Trip Hill – ‘Automatic Folk & Flowers’ (2015)
I’m hoping to encompass reviews for the last four outings by Trip Hill, 'Ten Petals of Manipura', 'Raining Metallic Mushroom', 'Lamp of the Universe' and 'Automatic Folk &...
Cindy Lee Berryhill – “The Adventurist” (2017) review
Cindy Lee Berryhill The Adventurist (Omnivore Recordings, 2017) Cindy Lee Berryhill hasn’t released an album since 2008’s Beloved Stranger. Since then, her spouse, Paul Williams, founder of Crawdaddy magazine, has passed away after years of gentle decline in a nursing home, their...
Jim Haney of Perhaps and Kamikaze Tapes
Jim Haney of Boston eclectic experimental trio Perhaps and owner of boutique cassette label Kamikaze Tapes talks about his efforts in DIY music world. How did you first...
How I met Anti-Folk
© Jeffrey Lewis Anti-folk is among the new breed of authentic, organic counter cultures. Some people call it acoustic punk. It wasn’t until 2004 I decided to explore the genre,...
The Creation – “Action Painting” (2017) review
The Creation - Action Painting (2 CD & Book) (The Numero Group, 2017) In their first lifetime, lasting a mere two years, 1966-1968, The Creation had nearly as many...
WAH – “Travellers Station” (2016) review
WAH - Travellers Station (Assophon Records, 2016) Travellers Station, the newest release from Seattle creative jazz duo WAH, is an album rooted in post bop jazz composition as much...
capcap… cap – “Kerozan” premiere
Eindhoven-based capcap… cap blends new wave, postrock and triphop into one. In drawn-out compositions, the listener is taken on an audiovisual trip, supported by dark synths, driving drums...
Moniek Darge
“Like picking flowers” Sacred Balinese Soundies, Mauro’s Song is the third part of a triptych that Moniek Darge started with Crete Soundies and Indian Soundies. It’s a narrative record...
The Black Angels – ‘Death Song’ (2017)
Envision lightning striking across a velvet sky, holding there momentarily, strobing, eliciting hypnotic trails within trails that rush at you, through you, bouncing off passing cosmic clouds, and...
All star cast of weirdos record James Joyce’s “Finnegans Wake”
We’re pleased to premiere a collection of tracks from the upcoming release of Waywords and Meansigns, an international project setting James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake to music. Written in...