Interviews
Jon Catler has spent a lifetime inside microtonal music, mapping territory most guitarists don’t know even exists. He’s played with La Monte Young for over 30 years, writing countless pieces for solo and ensemble performance, while also writing a book, The Nature of Music, that traces the philosophical and technical roots of Just Intonation. His […]
Songs of Our Lives
**Still on an unexpected hiatus but new episodes will be back very soon! This week, let’s revisit YATTA’s awesome episode before blasting “Palm Wine” to start the summer.** On this episode of Songs of Our Lives, it’s YATTA! Even though we had to fight through some technical difficulties throughout, we had a great time talking […]
Interviews
In the face of collapse and horror, Charbel Haber turned toward his music for clarity and solace. The Lebanese musician, now in Paris, has such a deep connection to his home, but being geographically removed allowed for a different kind of perspective. Days moved slower. Times were quieter, calmer. This became a foundation for gentler […]
Songs of Our Lives
**Still on an unexpected hiatus but new episodes will be back very soon! This week, let’s revisit this episode & then listen to Whitney’s trio album with Lia Kohl and Macie Stewart.** On this episode of Songs of Our Lives, it’s Whitney Johnson! Whitney did something I’ve always dreamed about – releasing two different albums […]
Jon Catler has spent a lifetime inside microtonal music, mapping territory most guitarists don’t know even exists. He’s played with La Monte Young for over 30 years, writing countless pieces for solo and ensemble performance, while also writing a book, The Nature of Music, that traces the philosophical and technical roots of Just Intonation. His […]
**Still on an unexpected hiatus but new episodes will be back very soon! This week, let’s revisit YATTA’s awesome episode before blasting “Palm Wine” to start the summer.** On this episode of Songs of Our Lives, it’s YATTA! Even though we had to fight through some technical difficulties throughout, we had a great time talking […]
This might be my shortest episode yet at under thirty minutes, in fact it almost only reaches 25. Go me for brevity; for once. The sounds on this one almost traverse my entire time on this planet, give a year or two. It also contains some big commercial hitters from Grandaddy and Badly Drawn Boy […]
In the face of collapse and horror, Charbel Haber turned toward his music for clarity and solace. The Lebanese musician, now in Paris, has such a deep connection to his home, but being geographically removed allowed for a different kind of perspective. Days moved slower. Times were quieter, calmer. This became a foundation for gentler […]
**Still on an unexpected hiatus but new episodes will be back very soon! This week, let’s revisit this episode & then listen to Whitney’s trio album with Lia Kohl and Macie Stewart.** On this episode of Songs of Our Lives, it’s Whitney Johnson! Whitney did something I’ve always dreamed about – releasing two different albums […]
When An Earring Is A Galaxy gets quiet, it opens up the most. Miles Eichner homes in on the emotive core of these 10 songs, landing in unfamiliar zones and reimagining them into something enveloping. Sequences flit from left to right, almost as if they’re hovering in alternating peripheries, present and dissolving at once. Guitar […]
**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 […]
Interviews
Jon Catler has spent a lifetime inside microtonal music, mapping territory most guitarists don’t know even exists. He’s played with La Monte Young for over 30 years, writing countless pieces for solo and ensemble performance, while also writing a book, The Nature of Music, that traces the philosophical and technical roots of Just Intonation. His […]
Interviews
In the face of collapse and horror, Charbel Haber turned toward his music for clarity and solace. The Lebanese musician, now in Paris, has such a deep connection to his home, but being geographically removed allowed for a different kind of perspective. Days moved slower. Times were quieter, calmer. This became a foundation for gentler […]
Interviews
When An Earring Is A Galaxy gets quiet, it opens up the most. Miles Eichner homes in on the emotive core of these 10 songs, landing in unfamiliar zones and reimagining them into something enveloping. Sequences flit from left to right, almost as if they’re hovering in alternating peripheries, present and dissolving at once. Guitar […]
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, […]
