The Orchestra Of Mirrored Reflections – Surfin’ Kali Yuga

This most certainly is not basic jazz. The Orchestra of Mirrored Reflections has been performing darkjazz for a long time, and at least to my ears, they encapsulate the genre. The beats, based on Indian rhythm, mesh well with the saxophone and atmospheric electronics underpinning the groove above.

Claire Rousay – The Bloody Lady

As I wrap up my vacation in Los Angeles and prepare to head back home to Beijing, I thought I’d share the work of a Los Angeles-based composer who has intrigued me for a while now.  Claire Rousay (stylized claire rousay) is a local composer who works in the electroacoustic Continue Reading

Christophe Bailleau – Insight and Vision

Before I get to the promotional blurb on the website for Mahorka Records, I can give my thoughts on the album.  Christophe Bailleau’s Insight and Vision crosses so many genres that one would think, based on the description, that the music would be unlistenable.  Nothing could be further from the Continue Reading

Lea Bertucci – Hold Music

Rather beautiful for drone, this one.  Lea Bertucci is a composer based in New York and on this recording offered by Dinzu Artefacts (fellow Los Angelinos whom I hope are safe), she offers music that is meant to be infinite.  From the label’s Bandcamp site: “Hold Music is a pair Continue Reading

Abul Mogard & Rafael Anton Irisarri – Live at Le Guess Who?

Abul Mogard and Rafael Anton Irisarri, from Italy and Spain respectively, are two of the most outstanding ambient music composers going today.  They collaborate here on a live work that sounds so atmospheric as to be nearly holy, especially since it was performed at a church in Utrecht.

Reverse Image – Éclipse Dissonante (FMOA Audio Postcard Series)

From our friend Reverse Image, who offers this 18-minute sound collage: “Reverse Image (Y’ng-Yin Siew) is a sound artist from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. She builds her works using a hybrid of analogue and digital tools, with which she explores the intersection between repetitive motifs and moments of discontinuity. Her debut Continue Reading