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PRIYA DEEPIKA, Hear in My Heart
The subtitle of sound healer, songwriter and vocalist Priya Deepika’s richly soulful and spiritually transcendent debut album Hear in My...
Jonathan Widran
Apr 29, 2019


CRAIG PADILLA & MARVIN ALLEN, Toward the Horizon
As I’ve been immersing in the seemingly endless riches of the three decade-plus Spotted Peccary catalog, I’m enjoying a wild fusion of...
Jonathan Widran
Mar 23, 2019


MASSERGY, Fire Opal
Hearing some of the new mystically transcendent dreamscapes coming from artists on the Spotted Peccary Music label, I feel as though I...
Jonathan Widran
Mar 20, 2019


JAMES ASHER/ARTHUR HULL, On the Good Foot
On the Good Foot, an extraordinary, rhythmically eclectic and sonically expansive two EP set by longtime collaborators and drum circle...
Jonathan Widran
Jan 31, 2019


BROOKHAVEN/SCATTER SWEPT, Modern Remains
It’s likely that you’ve never heard of either Brookhaven or Scatter Swept, the two Oakland based, electric guitar heavy bands who join...
Jonathan Widran
Jan 30, 2019

PEZZETTINO, Resin
Considering her massive talents and the sonically expansive multi-verses she creates, it’s ironic that the supremely enigmatic, endlessly...
Jonathan Widran
Jan 30, 2019

PROTOVULCAN, Life is Twigs/Psychic Pinball
If there is a blissful universe where cacophonous, Vocoder and fuzz guitar garage rock fuses effortlessly with otherworldly, high tech...
Jonathan Widran
Jan 13, 2019


VALERIE ROMANOFF, Healing Music, Vol. 2
Most of the critical praise thus far and deservedly heaped on composer, multi-instrumentalist, and musical visionary Valerie Romanoff’s...
Jonathan Widran
Dec 9, 2018


NICHOLAS GUNN, Riding the Thermals
On a very personal level, listening to Nicholas Gunn’s hypnotic and rapturous electronic/ambient collection Riding the Thermals is like...
Jonathan Widran
Dec 9, 2018
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