Kevin Press
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Vancouver’s Adrian Dziewanski describes his Desire Paths of the Sun & Moon as a mining exercise. We Canadians are pretty good at turning natural resources into marketable products, which is precisely what he’s done with this five-track disc. He’s taken a series of dusty old recordings and transformed them into a uniquely listenable series of…
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Nobody goes to a metal show wearing earth tones. Not on purpose. Presumably there have been unwitting hippies who’ve wandered into the wrong bar on the wrong night, etc. etc. But we can safely assume that Seth Chrisman and Nathan McLaughlin have chosen a universal truth as their new album’s name. And like all respectable…
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flica – Wednesday – 0:45 to 4:15 Balmorhea – 06-First Light (Christopher Tignor) – 3:53 to 12:58 African Ghost Valley – OC 154 T – 10:30 to 16:05 Anenon – Pure – 15:18 to 19:14 Leena – Daily Exports #1 Canadian Who’s Who 2014-2015 – 18:06 to 48:06 Shuttle358 – Blue – 43:37 to 50:20…
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Perhaps it’s a bit early to be thinking in terms of best-of-the-year lists for 2018. Of course, great albums are just as likely to land in January or February as they are in any other month. But common sense dictates that we contain our enthusiasm until at least the spring. This new album from Kuala…
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By the end of the 1980s, the excitement surrounding early ambient music artists like Brian Eno, Harold Budd and Daniel Lanois had given way to the artistically suspect new age movement. Truthfully, the word movement gives that dark period too much credit. The only thing labels like Wyndham Hill managed to move was units. Lots…
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Quin Kirchner’s debut as a band leader landed last week. The Chicago scene veteran has produced a monster disc that has to be heard. Best new jazz album of 2018 so far. Kirchner answered a couple of questions for a post I put up on All About Jazz. Here’s a full transcript. How has the…
