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Track Premiere: Black Rain “Tokyo Night City” With William Gibson’s Neuromancer celebrating its 40th anniversary this year, Room 40 is releasing the first proper edition of Black Rain’s soundtrack for the audiobook version from 30 years ago. These recordings are legendary in certain circles but have remained largely unavailable until now. The duo captures the […]
Track Premiere: Brian Baumbusch “Hex Tree” There’s an enchanting, otherworldly quality to the movements of “Hex Tree,” the spiritual center of Brian Baumbusch’s latest work, Polytempo Music. Variated sonic layers create kaleidoscopic rhythms, and on “Hex Tree” the effect is dizzying and whimsical. “I wrote the music to ‘Hex Tree’ while undergoing a 10-day quarantine […]
Slinky basslines and blooming rhythms sparkle before bursting into an enchanting sonic supernova. Toso Toso, a new group full of star power – isabel crespo pardo, Kabir Adhiya-Kumar, Rahul Carblerg, and Sky Hill – plots an intricate course through an aural, maze-like garden. Sharp whimsy cuts back the curtain with flickering electronics floating across the […]
Shards of another life may be strewn in angular, asymmetric patterns in the debris behind us, but they can still cut deep. —__–____, the trio of more eaze, Recovery Girl, and Seth Graham (and here with the wonderful Diana Starshine), hang in the balance on “Kill Kare,” the latest from their upcoming album, Night of […]
For Material Prosody, the latest from Mo H. Zareei aka mHz and Room 40, he invited a handful of artists to compose pieces using his sound sculpture of the same name. Material Prosody (the sculpture) is “a custom-designed 8-step electromechanical sequencer aimed at emphasizing the physical materiality of sound and sound production.” On “Brass,” Loscil […]
James Ilgenfritz continues pushing boundaries through his compositions and approach. “Almostness,” the opening piece of his Stay Logged In On This Trusted Device album. Musically it moves between haunting passages and joyful, almost whimsical phrasings. Ilgenfritz combines traditional forms and technological tools to create an almost meditative, unforgettable performance piece. “I developed ‘Almostness’ (2023) during the four […]
Listening to “Dust Resonance,” the title track from Zimoun’s latest for Room 40, feels like some combination of levitating on sound waves and being buried alive. Purposeful, subtle movements send sonic ripples through the atmosphere. Laced with granular textures, Zimoun bends time to a standstill. Inside “Dust Resonance,” we are suspended in immersive drones while […]
Jessica Ackerley weaves entire lives into each note from her guitar, stitching together a stream of reflections to make whole worlds of sound. “All of the colors are singing,” the first single from her upcoming album of the same name, is dynamic and graceful. Featuring strings by Concetta Abatte, drums by Aaron Edgcomb, and Walter […]
Minutes bleed into infinite time in the shining undercurrents of “Our.” High frequencies stretch into eternal folds, blurring the lines between what is real and what are our dreams. Fortresses crafts an emotive mirror, a sonic space for seeing ourselves within a larger story. Chord progressions move deeper into the trees set against gleaming electronic […]