Articles by Alan Ranta

Loscil

"Helluland"

PUBLISHED Sep 3, 2014

Experimental/ambient producer Loscil, also known as Vancouver resident Scott Morgan, is set to release a new split EP with England-based or...

Christopher Willits

OPENING

PUBLISHED Sep 2, 2014

Bay Area native and Mills College grad Christopher Willits describes his latest release, OPENING, as "a visual album." While this would set...

Hey Mother Death

Highway

PUBLISHED Sep 2, 2014

Following up their eponymous tape EP from 2012, Halifax/Paris duo Denma Peisinger and Laurence Strelka headed out to rural France, to a pla...

Bitchin Bajas

Bitchin Bajas

PUBLISHED Aug 26, 2014

One rarely thinks of ambient music as being exciting, since that's not really the point of the genre, but convention has never been a tenet...

The Bug

Angels & Devils

PUBLISHED Aug 22, 2014

Through his work with Justin Broadrick (Techno Animal, God, Ice), his own King Midas Sound project, and most notably as the Bug, Kevin Mart...

The Bug Talks the Pursuit of Perfection for 'Angels & Devils,' Streams New Album on Exclaim.ca

PUBLISHED Aug 18, 2014

It's not easy to stay on the cutting edge of music, but over the past couple of decades, Kevin Martin has done just that. He was at the for...

BADBADNOTGOOD

Venue, Vancouver BC, August 12

PUBLISHED Aug 13, 2014

Sure, Toronto jazz trio Badbadnotgood may look like a bunch of fresh-faced kids in their early 20s, but they play like they have 30 years o...

Hildur Guðnadóttir

Saman

PUBLISHED Aug 7, 2014

Icelandic cellist Hildur Guðnadóttir is well known for her collaborations with the likes of Fever Ray, Throbbing Gristle, Pan Sonic, Hausch...