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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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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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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It is a strange thing to enjoy a new release from an artist whose work you admire and simultaneously wish it never had to be made. Such is the case with this new EP by Yadayn, the alias of Belgian musician Gowaart Van Den Bossche. His first new music since Elders (Lost Tribe Sound, 2020),…
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Portland-based guitarist Jamie Stillway‘s new album was conceived in a 196 square foot cabin with on an island in the Puget Sound where she moved in the autumn of 2019. Lullaby for a Stranger was inspired by the solitary journey taken 70 years ago by a pregnant woman driving alone from Minnesota to Oregon to…
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The guitar is an instrument for all seasons, but there is just something especially alluring about it as the waning days of summer give way to the golden light of autumn. In that spirit, here is a round-up of six excellent albums some of which released earlier in the year and some still to come…
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If you know the music of Will Ackerman, I’ll wager you will remember exactly where you were when you heard it for the first time. For me, it was in a record shop in Richmond’s Carytown where I was used to hearing much more energetic fare while browsing around. Will’s 1981 masterpiece Passage was spinning…
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Since embarking on a journey as a solo artist with his 2017 debut Cloisters on Simon Raymonde & Robin Guthrie’s Bella Union label, musician and writer Charlie Coxedge has been using layers of guitar to sculpt gorgeous soundscapes that are as melancholic as they are atmospheric. Gathering pace with the second of two albums this…
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Rachika Nayar is a Brooklyn-based composer and producer, whose music utilizes processed guitar along with other synthesized and multi-instrumental sounds. Her first album entitled Our Hands Against the Dusk was composed over a period of four years by digitally processing improvisational guitar parts and combining them with synths, piano, and strings. She returns this summer…
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Stationary Travels 