Recommended Listening: Peace Flag Ensemble - Noteland
Peace Flag Ensemble's music may be considered experimental free jazz, but its edges are rounded and smooth, rather than sharp. Songs sparkl
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Nathan Yoder
- Jun 8, 2021
Recommended Listening: Dau - Zed Zed
Phil Self, a UK musician who records as Dau, is about to release one of this year's most beautiful albums. Zed Zed is comprised of six acou
Nathan Yoder
- Jun 7, 2021
Recommended Listening: Ben Green - Lauchie Cox
Ben Green's musical process and artistic intent are both a bit difficult to grasp, much less explain in a neat paragraph. The Australian cr
Nathan Yoder
- Jun 4, 2021
Song Premiere: Allison Lorenzen - Be a Fortress
It's pretty clear from the opening verse that Be a Fortress is a breakup song. Lorenzen sings about "last times" and the "end of summer" wh
Nathan Yoder
- Jun 1, 2021
Recommended Listening: Kajsa Lindgren - Momentary Harmony
Everyone is here was a collection of archival field recordings - short little sound bites that the artist unearthed in her parents' old base
Nathan Yoder
- May 19, 2021
Recommended Listening: Patricia Wolf - Life On Smoking Mountain
Earlier this month, Wolf spent time around Mount Saint Helens, documenting sounds which students will eventually hear while on virtual field
Nathan Yoder
- May 18, 2021
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
Nathan Yoder
- May 18, 2021
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, 2021
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, 2021
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, 2021
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, 2021
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, 2021
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, 2021
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, 2021
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, 2021
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, 2021
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, 2021
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, 2021
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, 2021
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
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