drone
Track: C. Diab’s ‘Love’ homages a discarded cassette in warm, bowed drone; the EP’s out tomorrow
HAILING from the City of Glass north of the 49th, Vancouver, bowed guitarist and sound collagist C. Diab has become something of an anchoring artist over at Injazero, the London- and Istanbul-based imprint overseen by producer and journalist Siné Buyuka. He was one of Injazero’s earliest signings, debuting for the label back in 2016 with …
Track: Hainbach -‘Funktionsverlust’: Cold War-era technology sings its dying drone song
BERLIN’S Hainbach, the avatar for the world of the sonic and the aural which Stefan Goetsch comes out to invent under, is all set to release a new investigation of sound for London-based SA Recordings come April 9th; and a very inventive, avant-garde excursion it is too. For on Landfill Totems, Stefan’s irrepressible wonder in …
Track: Chaz Knapp – ’97F At 9PM’: The Texas heat captured in off-centre organ drune
CHAZ KNAPP, the Dallas-based lo-fi organ frontiersman whose previous single drop, the warm ‘n’ weird “My TMJ Pain Might Be An Abscess” and accompanying blood-soaked video we fell down the rabbit hole of at the back end of January, has just dropped another self-styled drune, “97F At 9PM”, full of the Texas heat. Come drench …
News: Alessandro Cortini announces new album for Mute, ‘SCURO CHIARO’, in June; hear the thrilling, scouring ‘Chiaroscuro’
ALESSANDRO CORTINI, otherwise, one would suspect, very much brought to your knowledge as a member of Nine Inch Nails, is to release an album for Mute in June entitled SCURO CHIARO; come gather round and hear the lead track, “Chiaroscuro”, herein. It’s deep electronica with a thrillingly scouring and distorted scope, laying beautiful waste to …
See: Tristan Welch – ‘I Live In Filth’: Washington guitarist presents icy dronescapes
WASHINGTON’S dark ambient guitarchitect Tristan Welch has announced a new album for the end of April, Temporary Preservation; and has released a first taster single in the twilit soundscapes of “I Live In Filth”. Take a listen herein. Tristan follows on from last year’s Capitalist Teeth and Ambient Distress and continues his sonic exploration of …
See: Tristan Kasten-Krause – ‘Dawn Looming’: delicious dronescapes for a new day
NEW YORK-based bassist and composer Tristan Kasten-Krause likes to mix it up, see a little of the creative world. As well as being active on the Big Apple’s DIY and experimental scenes, he’s also played in Oklahoma!, in a production running on Broadway, which gives you any idea of his breadth and scope culturally. He …
SEE: Rachika Nayar – ‘Losing Too Is Still Ours’: a fiery, otherworldly study in processed guitar and voice
THE BROOKLYN-based ambient composer and audio-visual artist Rachika Nayar, who we’ve covered in these pages previously when we took a look at her previous single drop, “The Trembling Of Glass”, has shared a hazy, impressionistic video for new single “Losing Too Is Still Ours”, which features the poet YATTA; take a dive below. Along with …
TRACK: Field Works – ‘La’ali’: Arabic poetry and cosmic Americana preludes ninth instalment in the series
FIELD WORKS is less a band, more a collective exploration of the various musics that cross over and find each other out on the edges of their respective stylistic disciplines, fuse, enter the wider sphere of the ambient. It’s all helmed by Indianapolis producer Stuart Hyatt, who began the series – the forthcoming album is …
SEE: Chaz Knapp – ‘My TMJ Pain Might Be An Abscess’: all hail the warm organ drune
DALLAS’S Chaz Knapp has a very particular way with an organ drone – or a drune, as he styles it – as you can hear on his forthcoming album, Organ Drunes. He brings a singular texture to his way with a vibey drone, and one not without a wayward sense of humour, as you can …
SEE: BLACK (W)HOLE – THE SHIFT
Austrian experimentalist Black (W)hole is already getting the leftfield brigade here at Backseat Mafia excited – the release of their forthcoming album Strange Worlds on March 5th has seen a few tracks shared for streaming over on their Bandcamp. It is however the simplistic, yet hypnotizing video for single “The Shift” that has further caught …