Foxy Digitalis
YAI is the duo of David Lackner and John Thayer. Fourth world dream motifs become immersive sonic universes on Sky Time. Surrealist jazz speculation melts into electronic sound worlds, building ephemeral shrines to the sun and portraits of the ether. This music is lush and expansive, finding inventive ways to wrap itself around us while […]
Alice Cohen is a force. For over 40 years she’s been writing songs with a seething edge, carving a surprising path while crafting a singular, towering vision. She has an innate ability at unearthing the effect secrets and suppressed memories have on us, always digging and never satisfied with messages on the surface. Cohen wrote Moonrising, […]
I admit to being a little biased when it comes to the excellent Portland label, Regional Attraction, but that’s okay. Run by my longtime friend, Andrew Heuback, there’s a curatorial consistency to the label that hits so many of my weaknesses. Heuback has always had great taste and his previous label, Overland Shark, was a […]
Sometimes life feels like it’s stuck behind glass. Sitting in the window, rain softly running down, watching major events and passages of nothingness all in the same breath, passing by unaffected by this solemn existence. touchless beautifully meditates on the grief that comes with overwhelming loss and the loneliness of being forgotten by a world […]