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2020 Musical Favorites

What a strange and horrible year. I don't need to remind anyone of the state of the world. Though this is my little corner of the...

My Favorite albums: 2010-2019

01. Retribution Gospel Choir - 3 02. Benoît Pioulard - Sonnet 03. 75 Dollar Bill - I Was Real 04. Unconscious Collective - Pleistocene...

2019 Musical Favorites

2019. The year of Immerzbox. This is a good and bad thing. Good, in that because I wasn't the sole impetus behind a project I'm going to...

2018 Musical Favorites

A short preamble: In a move that is the nearly opposite of my thoughts last year, I decided only to pick music that wasn't made by my...

2017 Musical Favorites

What a strange and horrible year. A miserable, painful, exhausting year for me and my friends. It was far worse for so many strangers...

Outré Monde #3 - FIN and Circle

Welcome to another round of Outré Monde, an email conversation between the estimable Craig Hayes and myself. The premise is simple; we...

Outré Monde #2 - Kromosom and Narrow Lands

The second installment of Outré Monde is up at Six Noises. Check it out.

Outré Monde - Sabers and Kosmischer Läufer

A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away, in a hole in the ground there lived a Hobbit. Back then, when the earth was young and pungent,...

Harriet Tubman - Araminta

Araminta, the new album from free improv trio Harriet Tubman, takes their concept of “Spontaneous Composition” to new heights. After...

2016 MUSICAL FAVORITES

2016 doesn’t deserve a summation. Not that I could do it justice if it did. I lost friends and family at an alarming rate, and more...

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