Album Preview - Benjamin Finger & James Plotkin - We Carry the Curse
Though there are elements of drone through the four long-form tracks found on We Carry the Curse, each track is filled with unique texture.
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Nathan Yoder
- Oct 28, 2020
Album Preview - Barry Walker - Shoulda Zenith
So many folks in the Portland music scene could play "seven degrees of separation" from Barry Walker, and get there in just two or three ste
Nathan Yoder
- Oct 26, 2020
Album of the Week - Adrianne Lenker - Instrumentals
DC's tagline is "a space to discover new sounds" but you've likely heard of Adrianne Lenker by now. Indie music circles have heaped praise
Nathan Yoder
- Oct 21, 2020
Album Preview - Cécile Seraud - Shoden
Cécile Seraud is an accomplished musician who has studied classical guitar since the age of five. But a few years ago, the French guitarist
Nathan Yoder
- Oct 19, 2020
Album of the Week - Hideyuki Hashimoto - breath
Little information is given about breath, but it is billed as a "live album," unlike the rest of Hashimoto's catalogue of carefully captured
Nathan Yoder
- Oct 15, 2020
Album Preview - Oliver Coates - skins n slime
British cellist and producer Oliver Coates is a visionary musician, pushing the boundaries of what his instrument can do. On his critically
Nathan Yoder
- Oct 14, 2020
Album Preview - Michael Scott Dawson - Nowhere, Middle of
Music has the power to center us. To set us in place with both feet on the ground. When Canadian sound artist Michael Scott Dawson (of Lib
Nathan Yoder
- Oct 13, 2020
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
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