The Nels Cline Singers : Share The Wealth

Nels Cline has had quite the career, both before and after Wilco. A musical force to be reckoned with in the Avant Garde, jazz, punk, and experimental scene he’s played with everyone from Mike Watt, Medeski, Martin, and Wood, Geraldine Fibbers, Blue Man Group, Ornette Coleman, and Rickie Lee Jones to name a few. But […]

Martin Rude & Jakob Skøtt Duo : The Dichotomy Of Control

The collaboration between Danish musicians Martin Rude and Jakob Skøtt has proven to be most fruitful. The mixture of Rude’s open guitar tunings and double bass with Skøtt’s fluid drumming and ethereal synths and electronics gave their debut LP The Discipline of Assent an epic, galactic jazz western feel. A soundtrack to some retro-futuristic Leone film […]

Günter Schlienz : Orphée aux Enfers

Orphée aux Enfers, the new album from German musician and composer Günter Schlienz is an exploratory and experimental music journey. It’s both playful and steely in its composition and arrangements as Schlienz blends both classic electronic experimental vibes from 70s German music innovators, as well as more modern touches. Using an array of DIY modular synths, […]

Kuma : Time Makes Memory Of Us All

Kuma’s musical world on Time Makes Memory Of Us All is a curious one indeed. It feels as if Kuma, a Canadian producer/DJ, is opening a portal to some strange world that’s grappling with a fight between the organic and the synthetic. Moving away from his dubstep roots, Kuma dabbles in the world of ambient […]

Shortwave Broadcaster Returns With ‘Intuition’ in October; Listen To Opening Track

Keith Canisius has kept busy these last few months. He released his debut as Shortwave Broadcaster titled Afraid of Ai in July, and followed that up with a new single called “Why now” in August. And just last week he announced the follow up to Afraid of Ai titled Intuition, which will be released October […]

Future Museums Goes Ethereal With “Rabbit in Passing”

Neil Lord is the kind of artist that looks for some kind of spiritual release every time he composes a song. His work as Future Museums has always been based in the Krautrock/Komische/Berlin School fundamentals of music; building hazy, dense, and strikingly transcendent compositions that act as portals to quieter, contemplative headspaces. Whether as Future […]

The Incidental Crack : Before The Magic

What is The Incidental Crack? Well, imagine those moments either just as sleep hits or as you’re coming out of it. Those twilight minutes where the outside world intermingles with your lucid sleep. The sound of a television in another room makes its way into that midnight float, or the break of sunlight lights the […]

Mark Tester : Super Hiss

There’s an adventurous spirit with Indianapolis-based musician/songwriter Mark Tester’s new album Super Hiss. More than a collection of songs, it’s a vast gallery of passing thoughts and sparks of creativity captured on tape. Short clips of guitar, synth, and synthetic instruments derived from floppy disk. Pop-inflected psychedelic vignettes that feel like waking from a vivid […]

Jump Off Into Infinity With Numün’s “First Steps”; Album Drops September 4th

There’s an organic quality to the deep space vibes of band Numün. Numün is a New York City-based band which consists of “ambient country” pioneer Bob Holmes (from SUSS) as well as new music composer and artist, Joel Mellin, and percussionist and multi-instrumentalist Chris Romero (both from Gamelan Dharma Swara). I’m completely new to the […]

Martin Rude & Jakob Skøtt Duo : The Discipline of Assent

When Martin Rude and Jakob Skøtt got together to make their collaborative LP the two Danish musicians could have gone in any direction. They worked together in the band Sun River(along with Jonas Munk), and both have established themselves as versatile players. What they came up with is an album filled with subtle sonic manipulations […]