The distant clang and scrape of metals, slow burning atmospherics, and subdued electronics both tonal and textured; less blast and more resignation this time around. Mostly recorded and composed [...]
In December 2019, Los Angeles Free Music Society pioneers Airway performed live at Zebulon with a stacked cast of collaborators, unleashing a constantly mutating wave of raucous free improv [...]
Joke Lanz and Sudden Infant once again return in their razor-sharp trio setting whereby the absurdist nature that Joke’s work is already cut with is reconfigured in a gnarled and […]
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 [...]
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 [...]