Oh, and how about a new Capsule Garden today, too? This time with Sibyl, Rachel Beetz, Masayo Koketsu & Nava Dunkelman, Antonio Gallucci, Sirsé, Wilson Tanner Smith, David Vélez, Paolo Tortora, & 微風ゾーン Bifuu_ZONE.
Field Studies Volume 2 is in the world today! Four new longform pieces from Lee Evans, Floating House Ensemble, Stefan Christoff, and ut mutem. Music for everyone.
As always, The Jewel Garden is pay-what-you-can. Thanks for listening. 💙💚💜
New interview w/ Mai Mai Mai about Karakoz, recorded between Bethlehem & Ramallah earlier this year. We talked about engine rooms & Mediterranean sunsets, working with Maya Al Khaldi & Alabaster DePlume, spending time in the Popular Art Center's sound archive, & making music during impossible times.
Wilfrido Terrazas makes music that works as healing ritual. His new album brings together texts by Mexican authors, incredible vocal and instrumental performances, and these haunting silences that stay with you. New interview up now on Foxy Digitalis.
ah well hell.
really enjoyed chatting with Brad - what a mensch!!!
Well damn. 🖤🖤🖤
RIP to one of the best.
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This week on Songs of Our Lives, it’s Ben Seretan! What a joy this episode was to record. Ben’s the best. His new album, “Sunbeam of No Illusion,” with John Thayer is one of my early favorites so far this year. PLUS, Arthur Russell, Wham!, Clarence Carter, Celine Dion, Prince, Pet Shop Boys + more!
Great episode. And yes, VU — the 1985 album — is canon.
Launching Field Studies today - a new series of 4-way splits with long-form pieces from artists I love. Inspired by the old Foxglove "Wailing Bones" series.
Vol 1: Landon Caldwell, zakè, Meadow Argus, and myself.
digital, pay-what-you-can.
First Patreon-exclusive episode of Songs of Our Lives is up! For these episodes, guests can only pick songs from a single artist (and the question list is totally different). First up? Marc Masters on The Velvet Underground.
New morning sounds on the way soon, but I still really want you to send me your morning sounds. Get in touch!!
I made a playlist at one point w/ all the songs people had picked for that question (I kind of forgot at one point so it only has about half of them), and this is the one I listen to the most. It's so fucking good.
New interview with Isabel Pine about recording "Fables" in a remote BC cabin, letting ravens and rustling leaves become part of the music, and why the wilderness cracked everything open for her.
New Songs of Our Lives with Tusco Embassy's Nathan Bowers! We dig into his wild 'Roulette'-style compilations, records that play a different song every time. Then we go full roulette with the interview itself. It's a blast. (Stevie Wonder, Nirvana, VU, Gang of Four, Yes, etc!) Weirdest episode yet?
New Songs of Our Lives with Tusco Embassy's Nathan Bowers! We dig into his wild 'Roulette'-style compilations, records that play a different song every time. Then we go full roulette with the interview itself. It's a blast. (Stevie Wonder, Nirvana, VU, Gang of Four, Yes, etc!) Weirdest episode yet?
New Leo Chang interview. Amplified gongs, feedback hats, and the messiness of contemporary Korean identity through sound. His Live at CPR album is stunning.
miska lamberg's "Evening, window" turns everyday noise into something luminous. We talked about sound recycling, misophonia, and making music in a world without silence. A really special record, and really love this conversation. @dragonseyerecordings.com
New interview up at Foxy Digitalis w/ Ishmael Ali. We talk about his new record, "Burn the Plastic, Sell the Copper," singing, early memories, Kahil El Zabar’s Ethnic Heritage Ensemble, and more.
Been totally obsessed w/ this one this year!
New Capsule Garden hot of the digital presses. This time out, I'm aiming at Hexpartner, f.ampism, Ursula Sereghy, RL Huber, Yves De Mey, Stephen Vitiello & Taylor Deupree, fields we found, Christina Ruf, & Helena.
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Great #podcast, dig in
Delphine Dora's "D'une nostalgie inconnue" feels ageless. Improvised piano and harmonium from rural Portugal, interlaced with street recordings. Languid repetitions, solemn timbres. Beautiful and forlorn. Read a new interview on Foxy Digitalis w/ her about it and loads more!
Thanks for this lovely conversation @foxydigitalis.bsky.social ❤️💙💚💜🧡💛
New interview w/ Sefyu "Joe" Sidney aka head of Tiers la Familia about why kindness is the most punk rock thing possible, Buddha-nature at 40, workaholism as survival, and the personality of windows. And of course their latest record, "The Love Synthesis," on Debacle. Love this shit.
Today on Songs of Our Lives, it's Geologist! His new record, “Can I Get A Pack of Camel Lights,” is like if SST put out a hurdy gurdy record in the late 80s/early 90s. We talk about Keiji Haino, Thin Lizzy, Daft Punk, Hall & Oates, Tronics, Dory Previn, Pavement, & plenty more!
Today on Songs of Our Lives, it's Geologist! His new record, “Can I Get A Pack of Camel Lights,” is like if SST put out a hurdy gurdy record in the late 80s/early 90s. We talk about Keiji Haino, Thin Lizzy, Daft Punk, Hall & Oates, Tronics, Dory Previn, Pavement, & plenty more!
I have new music out today!
Pause for these new modes of expanding reality. Thanks to @foxydigitalis.bsky.social and friends for bringing these mindful moments to my morning 🙏✨
