Posts Tagged: Richard Allen

Cites and Memory ~ Sounds for Lifting Hearts

The Cities and Memory label has been quiet this year, but they’ve returned with a timely gift.  Having scoured their massive archive of sounds, they present Sounds for Lifting Hearts, a collection of cheerful selections that can be put to good use right

Cites and Memory ~ Sounds for Lifting Hearts

The Cities and Memory label has been quiet this year, but they’ve returned with a timely gift.  Having scoured their massive archive of sounds, they present Sounds for Lifting Hearts, a collection of cheerful selections that can be put to good use right

Rone ~ Room With a View

Room With a View is a life-affirming album whose impact goes far beyond its theme of climate change.  The overall impression is that of humans getting together, pooling their resources, working as one in a positive, imaginative fashion in order to

Rone ~ Room With a View

Room With a View is a life-affirming album whose impact goes far beyond its theme of climate change.  The overall impression is that of humans getting together, pooling their resources, working as one in a positive, imaginative fashion in order to

Tilman Robinson ~ CULTURECIDE

Tilman Robinson‘s CULTURECIDE asks all the right questions, without providing answers.  The album asks why we’ve allowed so many bad things to go on for so long: colonialism, climate change, economic inequality, technological dehumanization.  In a way, our species has committed culturecide.  In

Tilman Robinson ~ CULTURECIDE

Tilman Robinson‘s CULTURECIDE asks all the right questions, without providing answers.  The album asks why we’ve allowed so many bad things to go on for so long: colonialism, climate change, economic inequality, technological dehumanization.  In a way, our species has committed culturecide.  In

Sophie Hutchings ~ Scattered On The Wind

Sometimes an album hits us exactly where we need it most, at the time when we need it most.  Scattered On The Wind is this album.  The comfort, brilliance and encouragement of these tracks provides a stairway to the mood

Sophie Hutchings ~ Scattered On The Wind

Sometimes an album hits us exactly where we need it most, at the time when we need it most.  Scattered On The Wind is this album.  The comfort, brilliance and encouragement of these tracks provides a stairway to the mood

Passepartout Duo ~ Vis-à-Vis

When listening to music, many of us seek to be be transported.  Passepartout Duo recently took this thought a step further, debuting their new album on a month-long train trip from Switzerland to China.  The very idea is a luxury right

Passepartout Duo ~ Vis-à-Vis

When listening to music, many of us seek to be be transported.  Passepartout Duo recently took this thought a step further, debuting their new album on a month-long train trip from Switzerland to China.  The very idea is a luxury right

The Album I Go To When I Need Peace

We all need peace right now ~ something to soothe our nerves, calm our hearts, and slow our racing minds.  We asked our staff to turn in their picks for The Album I Go To When I Need Peace, and received

The Album I Go To When I Need Peace

We all need peace right now ~ something to soothe our nerves, calm our hearts, and slow our racing minds.  We asked our staff to turn in their picks for The Album I Go To When I Need Peace, and received

Quarterly ~ Pomegranate

Oh Persephone, why’d you have to go and eat that pomegranate?  Thanks to you, we suffer cold half the year and we struggle to get to the warmth.  The dark undercurrent of the myth, along with the blood-red color of

Quarterly ~ Pomegranate

Oh Persephone, why’d you have to go and eat that pomegranate?  Thanks to you, we suffer cold half the year and we struggle to get to the warmth.  The dark undercurrent of the myth, along with the blood-red color of

Zoon van snooK ~ Se•pa•ra•ción

Many artists are writing and releasing new music as a response to the current crisis, but a few, by luck or blind design, already had relevant albums in the works.  Zoon van snooK is one of them. Se•pa•ra•ción is released on Friday,

Zoon van snooK ~ Se•pa•ra•ción

Many artists are writing and releasing new music as a response to the current crisis, but a few, by luck or blind design, already had relevant albums in the works.  Zoon van snooK is one of them. Se•pa•ra•ción is released on Friday,