LE39 features four artists exploring ideas of transition:
Jules Reidy's ride of radiant energies
Steve Gunn's spell of gentle bloom amby downs' domestic regeneration Seaworthy & Matt Rösner's bushland soundscaping
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Decked out in wind synths and fretless bass, Total Blue's debut album lovingly invokes new age and ambient jazz at their most opulent
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R.I.P. Steve Albini “Nobody made noise sound so good”
His work with the Breeders, Low, PJ Harvey, Pixies, Nirvana, GYBE changed our life for the better 💔
🎥 bonus scene from D.I.Y. OR DIE: How To Survive as an Independent Artist (2002)
"Music can also be a sensual pleasure, like eating food or sex. But its highest vibration for me is that point of taking us to a real understanding of something in our nature which we can very rarely get at. It is a spiritual state of oneness."
Terry Riley Friday.
My favorite kind of record review is when it feels like a process of discovery. You already know you love the album, but you're not really sure why, so you go in search of possible reasons. That was what it was like writing about the new @BullionNess pitchfork.com/reviews/albums…
Love this observation from Sam: "Hauntology was a British phenomenon, and American ghosts haven't been dead long enough to take on such grandeur; instead, they are unsettled beings that possess Leeds’ sound."
Herb Sundays 102: Huerco S. (@huerco_s)
The producer and @west_mineral founder takes you for a ride in the pickup.
art by @Michaelcina
[season 7 premiere]
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Phill Niblock (2 October 1933–8 January 2024)
As a tribute to the American composer and film maker we have made Dan Warburton’s 2006 cover feature from The Wire 265 free to read online
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Saddened to hear about the passing Iasos, one of the founders of New Age music, who made his debut in 1975 with the transcendent offering Inter-Dimensional Music through Iasos. He was featured in our comp I Am The Center: Private Issue New Age Music In America 1950-1990.
I didn't know Jamie Tiller from Music From Memory personally, aside from a few emails exchanged over the years, but I had huge respect for what he'd done with the label. A terrible loss. RIP and love to his friends and family. instagram.com/p/CyloaJFsa3W/…