Articles by Bryon Hayes

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  Ashan

  Far Drift Afield

  PUBLISHED Jul 31, 2018

  Ashan is one of the many musical masks worn by Inner Islands label head Sean Conrad, whose oeuvre takes many forms, but is closely aligned...

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  E-Saggila

  Dedicated to Sublimity

  PUBLISHED Jul 11, 2018

  Toronto's Rita Mikhael has been slinging powerful blasts of noisy electronic music for the better part of this decade. Her unholy missives...

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  Toxe

  Blinks

  PUBLISHED Jun 19, 2018

  Swedish DJ and producer Tove Agélii, who performs and records as Toxe, has been surprising club-goers with an edginess that belies her yout...

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  Seabuckthorn

  A House With Too Much Fire

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2018

  Solo guitarists proliferate like chain coffee shops but finding a solo guitarist with a unique voice and consistent quality output is rare....

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  Eartheater

  IRISIRI

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2018

  In 2015, Guardian Alien member Alexandra Drewchin dropped a pair of cassettes for the Hausu Mountain imprint, the highly acclaimed Metaleps...

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  Chihei Hatakeyama

  Scene

  PUBLISHED May 14, 2018

  When asked to boil the sound of his Constellation Tatsu cassette imprint to five words, Steven Ramsey chose "vibration, expression, new cog...

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  Steve Roach

  Dreamtime Return

  PUBLISHED May 4, 2018

  In the 1980s, L.A.-based ambient music craftsman Steve Roach was in his 20s and an acolyte of the Berlin School of electronic music, such a...

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  Ragnar Johnson

  Crying Bamboos: Ceremonial Flute Music from New Guinea: Madang

  PUBLISHED May 4, 2018

  Stephen O'Malley kicked off his Editions Mego offshoot label Ideologic Organ in 2011 with an album of Tibetan ritual music played by a deep...