Interviews
Jolanda Moletta’s third album, Oceanine, is something bigger than the beautiful compositions and collection of sound that it uses as building blocks. These 11 collaborative songs are like spells and rituals. Moletta’s voice is the red thread running in the middle of it, but worlds become galaxies orbiting around each of her incantations. Throughout Oceanine, […]
Interviews
Morita Vargas makes music from the deepest reaches of imagination, and her latest, III, is proof: all dark matter, pure dark magic, with an internal logic so complete it feels less like an entire world with its own atmosphere and gravity. Buoyant rhythms ride midnight waves while childlike choirs surface and dissolve, and through it […]
Songs of Our Lives
On this episode of Songs of Our Lives, it’s Caroline Davis! I am smitten with her latest record, “Fallows.” It’s her first saxoxphone and electronics album, and it feels like this fully-realized version of her creative practice in this moment. There is so much to hear and feel, it’s remarkable. We talked a lot about […]
Interviews
Turner Williams creates ageless worlds of drifting sonic memory, building them slowly, through restraint and textured resonance rather than accumulation. The shahi baaja suits this perfectly. Its tone sits in an interesting place, sometimes familiar and warm, often strange and beguiling, and Williams has developed an intimate feel for what the instrument can express. Vipérine, […]
Inside No. 9, Season 4, Episode #47: Basta Now (Double episode) Obviously this episode is dedicated to the wonderful Fanny Chiarello and all her work putting together the holy grail of music that is Basta Now. This book is a catalogue of women, trans and non-binary people in experimental music. And by goodness, there is […]
Composer-pianist Erika Dohi has created something truly remarkable with Myth of Tomorrow, an album that fuses an air of mystery and whimsy with its vaporous sonic atmosphere. Dohi’s voice, tethered to the Earth in its striking vulnerability, shapeshifts and flies. Her use of autotune is infectious, shading this music with a futuristic hue while adding […]
On Ratsnake, Chloe Kim transforms the drum kit into a vessel of breath and movement, tracing a dialogue between rhythm and melody that feels both ancient and newly imagined. The Seoul-born, Sydney-based drummer channels her cross-cultural fluency into a sound that moves between precision and abandon while harnessing a sense of control and surrender. Named […]
On this episode of Songs of Our Lives, it’s Dan Knishkowy (aka Adeline Hotel)! “Watch the Sunflowers” is Dan’s latest Adeline Hotel record, the second in an ongoing trilogy that began with last year’s “Whodunit.” We get into all of that, life moving forward, returning to music a decade later, and more! Then we chat […]
There’s an inviting, warm glow that embraces listeners from the first moments of “Nothing.” Dan Knishkowy’s voice hovers above the soft cascade of keyboards and guitars, almost whispering, “It was alright now, I felt nothing.” Plucked chord progressions move gently, seasons changing in the aural heart of each movement. It doesn’t feel like resignation so […]
This sounds harsh, but I mean it as the utmost compliment: I sometimes can’t tell if ANSWERS is idiotic or genius, and frankly, that tension is what keeps me captivated (and truthfully, it’s much closer to the latter). Ben Bennett makes music that refuses to behave. His new album, ANSWERS, mostly left me with questions. […]
The winding guitar melodies of gushes (Jennae Santos) “Stick Figures” blend mystery into hypnotic sonic codes, underpinning the dramatic fervor pulsing through the song’s core. The build tension in layers that orbit each other, desperate for collision, all while maintaining distance. Santos directs the video with ceremonial precision, transforming the Catskills into a ritual space […]
Thomas Kotcheff and Bryan Curt Kostors didn’t set out to reinvent Cage and Feldman so much as they wanted to uncover what was already humming beneath the surface. Their new album, Between Systems, takes early piano works from the 1950s and processes them through modular synths and live electronics, but the result never feels like […]
Bill Brennan and Andy McNeill spin in slow motion as “Tunnels of Light” opens, hypnotic tones flickering in captivating, choreographed sequences. The combination of Sundanese gamelan instrumentation and atmospheric electronics creates a charge that’s fully unlocked by Hugh Marsh’s violin. “Tunnels of Light” bounces from mysterious and somewhat haunted zones into something moving and heavenly […]
Interviews
Jolanda Moletta’s third album, Oceanine, is something bigger than the beautiful compositions and collection of sound that it uses as building blocks. These 11 collaborative songs are like spells and rituals. Moletta’s voice is the red thread running in the middle of it, but worlds become galaxies orbiting around each of her incantations. Throughout Oceanine, […]
Interviews
Morita Vargas makes music from the deepest reaches of imagination, and her latest, III, is proof: all dark matter, pure dark magic, with an internal logic so complete it feels less like an entire world with its own atmosphere and gravity. Buoyant rhythms ride midnight waves while childlike choirs surface and dissolve, and through it […]
Interviews
Turner Williams creates ageless worlds of drifting sonic memory, building them slowly, through restraint and textured resonance rather than accumulation. The shahi baaja suits this perfectly. Its tone sits in an interesting place, sometimes familiar and warm, often strange and beguiling, and Williams has developed an intimate feel for what the instrument can express. Vipérine, […]
Interviews
Twenty years is a long time to carry something. Meadowsweet (redux) is Yann Novak’s return to an album made in the immediate wake of his mother’s death. Coming back to it now, near the anniversary of her passing, asks what it means to listen back to grief from a distance. The original Meadowsweet was built […]
Interviews
Kira McSpice’s Saturnism began with a hypnosis session, a trance guided by her friend and breathwork facilitator Trina Merz, and what McSpice found inside that trance became the foundation for a four-album series. It’s a genuinely strange origin story, and the music matches it. Rich and fully realized, Saturnism is full of dusty laments, charred […]
