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Deepest Currents is a Portland, Oregon-based music website, focusing on new releases and general reviews, as well as cultural events happening around the Pacific Northwest. Genre coverage varies widely, capturing everything from indie rock to experimental. Navigate to the "About Us" tab for more information and the "Contact" tab to reach out. To browse what has been written already, scan this page, visit the "New Music" or "Features" tabs, or use the search function.

Nathan Yoder

3 days ago

One Hour

Running an hour and meant to be played uninterrupted from start to finish with the listener experiencing little external distraction, it is

Nathan Yoder

4 days ago

Album of the Week - Nicholas Maloney - Lignum Muzek

In case you haven't experienced enough unsettledness in 2020, here is an offering of longform pieces characterized by backwoods field record

Nathan Yoder

Nov 19

Album Preview - Oleksandr Demianenko - Tapes Recorded for Watercolors Vol. 2

Just as he captures and preserves images on film, Demianenko collects field recordings when exploring remote corners of the world. Sometime

Nathan Yoder

Nov 18

Album Preview - Ian William Craig & Daniel Lentz - In a Word

For RVNG Intl.'s 16th volume in their FRKWYS series, in which they invite two musicians of different generations to collaborate, the Brookly

Nathan Yoder

Nov 17

Album Preview - Lisa/Liza - Shelter of a Song

When Liza Victoria repeats the lyric "you know I've walked down dark alleys" through the opening track of her new album, it sounds like a li

Nathan Yoder

Nov 16

Album Preview - Jordan Reyes - Sand Like Stardust

On his first album, Reyes used only eurorack synthesizer, but knew that on Sand Like Stardust, he wanted to explore a more organic sound. T

Nathan Yoder

Nov 16

Album of the Week - Ana Roxanne - Because of a Flower

Because of a Flower is Ana Roxanne's first official full-length album (though ~~~ is a noteworthy release, too) and it took five years of ha

Nathan Yoder

Nov 10

Album Preview - William Basinski - Lamentations

Lamentations is an anthology of sorts, and the massive scope of recordings Basinski has collaged together from 40 years of archival entries

Nathan Yoder

Nov 9

Album of the Week - Gidge - New Light

Sometimes nature-based albums feel lazily pastoral, but on New Light, Gidge presents PNW landscapes as active and dynamic. The title track

Nathan Yoder

Nov 2

Album Preview - Secret School - Ambergris

Secret School has expressed a love of both ambient and dance music, and on Ambergris, his unique blending of these genres with neoclassical

Nathan Yoder

Nov 2

Albums of the Week - Selah Broderick - Anam + Mat Eric Hart Spirits & Reflections

Both selections not only feature beautiful music, but are also tinged with nostalgia - the artists seeming to recognize the importance of

Nathan Yoder

Oct 29

Album Preview - Benjamin Finger & James Plotkin - We Carry the Curse

Though there are elements of drone through the four long-form tracks found on We Carry the Curse, each track is filled with unique texture.

Nathan Yoder

Oct 28

Album Preview - Barry Walker - Shoulda Zenith

So many folks in the Portland music scene could play "seven degrees of separation" from Barry Walker, and get there in just two or three ste

Nathan Yoder

Oct 26

Album of the Week - Adrianne Lenker - Instrumentals

DC's tagline is "a space to discover new sounds" but you've likely heard of Adrianne Lenker by now. Indie music circles have heaped praise

Nathan Yoder

Oct 21

Album Preview - Cécile Seraud - Shoden

Cécile Seraud is an accomplished musician who has studied classical guitar since the age of five. But a few years ago, the French guitarist

Nathan Yoder

Oct 19

Album of the Week - Hideyuki Hashimoto - breath

Little information is given about breath, but it is billed as a "live album," unlike the rest of Hashimoto's catalogue of carefully captured

Nathan Yoder

Oct 15

Album Preview - Oliver Coates - skins n slime

British cellist and producer Oliver Coates is a visionary musician, pushing the boundaries of what his instrument can do. On his critically

Nathan Yoder

Oct 14

Album Preview - Michael Scott Dawson - Nowhere, Middle of

Music has the power to center us. To set us in place with both feet on the ground. When Canadian sound artist Michael Scott Dawson (of Lib

Nathan Yoder

Oct 13

Album Preview - Snowdrops - Volutes

Snowdrops is the experimental chamber project of renowned ondist Christine Ott and mellotronist Mathieu Gabry (both of whom also play piano

Nathan Yoder

Oct 12

Album Preview - Andrée Burelli - De Sidera

De Sidera is mostly instrumental, but Burelli sings wordless vocals on two of the album's central productions: the title track and side B's

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