Trajectories – Quiet on Kökar

Trajectories is a troupe from Quebec who produce electroacoustic music.  From their Bandcamp site: “The album Quiet on Kökar was conceived of during a recent artist residency undertaken on the small island of Kökar in the Åland Archipelago in Finland, experimenting with a variety of recording set-ups and collaborative compositional Continue Reading

Maria Teriaeva – Sayan – Savoie

“Maria Teriaeva is a Siberian-born, Paris-based musician and composer. She uses the Buchla modular synthesizer as a framework for her music combining it with acoustic instruments and voice,” so says her bio on Bandcamp.  She has become quite a revelation to me, as her music is some of the must Continue Reading

TRUTH – Truth: Eponymous Anonymous

TRUTH is a new project that starts in the realm of microsound and develops into an organic piece of musique-concrète. The pulses and bleeps remind me of the very early experiments of Cabaret Voltaire and Throbbing Gristle, as does the rather dark tone carried within the music.  It is both are Continue Reading

Various Artists – In Heaven, Everything is Fine: A David Lynch Experimental Noise Tribute (2025)

David Lynch was a very weird man, and I mean that in the best sense of the word.  His directorial body of work will stand the test of time.  He passed away recently, so the net label Red Tape has issued a compilation of noise music in his honor.  I Continue Reading

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