Dennis Hawk and Dave Schoepke continue their prolonged collaboration with a piece about leaving parts of you behind. As such, there’s a profound sense of sadness with Hawk’s flutes, balanced by marked determination from Schoepke’s rhythm. Living into one’s dreams requires departure and forfeiture, which can certainly evoke melancholy akin to Hawk and Schoepke’s duality here. “Sacrifice” is a contemplation
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E.B. Albeit details the bitter cold with a warm dub.
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Experimental-improv artist Eli Smith released a new composition recently. Spanning over a half hour long, this piece utilizes no digital elements and instead favors entirely acoustic instruments and objects. Among the sonic tools Smith uses here are singing bowls, a violin bow, a thunder tube, a cymbal with water poured on it, chimes and bells. As shrill tones beam in
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The latest from Cody Steinmann is an eight-minute journey of audio storytelling.
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PAY DIRT is new side project of conceptual/performance artist Kleaner which finds them exploring drone and noise territories. “MOB” is their debut release, being a seven-minute composition of rumbling distortions and clangorous crashing sounds. It’s got an ominous atmosphere like we’re anticipating something about to happen in a psychological horror movie. We hope to hear more from PAY DIRT and
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Contemporary classical/improvisational project Darkpebble-Bluewave released a new album, featuring collaborative pieces between Wilhelm Matthies and Paulo Chagas. There’s eight tracks here that balance spontaneity with intention and unpredictability with anticipation, created using exchanged music files between the two artists. The poetic song titles conjure vividness and daydreams as well. Matthies uses an invented string instrument featuring movable resonators, and Chagas
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OnlyFerns is a new artist to watch. Her music incorporates flora as a core theme – “plant rock”, “budstep” and “ferncore” are just a few terms she’s used to describe what she does. With glitchy, chaotic electronica and luxuriant forest samples, her debut single “Windy” is an animated excursion through dense, endless greenery; it’s got the pace like you’re running
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Experimental act Names Divine have their first release out in quite some time, featuring two compositions each spanning nearly twenty minutes long. The music here is created to reach heights in consciousness and seek oneness with the cosmos. With angelic vocals, opulent keys and murmuring tenor saxophone, there’s a tried-and-true gateway to transcendence across these immersive soundscapes. Names Divine dance
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Prolific experimental/noise act Death Tape Super Bass is out with his first release of 2023. Over six tracks, Aaron Steinmetz explores minimal techno built from variably metallic and wonky textures. A couple tracks span over eight or nine minutes long; “Tooth Party” and “Sound Drown” give Steinmetz plenty of room to feel out industrial soundscapes with alarm-like repetitions. “Hellmouth” is
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Experimental artist and percussionist Jon Mueller’s latest release is a meditation on time and loss. This composition is just over half an hour long and consists of gentle tones, angelic yet haunting. It’s a potently hypnotizing sonic expedition that follows a keen sense of awe and gallantry into spacious soundscapes. Jon Mueller takes us into a calm yet compelling trance
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Psych rock group Painted Caves released their first single of 2023. This tune is performed with over fifteen different instruments and conjures a picture of lovers removed from one another. There’s a B-side Fluoxetine dance remix of the song as well, featuring additional lyrics and nearly ten minutes of instrumentation. The wonderful cast of musicians behind bandleader Ali Lubbad features
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The producer isn’t afraid to create a bit of sonic anarchy on his first project of 2023.
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Artist-producers Docx and BIG PHARMA teamed up for a new EP. Get ready to embark on a surreal and mischievous excursion through sonic experimentation – these five tracks are each entirely in their own lane, yet they form an extraordinary collage of textures and ideas. The duo incorporates elements of industrial, hyperpop and danceable electronica, complete with contributions from fellow
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Experimental artist Kendraplex released a new single last week. Taking an ambient pop approach, this tune’s lush synth substratum and dreamy vocals create a hypnotizing atmosphere, with distorted guitar introduced periodically to add to the fantastical soundscape. The title is pretty self-explanatory; the lyrics describe what it’d be like living in your vehicle with your lover. Kendraplex ponders the nomadic
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Dennis Hawk and Dave Schoepke look to capture some of the feeling of floating through the world with a meditative jam.
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Psychedelic-dark ambient project Psyclopean released their 19th album. Get ready to embark on a smoky, introspective, Lovecraftian sonic odyssey that gets variably awestruck, emotive and meditative. The record is self-described as Pink Floyd getting lost in the world of science fiction, which certainly conjures imagery of shadowy fantasies and the other-worldly ethereal. Keep an eye out for more Psyclopean and
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The stripped down piece is the latest from Moby’s ACAN label.
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T!ny wonders what it would be like to be famous on a new track.
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Collaborating artists Dennis Hawk and Dave Shoepke put listeners at ease with light bass and rolling drums in “Flow.”
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Noise artist Peter J. Woods released a new album on Skinwalker Recordings. Between methods like obfuscated vocal sounds and distorted effects that buzz, hiss and hum, Woods delivers an abstract sound art experience containing studio versions of live sets he’s done in the past year. According to him, the album is a rumination on whiteness and the cycles that perpetuate
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Brandon Buhr creates electroacoustic improvisations with his latest EP. Piece one features ominous clarinet that soars with patience and detail. Piece two contains shuddering piano that echos with haunting resonance. Piece three fancies droning violin passages that feel like you’re exploring a long-lost edifice. Brandon Buhr leans into his spontaneous side with bold, imaginative soundscapes on “Improvisations I.”
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Experimental electronic project Kinth released a new track. It’s a hypnotic ambient piece, featuring lush soundscapes that feel bright and warm with occasional twinkles. We get the sensation of passing from one state of consciousness to another, kind of like the title suggests. Kinth enters the light with “Dying.”
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Experimental collective VUCA teamed up with Amanda Huff for a reimagining of the English folk song “Greensleeves,” complete with their own lyrics. The result is a grand, magical anthem of spirit, ignition and joy just in time for the holiday season. It was collaboratively written between Huff, Kelly Fitzsimmons and Steve Peplin (who also contributes guitar with a totally shredding
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Electronic project Black Lines, Din Sky is out with their first release in five years. It’s five tracks that merge chiptune and K-pop for a most retro-future audiovisual experience, created utilizing the XBAND network and recorded through an SNES. If you’re ready to race through a classic 90’s video game, look no further than “Antisummer Club SPC-700.” Plus, a 52-page
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Eric Blowtorch is back with a new single, and this one finds him taking a country western-bluegrass direction. It’s the tale of an adorable woman born and raised in the countryside who serves up looks yet is sweet as can be. The song is about a minute and a half long which gives Eric Blowtorch just the right amount of
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