forgotten, lost in the folds of the subconscious like a J.M. Barrie memory.  This is the land to which one escaped as a child: a colorful wonderland of imagination and endless possibility.  Sometimes the vivarium was

Angus MacRae ~ Vivarium

Enter the Vivarium, a place forgotten, lost in the folds of the subconscious like a J.M. Barrie memory.  This is the land to which one escaped as a child: a colorful wonderland of imagination and endless possibility.  Sometimes the vivarium was

Holmes + atten Ash ~ Saturnian

Saturn has 83 moons while we only have one.  This seems horribly unfair, and I intend to bring it up with the Bureau of Moon Distribution.  Then again, we also have humans and they don’t, so that’s a toss-up.  It

Holmes + atten Ash ~ Saturnian

Saturn has 83 moons while we only have one.  This seems horribly unfair, and I intend to bring it up with the Bureau of Moon Distribution.  Then again, we also have humans and they don’t, so that’s a toss-up.  It

Staad ~ Staad

The key to Staad (Silent) is its authenticity.  The artist (also known as Staad) has spent the last couple years researching the history of the alpine areas, inspired by a family connection and a desire to dig deep.  This project combines archival

Staad ~ Staad

The key to Staad (Silent) is its authenticity.  The artist (also known as Staad) has spent the last couple years researching the history of the alpine areas, inspired by a family connection and a desire to dig deep.  This project combines archival