Songs of Our Lives
**Still on an unexpected hiatus but new episodes will be back very soon! This week, let’s revisit one of my favorite episodes w/ one of the most underrated musicians out there!** On this episode of Songs of Our Lives, it’s Tomin! This one feels full circle. Ever since learning about Tomin’s music nearly four years […]
Interviews
DoYeon Kim may very well be the only contemporary improviser whose instrument is the traditional Korean zither, the gayageum. That alone grabbed my interest, but from the opening moments of Wellspring, her debut as bandleader (and oh what a band it is: Tyshawn Sorey, Henry Fraser, and Mat Maneri), it’s obvious this music is something […]
The Capsule Garden
April has been the longest year of the year. And it’s not quite over, but that’s okay. So much has happened – and so much of it seems like it happened ages ago, even though it was maybe only 10 days. Notably, Altar Eagle (the duo of my partner, Eden Hemming, and myself) made its […]
Interviews
Jolanda Moletta’s third album, Oceanine, is something bigger than the beautiful compositions and collection of sound that it uses as building blocks. These 11 collaborative songs are like spells and rituals. Moletta’s voice is the red thread running in the middle of it, but worlds become galaxies orbiting around each of her incantations. Throughout Oceanine, […]
**Still on an unexpected hiatus but new episodes will be back very soon! This week, let’s revisit one of my favorite episodes w/ one of the most underrated musicians out there!** On this episode of Songs of Our Lives, it’s Tomin! This one feels full circle. Ever since learning about Tomin’s music nearly four years […]
DoYeon Kim may very well be the only contemporary improviser whose instrument is the traditional Korean zither, the gayageum. That alone grabbed my interest, but from the opening moments of Wellspring, her debut as bandleader (and oh what a band it is: Tyshawn Sorey, Henry Fraser, and Mat Maneri), it’s obvious this music is something […]
April has been the longest year of the year. And it’s not quite over, but that’s okay. So much has happened – and so much of it seems like it happened ages ago, even though it was maybe only 10 days. Notably, Altar Eagle (the duo of my partner, Eden Hemming, and myself) made its […]
Jolanda Moletta’s third album, Oceanine, is something bigger than the beautiful compositions and collection of sound that it uses as building blocks. These 11 collaborative songs are like spells and rituals. Moletta’s voice is the red thread running in the middle of it, but worlds become galaxies orbiting around each of her incantations. Throughout Oceanine, […]
Recorded straight on an ancient C90, you can hear the decay of three decades, plus a number of old recordings bleeding through at various points. The sound dips and peaks while channels unexpectedly disappear. There are times big drops are lost and later created by the frayed tape. It’s not clean and it’s not pretty, […]
Morita Vargas makes music from the deepest reaches of imagination, and her latest, III, is proof: all dark matter, pure dark magic, with an internal logic so complete it feels less like an entire world with its own atmosphere and gravity. Buoyant rhythms ride midnight waves while childlike choirs surface and dissolve, and through it […]
On this episode of Songs of Our Lives, it’s Caroline Davis! I am smitten with her latest record, “Fallows.” It’s her first saxoxphone and electronics album, and it feels like this fully-realized version of her creative practice in this moment. There is so much to hear and feel, it’s remarkable. We talked a lot about […]
Turner Williams creates ageless worlds of drifting sonic memory, building them slowly, through restraint and textured resonance rather than accumulation. The shahi baaja suits this perfectly. Its tone sits in an interesting place, sometimes familiar and warm, often strange and beguiling, and Williams has developed an intimate feel for what the instrument can express. Vipérine, […]
Twenty years is a long time to carry something. Meadowsweet (redux) is Yann Novak’s return to an album made in the immediate wake of his mother’s death. Coming back to it now, near the anniversary of her passing, asks what it means to listen back to grief from a distance. The original Meadowsweet was built […]
Interviews
DoYeon Kim may very well be the only contemporary improviser whose instrument is the traditional Korean zither, the gayageum. That alone grabbed my interest, but from the opening moments of Wellspring, her debut as bandleader (and oh what a band it is: Tyshawn Sorey, Henry Fraser, and Mat Maneri), it’s obvious this music is something […]
Interviews
Jolanda Moletta’s third album, Oceanine, is something bigger than the beautiful compositions and collection of sound that it uses as building blocks. These 11 collaborative songs are like spells and rituals. Moletta’s voice is the red thread running in the middle of it, but worlds become galaxies orbiting around each of her incantations. Throughout Oceanine, […]
Interviews
Morita Vargas makes music from the deepest reaches of imagination, and her latest, III, is proof: all dark matter, pure dark magic, with an internal logic so complete it feels less like an entire world with its own atmosphere and gravity. Buoyant rhythms ride midnight waves while childlike choirs surface and dissolve, and through it […]
Interviews
Turner Williams creates ageless worlds of drifting sonic memory, building them slowly, through restraint and textured resonance rather than accumulation. The shahi baaja suits this perfectly. Its tone sits in an interesting place, sometimes familiar and warm, often strange and beguiling, and Williams has developed an intimate feel for what the instrument can express. Vipérine, […]
Interviews
Twenty years is a long time to carry something. Meadowsweet (redux) is Yann Novak’s return to an album made in the immediate wake of his mother’s death. Coming back to it now, near the anniversary of her passing, asks what it means to listen back to grief from a distance. The original Meadowsweet was built […]
