Some artists move forward by subtraction; others by return. On Shadow Shades, Monoconda does both. Stripping away the layered architectures of his recent work, he returns to the guitar—the first instrument he ever played—not as nostalgia, but as a recalibration. What emerges is neither acoustic intimacy nor electronic abstraction, but something suspe...

Cover art & design by Piotr „Zealot” Marzec

There is a deliberate restraint that feels ethical as much as aesthetic in Canes of Karabakh. The Polish trio of Stanisław Matys (duduk), Olgierd Dokalski (flugelhorn, SFX), and Paweł Bartnik (electronics) approach the Armenian dudu...

It’s been a long time since we reviewed an album by The Doomed Bird of Providence ~ nine years, to be exact.  

We love the name of the Normal Community High School Experimental Ensemble, but even more, we love the fact that it actually exi...

Is there more than mere semantics to the difference between remodeled and remixed?  A remix takes the components of an original track, breaks them down and puts them back in a different order.  A remodel may also include new ...