ALBUM PREMIERE: Windscale by Last Days

From the very first album Graham Richardson released under the moniker of Last Days 17 years ago until now, the Edinburgh-based composer and sound artist has created music that can be described as cinematic in the truest sense. Deftly blending tone, texture, and melody in the service of clear-eyed narrative themes, each release is sonically…

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A Sense of Place: On Giacometti by Hania Rani

When offered the opportunity to create a score for director Susanna Fanzun‘s forthcoming documentary film on the life of Alberto Giacometti, Hania Rani took herself to the mountains of Switzerland to compose in the setting where the legendary painter & sculptor lived and worked. Much as she did in her score for Venice – Infinitely…

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Duologue: Foam and Sand

Already well established with over a prolific decade of composing, producing, and performing music behind him, Robot Koch recently introduced yet another dimension to his creative sphere in the form of Foam and Sand, an ambient project which grew out of his experimentations with tape loops in his Los Angeles studio during the early days…

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VIDEO: The Making of ‘One’ by Adriaan Swerts

One of the memorable releases from 2022 which was featured here last November was One by Belgian musician & composer Adriaan Swerts. One of the most distinctive aspects of the album way in which Swerts transformed natural sounds recorded from locations he had visited all around the world into musical sounds he could seamlessly blend…

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A Sense of Place: Losing the Sea by Karen Vogt

Musician & vocalist Karen Vogt says that her new album is “about longing for the sea after spending many years living inland”. The inland location she refers to is Paris, her home for the past 15 years and half a world away from her native Australia where the sea was always in close proximity to…

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PREMIERE: Old Snow by Twinsleep

With the debut of their Twinsleep project, John Hayes and Maxy Dutcher write a new chapter in a journey of friendship & collaboration that began with a single track. Stumbling on Dutcher’s work for an editorial campaign, Hayes invited him to contribute a track to a compilation of reworks of songs from his album By…

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PREMIERE: El gato escondido entre las plantas by Sergio Díaz De Rojas

For a casual listener, the new album by Peruvian composer Sergio Díaz De Rojas might be received as a collection of solo piano sketches to savored for the exquisiteness with which they have been composed and performed – perhaps not unlike a beautiful flower garden that one pauses briefly to admire. It feeds the soul…

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PREMIERE: Hiding (Jakob Lindhagen and Vargkvint Rework) by Garreth Broke

Garreth Brooke is a British/German musician based in Frankfurt with a multi-faceted CV. Releasing his own music under the name Garreth Broke, his songs have garnered millions of streams and been performed in venues all around Europe. Garreth is also very active in the arena of sheet music from writing & publishing to curating a…

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Field Journal: 2023.02.11

In this field journal edition, I am happy to share some wonderful new sounds that have caught my ear by way foraging through a wave of new & upcoming releases featuring music by AVAWAVES, Foam and Sand, GoGo Penguin, Hanakiv, Julia Gjertsen & Juha Mäki-Patola, Mammal Hands, Onur Tarçın, and Steve Gunn & David Moore.

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