Song Premiere: Marigold Sun - Swimming
The song Swimming opens with four warm piano chords, which are repeated across the track. This base melody floats along as notes eventually
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Nathan Yoder
- May 18
Song Premiere: Devin Shaffer - Kissing in the Park
This morning, DC is so happy to premiere the second single from Shaffer's debut, titled Kissing in the Park. It is one of the snap-into-foc
Nathan Yoder
- May 12
Recommended Listening: Fuubutsushi - Yamawarau
"Ambient Jazz" is not a genre we've covered, or a phrase we've even typed before, but last weekend this was the term someone used to describ
Nathan Yoder
- May 11
Recommended Listening: Ilyas Ahmed & Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - You Can See Your Own Way Out
At DC we've followed both Cantu and Ahmed for some time now, and in our opinion the most interesting part of YCSYOWO is that each artist's d
Nathan Yoder
- May 7
Song Premiere: Dolphin Midwives - Bloom
Bloom is warbling mix of Fisher's layered vocals and ambient noise - perhaps some synth and a little harp? She sings the phrase "I want to
Nathan Yoder
- May 5
Recommended Listening: Tender Crust - FS100
A huge congratulations goes out to Full Spectrum Records, who celebrates their 100th release on May 7th. Woot woot! Across 12 years, the n
Nathan Yoder
- May 4
Recommended Listening: Joseph Shabason - The Fellowship
The album's narrative arc follows Shabason from his upbringing in an Islamic and Jewish dual-faith household, through his rocky teenage and
Nathan Yoder
- May 3
Recommended Listening: Ned Milligan - Enter Outside; jason calhoun - introduction to an apology
Milligan actually released two full albums this past Friday on his Florabelle label. One carries his own music, and the other release is a
Nathan Yoder
- Apr 27
Recommended Listening: Ben Seretan - Cicada Waves
Last summer, Seretan traveled to the base of the Appalachian Mountains for a two-week artist residency. He had been given the opportunity t
Nathan Yoder
- Apr 26
Recommended Listening: Arooj Aftab - Vulture Prince
Over the past couple of months, Arooj Aftab's Vulture Prince has been hyped by NPR, NYT, Pitchfork, and so many other industry titans. Toge
Nathan Yoder
- Apr 21
Video Premiere: Anarchist Mountains Trio - Conspiracy Means Breathing Together
"This video/sound collaboration is part of an ongoing sonic dialogue that informs the Anarchist Mountains project, the creation of sonic lan
Nathan Yoder
- Apr 20
Recommended Listening: Ki Oni - Stay Indoors and Swim
Like so many ambient artists, Chuck Soo-Hoo (who records as Ki Oni) thematically centers much of his music around natural phenomena and livi
Nathan Yoder
- Apr 19
Recommended Listening: Alexandra Spence - A Necessary Softness
Alexandra Spence, a globe-trekking Australian sound artist, released a pair of excellent performance pieces this past Friday. Tidewater and
Nathan Yoder
- Apr 15
Recommended Listening: M. Sage - The Wind of Things
Sage currently lives in Chicago, but The Wind of Things is a travelogue of sorts. He grew up in rural Nebraska, and to us, his music groans
Nathan Yoder
- Apr 14
Recommended Listening: Didacte - Revenir; Adrien Casalis - Ghost; Leon den Engelsen - Growth
Piano and Coffee Records is really getting at it this spring. The Valencia-based, contemporary classical label founded by Sergio Diaz De Ro
Nathan Yoder
- Apr 13
Recommended Listening: Balmorhea - The Wind
The Wind feels intensely cinematic. There are spare moments, certainly, but also a good number of melancholy dips followed by emotional cre
Nathan Yoder
- Apr 2
Song Premiere - Leider - Human Error
Leider is a Berlin-based ensemble who plays music that, frankly, is hard to classify. Human Error feels unsettling from the opening notes,
Nathan Yoder
- Apr 1
Recommended Listening: Taylor Deupree - Mur
Explaining Mur and its peculiarly-titled songs, Taylor Deupree writes, "...there's always something about my music that's like a murmur." W
Nathan Yoder
- Apr 1
A Chat with Lisa/Liza
Liza Victoria (who records as Lisa/Liza) is a musician we've followed closely for a few years now. Something about her unique songcraft and
Nathan Yoder
- Mar 31
Recommended Listening: marine eyes - idyll
Her solo debut, idyll is breathtaking. There is no shortage of ambient music these days (in an era of borderline oversaturation), but three