Music For Bending Light And Stopping Time
Sit down. Stop thinking for a while. That thought? Let it go. Let it all go. Call it meditation, call it concentration, call it what you will, but let it go. That thought? Be above it and let it pass....
View ArticleMusic For The Frosty Night When I Miss Your Warm Light
Another sunset without you. How precious were those little moments… how futile are these tardy words. I didn’t get a chance to tell you, although I sensed that you have known. I mourned your soul...
View ArticleMusic For Watching The Snow Slowly Fall In The Moonlight
In the silent and sad mountains, music speaks without the lyrics. Words escape and rise in clouds, forming vapour, pain, and passion. Music, on the other hand, is harmless, floating low above the...
View ArticleMusic For Sonic Installations In The Cavern Of Your Skull
Your mind is just a canvas; your life – projected film. Your skull is a museum of memories; your ego – a neurotic guard. Your consciousness is sleeping in this theatre, alone and undisturbed. Why not...
View ArticleMusic For Synergizing The Synapse Of Ideas
For the last 12 years in a row, I managed to torture myself with a great restraint of releasing these “Best Of” lists at a rate of only one per day. Honestly, I am exhausted. I hope your wallet feels...
View ArticleMusic For Capricious Souls Adrift In Noir-fi
For the last twelve years this music haunted my days, then cautiously moved through the ether and entered my bloodstream. This is the music of the ghosts lost in-between the worlds. This is the music...
View ArticleOptic Echo Presents – Best Vinyl of the Decade
Download Mixcloud Podcast iTunes opticecho.com Boy, do I have a special treat for you! Just as I thought we were finished, and the selections of best of the year came rushing in, I realized that we...
View ArticleInterview with A Winged Victory for the Sullen
[Editor’s Note: All answers furnished by Dustin O’Halloran] What are your first musical memories? My mother was a ballet teacher, and there was always a piano player in the classes. So my first...
View ArticleMachinefabriek – Stillness Soundtracks II
Label: Glacial Movements Release: Stillness Soundtracks II Date: January 2020 Mastered By: Alex Gamez See Also: Interview with Machinefabriek Bandcamp Spotify machinefabriek.nu Alessandro Tedeschi‘s...
View ArticleAmulets, Anne Müller, Chihei Hatakeyama
On today’s quick look back at the albums, which I have missed in the last months of 2019, is a gorgeous, gritty, droney, loopy, entry from Randall Taylor recording under his Amulets moniker. I put on...
View ArticleMusic For Your Stationary Travels
I am excited to unveil a very special “bonus” list. If the title of this entry sounds familiar to you, that’s not entirely by accident. As a long supporter of Brian Housman’s words on music, I’ve been...
View ArticleAnton Belov – Piano Works II
Label: kauanmusic Released: November, 2019 If You Like: Max Richter, Ólafur Arnalds, and Nils Frahm Bandcamp Tidal Spotify Amazon Piano Works II opens up with a chorus. So where is the piano, I think?...
View ArticleKelly James Wyse – ssSwan
Label: Modellbahn Records Release: Pastoralia Date: May 31, 2020 Mastered By: Martyn Heyne Artwork By: Sean Waple Bandcamp Soundcloud kellywyse.com Kelly James Wyse is an American pianist from Seattle,...
View ArticleSylvain Chauveau – The Light That Is Felt
Download Mixcloud Podcast iTunes sylvainchauveau.com On today’s program, Brussels-based Sylvain Chauveau stops by to share his favorite records with the listeners and followers of Headphone Commute....
View ArticleJacaszek – The Zone
Label: Ghostly Release: Music For Film Date: March 27th, 2020 Bandcamp Tidal Spotify jacaszek.com This morning I’m excited to partake in the announcement of a new album by a Polish composer Michał...
View ArticleAlice Baldwin – please tell my mum to burn me
Label: Moderna Date: February 2020 Mastered By: Martyn Heyne Tidal Spotify Amazon patreon.com/alicebaldwin I know that it’s Sunday and that you usually do not hear from me on the weekends, but I’ve got...
View ArticleInterview with Penguin Cafe
Hey Arthur, how are you, where are you, and what have you been up to this past weekend? We’re on the tour bus at the moment – having just arrived in Hamburg for a show tonight at the Elbephilharmonie....
View ArticlePaul Haslinger – Valse I
Label: Artificial Instinct Release: Exit Ghost Date: February 2020 Bandcamp Tidal Spotify Amazon haslinger.com In the next three minutes of your precious time, you will be transported into a haunting...
View ArticleOlga Wojciechowska, Pepo Galán, and Robin Saville
Olga Wojciechowska’s third album under her real name [as opposed to her previously lauded Strië moniker] appears on Ryan Griffin’s beautifully curated label, A Strangely Isolated Place. Opening up with...
View ArticleAlex Kozobolis – Barcelona
Once again, I’ve got something different and very unique for you. In the past year, I have been publishing a lot of video premieres on Headphone Commute. I will go out on a whim and say that the...
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