honest words on honest music
Taylor Deupree – Sti.ll
An excerpt from a project released in the newly launched FOLIO format on greyfade
In the studio with Lisa Bella Donna
“… music and recording should always be a joy… never a resistance to the miraculousness of the music to be made…”
In the studio with Hania Rani
“… I usually try to bring new elements to the process or deliberately limit myself to one instrument…”
In the studio with Eluvium
“… many of my favorite compositions have been created using pretty simple and relatively cheap tools…”
The Audio CD Flaw
My journey into a rabbit hole of bit-perfect data transfer
How to fall in love with digital music…
All about appreciating the medium from a connoisseur’s point of view…
Matt Emery
Hidden Tears In The Rain
“… traversing a landscape of personal and universal themes, painted with raw emotions…”
July 21st, 2024
Welcome to your Sunday edition of OUT TODAY, where I quickly scan through new music that …
Kiasmos
II
“… eleven tracks of pure and lighthearted bliss, ideal to lift your spirits and quench the thirsty mind…”
The duo of Ólafur Arnalds and Janus Rasmussen are back with their follow-up on Erased Tapes triumphantly bridging cinematic and modern classical sound with micro-sculpted tech-house beats.
Joep Beving & Maarten Vos
The boat
“… reflecting on a period of introspection […] coming to terms with the events that have transpired…”
“… the world is truly a canvas where we can identify some patterns and learn to appreciate its chaotic aspects…”
Dustin O’Halloran
Blue Summer Mixtape
“… capturing the feeling of waiting for an Icelandic summer which leaves as suddenly as it arrives…”
Alva Noto
HYbr-ID Noh Talk
“… heterogeneous compositional methods that converge in music fusing geometries, dystopias and scientifc references…”
Illuvia
Earth Prism
“… an even keel of a floating buoy in the stormy weather of my mind…”
Listening to Illuvia is like waking up in a tent still covered with frosty dew to the sounds of the rave ongoing through the night. It’s a nostalgic feeling of my youth, and perhaps that’s just one of the reasons why I keep returning to this album.
“… the human sense of hearing does not perceive all sound, and there is much more unconsciously excluded sound in the world…”
Grand River and Abul Mogard
Sulle barcane
“… a vast, open space for the imagination to fill with reflection, contemplation, and abstract thoughts…”
“… I must be moved in some way; it doesn’t matter if for good or bad, positive or negative, as long as I’m emotionally involved…”
zakè, Mike Lazarev, øjeRum
contemporary ambiance
Mike Lazarev
Saturated Signals
“… a continuation of heavily layered synthesized and organic textures initially explored on Sacred Tonalities…”
Onur Tarçın
A Piece of Sky
“… reminding me of our vast universe and of all our real insignificance that we seem to ignore…”
Jakob Lindhagen
Stages Of Change
“… a sonic journey pulled forward by polar opposites…”
“… a particular flavour of sonic tenderness which pulls on my heartstrings with a sombre reverberation of the keys…”
Jega, Yagya, Nils Frahm, Thom Yorke
Celebrating Headphone Commute’s many years of content, I am highlighting albums from the past…
Zságer Balázs, zakè, Josh Varnedore
“… rewinding the music I missed and fast forwarding to the music released in the future…”
Contemplative Classical
Love it or hate it, but I think Spotify is here to stay. In the last …
Snorri Hallgrímsson
The Girl in the Dark
“… blending a tragic quality of an intimate felted upright piano with the emotional weight of the orchestra…”
“… to foster creativity, it helps to understand how different phenomena appear in the universe…”
May 6th, 2024
This weekend, I spent time catching up on all the music I missed last month while …
May 2nd, 2024
I’ve been a little quiet lately. I’m not giving you any excuses. But between my long-awaited …
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Trance Anthems For A Sunken Generation
“… an aggressive inversion of euphoric sound […] fractured and beaten into submission…”
Dennis Huddleston smacks us in the face with his rawest emotion to date.
Dawn Chorus and the Infallible Sea
Aufero
“… in an era of infinite distraction, the most valuable thing is a respite for the soul…”
Polar Seas
Sky Within Us
The final compilation from a Toronto-based ambient label run by Brad Deschamps
Maxime Dangles
Papa
“… blending a unique balance of ambient, electronica and club music on this soundtrack for the silent film…”
Dustin O’Halloran
1 0 0 1
“… an auditory exploration into the crossroads of artificial intelligence and our comprehension of existence…”
Beginning its life as a collaborative dance piece with choreographer Fukiko Takase, the new solo album on Deutsche Grammophon probes the deep questions surrounding nature, consciousness, technology, and the profound implications of AI.
Matti Bye
Capri Clouds
“… these pieces go straight to the heart and to the senses, evoking nostalgic moments from your mind…”
Ben Frost
Scope Neglect
“… frosty fragile fretful armadillo crawling on your naked back…”
The familiar aural chemistry of metal is immediately untethered, isolated in the vacuum, stripped of its cultural trappings and heavy armory, and loaded into a particle accelerator.
J. Doursou
Song For Elena
“… the anxiety of the inescapable horrors and the dread of helplessness from being far away from war…”
Celer
Engaged Touches (Expanded and Remastered)
“… a sonic postcard from a time and place unlike any other… a true masterpiece…“
Remastered by Stephan Mathieu, this expanded album is back as a reminder of music’s powerful imprint on lives present and past…
Mike Lazarev
Morning, January 1st
“… maybe this time, it will be slightly different… maybe this time we have learned…”
Ben Chatwin
Dolmen
“… physicality of sound, evoked through modular synthesis to imbue life and instability into the recordings…”
“… I find that too much choice leads to less creativity… I need the creative process to be instantaneous…”
Callum Mintzis
Once Again
“… a reflective journey through the exploration of life’s philosophical questions…”
“… for every choice, there are roads not taken, and occasionally, it’s interesting to go back and explore some of those what-ifs…”
February 26th, 2024
January has come and gone. My best-of-the-year selections are now just a memory [at least, a preserved one]. …
Belle Chen
Kingdom Animalia
“… an imaginative and quirky celebration of the forests’ colourful ecosystems…”
ILUITEQ + Lorenzo Montanà
Noesi
“… according to the philosopher Plato […] the highest knowledge of the eternal forms or ideas…”
Cedric Vermue
Variations
“… floating in a perpetual, ethereal and dreamy chord…”
“… I’m looking for things that open up the universe or reveal the hidden spaces within us…”