With a freshly-rebuilt recording studio and hundreds of live studio recordings to sort through, I’ll be down a musically-narcissistic wormhole in no time. Until then, I hunt for inspiration. Enter Cloudkicker. This is the kind of guitar-driven, “live performance with a touch of electronic perfection” … Continue readingRecommended Music: Cloudkicker – Unending
Currently free (Name Your Price) to download in recording-studio quality via Bandcamp. Landscape In Obscurity (20th anniversary edition) name-your-price by vidnaObmana I paid $5 for this one as soon as I noticed it had been remastered and re-released. Listening to “Landscape In Obscurity”, for what … Continue readingRecommended #ambient: Vidna Obmana – Landscape In Obscurity
In 1996, two years before the first Shpongle (Simon Posford) album and quite a good year for music (I’m thinking of ambient and metal specifically)… Something important happened. I knew I loved this TIP Records stuff, but this song just sounds like a monumental turning … Continue readingRecommended Music: The Mystery Of The Yeti
Some time after I released this album on Bandcamp, it was posted on YouTube by the In The Woods channel (no relation to In The Branches, by the way!). I was pleasantly surprised to see the self-titled album rack up tens of thousands of plays … Continue reading“In The Branches” (Self-Titled) Album Released on All Major Music Platforms
Brock Van Wey, a.k.a. Bvdub, made quite an impression on me around 2013. I remember finding his album “Then” and realizing that it was a great album to sleep to. As I slept to the music, I would sometimes ride a wave of hallucinations as … Continue readingRecommended Music: Earth House Hold – “Never Forget Us”