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…
ARCHIVE FEVER
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
Lino Capra Vaccina is one of the greats of Italian minimalism. In the early 1970s he was a founding member of…
Down On Darkened Meetings
Low key yet lyrical melodies balance on the cusp between accessible and weird, at turns mournful and celebratory. Untitled tracks…
Across Time Patched Together
Across time patched together is an album-length medley of live and radiophonic works recorded between 2014 and 2018. This mix…
“a mic at a window…”
Presque Tout launched in 2019 as a Bandcamp page, a humble ongoing digital archive of field recordings from around the world.…
CRITICAL POSITIVITY
Happy (very belated) birthday to us! Back in January of 2022 we celebrated the tenth anniversary of our blog. To…
Steve Roden ~ Flower & Water
This review was originally published in late 2014 on A CLOSER LISTEN. Since Steve Roden (1964-2023) passed away yesterday, I’ve…
Christopher Tignor / Slow Six / Redhooker / Wires.Under.Tension
Christopher Tignor is set to release his latest album, The Art of Surrender, out later this month on Western Vinyl.…
Subversive Communication Nine Years After 68
[Bologna, 1977] Semiologist Umberto Eco, professor at the University of Bologna, author of The Open Work and The Absent Structure,…
Do Make Say Think ~ The Other Truths
When Do Make Say Think first emerged in the late nineties, a comparison to Tortoise was quickly made and haunted…