Mary Lattimore is a harpist originally from Philadelphia but currently based in Los Angeles, California who played with The Valerie Project (an alternate soundtrack to the 1970 film Valerie and Her Week of Wonders), has released solo albums At the Dam (2016) and Hundreds of Days (2018), and has collaborated with Meg Baird on the …
Electronic music has been ridiculously disappointing in recent years- too much repetition and lack of fresh innovative ideas. We’ve seen the cycle happen before when a music scene starts to turn inward, focusing on past glories reproducing sounds with “authenticity“. It’s a prescription for boredom. And electronic music is never more unbearable then when its …
All music or art just wasn’t created for everyone to understand or share equally. That may sound harsh in our altruistic age. Nevertheless, pretending that art doesn’t exclude strikes me as rather ridiculous and frankly a lie. Some music, like other activities, requires certain surrender. A need for self-submission before the greater discovery. Those blissful …
Jacco Gardner is a Dutch multi-instrumentalist who has been recording and releasing music since 2012. His albums include Cabinet of Curiosities (2013), Hypnophobia (2015), and Somnium (2018). His music has been described as “sonic puzzles” (Under the Radar), “eerie, retro-futurist sound worlds” (Q Magazine), and “an engulfing sonic swirl, recalling the enveloping work of Cluster …
What makes the music of Bohren & der Club of Gore so unsettling? It isn’t the dark, slow-core of this German trio- that would sound almost relaxing. And it isn’t the sparse instrumentation that crawls through each of these tracks. Absolutely not, this isn’t goth. There is something much deeper to be found at …
The TX9000 understood that it wasn’t possible for its feelings to be real. Any sense of happiness, revenge, or even jealously was a creation of the Tyrell Corporation using the most advanced AI technology known. Whatever was “felt” within its hardware was merely a programmer’s description of a human emotion. Nevertheless, this programmed emotional responses …
Tangerine Dream (an avant-garde German band founded by Edgar Froese during the pivotal era of the late 1960s) started out primarily influenced by what could be considered the first space rock tracks (such as “Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun” & “A Saucerful of Secrets” from Pink Floyd) yet improvised and experimented …
All we really have is the promise contained within the present moment… I want to hear something new That was how Russ Curry, President of Curious Music concluded our interview. It was a thoughtful, personal statement. And perhaps the greatest mission statement any independent record label can hope to have. Curious Music was founded in …
