Two new tracks by Lebanese artists Etyen and Khansa are deeply felt expressive pieces that shake with vocal prowess and architectural drone. Th multi-disciplinary Arab queer dance and vocal performer Khansa teams up with Electronica Musician and producer Etyen to create this two track EP. “Rabbi” starts with powerful vocals and deep, swelling drones of …
The way we hear something a loved one says conveys layers upon layers of unconsciously heard sound. A tiny lilt up, a catching unsteadiness, all of these are logged in areas of our mind we don’t have ready access to. “Tilda’s Theme” by Vayron understands this deeply. All of the synths on this track were …
Iranian experimental electronic artist Mohsen Sokard has created an achingly beautiful piece of distressed ambient music with “Stolen Time (and Opportunities)”. The tracks starts off with a massive, rafter-shaking distorted melody before settling back to earth. The same melody is then played via delicate piano arrangement and staccato (but refreshingly subtle) strings. Listening to the …
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Ynhal is a Palestinian based experimental artist whose “Vitium” crosses as many genre boundaries as under 5 minutes will allow. Combining droning overtones, cinematic swells, deep, textural beats and metal-influenced vocals full of growls, screams and snarls, “Vitium” is unlike many things I’ve heard. In fact the only touchstone I can really point to is …
Haruhisa Tanaka, Japanese composer and founder of the excellent PURRE GOOHN label, has released a gorgeous new single with “su sa”. “su sa” is one of those achingly beautiful lo-fi compositions where you can hear the magnetic tape warble and threaten to disassemble. The composition is held together by the weight of its soft guitar …
Machine Lab is John Tejada (Palatte Records) and Nathan H (Gauss). The two electronic artists have joined forces on “SVF” to produce a slow-build, deep techno track that pushes the silky bass line and affected arpeggios into darkly futuristic frontiers. On “SVF” Machine Lab build a towering super-structure of intersecting arpeggios and the metallic clang …
New Age Doom is back with more agitated, extreme drone metal severity and seizure inducing visuals with “Himalayan Dream Techno”. Combining virtuostic percussion, upright bass and squelching, squealing and cannonballing analog electronics, New Age Doom shred the space time continuum like a bullet through glass. Shattering possible futures and dimensions with abandon. Fans of Hella, …
While most “covid records” are decidedly bleak or incredibly schmaltzy, the Swedish indietronica group Walca take what, I believe, is the healthiest approach: a recognition that things are different but a deep belief in the constancy of the need for human connection. A belief in the elasticity of our social construct. This is expressed in …
It’s always comforting to hear new work from Amparo – an Arizona based artist who relocated to Sweden. “El Corral” contains much of Amparo’s characteristic warm guitar tone and arpeggios that ride that line between nostalgic and hopeful. A place where, according to her, she was when she wrote this song. Of El Corral, Amparo …
Tracks like “Depth” by Makato Nagata absolutely send me. There is something in this kind of hyper-detail oriented dance music that rely on organic percussion and lush ambient pads with rich auxiliary percussion that do it for me every time. Fans of downcast and quite beautiful dance adjacent music like Four Tet and Pantha Du …