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Coming off his exquisite collaborative album with zakè, beliefsystems, Isaac Helsen offers up a new, expansive landscape for listeners to explore with Burning House. Built on analog synths and field recordings, Burning House was conceived back in 2017 as Helsen began to explore connections between music and photography. The result is an album full of vivid aural imagery. “Burning […]
We’ve got something a little different today in MOWRI’s anthemic “Prevent Your Choke.” Culled from a deep well of influences and inspirations, the track is a blast furnace, scorching all in its path, a wake-up call stretched across hypnotic beats and haunted ethereal soundscapes. Horror-soaked visuals back up the incredible choreography and dancing from Quetz […]
RAY is Ashley Paul’s trio project featuring Yoni Silver and Otto Willberg and on Another Sand, they light up abandoned pathways, welcoming all the hidden ghosts back into the fold. Recorded live at Cafe OTO in June of this year, this performance is textured with an array of emotions, but, as the trio’s first show post-lockdown, […]
Few instrument combos do it for me as much as drums and saxophone. Something about the tonal clash and raucous energy that often infuses these duos hits me right in the sweet spot. Cloud Nothings’ Dylan Baldi and Jayson Gerycz lay down a stream of fire on “Hairstreak,” the first taste from their new album Roadsided […]
On Italian composers Antonio Raia and Renato Fiorito’s new album Thin Reactions, the duo share an intimate yet expansive sonic journey. This music is detailed, textured with emotion, and colored with a warm closeness. Still, the voyage is broad and immersive, and on the second single, “Volatile,” Raia and Fiorito fight against the dying light. Fiorito’s […]
John Thayer has a laundry list of production credits under his belt, but even so his new album, Supermundane, is eye-opening. Thayer combines effervescent sonic textures and soothing field recordings to create fourth world silhouettes. “Kites,” the second single, is lush and energizing, the electronic expressions bubbling gently while gulls and waves twist in the […]
With 2022 looming on the horizon, Room 40 is starting the year off with two massive editions. First, the album+book from Mike Cooper, and also this recording and monograph from Steve Roden’s exceptional Oionos, created for the exhibition The Grand Promenade in Athens, Greece. Roden worked with Dimitris Pikionis’s Church of St. Dimitris Loumbardiardis. His piece […]
Mike Cooper’s new book and album, Oceans of Milk and Treacle, is a soundtrack for an otherwise silent film. “Tirta Gangga” finds Cooper’s moving guitar treatise situated above the canopy, singing a languid melody with the hypnotic insect chorus. Lamentations for something long lost permeate the slow-moving notes, Cooper guiding each shifting chord down the river […]
Wendy Eisenberg says their new album, Bent Ring, is a meditation on work and love. Many of us have a complicated relationship with both as they push against each other and pull us apart emotionally and physically. Keeping a distance, trying to find the real amongst the many is an exhausting endeavor, but when those moments of serendipity […]