Category: library

Does Spring Hide Its Joy is an immersive piece by composer Kali Malone featuring Stephen O’Malley on electric guitar, Lucy Railton on cello, and Malone herself on tuned sine wave oscillators. The music is a study in harmonics and non-linear composition with a heightened focus on just intonation and beating interference patterns. Malone’s experience with pipe organ tuning, harmonic theory, and long durational composition provide prominent points of departure for this work. Her nuanced minimalism unfolds an astonishing depth of focus and opens up contemplative spaces in the listener’s attention.

I feel privileged to own a copy of this. I have a solid block of ten days’ hermit time in the office coming up, and this will likely be the soundscape for those days.

Cello and organ. Put in mind of Laura Cannell and Alison Cotton, that old, tenebrous sound emerging from smoke-darkened wood from another age. This would be the second record I’ve bought from Nyahh Records in as many months. Those people have good ears.

Susan Drone is better known as Susana Lopez.

One of those marvellous, all-enveloping, dark-ambient drone pieces, reminiscent to me of Julian Cope’s magnificent ODIN in places. It shifts and rises through its four sections, riverine and contemplative.

I love this record from the Unexplained Sounds Group out of Italy, from whom I have bought many things in the past. Enough that, apparently, Raffaele felt the need to gift me a copy of one of his other projects, linked below:

Incredibly grateful for this and can’t wait to discover it: after I listen to “obscure matriarchal tribe” again:

Arrived on Saturday. If there was anyone else in the house, they would have gone fully insane by now from the number of times I’ve played the second track.

Previously. The third track on the piece remains the standout for me. So happy to own a physical copy of this.

https://nyahhrecords.bandcamp.com/track/id-rather-be-tending-my-sheep

As previously logged back here. Love those track titles.

I never log my Kindle purchases, for some reason. This was on sale today. I miss being a novelist, so I presume this will on occasion make me wistful.

I was lucky enough to get in fast – only 8 copies of the CD left as I type this. But you can stream the whole thing for free through the magic of Bandcamp, which remains a pure joy in the murky misery of 2020s internet. The middle tracks clinched it for me: perfect early autumn sounds.