Album of the Week - Sarah Davachi - Cantus, Descant
It took Sarah Davachi, the prolific composer and musicologist, three years and six locations across four countries to create her masterpiece
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Nathan Yoder
- Sep 14, 2020
Album of the Week - David Toop - Field Recording and Fox Spirits
If you weren't aware, Oregon (and much of the American West, for that matter) is currently on fire. A toxic cloud of smoke has settled over
Nathan Yoder
- Sep 9, 2020
Album Preview - Joshua Van Tassel - Dance Music Volume II: More Songs For Slow Motion
On new album released on Backwards Music this Friday, Van Tassel uses the Ondea (a modernized version of the Ondes Martenot), piano, various
Nathan Yoder
- Sep 8, 2020
Album of the Week - Andrew Wasylyk - Fugitive Light and Themes of Consolation
Andrew Wasylyk is a composer, but also a geographer and preservationist of sorts. Hailing from Scotland, he writes music influenced by memo
Nathan Yoder
- Sep 2, 2020
Album Preview - Niksen - Invisible City
Niksen is a Portland-based improvisational duo comprised of multi-instrumentalist Derek Hunter Wilson (a good friend of this site), and harp
Nathan Yoder
- Sep 1, 2020
Album Preview - numün - voyage au soleil
numün is a supergroup of sorts - a collective sharing an interest in capturing the sonic textures of interplanetary travel. On their concep
Nathan Yoder
- Aug 31, 2020
"Currently" with Ben Zucker
Our fifth "Currently" entry is from Ben Zucker, an improvisational and experimental multi-instrumentalist based in Chicago who composes, col
Nathan Yoder
- Aug 31, 2020
Album of the Week - Max Ananyev - Midday
Often times, ambient music consumers tie the genre to settling dusk, quiet nighttime, or perhaps even early morning hours before the world w
Nathan Yoder
- Aug 24, 2020
Album of the Week - Eli Winter - Unbecoming
Eli Winter's Unbecoming opens with one of the best songs of the year - a 23-minute freewheeling John Fahey jam in which the young guitarist
Nathan Yoder
- Aug 18, 2020
Driving to Astoria
Astoria is the town in which I first listened to Jenny Hval's The Long Sleep, and it is where Liz Harris makes art. The Pacific is what ins
Nathan Yoder
- Aug 17, 2020
Album of the Week - Black Noi$e - OBLIVION
Detroit producer Black Noise's OBLIVION plays like a compilation, his trademark distorted loops and samples playing underneath 11 different
Nathan Yoder
- Aug 10, 2020
Album of the Week - Tkay Maidza - Last Year Was Weird, Vol. 2
Maidza, a Zimbabwean-via-Austrialia rapper, has been making music for a few years now, but her first release from 4AD is a revelation. Citi
Nathan Yoder
- Aug 6, 2020
Album Preview - Varsity Star - That's Something
Both jazz and electronic music are genres which boast quite a bit of stylistic diversity within their respective boundaries. One commonalit
Nathan Yoder
- Aug 5, 2020
Album Preview - Rinnovare - Aperturia
Aperturia, the title of modern classical/ambient composer Matteo Neufeld's new EP translates to "opening," which is apt, as each of the four
Nathan Yoder
- Aug 4, 2020
Album Preview - Tapes and Topographies - A Pulse of Durations
Todd Gautreau, who composes under the moniker Tapes and Topographies, is a prolific ambient artist specializing in the cultivation of cinema
Nathan Yoder
- Aug 3, 2020
"Currently" with Claire Rousay
Our fourth "Currently" entry is from Claire Rousay, an experimental artist based in San Antonio, Texas.
Nathan Yoder
- Aug 3, 2020
Album of the Week - Land of Talk - Indistinct Conversations
Land of Talk has been around for a good while, but the Canadian musicians are self-described slow-burners. This subdued approach to release
Nathan Yoder
- Jul 30, 2020
Pickathon Retrospective
Normally, I would be headed out to Pendarvis Farm this afternoon to celebrate the best weekend of the year. But since nothing is normal in
Nathan Yoder
- Jul 30, 2020
"Currently" with C. Diab
Our third "Currently" entry is from C. Diab, a multi-instrumentalist based out of Vancouver, BC who composes what he calls "Cascadian guitar
Nathan Yoder
- Jul 27, 2020
Album of the Week - Slow Meadow - By the Ash Tree
Comprised of an intro, an outro, two reworks, and one new song, Texan composer Matt Kidd pares back the walls of sound he built on 2019's Ha
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