Independence Day: don’t-miss experimental releases by two Ukrainian women
There's a horrible myth that difficult times produce great music - the sort of thing said by people in privileged...
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In “Piano,” John Object captures emotional realities of war in Ukraine
"Piano" is bookended by sketches on a partly-ruined piano in a war zone - messages over an army radio heard...
Ziúr’s hard-hitting percussion, epic collaborations speak volumes in “Eyeroll”
Don't miss this latest LP on Kampala, Uganda's Hakuna Kulala, as Berlin-based Ziúr takes on a dream roster of international...
A musical parkour course through the urban environment: Guy LaBorde
Oh, it’s like parkour! Suddenly, it clicks – organic ambient textures quickly juxtaposed with broken beats and forward propulsion of...
Dreamlike solitude from Johnstown PA, in Nondi_’s Flood City Trax
In Nondi_'s music world, fuzzy reveries of grooves emerge as if half-remembered from sleep, sometimes insistent and raw, sometimes fading...
Moments fragile, brutal, and sublime, in three new releases from Iran’s Zabte Sote label
Zabte Sote is a wellspring of inspiration, not because of some fetishization of Iran or least of all its pain,...
Bandcamp workers won their union – and it could be a sign of things to come
Bandcamp United announced late last week that Bandcamp workers had voted to unionize. In a year that's bringing deep economic...
Dark, eerie, modular sonic adventures from Tehran and the Caspian shore: bernisaun
Sound recordist, producer, audiovisual producer, and modular experimentalist Behrooz Farahani is spinning deep ambient excursions live in modular. And sometimes...
Bandcamp’s workers in the USA are unionizing
Bandcamp workers today announced they are unionizing under the name Bandcamp United (BCU). It's doubly relevant because this workforce represents...
As crisis continues, albums bring Turkey and Syria earthquake relief
The scale of the recent earthquakes in Turkey and Syria is hard to conceive, atop ongoing crises in the region...
