Styles: mysteries techno, allotheism
Others: Lichens, Ruth Benedict
I once watched a performance of Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe playing a houseplant. Yes, there was a big box of modules bristling with patch cables, and he was blending in shards of his own voice, as he is wont, but it was the plant — still yet not silent, as much a participant in the proceedings as Lowe — that really attracted my attention.
More about: 90 Day Men, Lichens, Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe
“I really don’t feel that inspiration is a thing that people have, I think it’s a place people can go.”
Keeping it real these days is no easy feat, and finding something original to say is even harder. So it’s a blessing that we have folks like Cameron Stallones still out there, wading freely into the deep end in search of radical new visions to wrangle from the innersphere. It’s been a long journey he’s taken down the twisting pathways of Sun Araw, and musically it might seem like he’s come about as far as one can come from his early days of shredding echo loops into the psych-tropic canister. But mentally, he’s just been getting closer and closer to the point.
More about: Sun Araw
Styles: world
Others: Richmond
Part I, The Virginia Monologue
More about: Chino Amobi, Diamond Black Hearted Boy
I know if seems like summer just got here or whatever…but: WRONG. School is already back in session, you guys. Because as officially christened Joyful Noise Recordings Artists in Residence, the scholarly ladies and gentlemen of Deerhoof — along with a bunch of its related side projects —plan to studiously release five LPs in three installments throughout 2017.
More about: Deerhoof, Les Bonnes Hommes, Murmurer, Nervous Cop, Oneone
Styles: minimalism, drone
Others: Kara-Lis Coverdale, Jean-Luc Guignent
Listening to renditions of Pachelbel’s Canon side-by-side in meantone temperament (a tuning system popular between the 16th and the 18th centuries) and equal temperament (the contemporary equivalent) is a decidedly physical experience. At the most fundamental level, the two frequency-arrangement systems reflect divergent approaches to epistemologically apprehending the world.
More about: Ellen Arkbro
After recent excursions into noise, hip-hop, and the not-so-distant past, Vektroid re-emerges in 2017 as Peace Forever Eternal, yet another moniker to slap on to an ever-growing body of work.
More about: Macintosh Plus, Vektroid, 情報デスクVIRTUAL
Tabs Out is an all-cassette podcast that’s been documenting the prolific tape underground with obsession, humor, and expertise since 2012. Tiny Mix Tapes has teamed with Tabs Out for a show called Laser Focus, in which tape aficionados/fetishists Mike Haley, Dave Doyen, and Joe B hone in on a specific label or artist. Check out the archive here.
Styles: drift, melancholia, mushrooms
Others: Palmistry, Uli-K, Chino Amobi, Elysia Crampton
“Polyphony is music in which autonomous melodies intertwine. In Western music, the madrigal and the fugue are examples of polyphony. These forms seem archaic and strange to many modern listeners because they were superseded by music in which a unified rhythm and melody holds the composition together.”
More about: Organ Tapes
Styles: bluegrass, rhythm and blues, sax-a-ma-phone
Others: Waylon Jennings, Scout Niblett, Karl Blau
Will Oldham, known as Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, brings a bluegrass band together to cover a collection of songs by the late outlaw country legend Merle Haggard, who died in 2016. Oldham’s voice, wherever it goes, brings a playful spirit with it, dealing with the dullness of a lifelong ache (“New Partner”) or with feelings more blunt and searing (“Kiss,” with Scout Niblett).
More about: Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Merle Haggard, Will Oldham
Wait, what was that about a “last hurrah in its present incarnation?” At this point, we might need to consciously adjust our expectations of general “hurrah-length,” because, in addition to taking the latter half of 2016 by storm with shows in support of a man who was possibly struck by lightning, the inimitable Swans have been revealing more and more tour dates (the most recent remnants of which that are taking place in Europe right now,
More about: ADULT., Anna von Hausswolff, Baby Dee, Carla Bozulich, Michael Gira, Okkyung Lee, Swans
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