Here’s a sweet LP that found its way into my life recently. It’s recorded instructions on how to play chess, as narrated by three-time U.S. Open champion Al Horowitz! He was also…
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Tear Ceremony – Sleep
Notes from the cassette, which was released in 1992 on Simulacra Records indicate, “Sleep is an audio document of the cyclical process of sleep itself. It is a musical exploration of hypnagogia…
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Sunday Mix Tape Number 277
Oh, brother. What a weekend. I hope you’ve all survived (unless you haven’t, in which case I’d like to offer my condolences to your family and friends). I know I did. Barely.…
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Amon – Amon
Amon (Andrea Marutti) has been making music since the early nineties. Amon was born in between 1994 and 1995, after Marutti purchased “some synthesizers, a digital multitrack recorder and a professional mixer,…
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Film Review: Strange Fruit – The Beatles’ Apple Records
My boss offered me this DVD, and because I’m a huge music nerd with an insatiable thirst for arcane knowledge (and because I had nothing to do last night) I took it…
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Sunday Mix Tape Number 276
Get ready to get sleepy. There’s a lot of ambient/experimental/electronic music here to digest, ilke a handful of Ambien and a cold set of bedsheets. Close your eyes and slip into an…
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Sophia – Sigillum Militum
How’s your dark ambient collection these days, kiddies? Sorely lacking? Don’t worry, Evan’s got a cool Sophia album to share with you tonight. Prepare to be scared. via Recycle Your Ears: After…
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Thela – Thela
This short-lived band from New Zealand recorded two records for Ecstatic Peace, and then went the way of the dodo. Which is almost funny, because the dodo was native to some Indian…
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Five Albums I Have Been Listening To Frequently Of Late
Happy Tuesday, kids. Those of you who relaxed poolside or bedside or beachside yesterday please allow me to welcome back to the world of daily labor. Whereas your (shortened!) week has just…
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Sunday Mix Tape Number 275
Last night I had the great privilege of watching Swan Fungus super-friend William Fowler Collins perform at Human Resources in Chinatown here in LA. He was joined on stage by Aaron Turner…