Nicklas Sørensen : Solo 2

Nicklas Sørensen most recently blasted dreamy, psychedelic swaths of guitar on Papir’s 2017 record V. Within that Danish three-piece psych rock outfit, Sørensen can go from post-rock stoicism to 60s fuzzed-out freak out in seconds flat. He’s erased those boundary lines that seemed to box in the “guitar hero”. Jazzy introspection, distorted wah wah, and progressive lines […]

Billow Observatory : II: Plains/Patterns

Billow Observatory exist on some ethereal plane. The music that Jonas Munk and Jason Kolb create has the feel of a constant, syrup-y flow through time and space. It’s no surprise as to the duo’s penchant for grandiose musical beats given their main gigs(Kolb is a member of Detroit, Michigan’s Auburn Lull and Munk is […]

Ulrich Schnauss & Jonas Munk : Passage

The newest collaboration between Ulrich Schnauss and Jonas Munk, titled simply Passage, is a heady mix of intellectual ambient and euphoric electronic. You get Schnauss’ synths layered with Munk’s liquid guitar lines, sometimes with drum programming and sometimes on their own. The result is a complex and engaging record that offers the best both musicians […]

Living Textures : A Musical Conversation With Causa Sui

by J. Hubner Photos courtesy of El Paraiso Archives A little over two years ago a friend pointed me in the direction of Copenhagen, Denmark. That friend said “Head east, and ye shall find the rock.” I wasn’t sure what that meant as my friend rarely said things like “ye” and “head”, but I […]

Causa Sui : Return To Sky

There’s only a few instrumental outfits these days that pack as big a sonic punch as Causa Sui. These four guys from Denmark have been making trippy, mind-altering rock and roll for a few years now, and every time out they up their musical game a bit. They go from psychedelic, acid-fried drone(Pewt’r Sessions 3) […]

Nicklas Sorensen : Solo

Sometimes there’s nothing better than finding that perfect daydream record. That record you put on, throw on some headphones, and then just close your eyes for the duration and let your mind wander. Or that album you throw on in the car for that wind in your hair and sun in your rear view road […]

Favorite Spins of 2015 : April Edition

It’s hard to believe we’re nearly into April already. Time flies when you’re being froze out by Old Man Winter, or Mother Nature, or whoever it was that shat upon us with snow and sub-zero temps the last three months. It’s a good thing that it’s been a great three months worth of album releases […]

Music You Can Touch : A Conversation With Jonas Munk

Jonas Munk is no slave to one musical master. He can jump from electronic music, to krautrock, to ambient drone, and to psych rock without blinking an eye. Sometimes all those jumps can happen in the course of a day. An afternoon, even. Keeping things new and fresh is a vital part to how Munk […]

Jonas Munk : Absorb Fabric Cascade

Jonas Munk has very few contemporaries exploring aural landscapes in quite the same way that he does. He seems to create musical canvases that are labyrinthine in scope; yet still as intimate as a warm embrace. His first solo outing, Pan, was warm and bubbling. It floated along a cloud of analog synth chugs and […]

El Paraiso Records and ‘Absorb, Fabric, Cascade’

So the last two days I’ve been immersed in some seriously heady sounds. News came through the wire(you know, that elusive wire that contains information you really want to be privy to) that Jonas Munk, he of Manual and Causa Sui fame, would be releasing his second solo record on his own label El Paraiso […]