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BEN ZUCKER, Fifth Season
The Biblical expression “To every thing there is a season” is a spot-on way to dive into Fifth Season, the remarkable...
Jonathan Widran
Oct 19, 2020

MILANA ZILNIK, Abracadabra
It’s always inspiring when a beloved artist develops an intense interest in an exotic new instrument and shares the wealth of that...
Jonathan Widran
Oct 2, 2020


WITCH'S WALL
Checking out a new indie band for the first time is often a gateway to innumerable musical pleasures, and sometimes these extend beyond...
Jonathan Widran
Apr 6, 2020


MYRA MELFORD/ZEENA PARKINS/MIYA MASAOKA, MZM
Sometimes the best pathways to understanding the intention and necessity for innovative artists to make experimental/avant-garde/purely...
Jonathan Widran
Mar 25, 2020


ROBERT DICK/JOELLE LEANDRE/MIYA MASAOKA
In his fascinating liner notes for Solar Wind, a trippy, offbeat and purely improvised avant-garde collection combining the collective...
Jonathan Widran
Mar 25, 2020

BYRE, Here in Dead Lights
With a title that’s a clever twist on a familiar phrase and probably reflective of an overriding band aesthetic, Byre’s debut EP Here in...
Jonathan Widran
Sep 27, 2019


SMOMID, Pyramidi Scheme
No amount of aural preparation or immersion into weird offbeat electronic sounds can quite prepare you for the trippy, ear and...
Jonathan Widran
Aug 26, 2019

KAZYAK, Odyssey
In my October 2018 review of Reflection, the debut full length album by the uber inventive and adventurous prog-indie-psychedelic Twin...
Jonathan Widran
Aug 14, 2019


JASON HARNELL, Total Harnage
When Jason Harnell was six years old, his father, Grammy winning composer and arranger Joe Harnell, invited Louie Bellson to their house...
Jonathan Widran
Aug 6, 2019
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