Artist Interview Series: Rich Ruth
This third artist write-up captures a Q+A correspondence with Rich Ruth, a Nashville artist who is currently composing ambient music.
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Nathan Yoder
- Mar 31, 2020
Artist Interview Series: Leslee Smucker
This installment spotlights Dr. Leslee Smucker, an inter-media artist who, on top of her academic research and teaching work, performs chamb
Nathan Yoder
- Mar 30, 2020
Album of the Week - Nils Frahm - Empty
It's been said that when Nils Frahm takes his show on the road, he brings so much equipment that auditorium stages literally sag under the w
Nathan Yoder
- Mar 24, 2020
Artist Interview Series: Sunbathe
An email exchange with Maggie Morris of Sunbathe.
Nathan Yoder
- Mar 23, 2020
If You're Needing an Album to...
50 albums to help you navigate these strange days.
Nathan Yoder
- Mar 23, 2020
Album of the Week - Ratgrave - Rock
Sometimes an album emerges out of nowhere and is so stylistically different than whatever else you are immersed in, that you can't forget it
Nathan Yoder
- Mar 16, 2020
Album of the Week - Glåsbird - Norskfjǫrðr
Glåsbird makes musical postcards - compositions defined by place. In the past, the artist's location-themed albums captured the desolate, f
Nathan Yoder
- Mar 13, 2020
Homebound
As we collectively enter this strange and frightening phase of social and professional quarantine, music can act as a centering presence. A
Nathan Yoder
- Mar 12, 2020
Fennesz at Holocene - 03/11/2020
The prolific Austrian guitarist and soundscape artist made a rare visit to Portland on Tuesday evening, and showed a Holocene audience that
Nathan Yoder
- Mar 9, 2020
Album of the Week - Pantha du Prince - Conference of Trees
The average mature redwood tree grows to be 500 - 800 years old, and the tallest can reach up to 350 feet high. If you have ever visited a
Nathan Yoder
- Mar 5, 2020
Frances Quinlan and Mary Lattimore at the Doug Fir - 03/03/2020
Two indie stars hailing from the Philly music scene brought their tour through Portland on Tuesday night, and though their stringed performa
Nathan Yoder
- Mar 2, 2020
Album of the Week - Caribou - Suddenly
Over the past two decades, Dan Snaith has worked on transforming Caribou from a two-kit, kaleidoscopic, freak folk project into an electro-p
Nathan Yoder
- Feb 24, 2020
Album of the Week - Medhane - FULL CIRCLE
An exciting up-and-coming artist out of New York, Medhane shows off his lyrical and production chops over the fifteen minute blur that is FU
Nathan Yoder
- Feb 20, 2020
A Treefort 2020 Preview: Five Must-See Acts
Every March, Boise's Treefort Music Fest kicks off festival season. Growing in scope each year, the five-day celebration now goes beyond li
Nathan Yoder
- Feb 17, 2020
Album of the Week - Beach Bunny - Honeymoon
Sometimes we need music to act as a calming agent - a centering meditation in our hectic lives. Ambient soundscapes, acoustic instrumentals
Nathan Yoder
- Feb 11, 2020
Sessa at the Doug Fir - 02/09/2020
For the first time in his touring career, Sessa, the mononymous Brazilian singer/songwriter, came to Portland to share his enchanting melodi
Nathan Yoder
- Feb 10, 2020
Album of the Week - Tristan Eckerson - Decades
Solo piano has claimed a lot of space in these early days of Deepest Currents, and while this past Friday rendered a standout electronic alb
Nathan Yoder
- Feb 3, 2020
Album of the Week - Andras - Joyful
This past January in the Pacific Northwest was an especially dark and dreary one. It was Portland's wettest month on record in nearly three
Nathan Yoder
- Jan 26, 2020
Album of the Week - Itoko Toma - The Window
Oft-overlooked minimalist compositions are so important to seek out in today's noisy world. Distractions abound from all directions - the n
Nathan Yoder
- Jan 24, 2020
Thanks.
A quickly-created, ten-track playlist to show a bit of thanks.
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