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 […]
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 […]
Lorena Alvarez and Alejandro Palacios create shapeshifting, immersive soundworlds. Intricate melodies are harnessed and pulled apart, creating trance-like moments where time slows and details bloom. Their latest, Jardín Giratorio, has a muted sheen, colored with tape hiss and soft resonances. It is very lived in. Shades of whimsy emerge naturally as though Alvarez and Palacios […]
It’s easy to get swept away in the motorik synth sequences and floating cadences on Phantom Horse’s latest, Primal Forms. An almost-supernatural quality imbues the kosmische structures with sculptural harmonics and neon frequencies. Detailed accoutrements spit out dot-matrix style, pointillistic melodies, a balance to the free-flowing rhythms driving Primal Forms forward. Phantom Horse builds sonic […]
Myths are unearthed here and rebuilt into something entrancing and immersive, so much so that it feels like a memory. Mexico City composer and producer Nnux (Ana E. Lopez Reyes) creates an excavation site from sonic rituals on her latest album, Metamorfosis. Inner worlds are explored through historical silhouettes, sound working as a mirror. Aqueous […]
On this episode of Songs of Our Lives, it’s Concepcion Huerta!! She’s got a fantastic new album out, “Nothing Remains Everything Resonates,” on July 3 recorded at EMS in Stockholm. We talked about that, resonance and signal paths, and the magic of every day sounds. Then we get into her love of Cumbia, Psychic TV, […]
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 […]
Interviews
Lorena Alvarez and Alejandro Palacios create shapeshifting, immersive soundworlds. Intricate melodies are harnessed and pulled apart, creating trance-like moments where time slows and details bloom. Their latest, Jardín Giratorio, has a muted sheen, colored with tape hiss and soft resonances. It is very lived in. Shades of whimsy emerge naturally as though Alvarez and Palacios […]
