Category: Album

Some breaks quietly stretch into years, even decades. The guitar goes up onto the shelf, the notebook of poems closes mid-line, and life goes on – without music as its soundtrack. That’s what happened to Brendan Ranney, an indie musician from Southern California whose voice was heard on stages in Fort Wayne and Claremont in…

In her primary professional activities, Devon Michael helps artists write and produce music. In addition, she works in A&R – working with numerous performers and helping develop their projects. But after many years dedicated to realizing other people’s creative visions, recently she has been increasingly focusing on her own music. This reminded me of the…

I turned on “Farewell The World” late in the evening – and the very first guitar notes made me put my phone aside. Spanish musician Carlos Grassot released this EP on July 10, 2024, and it carries both a personal story and a conversation with the society he lives in. Recorded at Crosstown Studios with…

I remember this feeling: you stand on the top floor, look at Manhattan from above – and for a second it seems that the whole city is in your hands. And a moment later, something completely different covers you – a light, anxious dizziness from the height you have reached. It is about this feeling…

I feel a particular warmth toward music that doesn’t try to fill up all the airtime, but instead gently frees it from noise. Against the aggressive stream of tracks fighting for seconds of attention, home recordings become true revelations – the ones where sound ripens slowly and naturally. So when I listened to the new…

“Sometimes the only way to survive a loss is to create something,” Dren McDonald once admitted while working on his previous instrumental album, “Pterous.” At the time, that phrase was a personal confession from the composer: every piece on the album was dedicated to someone he had lost over the span of three years. Today,…

“We are all made of stardust,” Carl Sagan used to say, and for the album “Stardust Through Decades”, perhaps this thought fits literally. Jaden Sade is an independent artist from Austria who is difficult to confuse with anyone else. Behind his shoulders are already four works-“Pressed Between Seasons”, “Tidal Wave”, “The Forgotten Chapters”, and “Endless…

They say that in the Universe nothing disappears without a trace – matter only chaotically dissipates in time and space, taking on new, sometimes bizarre forms. We consist of atoms of long-extinguished stars, and our thoughts – of echoes of random encounters and fragments of old melodies. But sometimes entropic noise crystallizes into something frighteningly…

There are emotions and memories that never find words. They remain living on the outskirts of consciousness – as a light shadow, an indistinct echo, an elusive feeling for which a form has not yet been invented. It is precisely this wordless sphere that Alex Solely – a neoclassical composer and pianist – explores in…

“There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in”. This is how Leonard Cohen once subtly formulated the main wisdom of North American poetry: true beauty is rarely monolithic. It manifests itself where the familiar world develops a crack. Geography is made up of a set of coordinates on a map, but…