Ambient
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My new friend TJ Norris and I have prepared a pair of reviews of Machinefabriek’s new work Engel. Norris hosts the excellent Toneshift.net blog out of Ft. Worth, Texas. We’re posting both reviews on both blogs. Please check out his work. TJ’s Take The record (due August 15th) consists of nine reasonably short tracks, and…
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Drone recordings that fail to inspire often do so because they lack texture. There is a kind of flatness that the genre sometimes inspires that can be especially difficult to sustain in long compositions. This second effort by Thighpaulsandra and Massimo Pupillo is so far removed from that criticism that I hesitate to even associate…
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Sicilian Skrima writes about growing up in his Italian home, fascinated by the far-off, sometimes muffled sounds that would find their way into his bedroom. He recorded those sounds with a number of devices (of varying quality), and then applied modifications to his indoor field recordings. For years, this was a kind of passion project…
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Don’t be misled by the pastel pink cover, Anders Brørby’s new Traumas is every bit as dark as its title suggests. These 10 new tracks are by turns sad, menacing and captivating. From the album’s notes: “Like a cracked mirror held up to the stages of grief Traumas buries deep into the scores of the…
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Both accomplished musicians in their own right, Spaniards Nacho Marco and Pau Roca have built an impressive new project together under the name Diamont Dancer. This debut release – Shapes – combines Marco’s electronics with Roca’s indie rock guitar. Call it ambient plus. Marco is a celebrated DJ and electronic music producer with two decades…
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The weekend before Donald Trump won the U.S. presidency, I was out with a group of friends discussing the state of politics around the world. While not a single one of us thought Trump had a chance. His candidacy alone was enough to dominate much of the evening’s conversation. The gist of our little salon-styled…
The Moderns 