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Jon Hassell Shares
Eno-Approved Single
Photo ROMAN KOVAL Hot on the heels of Jon Hassell’s recent Vernal Equinox reissue comes a self-proclaimed “companion piece” to 2018’s Listening To Pictures LP. Due out July 24th through Hassell’s own Ndeya imprint, Seeing Through Sound is actually the second volume in the influential composer’s painterly series Pentimento. A mind-expanding move towards making transportive […]
Patricia Wolf Shares
10 Songs That Helped
Her Find Inner Peace
Words PATRICIA WOLF Everyone eventually loses people that they love. It’s the most painful part of being alive. Since 2016 I have lost a grandmother, a close cousin, several friends, nearly my own life after being hit by a car, and my mother-in-law this past November. It’s difficult to write about her death; it transformed […]
Mike Slott Makes
Us a Companion Mix
To His Vignettes EP
Photo ERIC COLEMAN Vignettes isn’t the first time Mike Slott has made cinematic music. The LA producer first unveiled a teaser of a four-track EP (Mirror I Mirror) in 2016, setting in motion “short musical meditations for headphones [and] reflection” that sparkled and faded away much too fast. Slott’s first LuckyMe record in more than a […]
C. Lavender Makes
Us a Chill-Out Mix
Words + Mix C. LAVENDER Photo CHRIS WOZ In the early morning of New Years Day this year, I was DJing ambient music in a room which became a crucial mental and physical resetting space for a tech-house party’s 5,000+ attendees. Through the night I had been witnessing the wild mass of people move through […]
Arnaud Rebotini
Shares His
Quarantine Soundtrack
Like many other restless musicians, Arnaud Rebotini hasn’t let quarantine life drag him down. If anything, he’s turned its rules and regulations into a self-imposed artist residency — a carte blanche call to creativity when everything else is out of our control anyway. The takeaway between March and May was Rebotini’s This is a Quarantine […]
Chester Raj Anand
Makes Us a Mixtape
of Birdsong Music
Ask anyone who’s ever spent some time in Tokyo alone; life is but a dream once you’re swept up in its neon-bathed streets, a tangled web of intertwined lives and constant stimulation. Chester Raj Anand found this out first hand during the impromptu recording sessions for Strawberry (Quiet Time), a minimal, synth-and-tape-deck-led meditation on how […]
Anna Homler, Alessio Capovilla Share Vasi Comunicanti Single
Having first crossed paths during a dynamic improv performance in Turin a few years back, Anna Homler (a.k.a. the avant-garde artist Breadwoman) and Gang of Ducks co-founder Alessio Capovilla set out to slowly develop a proper record together. The first hint of where they were headed popped up on Homler’s Deliquium in C EP — […]
Concentric Records’
Top Ambient Tracks
When Simone Merli (see also: the Patti Smith-approved Soundwalk Collective) and Luca Calo (a.k.a. the ambient DJ Born In 1986) decided to launch their own ambient label this year, they set Concentric Records’ bar for the stratosphere with its first three releases. Rather than slide into a steady album cycle, the duo tapped a wide […]