Take a journey in the night without the threat of monsters. Only shadows and sprites to befriend. R&D | Bandcamp kitba | Twitter | Instagram | Spotify | Bandcamp Adeline Hotel | Instagram | Spotify | Bandcamp Continue reading R&D – “Everything Becomes A Sign”
Beautiful things happen when ambient dreamwave marries vocals with soul. Purelink | Instagram | YouTube | Bandcamp Loraine James | YouTube | Soundcloud Continue reading Purelink – “Rookie” feat. Loraine James
State Change, the new album from composer Molly Joyce, is an achievement in many ways. Joyce tells a poetic autobiographical tale about an accident that permanently injured her left hand using adaptive tools with a compositional focus on disability. As if the music itself wasn’t already vulnerable—”August 6, 1999″ is sparse enough to let you imagine the pain for yourself. Molly Joyce | buy State … Continue reading Molly Joyce – “August 6, 1999”
video content warning: violence with a car A shocking visual accompanies an equally evocative and brooding neo-classical track. Emil Friss | buy Moving Images | website | Facebook | Instagram | Spotify | Bandcamp Continue reading Emil Friis – “Five Corners of Blue”
Bright and hopeful, like its tangible essence, the solitary flame. In the liner notes of Perfect Conditions, each elemental combination is associated with a unique image; explore them all, including my favorites “Earth / Air” (dust devils), “Earth / Fire” (magma, volcanic eruption), and “Water / Earth” (river water rushing over rocks). Celia Hollander | buy Perfect Conditions | website | Instagram | YouTube | … Continue reading Celia Hollander – “Fire / Fire”
You don’t always need to understand art in order to appreciate it. I had the privilege to see Briana Marela live years ago at the Lodge Room, opening for Jenny Hval, and it was apparent that the audience did not quite understand or care about what she was laying down. It irked me since they could not be pardoned by the assumption that their allegiance … Continue reading Worthwhile Self-Actualization, Actual Self-Worth
Ambient Church has always been an aspirational ticket that I hoped to one day purchase. Its price point is high and the venues are not typical—real-life, grandiose houses of worship. I also couldn’t be sure what kind of event it really was, though of course it varies by the guest of honor. Or so I’d imagine, this was my first time after all. And I … Continue reading Laraaji, Sonic Preacher, Performs a Sermon Like No Other
Out of grief comes acknowledgement of the dualities of life. Coccoma invites us to ponder the dichotomies together on A Place to Begin. Peter Coccoma | order A Place to Begin | website | Twitter | Spotify | Soundcloud | Bandcamp Continue reading Peter Coccoma – “an invitation”
Nature is a strong influence. All around us, regardless of the specific environment, we are experiencing our surroundings; life creates its own music in genres that the industry would call ambient, or naturalist. Field recordings, also occasionally affectionately called “found sounds,” offer a sense of hyper-reality that, paired with the music itself, paints a vivid story of the listener’s choosing. Motohiro Nakashima achieves all this … Continue reading Melodic and Ambient, Gathering the Light Reflects Life
Workshop ASMR, delivered via soothing ambient guitar melodies. The Early | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Bandcamp Continue reading The Early – “Lap Swim”
Sawdust & Gin 