Formed in 2014, Visible Cloaks have helped to highlight the work of the ambient avant garde. Through their own music, mixes and curation they have brought wider attention to musicians such as Nuno Canavarro, Lino Capra Vaccina, Iury Lech, Pep Llopis, Lena Platonos, and especially that of Hiroshi Yoshimura and Inoyama Land. It’s the latter Japanese artists that, to my ears, have the greatest influence over Visible Cloaks’ new long-player, “Paradessence”. One half of the Cloaks, Spencer Doran has…

My roommate had Santana live at tanglewood 1970 concert and it’s so good. High energy locked in the groove. 🎵

Shards continues the sonic excavation the trio of Jason Moran, BlankFor.ms, and Marcus Gilmore began with Refract, though excavation may be too archaeological a word for music so hip to its own aliveness. Everything arrives mid-combustion, pieces of a shattered mirror refusing ordinary alignment. These performances fold time against its own grain until memory and anticipation become indistinguishable textures rubbing against the skin of the present. The band approaches improvisation as the…

Sonny Rollins took flight. I always felt good around his music. His aura of intensity with integrity. On this occasion, I’m listening to his music now. Newk’s Time, Saxophone Colossus, Sonny Rollins vols 1& 2. That’s what I got in my collection. That’s all I need. Art Kane’s 1958 Iconic photograph! That’s what I got on my home office wall.Newk was the last survivor of those great musicians!(my finger slipped; he’s 2 heads above Marian McPartland) Sonny Rollins; our Love for you continues. Rest…

Charlie Puth’s song Cry features Kenny G. Puth explains how that came about.

I woke this morning to the sad news that the great tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins passed away yesterday at the age of 95. He was one of the most influential and creative musicians of his time and there are many justifiably glowing obituaries of him. I can’t add much that hasn’t already been said by them, other than say that I consider myself deeply privileged to have been able see and hear Sonny Rollins play live, not once but twice, during the 1980s. The first was in the relatively intimate…

Back in 2011, when Sonny Rollins finally received his long-overdue recognition from the Kennedy Center Honors, I wrote the follow words on Jazz Collector, expressing what I felt should have been expressed at the tribute: “Jazz is a unique art form in that it enables – in fact, it requires – the artist to perform on the fly, as part of a unit of other musicians and without a safety net, and it demands not only immense technical skill, but a mind that can constantly plumb the depths of creativity…

Another recent Daisuke Nagata soundtrack, this one's the soundtrack to a game I haven't actually played yet. Like with all of these games, these soundtracks are just as much about having an album to listen to for me; I don't need the context of the game to enjoy it. The Illvelo soundtracks in particular have always had a wild mix of techno styles, and this new one is very much continuing that tradition. This is another album that isn't available via streaming, but the label has a preview…

“I haven’t been getting a lot done” is not how I’m going to start this post. And yet I just did. The good news is discovering that what weeks and months like these are perfect for are things that require... Read More ›

I tend to respect the music of Tune-Yards more than I actually enjoy listening to it. They are fully committed to being avant garde and experimental with finding new sounds, and they also know how to turn them into an unforgettable hook. But I’m rarely compelled to listen to much of it. But it makes Tune-Yards doubly perfect to make the score for a Boots Riley movie, as they did with Sorry to Bother You, and now with I Love Boosters. Not just because they’re Oakland-based, and Riley seems to be…

The VitalsRelease date: 6 May 1996UK chart peak: #1Running time: 61:52Singles: Kung Fu (#57), Girl from Mars (#11), Angel Interceptor (#14), Goldfinger (#5), Oh Yeah (#6) This was the studio album debut from the North of Ireland outfit, and it garnered a mixed response across the world in terms of chart positions – it did, however, reach the top 40 in Australia (#18), Finland & Norway (#26), New Zealand (#14), and Switzerland (#40). By 1996, Britpop had taken hold of the country as a response…

We had the pleasure of speaking with Zach Boyd, head of AI Policy in Utah this week. They’re really doing something unique and important there! We are hoping their approach get taken up more widely: Apple Spotify YouTube

Sonny Rollins (1930-2026)Word came through yesterday that Sonny Rollins had passed away at the age of 95 — a titan of 20th century music, a real American hero, a wonderfully strange person who shared so much with us over the course of a long life. There’s so much to dig into when it comes to Sonny, whether it’s his 60+ year discography, the fascinating recent biography by Aidan Levy, or his revealing notebooks, which NYRB published in 2024. Decades upon decades in search of some elusive…

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Ferrari has revealed Luce — its first electric vehicle and, perhaps more radically, its first five-seater. The collaboration with Jony Ive's agency LoveFrom marks a significant departure from decades of brand tradition, yet the numbers remain unmistakably Ferrari: four electric motors, 1,050 horsepower, 0–100 km/h in 2.5 seconds. The design language walks a careful line between evolution and revolution. Luce translates to "light" in Italian — an apt name for a machine promising 530 km of range…

Two Albums I have been listening to I think this does what many a tribute album seek but find a hard time reaching. I Am a Pilgrim: Doc Watson at 100 & Bonny. Light. Horseman. Previous

"The Ghost of Tom Joad" by Bruce Springsteen Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. A song from the 1990s that you like or means something to you. - The Ghost of Tom Joad by Bruce Springsteen The Boss won the 1995 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album for the eponymous album that included this track. It was hist first acoustic album since Nebraska and it is a worthy successor. The song and album really cemented his legacy as a successor the tradition of…

Welcome to a “Monday” Pressing Concerns, this time actually on a Tuesday due to the U.S. holiday weekend (hope everyone in the States had a nice Memorial Day, and a nice Monday to the rest of us). Today we have new albums from Chevreuil, Casual Technicians, and Jack Shields & The Mojave Rush, plus a split EP between Christina’s Trip, Mox, and Natasha Sandworms. Check them out below! If you’re looking for more new music, you can visit the site directory to see what else we’ve written about…

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[1972]Now for some smoov laid back funk from Manchester City FC. No actual strikers or midfielders or goalies playing on the instruments here, its actually the fellas from 10CC doing a helluva funky jam. Quite prescient as Manchester was indeed a funky city and that.*Funky City was the b-side to Boys In Blue (see below)[1972]I'm Australian and haven't followed English soccer since the 90s and don't know a hell of a lot about it. Is this Manchester City's club song like in AFL where Collingwood…

There’s so much Miles Davis around just now, in celebration of today’s centenary of his birth on May 26, 1926. There are stage plays (I went to one in Southwark, starring the trumpeter Jay Phelps), orchestral concerts at the Cheltenham Jazz Festival and the BBC Proms starring Guy Barker and Ambrose Akimusire respectively, tribute albums like A Supreme Blue by Nicholas Payton and Butcher Brown, and audiophile editions of landmarks such as Birth of the Cool and the soundtrack to Lous Malle’s…

(1979) Directed by Alan Arkush; Written by Richard Whitley, Russ Dvonch, and Joseph McBride; Story by Alan Arkush and Joe Dante; Starring: P.J. Soles, Clint Howard, Vincent Van Patten, Mary Woronov, Paul Bartel, Dey Young, The Ramones, and Dick Miller; Available on Blu-ray and DVD Rating: ***½ “…Roger [Corman], during preproduction, was the only one who thought it was still “Disco High,” because his script was the only one with that title still on it. Every other script said Rock ‘n’ Roll High…

As promised, here's your new Soundcloud-exclusive jam: Incoming!

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Interwoven is a collaboration between 2 generations of pioneering Japanese electro-acoustic musicians. Ken-Ichiro Isoda was part of the first wave of artists producing what has come to be referred to as Kankyo Ongaku. Suites of ambient compositions, inspired by Eno, made possible by newly affordable technology, designed to transport listeners from busy city streets to more serene, mediative surroundings. A contemporary of creators such as Hiroshi Yoshimura, Isoda debuted, 1984, on the now…

This is the other A.P.J. album I picked up recently; this one's their latest from last year. Compared to the one I played the other day, this album is quite a bit more upbeat and I'm enjoying the contrast. I especially love track 3, Moonbow, which feels like it has callbacks to compositions on Labyrinthos. The full album isn't available via streaming, but there is a three-track EP version online. The full album's in Japanese record stores and on the drummer's web store.

After all, one did not write a book for other people. Any more than one wrote it for an already existing self. One wrote it, in fact, to renew one’s own self in the process of writing, and creatively go beyond its previous limits. Or in other words: to transcend oneself. Thus it is not for others that each person transcends himself; one writes books and invents machines that were demanded nowhere. I’ve resigned myself to the idea that I will read fewer books this year, because the ones in my…

Ela Bambust: PATREON ESSAY — Irrelevant. I could tell you it’s about the technofascist empire of America polluting Cuba with its blue jeans and pop music during the cold war, Harry Dubois Does Atomic Blonde. I could tell you it’s exactly the same as Disco Elysium. I could tell you it’s nothing like Disco Elysium. It doesn’t matter.

Prymek & Sage - ShelterDue to various circumstances, I missed a recent/rare duo performance from Chaz “Lake Mary” Prymek and Matt “M. Sage” Sage this month — just minutes from my house, even! C'est la vie, I guess. But however frustrating that was, I can’t feel frustrated when I hit play on the terrific new Prymek & Sage record. These two have been making music together in an array of configurations for more than a decade now, most recently in the wondrous Fuubutsushi collective; Shelter might…

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