After spending her early years in an indie alternative rock band, Jen K. Wilson struck out on her own as Buildings and Food. The traces of her history can be read in the name, which references...
https://acloserlisten.com/2024/05/06/buildings-and-food-echo-the-field/
Founding our own Glorious Chapels is a collective in the true sense of the word, shifting not only members, but monikers. Founded in 2016 when the bands Stems and Anathème joined forces as The...
https://acloserlisten.com/2024/05/05/musala-nan-elian-glossolalia/
Happy admission: I still have a CD player in my car. My prior car had a tape player, and for those who are wondering, Chrysler once made cars with turntables. I still burn CD-Rs, and tailor the s...
Harpist Mary Lattimore has been popping up all over the place this season, from Montgomery and Turner’s Spring Became Silent to Moor Mother’s GUILTY. An Adult Swim collaboration with Juli...
https://acloserlisten.com/2024/05/03/mary-lattimore-walt-mcclements-rain-on-the-road/
With immigration issues at the forefront of global discussion, Kites could not be more timely. Rutger Zuydervelt‘s score is but one arm of an audio-visual presentation, asking “What is it ...
Back in 2018, we reviewed Lola de la Mata‘s REMISE EN BOUCHE, which introduced us to the work of this incredibly unique and insightful composer. One year later, she was diagnosed with tinnit...
https://acloserlisten.com/2024/05/01/lola-de-la-mata-oceans-on-azimuth/
Many people yearn for a quiet day, imagining that they might spend such a day languishing in the yard, reading on a comfortable couch, perhaps taking a walk by the stream. But to a younger pers...
https://acloserlisten.com/2024/04/30/the-balloonist-a-quiet-day/
Sometimes a micro-genre is lost to the point at which one wonders if it ever existed, apart from candy-glow daydreams. Two decades ago, labels such as Spekk, flau and Noble specialized in a typ...
https://acloserlisten.com/2024/04/29/floating-shrine-connecting/