Interviews
Kira McSpice’s Saturnism began with a hypnosis session, a trance guided by her friend and breathwork facilitator Trina Merz, and what McSpice found inside that trance became the foundation for a four-album series. It’s a genuinely strange origin story, and the music matches it. Rich and fully realized, Saturnism is full of dusty laments, charred […]
Interviews
There’s a moment near the start of Tusk where the concertina’s distinct, reedy voice grabs hold and doesn’t let go. It’s airy and sequential, as though the world is decaying just enough to reveal the codes underneath. Kristina Warren works in that gap between the familiar and the unplaceable. Messages drawn in distorted ether, imagery […]
Songs of Our Lives
On this episode of Songs of Our Lives, it’s Chaz Prymek! The main question here is how in the hell did it take me so long to have Chaz on the show? That’s all on me. Anyway, this is such a fun episode – we had a blast hanging out, talking about his new duo […]
Interviews
Akira Kosemura’s Polaroid Piano may be 15 years old now, but its gentle, warming soundworld sounds as fresh and inviting as ever. Each of these 12 pieces captures a momentary glimpse, like a series of small, fleeting memories cast into sonic glass. Using field recordings from Lawrence English as jumping-off points, Kosemura’s pieces produce this […]
Kira McSpice’s Saturnism began with a hypnosis session, a trance guided by her friend and breathwork facilitator Trina Merz, and what McSpice found inside that trance became the foundation for a four-album series. It’s a genuinely strange origin story, and the music matches it. Rich and fully realized, Saturnism is full of dusty laments, charred […]
There’s a moment near the start of Tusk where the concertina’s distinct, reedy voice grabs hold and doesn’t let go. It’s airy and sequential, as though the world is decaying just enough to reveal the codes underneath. Kristina Warren works in that gap between the familiar and the unplaceable. Messages drawn in distorted ether, imagery […]
On this episode of Songs of Our Lives, it’s Chaz Prymek! The main question here is how in the hell did it take me so long to have Chaz on the show? That’s all on me. Anyway, this is such a fun episode – we had a blast hanging out, talking about his new duo […]
Akira Kosemura’s Polaroid Piano may be 15 years old now, but its gentle, warming soundworld sounds as fresh and inviting as ever. Each of these 12 pieces captures a momentary glimpse, like a series of small, fleeting memories cast into sonic glass. Using field recordings from Lawrence English as jumping-off points, Kosemura’s pieces produce this […]
A lot is going on right now (in the world, in my life, etc), and all of this music has been soundtracking my days recently. The biggest thing in my corner of the world is that I officially launched a new project called Stupid Dreams. It’s about listening as a way to build the world […]
Spring is hitting hard already and I type with itchy eyes and a snotty nose, but with a keen sense of hope, the sun on my back and the warm breeze clearing the winter blues I bring you March. I have been transforming my record collection of late, trading records I haven’t listened to in […]
So much of Zosha Warpeha’s music feels like more than the sum of its parts. The palette may be minimalist – her voice and the Hardanger d’amore, a 10-string fiddle with five sympathetic strings – but these pieces carry the weight of stories accumulated across time. I grow accustomed to the dark, her newest album, […]
On this episode of Songs of Our Lives, it’s Walker Farrell! We’re celebrating the start of spring with Walker’s new album, “Crocus,” out now on Ceremony of Seasons, and after talking about that, living through Hurricane Helene and its aftermath, and more, we get into the weeds with D Train, Miles Davis, Gang Starr, Joanna […]
I recorded this conversation with Francesca in the context of our ongoing video art and music collaboration. Francesca has worked on videos for my collaborations with my brother Jordan Christoff through the Anarchist Mountains project and also with sound artist Joseph Sannicandro. I first met Francesca at a community art event in Montreal, I got […]
Interviews
Kira McSpice’s Saturnism began with a hypnosis session, a trance guided by her friend and breathwork facilitator Trina Merz, and what McSpice found inside that trance became the foundation for a four-album series. It’s a genuinely strange origin story, and the music matches it. Rich and fully realized, Saturnism is full of dusty laments, charred […]
Interviews
There’s a moment near the start of Tusk where the concertina’s distinct, reedy voice grabs hold and doesn’t let go. It’s airy and sequential, as though the world is decaying just enough to reveal the codes underneath. Kristina Warren works in that gap between the familiar and the unplaceable. Messages drawn in distorted ether, imagery […]
Interviews
Akira Kosemura’s Polaroid Piano may be 15 years old now, but its gentle, warming soundworld sounds as fresh and inviting as ever. Each of these 12 pieces captures a momentary glimpse, like a series of small, fleeting memories cast into sonic glass. Using field recordings from Lawrence English as jumping-off points, Kosemura’s pieces produce this […]
Interviews
So much of Zosha Warpeha’s music feels like more than the sum of its parts. The palette may be minimalist – her voice and the Hardanger d’amore, a 10-string fiddle with five sympathetic strings – but these pieces carry the weight of stories accumulated across time. I grow accustomed to the dark, her newest album, […]
Interviews
I recorded this conversation with Francesca in the context of our ongoing video art and music collaboration. Francesca has worked on videos for my collaborations with my brother Jordan Christoff through the Anarchist Mountains project and also with sound artist Joseph Sannicandro. I first met Francesca at a community art event in Montreal, I got […]
