Essays
Composing the Void: Seven Voices Beside Grouper's
Ambient folk, buried vocals, tape decay and voices beyond language
Hwael Mag
Album Reviews
Sylvain Chauveau :: The Complexity of the Simple
Post-classical minimalism, acoustic guitar, silence and Japanese aesthetics
Album Reviews
Cajupitanga :: Ubā (2019-2024)
Ambient folk, field recordings, acoustic guitar and rural memory
Album Reviews
Richard Bundy & Anna Phoebe :: From the Edge
Post-classical, field recordings, strings and coastal acoustics
Album Reviews
Gintė Preisaitė :: Instruments of Forgetting and the Singing Bone
Electroacoustic, prepared piano, drone and fractured vocal collage
Album Reviews
Tujiko Noriko :: PON
Experimental electronica, field recordings, voice and intimate grief
Album Reviews
Ruth Garbus :: Profound
Folk, electric piano, chamber pop and midlife clarity
Essays
Vicarious Nostalgia — Saudade, Mono no Aware, and the Words We Don’t Have
Viraha, huaigu, Sehnsucht and older vocabularies for unlived longing
Album Reviews
Cher1tide :: Girls Blue
Lo-fi dream pop, acoustic guitar, whispered vocals and pastoral haze
Essays
Hauntology in Music: The Ghosts of Lost Futures
Italian library music, RAI archives, lost television and spectral memory
Album Reviews
Seabuckthorn :: Never the Same River
Experimental folk, processed percussion, guitar and ritual atmosphere
Album Reviews
Sailing Stones :: Slow Magic
Psych folk, fingerstyle guitar, strings and matrescence