Richard Bégin – Lavrador

Richard Bégin‘s latest release is a truly beautiful headphone-worthy work published by Reverse Alignment Records.  From their Bandcamp site: “”Lavrador” is a Portuguese term signifying peasant, plowman, or cultivator. Additionally, it is the name of the explorer João Fernandes Lavrador, associated with Labrador, a continental region in eastern Canada. Despite Continue Reading

Willebrant & Williamson – Night Daze

I was introduced to a project new to me coming from Australia.  From Karl Willebrant’s Bandcamp site: “Night Daze blends immersive textures and emotive expanses that invites the listener to conceive a visual experience through soundscapes and drones utilizing bass, trumpet, field recordings, and improvised performance. The album evokes themes 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

Federico Mosconi – Nocturnal

Federico Mosconi has produced a perfectly melancholy album, one of those discs you will go to at 4 a.m. when the word feels like it will fall apart, yet magically sticks together through a combination of faith and music.  From his label DRONARIVM’s Bandcamp site: “”Nocturnal” is a trip that Continue Reading

Jettenbach – Extracts from The Diary of Mars

Our friends at Jettenbach, a fascinating project from England, have prepared for us a Martian travelogue.  The concept sounds like something taken directly from a sci-fi movie, dialog and all, and it’s quite an interesting thing to hear.  The music drifts from floating experimental ambient to hard-beat.  This shifts genres Continue Reading

Drawing Virtual Gardens – 22:22

Our dear friends at Lost Tribe Sound have on offer an ambient album perfectly designed for headphone listening by a project new to me called Drawing Virtual Gardens, a Belgium-based artist called David Gutman.  From the promo material, which does a wonderful service introducing David’s work: “At the core of Continue Reading