Holger Czukay / Die Angel & Zappi W. Diermaier – Gvoon: Version 1

As much as I loved the work of Can bassist Holger Czukay, there are a couple of his releases that I passed by.  This one features die ANGEL, whom I have never heard of previously, and Faust drummer Zappi W. Diermaier.  This sounds far less like Krautrock and more like Continue Reading

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

Various Artists – Staying: Leaving Records Aid to Artists Impacted by the Los Angeles Wildfires

2025 started with horrible fires in California.  From Staying’s Bandcamp site: “Everything has changed, and it is changing still. The early days of 2025 (an already baleful year, vis-a-vis America’s darkening political horizon) have wrought heretofore unimaginable destruction in the land we now call Los Angeles. The wildfires that began Continue Reading

Carme López – Quintela

One of my people has done us proud!  From Carme López’s Bandcamp site: “Quintela’, the debut album by Carme López, a performer, teacher and researcher of traditional oral music from Galicia, is a new experimental work for Galician bagpipe. Influenced by the approach of composers like Éliane Radigue or Pauline Continue Reading

Virus2020 – A Frog A Gun And A Sad Man

We have a new artist to introduce to you.  Virus2020 is a project out of Sousse, Tunisia, and you can read more about his work here, courtesy of his release’s Bandcamp page: “Virus2020 is the solo project of Rami Harrabi, a Tunisian artist born in 1989 in Sousse (TN), enthralled 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.

Passepartout Duo – Argot

My, this is a lovely release.  Passepartout Duo manage to balance modern classical music with a minimal post-rock sound without the “rock” part.  It’s exquisite listening, especially for those who like minimalist music.  Think of Arvo Pärt collaborating with Sigur Rós, and this might give you an idea of what Continue Reading