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SMOMID, Pyramidi Scheme
No amount of aural preparation or immersion into weird offbeat electronic sounds can quite prepare you for the trippy, ear and...
Jonathan Widran
Aug 26, 2019

KAZYAK, Odyssey
In my October 2018 review of Reflection, the debut full length album by the uber inventive and adventurous prog-indie-psychedelic Twin...
Jonathan Widran
Aug 14, 2019


HOLLAND PHILLIPS, A Presence of Three Minds
In all the promotional materials swirling around the release of multi-instrumentalist and composer Holland Phillips’ eighth album A...
Jonathan Widran
Aug 1, 2019


PAUL JACKS, In Other Words
In my November 2018 review of Defractor, the official solo debut of offbeat, iconoclastic indie-pop singer/songwriter Paul Jacks - after...
Jonathan Widran
Jul 28, 2019


JULIET LYONS, The Light Within: Songs for Yoga, Healing & Inner Peace
To truly appreciate an artist’s latest work and immerse enough to write intelligently about it, I always feel compelled to learn about...
Jonathan Widran
Jul 23, 2019


STAN DART, Murinsel, Vol. 2
With relaxing, easy grooving, lightly jazzy melodies and dreamy floating soundscapes that may remind listeners of the best of Paul...
Jonathan Widran
Jul 21, 2019


MARK DORRICOTT/STAN DART, Seaside
Seaside, an epic 16-track, double CD intricately conceived and executed concept album by composer/musicians Stan Dart (from Austria) and...
Jonathan Widran
Jul 21, 2019


GOOD SERVICE, Please
On the Bandcamp pages for “Summer Muses” and “MaPaw,” the delightfully trippy, loudly distorted and atmospherically expansive lead...
Jonathan Widran
Jul 16, 2019


SVERRE KNUT JOHANSEN, Precambrian
In this age of music streaming where cover art and packaging are often just afterthoughts or a slapdash affair, veteran Norwegian...
Jonathan Widran
Jun 21, 2019


TOM EATON, How It Happened
Kind of like opening up and embracing a truly infinite universe after limiting one’s beliefs to hard and immutable religious doctrine,...
Jonathan Widran
Jun 20, 2019

BIGLEMOI, Permanent Vacation
Influenced by a wild expanse of influences from Radiohead and Argentina’s Soda Stereo to Canadian indie rockers Broken Social Scene and...
Jonathan Widran
Jun 1, 2019

OLIVER RAY, Out Passed Nowhere
Best known as legendary punk/art rocker Patti Smith’s longtime guitarist, Oliver Ray has been, according to his bio, “writing songs for...
Jonathan Widran
May 27, 2019
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