Willebrant – Coastal___

Karl Willebrant released an EP’s worth of meditative music that would be appealing to fans of groups like Embryo and Popol Vuh.  The tunes are gentle, a bit on the kosmische side, and well-balanced in terms of its sonic character.  This is a rather fine little release.

Jesse Paul Miller – Dream Boxes and Psychic Microphones • Radio and Other Sounds From Southeast Asia 2008 – 2017

We find music in the strangest of places.  This release from Jesse Paul Miller is proof of it.  From his Bandcamp site: “These tracks consist of a series of sequential “sound collages”, based on recordings I gathered in Southeast Asia, between 2008 and 2017. There is NO Multi-Tracking or “Over-Dubbing” Continue Reading

Various Artists – Touch: Isolation

Touch Records introduced many experimental and post-industrial music fans to some of the most crucial artists of the past 40 years or so.  This compilation originally came as 28 single tracks which were available via subscription only, but since that option was shut down, the label thankfully compiled these tracks Continue Reading

Jeff Gburek – Raw Radio Dispatch For “RIAFC”

Many honorable composers of note were fascinated by radio static, and as someone who owned a shortwave radio in my youth, I happily admit to having the same fascination with such crunchy sound.  Our friend Jeff Gburek uses radio sounds for his latest release.  From his Bandcamp site: “This album Continue Reading

Jeff Gburek & Karolina Ossowska – One Moon, Many Shines

This is some of the best late-night listening I’ve heard in a long time.  Neither Jeff Gburek nor Karolina Ossowska ever fail to please my ears, whether it be with a deep intellectual piece or compositions which teeter on the edge of being mournful, but this one deserves a special Continue Reading

Brotha Lok – True Lai : Flèches contre Balles

Brotha Lok is a French producer and DJ of Vietnamese extraction, and he has produced a wild album with no solid focus, but it listens are more of a travelog.  Bits of hip-hop, ethnographic recordings, field recording, spoken interludes (including a bit of laughter here and there) are brought together Continue Reading

Jeff Gburek – Still Life with a Question Mark

No wishes, no hopes for the year, just a pleasant way to gently slide into 2024.  We launch with Jeff Gburek’s latest release, of which he provides notes on his Bandcamp site: “Still Life with a Question Mark came together as an album rather quickly after I discovered loops unused Continue Reading

Jeff Gburek – The Radio & The Sea

Jeff Gburek’s latest album is not a departure from his carefully crafter work, but a continuation of his honing sounds together, weaving them in a way that the early musique-concrète composers could not have imagined.  Drones, pulses and the sounds of Burgas, Bulgaria, are blended to produce an immersive soundscape.  Continue Reading