Too Beautiful To Be Believed: Ian William Craig – Thresholder album review
Vancouver Ambient composer Ian William Craig returns with an album of disembodied sacred choral music exploring the micro-mysteries and boundless space of the Universe. What is mystery, in a world … Continue reading
Horrorscores: Klaus Morlock – The Three Faces Of Janice ost
The Three Faces Of Janice is the soundtrack for a psychological, pastoral euro-trash giallo from 1977, all blurred lens and cult fornication in the fields. Or it would be, anyway, … Continue reading
The Cat And The Canary (1927) movie review with live pipe organ accompaniment at the Hollywood Theatre
The air was thick with adrenalized expectation as Dean Lemire stomped the pipe organ’s bass pedals, conjuring a wall of velvet-smooth sub-bass, as a wind-blown pipe organ sounded for … Continue reading
The Medium: Huerco S. – Untitled/Boomkat Edition vinyl review (Opal Tapes)
Huerco S. reaches for the stars, exploring pre-Colombian architecture, the nature of Memory, and artefacts on this early work for Opal Tapes. We learned the ache of empty rooms And … Continue reading
Virginia Wing – Ecstatic Arrow (Fire Records) album review
Virginia Wing emerge from the fog on Ecstatic Arrow, revealing keen songwriting chops and a sturdy, unflagging heart. Here’s our Virginia Wing Ecstatic Arrow album review. When we last met … Continue reading
Mark Harris – The Angry Child (n5mD)
On Generative Music, Atemporality, and the Death Of The Hero’s Journey Once upon a time, cultural artifacts were perceived as a result of linear causality. “Where do you get … Continue reading
This Is Vaporjazz: Marcin R. Malinowski – Tales From The Dawn Of Millennium and Boogie Napasak album review
In many ways, Vaporwave and jazz are like two ships passing in the night. Jazz started out as a voice of the disenfranchised and powerless only to become a set … Continue reading
Abronia – Obsidian Visions/Shadowed Lands album review
Portland’s Abronia break the fourth wall on Fourth World music, delivering two sides of authentic, sax-seared sub-saharan Psych Rock! Trying to take the pulse of Portland’s music scene is difficult; … Continue reading
SoCal Gothic & The NEW American Dream: Hxxs – Valley Fever album review
With Valley Fever, Bakersfield, CA’s Hxxs dream of a new world, conjuring it into being with beat-ific communions and synthetic sanctified calls to arms. If America is the land where … Continue reading
Tortoise & Tenon: Tortoise & RJD2 @ Soul’d Out Music Festival; 4.20.2017; McMenamin’s Crystal Ballroom, Portland, Or.
Chicago’s Tortoise elevated an at-capacity crowd with their minimalist post-everything rock ‘n roll for the second night of the Soul’d Out Music Festival. The mortise and tenon joint has been … Continue reading
