Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Like so many things you can say about Bill Direen, mentioning that he is a New Zealander is both true

Daylight Daylight is organized around some questions that can be categorized as either journalistic or clinical. What time is it?

William Parker puts it too plainly to misunderstand, so let’s first give him the floor: “If you haven’t heard the

While the title Garden Variety augurs ordinariness, these sounds are anything but. Ryan Packard is a percussionist who resides in

When I Like To Sleep first emerged, the Norwegian instrumental trio’s sound combined polar opposites. Vibraphonist Amund Storløkken Åse, six-string-bass/guitar

Izba is named after a now-shuttered venue in Novi Sad, Serbia. Do an image search and you’ll see that it

Sometimes you have to back right up to make progress. In the case of Traveling Light, Rafael Toral not only

An earlier review in these pages acknowledged that Buck Curran is steeped in guitar lore. Sometimes that manifests in pursuing

Modular synthesizers aren’t just instruments. They can be a way of life, with practitioners getting deeper into the circuits, erecting

Group Inerane was part of a wave of bands that reset the defaults for northwest African guitar music a couple

Originally released in 2004, The Well Of Memory faces a sterner test than most reissued albums by dint of nomenclature

The latest volume in Bulbous Monocle’s Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 reissue campaign vaults over the Matador years back to