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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

Recommended Listening: Dylan Henner - Great Prairie Plains: Studies of American Minimalism

Great Prairie Plains is a tribute of sorts - a cover album comprised of two longform works originally written by a couple of masters of Amer

Nathan Yoder

5 days ago

Recommended Listening: Rachika Nayar - Our Hands Against The Dusk

Over eight shimmering tracks, the Brooklyn-based composer loops and layers guitar, synth, piano, strings, and vocals. But instead of the or

Nathan Yoder

6 days ago

Recommended Listening: Field Works - Cedars

On his new album, Hyatt blends familiar Americana with something wholly international. Cedars, it turns out, is a dual-language, cosmic Mid

Nathan Yoder

Feb 17

Recommended Listening: Jeffrey Silverstein - Torii Gates

Using six sonic constructions to prompt introspection, Silverstein invites us to explore personal notions of peace and wonder, while also n

Nathan Yoder

Feb 16

Recommended Listening: Federico Mosconi - Dreamers and Tides

Mosconi is an Italian guitarist well versed in multimedia composition. On his new work for Russian label, Dronarivm, he straddles space bet

Nathan Yoder

Feb 10

Recommended Listening: Chuck Johnson - The Cinder Grove

The Cinder Grove is a collection of five songs between seven and eleven minutes long. Johnson's pedal steel might be the most distinguishab

Nathan Yoder

Feb 9

Song Premiere: Juha Mäki-Patola - Steps

About the track, the artist writes, "The idea of “Steps” is based on a low and deep pedal point that creates a solid ground for a repeated p

Nathan Yoder

Feb 8

Recommended Listening: Lucy Liyou - Practice

Lucy Liyou, the Philadelphia-based, Korean-American composer and sound artist has perfectly captured this new and difficult reality on their

Nathan Yoder

Feb 4

Recommended Listening: Karima Walker - Waking the Dreaming Body

As evidenced by DC's 2020 coverage, we are big fans of Orindal's output, and while each artist on the label is absolutely unique, hints of s

Nathan Yoder

Feb 3

Recommended Listening: Andrew Tuttle & Padang Food Tigers - A Cassowary Apart

On their new collaborative album, A Cassowary Apart, these ambient musicians, separated by continents, combined forces to create something t

Nathan Yoder

Feb 2

Recommended Listening: James Osland - Almond Drive

James Osland is a UK sound artist who has been involved with one of our favorite tape labels, Rusted Tone Recordings, from their inception.

Nathan Yoder

Jan 22

Recommended Listening: Carmen Villain - Sketch for Winter IX - Perlita

GN invited Carmen Villain, the Norwegian-Mexican musician and producer, to paint winter scenes via sonic textures, and the result is exquisi

Nathan Yoder

Jan 21

Recommended Listening: Nick Schofield - Glass Gallery

On Glass Gallery, Montreal-based composer Nick Schofield brings a similar warmth and light, but via his vintage Prophet-600 synth. His cent

Nathan Yoder

Jan 19

Recommended Listening: Allred & Broderick - What the Fog

The duo has joined forces in the past, but their most recent offering is a distillation of an 11-hour (!!!) soundtrack to Jennifer Anderson

Nathan Yoder

Jan 19

Recommended Listening: Subsonic Eye - Nature of Things

Subsonic Eye hails from Singapore, but their sound pulls from all sorts of international influences. Twin guitar noodling on Fruitcake and

Nathan Yoder

Jan 13

Recommended Listening: Yvette Janine Jackson - Freedom

Jackson is an accomplished composer, sound installation artist, and assistant professor in Harvard's music department. She chose radio dram

Nathan Yoder

Jan 4

While We Were Away

Though the release calendar tends to thin out a bit between Thanksgiving and the new year, excellent albums do drop, and are sometimes overl

Nathan Yoder

Nov 23, 2020

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, 2020

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, 2020

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

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