Journeys in Sound & Music
By his own admission, it took Michael Scott Dawson some time to find himself in the music he was creating for his new album. With last year’s Music for Listening (read more about that album in our interview with Michael here), Dawson proved masterful in his ability to weave sublime ambient soundscapes out of field…
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Jimmy LaValle has been making music as either the sole or lead member of The Album Leaf for a long time. The founding of the project goes back to the late 90’s when LaValle played in a variety of California post-genre bands and began developing the distinctive blend of synths, electronics, and Rhodes piano that…
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Since her spellbinding DIY debut EP Brus in 2017, the multi-talented artist Sofia Nystrand has enchanted listeners with the music of Vargkvint, a solo music project which draws inspiration from the oceans, forests and folklore of her native Sweden. 2019 saw the release of the concept album Hav, a record steeped in the folklore, language,…
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It is an idyllic Sunday afternoon in May with spring in full bloom and I cannot think of a better time to revisit the perennial joys of Black Coral Sprig by Talk West, the sometimes alias of American guitarist and experimental musician Dylan Golden Aycock. A favorite for nearly a decade since it first came…
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Blue Lake is the moniker chosen by multidisciplinary artist Jason Dungan for his instrumental music project. A self-taught musician born in America and currently based in Denmark, Dungan has spent time freely experimenting with self-built instruments, such as his own hybrid 48-string zither, which he blends with percussion, woodwinds, and other stringed instruments to create…
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Philip G Anderson is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, and artist based in Georgia, USA, who describes his music as “a collection of life experiences, events, and emotions channeled into sound” which is not defined by any style or genre, but rather by how it impacts others. No stranger to these pages, we welcome Philip back to talk…
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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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When Berlin-based Martyn Heyne first recorded the songs for his new album Eight Reflections in Darkness, he chose a church in attempt to capture the reverberations of his guitar only to realize that wasn’t really what the music called for. Concluding his latest compositions were about simplicity and honesty, he went back to his studio…
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Purple Decades is an alias for Cincinnati-based pianist, composer, & producer Tristan Eckerson that offers a low-key departure from the solo piano work he releases under his own name, affording him a wider canvas upon which to explore a broad spectrum of electronic textures and subtly cinematic soundscapes. First introduced with the 2020 EP Thought…
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Stationary Travels 