Recommended Listening: Whettman Chelmets - For...
Interestingly, For... begins with two fall tracks, though the album was recorded and released in spring months. These opening constructions
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Nathan Yoder
- Mar 10, 2021
Recommended Listening: Josh Medina - Drifting Toward the Absolute
Besides guitar, Medina utilizes synth and tape to paint these blissful creations which seem to float along through a cloudless sky. However
Nathan Yoder
- Mar 10, 2021
Recommended Listening: Rhucle - Cycle
The Tokyo-based sound artist just released his album, Cycle, last Friday through the ever-excellent Aural Canyon. On it, he blends synth wa
Nathan Yoder
- Mar 9, 2021
A Chat with Patrick McDermott of North Americans
North Americans is a collaborative instrumental guitar project with McDermott at the helm, and he was gracious enough to take our call a few
Nathan Yoder
- Mar 4, 2021
Recommended Listening: claire rousay - a softer focus
The album feels a bit like a combination of rousay's familiar noisy inclinations blended with fresh melodic elements. There are some signat
Nathan Yoder
- Mar 3, 2021
Recommended Listening: Cameron Knowler & Eli Winter - Anticipation
Cameron Knowler and Eli Winter are two masters of the six string, but arrived at these distinctions via very different routes. Knowler is a
Nathan Yoder
- Mar 1, 2021
Recommended Listening: Nebel lang - Hand in mine
The album is essentially comprised of two longform improvisations (after a 19-second opening track meant to situate the listener). The firs
Nathan Yoder
- Feb 25, 2021
Recommended Listening: Dylan Henner - Great Prairie Plains: Studies of American Minimalism
Great Prairie Plains is a tribute of sorts - a cover album comprised of two longform works originally written by a couple of masters of Amer
Nathan Yoder
- Feb 23, 2021
Recommended Listening: Rachika Nayar - Our Hands Against The Dusk
Over eight shimmering tracks, the Brooklyn-based composer loops and layers guitar, synth, piano, strings, and vocals. But instead of the or
Nathan Yoder
- Feb 22, 2021
Recommended Listening: Field Works - Cedars
On his new album, Hyatt blends familiar Americana with something wholly international. Cedars, it turns out, is a dual-language, cosmic Mid
Nathan Yoder
- Feb 17, 2021
Recommended Listening: Jeffrey Silverstein - Torii Gates
Using six sonic constructions to prompt introspection, Silverstein invites us to explore personal notions of peace and wonder, while also n
Nathan Yoder
- Feb 16, 2021
Recommended Listening: Federico Mosconi - Dreamers and Tides
Mosconi is an Italian guitarist well versed in multimedia composition. On his new work for Russian label, Dronarivm, he straddles space bet
Nathan Yoder
- Feb 10, 2021
Recommended Listening: Chuck Johnson - The Cinder Grove
The Cinder Grove is a collection of five songs between seven and eleven minutes long. Johnson's pedal steel might be the most distinguishab
Nathan Yoder
- Feb 9, 2021
Song Premiere: Juha Mäki-Patola - Steps
About the track, the artist writes, "The idea of “Steps” is based on a low and deep pedal point that creates a solid ground for a repeated p
Nathan Yoder
- Feb 8, 2021
Recommended Listening: Lucy Liyou - Practice
Lucy Liyou, the Philadelphia-based, Korean-American composer and sound artist has perfectly captured this new and difficult reality on their
Nathan Yoder
- Feb 4, 2021
Recommended Listening: Karima Walker - Waking the Dreaming Body
As evidenced by DC's 2020 coverage, we are big fans of Orindal's output, and while each artist on the label is absolutely unique, hints of s
Nathan Yoder
- Feb 3, 2021
Recommended Listening: Andrew Tuttle & Padang Food Tigers - A Cassowary Apart
On their new collaborative album, A Cassowary Apart, these ambient musicians, separated by continents, combined forces to create something t
Nathan Yoder
- Feb 2, 2021
Recommended Listening: James Osland - Almond Drive
James Osland is a UK sound artist who has been involved with one of our favorite tape labels, Rusted Tone Recordings, from their inception.
Nathan Yoder
- Feb 1, 2021
A Chat with Marisa Dabice
Over the course of an hour of back-and-forth messaging, Dabice shared a bit about her love of tie-dying, revisited Patience highlights, talk
Nathan Yoder
- Jan 22, 2021
Recommended Listening: Carmen Villain - Sketch for Winter IX - Perlita
GN invited Carmen Villain, the Norwegian-Mexican musician and producer, to paint winter scenes via sonic textures, and the result is exquisi
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