COMPILATION ALBUMS

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

BOOKS ON MUSIC

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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