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After a week off (to put all the focus on Songs of Our Lives), The Seltzer Salon returns with a real heavy hitter. Vinny Golia is an all-time great. A composer, multi-instrumentalist, big thinker, teacher, and so much more, all of these facets show up in his project, Even to This Day. The second Movement, […]
Ancient Child is also available on YouTube. More info on the music played HERE. It’s a Night People edition! Tracklist: Daughters of the Sun – FTWPeaking Lights – Two Songs for Ceremony Side BEMA – Hey BoyBlonde God – Bells Overheard from the ParkPocahaunted – Beast That You Are Side BTent City – Cascade Trinkets #3The Savage […]
For this episode of Songs of Our Lives, I invite soprano, composer, and my favorite snake-loving witch, Nina Dante, on the show. Nina’s channel, The Snake Said to the River is among my favorite things on the internet, and her full-scale embrace of whimsy and magic is inspiring to me. We have a blast talking […]
Once the melodic ghosts of Jason Calhoun’s small circle can be seen, the corporeal drifts hidden in the hidden recesses of these songs already have their claws embedded. Subtle tonal shifts and small, frenetic movements cloud the forward paths we lurk along, but once the destination is revealed, it’s as though we’ve unlocked a new part of […]
Inside No. 9, Episode #22: Nostalgia for the Light/ Back to School – a double episode This is a big and glorious episode containing 18 tracks and running at a solid two hours. This is a feature-length episode of goodies for you all before I return to higher education and take on an MA in […]
For this, the inaugural episode of Songs of Our Lives, I invite New York composer and saxophonist, Jeff Tobias on the show. After a quick chat about Jeff’s latest album, Music from Milky Way Underground, we dig into memories of taxidermized squirrels using pipes as saxophones, bugs chilling with Rick Froberg, Jeff being dead inside, […]
Sofía Bertomeu’s new EP, The Uncertainty Principle, is full of angular rhythmic structures and skeletal atmospheres. Each piece is a world unto itself, stitched together through a connective spirit and adjacent sonic elements. Bertomeu shows considerable restraint throughout, letting go of only the sounds needed to convey a message or mood, and leaving spaces for listeners […]
Ancient Child is also available on YouTube. More info on the music played HERE. These things I would record: the drift of sand at the edge of the sea’s eternal roar where my dry hands impetuous for sound unlock from keys inventions […]
When I heard Greta Ruth’s The Fawn a couple years ago, I was initially taken by her voice and the way it hung like a ghost within the stark sonic field. It was so captivating. In the years since, her sound has developed and grown, but her voice continues to be the flame that holds it all […]