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
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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
Nathan Yoder
- Jun 22, 2020
Album of the Week - Kahlil Blu - Dog
It's been a banner year for New York rap. Medhane's FULL CIRCLE and then Cold Water, as well as MIKE's just-released Weight of the World ea
Nathan Yoder
- Jun 18, 2020
"Currently" with Ilyas Ahmed
Our first "Currently" entry is from Ilyas Ahmed, a Portland-based musician and visual artist. Besides his prolific solo work, which ranges