Interviews
Akira Kosemura’s Polaroid Piano may be 15 years old now, but its gentle, warming soundworld sounds as fresh and inviting as ever. Each of these 12 pieces captures a momentary glimpse, like a series of small, fleeting memories cast into sonic glass. Using field recordings from Lawrence English as jumping-off points, Kosemura’s pieces produce this […]
The Capsule Garden
A lot is going on right now (in the world, in my life, etc), and all of this music has been soundtracking my days recently. The biggest thing in my corner of the world is that I officially launched a new project called Stupid Dreams. It’s about listening as a way to build the world […]
Interviews
So much of Zosha Warpeha’s music feels like more than the sum of its parts. The palette may be minimalist – her voice and the Hardanger d’amore, a 10-string fiddle with five sympathetic strings – but these pieces carry the weight of stories accumulated across time. I grow accustomed to the dark, her newest album, […]
Songs of Our Lives
On this episode of Songs of Our Lives, it’s Walker Farrell! We’re celebrating the start of spring with Walker’s new album, “Crocus,” out now on Ceremony of Seasons, and after talking about that, living through Hurricane Helene and its aftermath, and more, we get into the weeds with D Train, Miles Davis, Gang Starr, Joanna […]
Classical and sacred music vocalist Maria Valentina Chirico creates airy magic on this stunning single from invisibilia editions. Based on verses from Rainer Maria Rilke, “Initiale” resonates with a glowing sadness in her transcendent melody backed by plucked strings and a whirring carillon. Lighting the way toward a higher calling, Chirico’s arrangement builds tension and […]
There are so many occasions where two great artists come together to make a record and the results are so-so. Often, especially in cases where they bring an encyclopedic history with them, it can be difficult to cede space and find new ground. None of this is the case with Lucy and Aaron. Reading the artists’ […]
When I first heard marine eyes this spring, I connected with the vibrant warmth that permeates her recordings. Her music opens up beautiful sonorous worlds where listeners can find respite, an aural cocoon drifting in space as the soothing tones wash through the air. On her debut, idyll, she created a beautiful aquatic ambient world […]
Karkhana is a seven-headed hydra featuring musicians from Beirut, Cairo, Istanbul, and Chicago. Recorded live in 2019, the group is ascendent on Al Azraqayn. Finding a psychedelic island somewhere between classic Middle Eastern folk, avant jazz chaos, and heavy jazz-fusion grooves, Karkhana’s music is free and flowing like a river on fire. Al Azraqayn shifts through six different […]
I’m not sure much more needs to be said beyond the short track description: “A jam between Panda Bear and Maral,” and yet I’m going to. Maral blew me away with Push last year, and this alien dub treat continues that trajectory. Panda Bear’s vocal inflections flicker over churning, psych-infused synths while Maral laces Iranian music samples […]
Illuminating the inside of Asemix, the collaborative force of Mari Maurice (aka more eaze) and Nick Zanca (aka Mister Lies), are ideas in constant motion. These are musicians with distinct voices and ideas spread across vast discographies, yet Asemix finds its own euphoric lane. Living on the diamond’s edge, their first missives careen through a […]
On this mix, we get gonzo’d by Bokeh‘s resident plunderphonic crew, Ambulance vs. Ambulance mashing together a mix of slowed down records, harmonica, shitty vocals, and more. Get deep into these cracks with this mix, called Accidental Meeting, and in the meantime also grab a copy of Ambulance vs. Ambulance’s killer album, Industrial Country. And […]
I’m not being hyperbolic when I say that few artists and their work have moved me as deeply and influenced me at my core than Baby Dee. Her work is quietly devastating and completely enrapturing. Whenever she plays and sings, time stops and I have to stop and give my full attention. Credit goes to […]
Imperium Droop gloriously rolls off the tongue. When you bring together two artists like Mouse on Mars’ Jan St. Werner and Oneida’s Kid Millions (among so many other things – but my brain will always make that association first), something unexpected and magical is bound to happen and that’s absolutely the case with the Imperium Droop. When […]
Interviews
Akira Kosemura’s Polaroid Piano may be 15 years old now, but its gentle, warming soundworld sounds as fresh and inviting as ever. Each of these 12 pieces captures a momentary glimpse, like a series of small, fleeting memories cast into sonic glass. Using field recordings from Lawrence English as jumping-off points, Kosemura’s pieces produce this […]
Interviews
So much of Zosha Warpeha’s music feels like more than the sum of its parts. The palette may be minimalist – her voice and the Hardanger d’amore, a 10-string fiddle with five sympathetic strings – but these pieces carry the weight of stories accumulated across time. I grow accustomed to the dark, her newest album, […]
Interviews
I recorded this conversation with Francesca in the context of our ongoing video art and music collaboration. Francesca has worked on videos for my collaborations with my brother Jordan Christoff through the Anarchist Mountains project and also with sound artist Joseph Sannicandro. I first met Francesca at a community art event in Montreal, I got […]
Interviews
Ali Murray’s project, The Lonely Bell, creates sonic drifts where time becomes illusory, and melodies stretch into oblivion. His latest album, Time Lost, leans further into that space. Restraint bears out immersive soundscapes where countless tiny aural moments coalesce into entire galaxies of sound. Glassine piano progressions form prismatic shapes. Horns remember everything. Synths become […]
Interviews
Eventual is the sound that remains. Long after the lights go out, after the din of a crowded room is nothing but a blurred memory, faint resonance lingers. Richard Chartier traces the emotive grace living in sonic remnants, revealing subtle intensities in what others might dismiss as emptiness. In his solo work, the background becomes […]
