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...
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Jonathan Widran
- Oct 2, 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
- Apr 6, 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
- Mar 25, 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
- Sep 27, 2019
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
- Aug 26, 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 14, 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 6, 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...
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