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April is flying by, new tunes are blowing up my inbox, and I’m embracing that keeping up doesn’t exist and leaning into drowning. Something like that. I can’t remember if I mentioned this here, but earlier this year I started a new column over on Patreon called Dollar Bin. It’s quick write-ups of excellent albums […]
Tenured soundsmith Jefre Cantu-Ledesma produces ambient works that reflect a cosmic mindset, one that reveals our own energies as being integrated with and connected to those of our surroundings. He seeks to reveal our oneness with the universe through sound. Cantu-Ledesma has refined his practice over the decades, collaborating with like-minded sonic practitioners and transitioning […]
It’s been a minute since I’ve published one of these columns (though I did write a new Dollar Bin column on Patreon!) – March was a wild ride, April looks even more relentless. But I’ve been listening to so much music, I had to get some of this out for Bandcamp Friday. There’s nothing new […]
It’s been a long week of being snowed/iced in with my kid doing distance learning the entire time, and I don’t know that I have much left in my brain. A lot of beautiful music (this is only a small taste!) and art-making have been the things keeping the clock ticking forward. A few quick […]
The short video that accompanies the title track of We Will Be Wherever the Fires are Lit depicts crowds of protestors clashing with riot police and blossoming balls of burning fire juxtaposed against calmly swaying fields of grain and delicate flowers. It’s the perfect allegory for Bhutanese guitarist Tashi Dorji’s musical output. He’s always used his […]
R. Hunter’s missing scenes project continues to evolve in organic and compelling ways. dream or memory? finds him collaborating with percussionist Steve Lyman to craft a gently propulsive sonic exploration of the unconscious. Electronic realities dissolve and reform into fluid, tonal synapses. Light bends and fractures into distinct colors through these synthetic landscapes, each strand […]
I don’t have much to say in this week’s intro because it’s been a hectic week, and getting all these reviews edited and put together is a tiny miracle. It’s going to be a long year so we might as well make the soundtrack a good one. Foxy Digitalis depends on our awesome readers to keep things […]
Welcome to the first Capsule Garden of 2025. Year four of doing these (semi) regular columns and I wonder if it will go better than last year (these columns really dropped off the last quarter due to various outside commitments, but I hope to not drop the ball as much this year). As ever, there […]
With Patio User Manual, Alex Cobb continues his decades-long quest to mirror the stillness and richness of the cosmos here on Earth. His delicate, carefully wrought soundscapes – which first arrived under the name Taiga Remains but have since taken on the Etelin moniker – flow with the grace of starlight and the solemnity of […]