Articles by Slavko Bucifal
Ned Lagin's 'Seastones: Set 4 and Set 5' Reissue Sheds Light on a Proto-Ambient Classic
PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2020
In 1975, before the giants of ambient music released their seminal albums, Ned Lagin would give us his Seastones collection, whose minimali...
White Poppy Shows Off Her Pop Side on 'Paradise Gardens'
PUBLISHED Apr 24, 2020
White Poppy — a.k.a. British Columbia's Crystal Dorval — is best known for dreamy pop soundscapes drenched in reverb, saturated with lo-fi...
Ervin Omsk Creates Disorienting Soundscapes on 'Peilen'
PUBLISHED Apr 24, 2020
Ervin Omsk is Sven Fritz, a visual artist from Germany who has turned his hand to creating electronic compositions that defy form and struc...
Markus Floats Moves His Electronic Explorations Forward on 'Third Album'
PUBLISHED Apr 17, 2020
With his lively blips and pleasing, resolute drones, Third Album by Markus Floats, a.k.a. Montreal composer Markus Lake, conveys a sense of...
Jon Hassell
Vernal Equinox
PUBLISHED Mar 24, 2020
While the trumpet is often synonymous with some of the greatest jazz of all time, Jon Hassell's trumpet has forged a different path, toward...
Ian William Craig
Red Sun Through Smoke
PUBLISHED Mar 24, 2020
Art that is initially created to remember a specific moment or event, but ends up forming a powerful narrative beyond the metaphorical wall...
Prolaps
Pure Mud Volume 7
PUBLISHED Mar 18, 2020
It is unclear if previous volumes only exist somewhere in the depths of dark souls, but Prolaps's Pure Mud Volume 7 is a shit-show of hyper...
JOYFULTALK
A Separation of Being
PUBLISHED Mar 10, 2020
Having previously brandished dark and moody trance meditations, Nova Scotian composer and visual artist Jay Crocker has hatched something f...