The Capsule Garden
I didn’t manage to get a Capsule Garden out in July, but it was such a busy month that I’m sure nobody noticed. Summer has been relentless, both in things happening and in temperatures rising. It’s brutal out there. Anyway, there’s been a lot of action on The Jewel Garden in that time, most recently […]
Songs of Our Lives
On this episode of Songs of Our Lives, it’s Josh Mason! Josh and I go way, way back (his album, “Timecode Beach,” originally released on Digitalis remains one of my favorite things I helped put into the world), and over the years (decades!?), he has continued making music that simultaneously challenges and moves me. His […]
Interviews
Beautiful, often elegiac soundworlds bloom in morning sunlight, tones flickering in the distance like a dancing mirage. Voices are more than words. Time is a collaborator. Kingdom Come, Kingdom Go is a breathtaking achievement from Michael Cloud Duguay and his crew. For music that holds so much weight in its flowing chord progressions and stoic […]
Songs of Our Lives
On this episode of Songs of Our Lives, it’s Dominique Matelson! I have been a big admirer of her work for years (did a great interview with her on Foxy Digitalis a few years back!), so it was a treat to talk with her about her new record, “The Difficult Way.” After getting into that, […]
I didn’t manage to get a Capsule Garden out in July, but it was such a busy month that I’m sure nobody noticed. Summer has been relentless, both in things happening and in temperatures rising. It’s brutal out there. Anyway, there’s been a lot of action on The Jewel Garden in that time, most recently […]
On this episode of Songs of Our Lives, it’s Josh Mason! Josh and I go way, way back (his album, “Timecode Beach,” originally released on Digitalis remains one of my favorite things I helped put into the world), and over the years (decades!?), he has continued making music that simultaneously challenges and moves me. His […]
Beautiful, often elegiac soundworlds bloom in morning sunlight, tones flickering in the distance like a dancing mirage. Voices are more than words. Time is a collaborator. Kingdom Come, Kingdom Go is a breathtaking achievement from Michael Cloud Duguay and his crew. For music that holds so much weight in its flowing chord progressions and stoic […]
On this episode of Songs of Our Lives, it’s Dominique Matelson! I have been a big admirer of her work for years (did a great interview with her on Foxy Digitalis a few years back!), so it was a treat to talk with her about her new record, “The Difficult Way.” After getting into that, […]
Tesoros, the new album from Argentine composer Lumtz, began life as something else. Las cosas que llevo en mi mochila (“things carried in a backpack”) grew and shifted, as the stream near Bariloche where parts of the album were made does through the seasons. Reflecting on this, Lumtz crafts a journal of small, vulnerable moments […]
Rose Keeler-Schaffeler spent years working under the name Keel Her, writing songs instrumentally first, adding vocals later. On her new album, under her own name, Universal Language, she reverses that order entirely. Made during pregnancy and her son’s first year, the record trusts her voice alone to hold its center (plus a few low-end harmonies […]
Western Europe has been hit by a fierce heat wave with temperatures hitting 40C (104F). This is the second such heatwave in Switzerland we’ve had this year, and as a country with almost zero air conditioning this is a big deal. As of writing I’m two weeks into this soupy heat and there is more […]
Joa Joys music sounds and feels like his name. There’s a languid earnestness in the airy melodies and discordant chord progressions of his latest album, Alvie, but it’s all imbued with humor and mystery. Homemade instruments spew novel timbres, creating strange aural outcroppings etched with glassine tones and gummy resonances. A bouncing cadence underpins the […]
Lesley Mok’s new album, transient, is so unconcerned with a destination that the music seems to wander infinitely. Textural rhythms move with the cadence of living, building sonic spaces that feel both inhabited and imagined. Emotive undercurrents are woven into blurred, melodic drones and aerated, electronic sequences. The lightness is the invitation, but something heavier […]
Interviews
Beautiful, often elegiac soundworlds bloom in morning sunlight, tones flickering in the distance like a dancing mirage. Voices are more than words. Time is a collaborator. Kingdom Come, Kingdom Go is a breathtaking achievement from Michael Cloud Duguay and his crew. For music that holds so much weight in its flowing chord progressions and stoic […]
Interviews
Tesoros, the new album from Argentine composer Lumtz, began life as something else. Las cosas que llevo en mi mochila (“things carried in a backpack”) grew and shifted, as the stream near Bariloche where parts of the album were made does through the seasons. Reflecting on this, Lumtz crafts a journal of small, vulnerable moments […]
Interviews
Rose Keeler-Schaffeler spent years working under the name Keel Her, writing songs instrumentally first, adding vocals later. On her new album, under her own name, Universal Language, she reverses that order entirely. Made during pregnancy and her son’s first year, the record trusts her voice alone to hold its center (plus a few low-end harmonies […]
Interviews
Joa Joys music sounds and feels like his name. There’s a languid earnestness in the airy melodies and discordant chord progressions of his latest album, Alvie, but it’s all imbued with humor and mystery. Homemade instruments spew novel timbres, creating strange aural outcroppings etched with glassine tones and gummy resonances. A bouncing cadence underpins the […]
Interviews
Lesley Mok’s new album, transient, is so unconcerned with a destination that the music seems to wander infinitely. Textural rhythms move with the cadence of living, building sonic spaces that feel both inhabited and imagined. Emotive undercurrents are woven into blurred, melodic drones and aerated, electronic sequences. The lightness is the invitation, but something heavier […]
