COMPILATION ALBUMS

My ten contributions to ACL’s 40 Best Compilation Albums (part one, part two) Angola Soundtrack – The Unique Sound Of … More

BOOKS ON MUSIC

My ten contributions to ACL’s 40 Best Books on Music (part one, part two) Derek Bailey ~ Improvisation: Its Nature … More

More samples and loops sourced from thrift store tapes. The second volume in my series Friperietronics–weird ambient/concrete all-tape DJ sets … More

Lino Capra Vaccina is one of the greats of Italian minimalism. In the early 1970s he was a founding member of … More

Low key yet lyrical melodies balance on the cusp between accessible and weird, at turns mournful and celebratory. Untitled tracks … More

Across time patched together is an album-length medley of live and radiophonic works recorded between 2014 and 2018. This mix … More

Presque Tout launched in 2019 as a Bandcamp page, a humble ongoing digital archive of field recordings from around the world. … More

Happy (very belated) birthday to us! Back in January of 2022 we celebrated the tenth anniversary of our blog. To … More

This review was originally published in late 2014 on A CLOSER LISTEN. Since Steve Roden (1964-2023) passed away yesterday, I’ve … More

Christopher Tignor is set to release his latest album, The Art of Surrender, out later this month on Western Vinyl. … More

[Bologna, 1977] Semiologist Umberto Eco, professor at the University of Bologna, author of The Open Work and The Absent Structure, … More

When Do Make Say Think first emerged in the late nineties, a comparison to Tortoise was quickly made and haunted … More