2022 Album Roundup Series: September, Triptychs, and Ecosystems

Some music I was listening to during the Solstice of 2022, including music from:

The Lickerish Quartet - Fables From Fearless Heights (2022) Alex Anthony Faide - Particles of the Infinite (2022) Nilufer Yanya - Painless (2022) Ibibio Sound Machine - Electricity (2021) Lemon Demon - Spirit Phone (2016) Loris S. Sarid - Seabed-Sunbath (2022)

Album Previews for 2021 Part 5: Stick With The Issues

Another set of previews that address new music for 2021, including:

Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers– Just Coolin’ (2020/1959)
Slauson Malone - Vergangenheitsbewältigung (Crater Speak) (2020)
Mononeon – Banana Peel on Capitol Hill (2021)
Duma – Duma (2020)
Rafael Anton Irisarri- Solastalgia (2019) 

Ecker & Meulyzer – Carbon (2018)



Relevant Links:
Full short video documentary for Growth

The ever-evolving 2021 Radio playlist

Album Overview Spring 2020: Quarantunes - The Sequel!

Brief impressions on the albums that have been in rotation recently, including:

The Merrymakers – Bubblegun (1998)

Seabuckthorn – Through a Vulnerable Occur (2020)

Flotation Toy Warning – Bluffer’s Guide to the Flight Deck (2003)

LAG I RUN – Vagrant Sleepers (2019)

Tears for Fears – The Seeds of Love (1989)

Fiona Apple – Fetch the Bolt Cutters (2020)

Relevant Links

The Jellyfish post dedicated to Andy Sturmer

Older text post on Seabuckthorn’s Turns

And last year’s post on Crossing

2020 Album Preview Series Part 3: The Melody Spectrum

More previews of new music for 2020, including:

Blood Incantation – Hidden History of the Human Race (2019)

Larry Gus – Subservience (2019)

Angel Olson - All Mirrors (2019)

No-Man - I Love You To Bits (2019)

James Blake – Assume Form (2019)

Various Artists – Kankyo Ongaku: Japanese Ambient, Environmental, and New Age Music 1980-1990 (2019)

Relevant Links:

Old text review of James Blake’s debut

Aaaand the ever-growing 2020 Spotify list....

Seabuckthorn's Crossing: What is Timbre?

Review and discussion on Seabuckthorn’s 2019 release, Crossing, framed by a special deep dive into the acoustic phenomenon of timbre.

Seabuckthorn's Turns was my 2017 Album of the Year.