Journeys in Sound & Music
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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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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Hailing from Motherwell, a town southeast of Glasgow once known as the steel capital of Scotland, A Sudden Burst of Colour is an instrumental rock trio that has been making music for the better part of a decade now. After a string of stellar EPs and singles in recent years, the band has just released…
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Phoebe Dubar is a classically trained multi-instrumentalist and producer based in Melbourne/Naarm. As a practicing sound alchemist, Dubar facilitates sound baths and conducts training workshops both locally and abroad. Under the hopeful moniker of IKSRE (I Keep Seeing Rainbows Everywhere), however, she engages in alchemy of a different kind by creating music that features field recordings from…
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The act of creating a sense of a place or capturing a moment in time is a fairly common motif in the realm of instrumental music, especially the ambient genres, but it is intrinsically at the very core of these works released in 2023. Some are personal narratives, and some are depictions of landscape either real…
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Best known to her audience as Lau Nau, Finnish composer Laura Naukkarinen has spent the past six years working in the realm of modular synthesis but for her, the soon to be released new album Aphrilis “felt like a needed moment to embrace songs with lyrics again.” The title, which derives from a Latin word…
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Back in the spring, we had a chance to visit with Sofia Nystrand aka Vargkvint and talk about her new album Månens Hav (‘oceans of the moon’), a collection of songs that extended her lifelong fascination with the sea into the realms of symbolism and mythology. The record also marked her debut on Nils Frahm’s…
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Our journey through the musical cosmos continues with brothers Sebastian & Daniel Selke in this final post of a 3-part series premiering videos from their forthcoming new record Belka & Strelka, their second under the moniker of Brueder Selke. Adopting as mascots the two dogs air of dogs that circled the Earth in the summer…
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“On the steppe in northeast Kazakhstan, the Semipalatinsk Test Site, known as ‘the Polygon’, was once home to nearly a quarter of the world’s nuclear testing…”. These opening words set the scene for a stunning new album by composer and violinist Galya Bisengalieva who draws on her extensive musical talents to illuminate a part of…
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Stationary Travels 