LA-based four-piece Bondo make delicately robust music on their debut album Print Selections. If “delicately robust” sounds like an oxymoron to you, that’s because it is. The group’s music is contradictory in that it is both gentle and edgy, innocent and sinister, and lulls the listener into a strange worldContinue Reading

Photo by Sinitta Leunen  Igor Ballereau – ijkl French composer Igor Ballereau leads the listener down complex corridors of dark piano, expressive guitar, gutsy percussion and strange sonic experiments on his recent album ijkl. Field recordings of crumbling earth and falling stones are set against sporadic and discordant strikes onContinue Reading

  Being able to find value in the regular is a precious gift. Poets need this skill, not just to help them give meaning to nature but to life. Someone who knows this is Italian producer Joao Ceser. It’s easy to envision the Brianza-based producer sitting in his studio atContinue Reading

Photo by Alex Cooper Kayam – Omens  alternative  Berlin siblings Kayam have recently released their sophomore album “Omens”, and the titular first single from that album is an alluring introduction to an album of intimate and environmental alternative folk music. However, the group prefer to classify their music with theContinue Reading

Girondolini is a musical project by Vienna-based jazz-trained drummer July Skone. Formerly of the high-concept, in-your-face project Gudrun Von Laxenburg, Skone’s recent outing sees his impressive drumming style take a backseat to sample-based plunderphonics pulled off with quicksilver precision. Featuring a cast of collaborators, the self-titled debut album is aContinue Reading