Debut from this Polish group, whose name means Old Tapes and whose members have an impressive background in punk, improv, experimental and even classical music. They have come together here […]
Wasteland Jazz Unit presents a mind-frying monolith of brain-scrambled haze and searing screech bursting forth from the psychic fog of Cincinnati’s Jon Lorenz (sax, electronics) & John Rich [...]
«One can be a discontent – that is, an insurgent or a revolutionary – but there is also that more literal, personal meaning of the word which may be in […]
Valentine was written and produced by Lindsey Jordan and co-produced by Brad Cook (Bon Iver, Waxahatchee). Written in 2019-2020 the album is filled with romance, heartbreak, blood, sweat and [...]
The first published recordings of Molly McCann, my older sister, playing Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel’s Das Jahr (“The Year”, 1841); a groundbreaking cycle of 12 thematically interlocked character [...]
Nowhere is the richness of Balinese art more evident than in the glitteringly brilliant music and dance of gamelan gong kebjar, which uses a 25-piece orchestra of xylophone-like bronze-keyed [...]
The seductive sounds of Portugal swing to Dark Entries on Rock Rendez Vous: Música Moderna Portuguesa 1985-1986, a compilation of vintage Iberian synth, wave, and postpunk gems. The legendary [...]
Roots in Reverse explores how Latin music contributed to the formation of the négritude movement in the 1930s. Taking Senegal and Cuba as its primary research areas, this work uses […]
This book is an ethnographic study of sound archives and the processes of creative decolonization that form alternative modes of archiving and curating in the 21st century. It explores the […]
“In music-speak, ragas are essentially scalar melody forms — something like scales or melodic modes in Western music. However, North Indian ragas do differ from Western modes and [...]