Journeys in Sound & Music
In calling his new album Anaphora, UK-based guitarist Charlie Coxedge is telling us a great deal about the music it contains. Originating from a Greek phrase meaning “carrying back“, the word suggests a means of expression that relies on patterns of repetition. Most applicable here is its use as a rhetorical device which involves repeating…
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Since his solo album first debuted in 2017, Jakob Lindhagen has already managed to make an indelible footprint in the modern classical music scene in Scandanavia and Europe. Having played instruments since the age of 5, Jakob as gone on to become an award-winning composer, music producer and multi-instrumentalist whose work has been streamed by…
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For this new round up of recent ambient releases, I am going to latch on to the symbolism of the fading of winter austerity into the full bloom of spring. Not because the albums represented here are thematically tied to the season, but more as a reflection of how sparse posts have been of late…
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First introduced with the 2020 EP Thought Forms, Purple Decades is an alter ego of Cincinnati-based composer, pianist, & producer Tristan Eckerson that he uses to explore a broad spectrum of electronic textures and ambient soundscapes. The project saw its first full length album release last year with Journey Test (Beacon Sound), an album characterized…
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While Abul Mogard (the alter ego of Guido Zen) and Rafael Anton Irisarri each create music that is often labeled as ambient, anyone familiar with their work would likely agree that they do not necessarily comply with Eno’s oft repeated hypothesis that it “must be as ignorable as it is interesting”. In their own distinctive…
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Derek Hunter Wilson is a multi-instrumentalist and composer based in Portland, Oregon who considers improvisation an important part of his musical practice. While this can be said of a number of musicians, I would dare say few embrace the idea as expansively as Wilson. A compelling case in point is his 2022 project covered here…
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As a practicing psychoanalyst and a former founding member of the San Francisco psychedelic collective Citay, New York based guitarist and composer Ezra Feinberg is able to create music that appeals on multiple levels – thoughtful and humanistic on one hand and buoyantly experimental on the other. In calling his forthcoming third album Soft Power,…
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Since emerging on the scene as a solo artist around eight years ago, German musician & composer Tim Linghaus has built up a body of work characterized by an understated, but deeply personal approach to neoclassical music centered around piano, synthesizers and ambient noise. Many of his works are referential of his own experiences growing up…
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While the album format is what we most often associate with the immersive listening experience, there is no doubt that just a single piece of music can also have the power to take us on a memorable journey or find an express route to tap into deep wells of emotion. In that spirit, here is…
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Stationary Travels 