Instrumental

Music has always been my escape. It’s been a soundtrack to life, both in good and bad times. It’s helped define for me who I am and what I want to spend my free time within. It was the thing that gave me purpose, and something to help me connect to others when my introverted […]

Kuma : It Depends Which Wolf You Feed

The music of Kuma has always entranced me. Canadian producer/musician/DJ James Graham makes the kind of electronic music that engages both the visceral and intellectual. Be it through the world of dance and techno; or through the floating haze of ambient via field recordings and woozy synth, Graham works in mysterious patterns and moods. I […]

Pye Corner Audio : Lake Deep Memory

The musical world of Martin Jenkins’ Pye Corner Audio is a vast and mysterious one. The music is low key, sparse, and filled with shadowy twists and turns. Dark ambient hung on skeletal beats like flesh to bone, as if building a creature from things unknown and thoughts unspoken. Eerie, melancholy, and oddly groovy; a […]

Keith Canisius Returns To The Worlds of Shortwave Broadcaster & Morph Stereo

Musician Keith Canisius has put out a steady run of guitar and Eurorack-based ambient/shoegaze/dream pop instrumental music over the last several years. Starting in 2020 with the drone/ambient/experimental world of Shortwave Broadcaster. Plugging in and playing, improvising and then swirling guitars, bass, synth, Eurorack and field recordings into ethereal tracks that seem to emanate from […]

Marine Eyes : Quiet Circle

I think we all carry something from our childhood into our adulthood. A simple thought, or a snippet of a dream that we never quite let go. It’s not something an adult mind would come up with. It only comes from the unsilenced imagination of a child. Something only a mind not completely bogged down […]

Billow Observatory : The Glass Curtain

The duo Billow Observatory -consisting of Auburn Lull’s Jason Kolb and Causa Sui’s Jonas Munk- are a transatlantic ambient/instrumental project. Since 2012 these two musicians have been sharing, manipulating, cutting and pasting music files back and forth across the Atlantic. They turn guitars and electronics into something completely new and engaging. With their 2012 debut […]

Billow Observatory Return With ‘The Glass Curtain’, Out 4/25

The electronic musical duo of Billow Observatory -which includes Jonas Munk(Causa Sui) and Jason Kolb(Auburn Lull)- have been making understated ambient, instrumental shoegaze, and ethereal dream pop for over a decade now. The transatlantic duo(Kolb resides in Michigan while Munk is located in Denmark) have a knack for writing in a kind of ‘ambient code’ […]

Deafheaven : Lonely People With Power

Deafheaven are the kind of band I never thought I’d listen to, let alone find myself fanboying over. The black/death metal shrieks of singer George Clarke were not my taste; blast beats like they were going out of style, not to mention the caffeinated guitar riffs that never relented. On paper I would have passed […]

zakè : Caelum

zakè, aka Zach Frizzell, is a musical explorer. This is something he’s proven time and time again over the course of the last several years as a solo artist; as well as collaborator, label runner, and all around thoughtful creative. He never seems to take for granted the time he spends composing blissful, long form […]

Benoît Pioulard, Viul, From Overseas, zakè, Marc Ertel, Wayne Robert Thomas : Koselig

Zakè Drone Recordings was born out of a time of unknowns and uncertainties five years ago in 2020. While the world was isolating and social distancing, musician and label head Zach Frizzel(zakè) started an offshoot of his home label Past Inside The Present, a label built on a community of like-minded creatives. Zakè Drone Recordings […]