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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

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

Nathan Yoder

Jul 20, 2020

Album of the Week - Tomotsugu Nakamura - Literature

The Books were pioneers when it came to cobbling together glitchy electroacoustic compositions, often with a wryly silly and irreverent skew

Nathan Yoder

Jul 20, 2020

Album of the Week - Julianna Barwick - Healing is a Miracle

Julianna Barwick's music is both delicate and powerful. Her layers of looped soprano float like clouds, weightless and ethereal.

Nathan Yoder

Jul 6, 2020

Album of the Week - Kin Leonn and Hiroshi Ebina - Faraway Vicinity

Creative sound artists Kin Leonn and Hiroshi Ebina join forces on Faraway Vicinity to paint four landscapes, blending field recordings with

Nathan Yoder

Jul 2, 2020

Thanks (Again)

July marks sixth months of this iteration of Deepest Currents. As I've previously stated, DC lived in a personal Wordpress blog for a numbe

Nathan Yoder

Jul 1, 2020

"Currently" with Jeffrey Silverstein

Our second "Currently" entry is from Jeffrey Silverstein, a Portland-based musician, writer, and teacher.

Nathan Yoder

Jun 30, 2020

Album Preview - t0k4 - Naga

This Friday, Portland producer t0k4 will send a set of spectral tracks out into the bright July sunlight. His album, Naga, contains eight c

Nathan Yoder

Jun 29, 2020

Album of the Week - William Cashion - Postcard Music

William Cashion, bassist for Future Islands, just released his debut solo album - a collection of 11 vignettes evoking nature-based nostalgi

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