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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

Oct 15, 2020

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, 2020

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, 2020

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, 2020

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

Nathan Yoder

Oct 12, 2020

Album of the Week - Gunn-Truscinski Duo - Soundkeeper

Listening to Soundkeeper, the new double-LP and fourth collaborative offering from guitarist Steve Gunn and drummer John Truscinski, is a jo

Nathan Yoder

Oct 8, 2020

Album Preview - zakè - Geneva

Though zakè is the credited artist here, prolific Indianapolis-based ambient label Past Inside the Present is releasing an album tomorrow wh

Nathan Yoder

Oct 7, 2020

Album Preview - North Americans - Roped In

Patrick McDermott, who records as "North Americans" out of LA, constructs spare and delicate guitar-centrict music. Like Third Man labelmat

Nathan Yoder

Oct 6, 2020

Album Preview - J. Pavone String Ensemble - Lost and Found

Not only is Jessica Pavone is a rising multi-instrumentalist and composer, noticed by publications such as NPR Music, The Wire, and The New

Nathan Yoder

Oct 5, 2020

Album of the Week - V/A - Particle Count

When Wellman dreamt up Particle Count, he wanted to pay tribute to spaces affected by the recent fires by enlisting the help of musicians, c

Nathan Yoder

Oct 1, 2020

Album Review - A Little Night Music: Aural Apparitions from the Geographic North

Not a preview today, but a REview, and a spooky one at that! It's October first, which means Geographic North has released its third Hallow

Nathan Yoder

Sep 28, 2020

Album of the Week - Meitei - Kofu / 古風

Meitei is an artist with a profound reverence for Japan's past, wanting to capture and catalogue tales rooted in fading tradition. Kofu is

Nathan Yoder

Sep 23, 2020

Album Preview - Olivier Alary & Johannes Malfatti - u,i

Oliver Alary and Johannes Malfatti's u,i spans the Atlantic. Alary, A Montreal-based artist and former Bjork collaborator, and Malfatti, a

Nathan Yoder

Sep 22, 2020

Album Preview - Olec Mün - Reconciliation

Olec Mün's new album is an exercise in understanding the past and healing in the present. The composer's grandparents were Jewish refugees

Nathan Yoder

Sep 21, 2020

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

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

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