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Laraaji On…
Trance States,
Higher Dimensions,
and Sonic Mind Science
Photography DANIEL ODUNTAN Words ANDREW PARKS About an hour into our lengthy conversation with Laraaji, we ask the New Age icon what records he relies on when life gets rough. And the first songs that spring to mind are from his own records (“Being Here” and the two “Meditation” tracks on his Brian Eno-produced breakthrough, Ambient […]
Julia Holter Shares
Her Spare Cover of the
Fleetwood Mac Classic
“Gold Dust Woman”
Photo TAMMY NGUYEN To be totally honest, the first time we heard “Gold Dust Woman” wasn’t on the revelatory Fleetwood Mac album Rumors. It was The Crow: City of Angels, a questionable follow-up to the cult Brandon Lee vehicle that featured quite a few alt-rock also rans and other left-field covers like White Zombie bowling […]
Michael Rother
Discusses His New
Solo Album and Box Set
Interview ANDREW PARKS Photography RICK BURGER Like many other visionary musicians, Michael Rother didn’t mean to write and wrap a new record this year. Dreaming just kind of came together as the Krautrock icon and his longtime label Grönland compiled the second half of Rother’s solo career in a seven-disc box set. “I was looking for new […]
VRITRA Unveils Latest
Video From SONAR LP
Hal Williams has been impossible to pin down ever since he was one-half of the Odd Future project The Jet Age of Tomorrow — a group that got its start after Tyler, the Creator couldn’t quite wrap his rhymes around their idiosyncratic beats. After a string of solo albums under his Pyramid Vritra alias, an […]
Kamaal Williams
Shares a Session With
Shabaka Hutchings &
Alina Bzhezhinska
Photo GLAUCO CANALIS Considering we won’t be seeing a live show anytime soon, we can’t think of a better way to wind the week down than by sharing a dialed-in duet between Kamaal Williams, Alina Bzhezhinska, and Shabaka Hutchings (also of the aptly named trio The Comet Is Coming and several other side projects). Lifted […]
Shigeto Taps Into
Another Dimension
Entirely With a Woozy
“La Parole 6” Remix
As if Vincenzo Ramaglia’s La Parole LP wasn’t disorienting enough—a prime example of the composer’s “Popular Experimental Music”—we now have a heady Shigeto remix on our hands. Premiering below alongside the original album and a previously released M-Ziq remix, the producer’s woozy take on “La parole 6” reduces Laure Le Prunenec’s free-associate phrases to a […]
J. Graves Reveals
“Deathbed” Video,
Listen To Womxn Fest
J. Graves has shared the title track from their upcoming Deathbed EP, a deeply personal single that stares a floundering relationship down and refuses to blink. It’s as if the Portland trio was just called into battle — an existential one, at least, as Jessa Graves’ lithe guitar lines and venom-tipped verses lock into place […]