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
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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
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