Interviews
It’s easy to get swept away in the motorik synth sequences and floating cadences on Phantom Horse’s latest, Primal Forms. An almost-supernatural quality imbues the kosmische structures with sculptural harmonics and neon frequencies. Detailed accoutrements spit out dot-matrix style, pointillistic melodies, a balance to the free-flowing rhythms driving Primal Forms forward. Phantom Horse builds sonic […]
Interviews
Myths are unearthed here and rebuilt into something entrancing and immersive, so much so that it feels like a memory. Mexico City composer and producer Nnux (Ana E. Lopez Reyes) creates an excavation site from sonic rituals on her latest album, Metamorfosis. Inner worlds are explored through historical silhouettes, sound working as a mirror. Aqueous […]
Songs of Our Lives
On this episode of Songs of Our Lives, it’s Concepcion Huerta!! She’s got a fantastic new album out, “Nothing Remains Everything Resonates,” on July 3 recorded at EMS in Stockholm. We talked about that, resonance and signal paths, and the magic of every day sounds. Then we get into her love of Cumbia, Psychic TV, […]
The Capsule Garden
This is the first time in a while that I’ve managed to get two Capsule Gardens out in a month, and considering everything else that’s been happening in June, that’s a miracle. As ever, thanks for reading, and thanks for the support. New Morning Sounds recordings were shared recently. The Jewel Garden continues ahead with […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
On this episode of Songs of Our Lives, it’s Tristan Allen! I genuinely adore Tristan and their work so, so much, and their new album (part 2 in a trilogy!), “Osni the Flare,” has taken that up a level. After talking about the album and the puppet show, we get into Zabelle Panosian (and the […]
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 […]
Twenty-five years of late-night rehearsal space jams later and Family Underground (FU) are still chasing their sound: a primitive yet alien strain of free-drone that’s more than a little zonked. In the Copenhagen trio’s current formation, Nicolas Kauffmann cuts resonant paths into the lunar night (to quote their house label) with prepared and bowed guitar, […]
On this episode of Songs of Our Lives, it’s Brett Naucke! Old heads unite! We get into his most recent album, “Ground Fault Matinee” (his punk record?!) before going down all kinds of rabbit holes with Joanna Newsom, Sade, The Misfits, “Blue” Bene Tyranny, Madonna, Alice Coltrane, Dire Straits, DJ Rashad, Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, and […]
And so it’s March. You know, my horoscope for this year keeps promising good things, BIG things. And that’s great and all, but mostly I’m just BIG EXHAUSTED. Basically, it’s the same as ever. Anyway, there’s a new Field Studies out on The Jewel Garden today featuring Lee Evans, Floating House Ensemble, Stefan Christoff, and […]
Interviews
It’s easy to get swept away in the motorik synth sequences and floating cadences on Phantom Horse’s latest, Primal Forms. An almost-supernatural quality imbues the kosmische structures with sculptural harmonics and neon frequencies. Detailed accoutrements spit out dot-matrix style, pointillistic melodies, a balance to the free-flowing rhythms driving Primal Forms forward. Phantom Horse builds sonic […]
Interviews
Myths are unearthed here and rebuilt into something entrancing and immersive, so much so that it feels like a memory. Mexico City composer and producer Nnux (Ana E. Lopez Reyes) creates an excavation site from sonic rituals on her latest album, Metamorfosis. Inner worlds are explored through historical silhouettes, sound working as a mirror. Aqueous […]
Interviews
Kate Carr records cities as people usually only experience them, as a specific body moving through a specific space. It’s personal and partial, and on Vertical London, that partiality is the point. Vertical London is her experience of the city from bottom to top on a particular day (New Year’s Day, in this case). It […]
Interviews
Sometimes things that don’t make sense actually make perfect sense. Ever hear a movie? Or watch a soundtrack? There’s an implausibility and disconnect there that still, somehow, is engaging and transgressive. Lifted, the duo of Andrew Field-Pickering and Matt Papich, distill that into their newest record, Movie. Six tracks where Foley bleeds into melody, and […]
Interviews
Blak Saagan’s (Samuele Gottardello) monolithic Un Sequestro Lungo 10,000 Anni is one of 2026’s most audacious projects. Five years on from his last album, the Venetian composer delivers a 108-minute, triple-album opus, complete with an illustrated book featuring over 180 drawings by Iranian artist Majid Bita. This is an intensely personal work, creating a dystopian […]
