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. […]
On this episode of Songs of Our Lives, it’s Geologist! For decades, I’ve loved the sound of the hurdy gurdy, but I’ve never heard it used like Geologist uses it on his new solo record, “Can I Get A Pack of Camel Lights?” If SST put out a hurdy gurdy record in the late 80s/early […]
Welcome to 2026 you massive survivors. I think we all deserve a pat on the back for getting through 2025 and a shot of something to kick off the imminent shit-storm that is 2026. I thought I’d start the year off with a mix I spent most of the last few months putting together. Jazz, […]
mattie barbier has spent years interrogating the spaces where sound and structure meet. Their work reveals what can be found beyond the reach of conventional playing. Two recent recordings, the solo work Is This The Land I Wish Death To Find Me and RAGE Thormbones’ (their duo with Weston Olencki) tilth soil, capture different aspects […]
The first Capsule Garden of 2026, here we go! As we prepare for a potentially monster snowstorm this weekend in Tulsa, I’ve been listening to a lot of excellent tunes. I’ve also been mixing and mastering a lot of equally excellent tunes (if you would like me to master or mix your album, or help […]
Sonya Belaya’s Dacha holds generations in its hands. The six-song cycle channels lineages through sound, carrying the weight of generational trauma in visceral, embodied form. Written during the first winter of war, the album weaves Soviet feminist poetry, bard traditions, and Eastern European folk songs into compositions that refuse easy categorization. There is a spectral […]
On this episode of Songs of Our Lives, it’s Sam Wenc! Sam’s new record, “Language At An Angle,” is the first under his own name. We talked about that, the processes behind it, and how it feels performing the work. Then we dig deep into the trenches with the multitudes of Okkyung Lee, Susan Alcorn’s […]
Victoria Pham has spent over a decade building a living archive of planetary acoustics as an archaeoacoustics and bioacoustics researcher. She’s developed access to voices most of us never consider: the hum of fungi stretching through soil, the exhalation of forests, the evolutionary lexicon of animal communication systems. Her debut album COSMOSIS takes these field […]
On this episode of Songs of Our Lives, it’s Danz! From her recent album, “LARM,” to her new song “Over the Ocean” to Synth History and so, so much more, there was a lot to discuss. She’s a one-person show in so many ways. After all that, we get into the all-time greatness of Broadcast, […]
Cheryl E. Leonard builds sonic worlds from the far edges of our planet. For decades, her work has translated the Arctic and Antarctic into intricately layered compositions where technical mastery serves something more profound than documentation. The sounds are crisp and deep, capturing the rugged, unencumbered spirit of places most of us will never experience […]
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. […]
Interviews
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 […]
