Essays
Windham Hill: The Making of a Listening Place
Essay on Windham Hill and the landscape a label built around its music.
Experimental
Experimental music on Hwael Mag: avant-garde and outsider sound — tape, drone, improvisation, musique concrète and everything that resists a genre.
Essays
Kept in Japan
David Sylvian, Japan and who keeps a voice once its owner lets go.
Album Reviews
Helen :: Linda's Head
Shoegaze pop, eleven years on: short songs facing a coast that isn't there.
Album Reviews
Vanishing Twin :: Archives
Distance, collage, axe ballads, frog-women, dub, yé-yé, archives.
Interviews
The Music Stays Where It Is, Jason Dungan and Johan Carøe on Routine
Made in naptimes: Dungan and Carøe on Routine, Rita and a zither.
Album Reviews
Kitchen Cynics & Margery Daw :: Last of the Turnspit Dogs
Avant-folk miniatures where old melodies return as gestures of care.
Album Reviews
Exsanguinated Roommate :: Fundamental Skills
Six songs for a ghost butler who can cross the house in the dark.
Album Reviews
Haroumi Hosono :: Yours Sincerely
Avant-pop miniatures where old melodies return as gestures of care.
Album Reviews
morimoto naoki :: Kou
Minimal ambient shaped by light, repetition and everyday detail.
Album Reviews
Jason Dungan & Johan Carøe :: Routine
Ambient folk, zither, cello, tape and interrupted time
Album Reviews
HUG :: HUG
Ambient folk of guitars, rain and frogs, where intimacy opens into distance.
Album Reviews
soccer Committee :: AM Reworks
Ambient folk reworks tracing twenty years of Mariska Baars’s songcraft.