Songs of Our Lives
On this episode of Songs of Our Lives, it’s Ben Seretan! What a joy this episode was to record. Ben’s the best. His new album, “Sunbeam of No Illusion,” with John Thayer is one of my early favorites so far this year. After talking about that, we get into all kinds of whimsy and fun […]
Interviews
Isabel Pine’s Fables arrives as a series of meditative sonic essences, growing from small incantations into threads connecting to something larger, something unseen. Recorded in and around a remote cabin in British Columbia during the fall of 2024, these pieces carry melodic movements with the texture of wind. This collection of restrained unfoldings invite patience […]
Songs of Our Lives
On this episode of Songs of Our Lives, it’s Tusco Embassy’s Nathan Bowers! This episode is all over the place. Tusco Embassy re-emerged a couple years ago with a series of ‘Roulette’-style compilations – basically, records that will play a different song each time you play it. We get into how it works, why it […]
Interviews
I’ve been listening to Yamila’s Noor on repeat, and I keep returning to how the strings feel like they’re breathing alongside her voice and electronics. There’s a lushness here that surrounds something dense and deeply felt at the center. Echo Collective heightens what Yamila expresses in such a symbiotic way that small moments become enormous, […]
On this episode of Songs of Our Lives, it’s Ben Seretan! What a joy this episode was to record. Ben’s the best. His new album, “Sunbeam of No Illusion,” with John Thayer is one of my early favorites so far this year. After talking about that, we get into all kinds of whimsy and fun […]
Isabel Pine’s Fables arrives as a series of meditative sonic essences, growing from small incantations into threads connecting to something larger, something unseen. Recorded in and around a remote cabin in British Columbia during the fall of 2024, these pieces carry melodic movements with the texture of wind. This collection of restrained unfoldings invite patience […]
On this episode of Songs of Our Lives, it’s Tusco Embassy’s Nathan Bowers! This episode is all over the place. Tusco Embassy re-emerged a couple years ago with a series of ‘Roulette’-style compilations – basically, records that will play a different song each time you play it. We get into how it works, why it […]
I’ve been listening to Yamila’s Noor on repeat, and I keep returning to how the strings feel like they’re breathing alongside her voice and electronics. There’s a lushness here that surrounds something dense and deeply felt at the center. Echo Collective heightens what Yamila expresses in such a symbiotic way that small moments become enormous, […]
Spectacle comes in different shapes and forms, in the quietest breaths to cacophonous squalls. From the first singing drones and soft voice incantations, Leo Chang’s Live at CPR had me. Metallic resonances bleed into deep, almost guttural rattles while feedback hovers at the edge of control. It feels wild and uncontained, visceral and immediate. The […]
miska lamberg makes ambient music from the world as it exists, not how we wish it sounded. Their debut album Evening, window gathers overlooked moments (rainfall, distant traffic, animal calls, etc.), weaving them into compositions that feel both intimately familiar and mysteriously transformed. I recognize this sonic space even though I’ve never been here before. […]
Ishmael Ali’s cello work moves through a remarkable range of terrain on Burn the Plastic, Sell the Copper. Jazz rhythms inflected with pointillist electronics create subdued but still infectious grooves. Improvisational rivers flow through the record’s ten tracks, carrying tactile string timbres and quick movements across the fingerboard that spring sharp-angled, strange melodies into existence. […]
Somehow it’s February. January went on forever, and in some ways feels like it never ended, but apparently it did. Anyway, tomorrow is the first Bandcamp Friday of the year, and while there are certainly plenty of criticisms to be levied there, if you are throwing some bucks at some rad artists, I wanted to […]
Delphine Dora’s D’une nostalgie inconnue feels ageless, almost archaeological. This music holds an interminable spirit, and listening to the album is like peering through a prism into another time. Dora’s voice is the beacon pulling us in, guiding us through improvised piano and harmonium pieces she recorded during a 2022 residency in rural Portugal. Street […]
Interviews
Isabel Pine’s Fables arrives as a series of meditative sonic essences, growing from small incantations into threads connecting to something larger, something unseen. Recorded in and around a remote cabin in British Columbia during the fall of 2024, these pieces carry melodic movements with the texture of wind. This collection of restrained unfoldings invite patience […]
Interviews
I’ve been listening to Yamila’s Noor on repeat, and I keep returning to how the strings feel like they’re breathing alongside her voice and electronics. There’s a lushness here that surrounds something dense and deeply felt at the center. Echo Collective heightens what Yamila expresses in such a symbiotic way that small moments become enormous, […]
Interviews
Spectacle comes in different shapes and forms, in the quietest breaths to cacophonous squalls. From the first singing drones and soft voice incantations, Leo Chang’s Live at CPR had me. Metallic resonances bleed into deep, almost guttural rattles while feedback hovers at the edge of control. It feels wild and uncontained, visceral and immediate. The […]
Interviews
miska lamberg makes ambient music from the world as it exists, not how we wish it sounded. Their debut album Evening, window gathers overlooked moments (rainfall, distant traffic, animal calls, etc.), weaving them into compositions that feel both intimately familiar and mysteriously transformed. I recognize this sonic space even though I’ve never been here before. […]
Interviews
Ishmael Ali’s cello work moves through a remarkable range of terrain on Burn the Plastic, Sell the Copper. Jazz rhythms inflected with pointillist electronics create subdued but still infectious grooves. Improvisational rivers flow through the record’s ten tracks, carrying tactile string timbres and quick movements across the fingerboard that spring sharp-angled, strange melodies into existence. […]
