Ciro Vitiello - Notes from the Air (Stroom.tv) Idiiom - Neural Network (Audiobulb) Paperbark - Light Behind Me (Laaps) Slow Dancing Society - The Disappearing Collecitve Vol. II (Past Inside the Present) David Shea - Meditations (Room40) marucoporoporo - Lunar / Requiem (Flau)   Track Listing   Ciro Vitiello - +days feat. Heath [0:00] Idiiom - Real Sad [5:03] Paperbark - Harmless Light [9:59] Slow Dancing Society - I Will Never Forget Those Nights [15:58] David Shea - The Morning I Awoke [19:15] marucoporoporo - Lunar [26:56] -- Support the artists! Click on label links to purchase music

Stephen Vitiello & Taylor Deupree - Brush (12k) aus + the humble bee - Chalybeate (Flau) Paul Beaudoin + Ümlaut - Cairn (Audiobulb) Deaf Center - Through Time Outtake (Sonic Pieces) CoH + Wladimir Schall - Covers (Hallow Ground) Jordan Spieth - Vestige (Affin)   Track Listing   Stephen Vitiello + Taylor Deupree - iii [0:00] aus + the humble bee - Blushing Copper Light [4:50] Paul Beadoin + Ümlaut - Shadow of Light [11:29] Deaf Center - A Second [17:04] CoH + Wladimir Schall - Snowflakes [20:12] Jordan Spieth - Residual [25:29] -- Support the artists!Click on label links to purchase music.

No show this week! Sorry! Just a quick hello and goodbye until we come back for the first episode of 2026 next week.

SOME of the BEST of 2025. Enjoy. -- Old Saw - The Wringing Cloth (Lobby Arts) Cerys Hafana - Angel (Glitterbeat) Anushka Chkheidze + Robert Lippok - Uncontrollable Thoughts (Morr Music) Sam Prekop - Open Close (Thrill Jockey) Holden & Zimpel - The Universe Will Take Care of You (Border Community) Kelly Moran - Don't Trust Mirrors (Warp) Milkweed - Remscéla (Broadside Hacks) HAYWARDxDÄLEK - HAYWARDxDÄLEK (Relapse) Barker - Stochastic Drift (Smalltown Supersound) Milian Mori - Triality (Raster) james K - Friend (AD 93) Hayden Pedigo - I'll Be Waving as You Drive Away (Mexican Summer)   Track Listing   Old Saw - Blood Sumac [0:00] Cerys Hafana - Ffarwel i f'leuenctid [6:33] Anushka Chkheidze + Robert Lippk - Rainbow Road [10:06] Sam Prekop - Font [15:05] Holden + Zimpel - Incredible Bliss [20:19] Kelly Moran - Lunar Wave [27:32] Milkweed - The Pangs of Ulster [30:37] HAYWARDxDÄLEK - Antiphony [34:46] Barker - Positive Disintegration [38:59] Milian Mori - Ballad [44:33] james K - N'Balmed [49:38] Hayden Pedigo - Small Torch [53:15] -- Support the Artists! Click on label links to purchase music.

When's the last time I posted two "vintage" episodes back to back? I think... never? Well here we are. Turns out the holiday season stays busy right up until the holiday. Beyond daily life my "recreational" listening has been mostly consumed with rallying the usual year end lists, so I think you can expect a couple of semi-fresh episodes to round out the year. For now though, episode 005, again from the halcyon days of 2004/2005. Remember? Enjoy. -- Fires Were Shot - Solace (Asphodel) Various - Narrowminded Split Series (Narrowminded) --->Living Ornaments - "Vruchtvless" Troum - Tjukurrpa (Transgredient) Greg Davis - Somnia (Kranky) Metaxu - Rumours of War (No Type) Dead Texan - S/T (Kranky) Accelera Deck - Ipsissima Vox (tbtmo) Various - All Tomorrows Parties 1 (ATP) --->Broadcast - "DDL" Various - Calla "Custom" (Quatermass) --->Metrotech - "Promenade rmx" Tinkertoy - Electric Wilderness (Noise Factory) Telefon Tel Aviv - Map of What is Effortless (Hefty) Christian Kleine - Valis (Morr) Various - Degradazione Digitale (Microsuoni) --->Stephan Mathieu - "Sommer in Schafbrueche" -- Support the artists! No label links again this week... but you can Google, can't you?

It's been more than a year since we've posted a "vintage" episode, but the various time consuming year end obligations make this as good a time as any to indulge. So here is one from the vaults, episode 004 from way back when. When? Well around 2004 / 2005 roughly. Enjoy. -- Philip Blackburn - Hecho in Cuba (Innova) Various - Antiopic Allegorical Power v.6 (Antiopic) --->Presocratics - "If They Come in the Morning" Bird Show - Green Inferno (Kranky) Mike Ladd - Negrophilia: The Album (Thirsty Ear) Bill Horist - Lyric Suite (Accretions) Marilyn Lerner - Luminance (Ambiances Magnetique) Ross Bolleter - Crow Country (Pogus) Ercklenz / Neumann -Oberflachenspannung (Charhizma) Various - Antiopic Allegorical Power v.6 (Antiopic) --->duul drv - "under words, there is something hidden" Various - Kangmaschine_Soundmachine (Ritornell) --->Twerk -"Metamaschine" Strategy - Drumsolo's Delight (Kranky) Ulf Langenheinrich - Degrees of Amnesia (Asphodel) Various - The Unaccompanied Voice (Secretly Canadian) --->Songs:Ohia - "The Calling Bird" -- Support the artists!Sorry no label links this week, but a bit of searching never hurt anyone.

Kara-Lis Coverdale is a Canadian artist based out of Montreal. Bringing together backgrounds in piano and composition with Sacred music and electroacoustic work, Coverdale has been amassing an impressive catalog of work including three new albums this year alone. Her most recent, Change in Air, was recently released by Smalltown Supersound. She is this week's spotlight artist. -- Kara-Lis Coverdale - A Series of Actions in a Sphere of Forever (Smalltown Supersound/2025) Kara-Lis Coverdale - A 480 (Constellation Tatsu/2014) Kara-Lis Coverdale - Changes in Air (Smalltown Supersound/2025) Kara-Lis Coverdale - From Where You Came (Smalltown Supersound/2025) Kara-Lis Coverdale - Grafts (Boomkat Editions/2017) Kara-Lis Coverdale / LXV - Sirens (Umor Rex/2015) Kara-Lis Coverdale - Aftertouches (Sacred Phrases/2015)   Track Listing   Kara-Lis Coverdale - Circularism [0:00] Kara-Lis Coverdale - A 478 [3:34] Kara-Lis Coverdale - Boundlessness [8:17] Kara-Lis Coverdale - Flickers in the Air of Night [12:51] Kara-Lis Coverdale - Grafts (excerpt)[16:43] Kara-Lis Coverdale / LXV - Sub-fall (to) [20:42] Kara-Lis Coverdale - Saps /h [26:51] -- Support the artists! Click on label links to purchase music.

Bill Orcutt has a kind of bifurcated musical history. Having started as co-founder of 90s noise rock outfit Harry Pussy, he took a very extended leave from playing and recording until the late 00s when his current run began. Though he has a greater variety of outlets and modes, we've stuck to his most recent guitar work taken from his own Palilalia Records on which his most recent, Another Perfect Day, was just released. He is this week's spotlight artist. -- Bill Orcutt - Odds Against Tomorrow (Palilalia/2019) Zoh Amba & Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt - The Flower School (Palilalia/2023) Bill Orcutt - Bill Orcutt (Palilalia/2017) Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt - Made Out of Sound (Palilalia/2021) Bill Orcutt - How to Rescue Things (Palilalia/2024) Bill Orcutt - Jump On It (Palilalia/2023) Bill Orcutt - Another Perfect Day (Palilalia/2025)   Track Listing   Bill Orcutt - All Your Buried Corpses Begin to Speak [0:00] Zoh Amba & Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt - Moon Showed But No You [4:54] Bill Orcutt - Ol' Man River [10:03] Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt - Thirteen Ways of Looking [13:15] Bill Orcutt - The Wild Psalms [16:22] Bill Orcutt - A Natural Death [21:35] Bill Orcutt - For the Drainers [24:34] -- Support the artists! Click on label links to purchase music

Since the beginning of this millennium Chris Clark has been one of the most reliably inventive electronic musicians to emerge from the Warp records roster. His newest album, Steep Stims, is the lastest to be recently release on his own label, Throttle. He is this week's spotlight artist. -- Clark - Death Peak (Warp/2017) Clark - Turning Dragon (Warp/2008) Clark - Cave Dog (Throttle/2023) Clark - Empty the Bones of You (Warp/2003) Clark - Kiri Variations (Throttle/2019) Clark - Iradelphic (Warp/2012) Clark - Body Riddle (Warp/2006) Clark - Clark (Warp/2014) Clark - The Last Panthers (Warp/2016) Clark - Steep Stims (Throttle/2025) -- Support the artists! Click on label links to purchase music.   Clark - Aftermath [0:00] Clark - Gaskarth / Cyrk Dedication [2:03] Clark - Meadow Alien [6:53] Clark - Slow Spines [10:34] Clark - Cannibal Homecoming [14:10] Clark - Black Stone [17:40] Clark - Springtime Epigram [19:35] Clark - Sodium Trimmers [21:07] Clark - Naomi Pleen [24:43] Clark - Gift and Wound [26:36]

photo from Jesy Fortino's Flickr account. Jesy Fortino is not a tremendously prolific artist. That is why every new recording under her alias as Tiny Vipers or in collaboration with artists like Grouper, Balmorea, or The Sight Below feels like a gift. On her newest album, Tormentor, she returns to the spare acoustic sound that defined her early work. She is this week's spotlight artist. -- Tiny Vipers - Hands Across the Void (Sub Pop/2007) Tiny Vipers - Laughter (Ba Da Bing!/2017) Mirrorring - Foreign Body (Kranky/2012) Tiny Vipers - Life on Earth (Sub Pop/2009) Tiny Vipers - Ambience 3 (Box Bedroom Rebels/2015) Tiny Vipers - Tormentor (Bandcamp/2025) -- Support the artists! Click on label links to purchase music.   Track Listing   Tiny Vipers - Forest on Fire [0:00] Tiny Vipers - The Summing of Moments [6:30] Mirrorring - Fell Sound [10:19] Tiny Vipers - cm [16:31] Tiny Vipers - Tape II [19:31] Tiny Vipers - American Prayer[24:23]

Rafael Toral is a Portuguese artist who has been exploring his fascination with sound, silence, electronics, space, and the electric guitar for more than three decades. His newest album, Traveling Light, was recently released by Drag City. He is this week's spotlight artist. Rafael Toral - Spectral Evolution (Moikai/2024) Rafael Toral - Open Space (Bandcamp/2020) Rafael Toral - Violence of Discovery and Calm of Acceptance (Staubgold/2001) Rafael Toral - Liveloop (Noise Precision Libary/2009) Rafael Toral - Electric Babyland / Lullabies (Tomlab/2002) Rafael Toral - Traveling Light (Drag City/2025)   Track Listing   Rafael Toral - Intro + Changes [0:00] Rafael Toral - III.III [6:10] Rafael Toral - We Are Getting Closer [9:34] Rafael Toral - Liveloop 2 [13:11] Rafael Toral - slo [21:28] Rafael Toral - Solitude [26:26] -- Support the artists! Click on label links to purchase music.

Jon Porras first came to prominence as part of the San Francisco psychedelic drone duo Barn Owl along with Evan Caminiti. He is also the author of a good number of solo albums including the newest, Achlys, just released by Shelter Press. He is this week's spotlight artist. -- Barn Owl - Ancestral Star (Thrill Jockey/2010) Jon Porras - Black Mesa (Thrill Jockey/2012) Jon Porras - Arroyo (Thrill Jockey/2020) Jon Porras - Orilla Oscura (Immune Recordings/2012) Jon Porras - Light Divide (Thrill Jockey/2014) Jon Porras - Achlys (Shelter Press/2025)   Track Listing   Barn Owl - Night's Shroud [0:00] Jon Porras - Candlelight Mirage [2:10] Jon Porras - Arroyo [7:34] Jon Porras - Holy Hex [14:49] Jon Porras - Pleiades [19:23] Jon Porras - Sea Storm [24:15] -- Support the artists! Click on label links for download

Separately and together, Tortoise have been a cornerstone in the Chicago music scene for more than three decades and helped to early on define the (sometimes contentious) genre of post-rock. Their first new album as a group in almost ten years, Touch, is soon to be released on International Anthem records. They are this week's spotlight artist. -- Tortoise - The Catastrophist (Thrill Jockey/2016) Tortoise - Tortoise (Thrill Jockey/1994) Tortoise - TNT (Thrill Jockey/1998) Tortoise - Beacons of Ancestorship (Thrill Jockey/2009) Tortoise - Standards (Thrill Jockey/2001) Tortoise - Millions Now Living Will Never Die (Thrill Jockey/1996) Tortoise - It's All Around You (Thrill Jockey/2004) Tortoise - Touch (International Anthem/2025)   Track Listing   Tortoise - Yonder Blue [0:00] Tortoise - Tin Cans & Wire [3:23] Tortoise - Ten-Day Interval [7:41] Tortoise - Prepare Your Coffin [12:22] Tortoise - Firefly [15:56] Tortoise - Glass Museum [19:49] Tortoise - Five Too Many [25:10] Tortoise - Layered Presence [29:34] -- Support the artists! Click on label links to purchase music.

David Letellier emerged as Kangding Ray at the tail end of the Clicks and Cuts era of experimental techno. Recording extensively for the German Raster-Noton label he explored precision and the inner qualities of micro-detailed digital music. He currently runs his label, ara, and his soundtrack for the film Sirāt was recently released by Invada. He is this week's spotlight artist. -- Kangding Ray - Cory Arcane (Raster Noton/2015) Kangding Ray - Stabil (Raster Noton/2006) Kangding Ray - Automne Fold (Raster Noton/2008) Kangding Ray - Ultrachroma (ara/2022) Kangding Ray - 61 Mirrors / Music for SKALAR (ara/2020) Kangding Ray - Solens Arc (Raster Noton/2015) Kangding Ray - OR (Raster Noton/2011)   Track Listing   Kangding Ray - Brume [0:00] Kangding Ray - Status + Light [4:20] Kangding Ray - Apnée [8:25] Kangding Ray - Pearls + Lichen [10:50] Kangding Ray - Cnidaria [14:31] Kangding Ray - Amber Decay [19:41] Kangding Ray - Mojave [26:09] -- Support the artists! Click on label links to purchase music.

Matthew Sage is a self-described "musician, intermedia artist, writer, and gardener" out in the tall grasses of Front Range, Colorado. He plays an interior-reaching brand of Americana that has continued to evolve since the early 2010s. His newest album, Tender / Wading was recently released by RVNG Intl. He is this week's spotlight artist. -- M. Sage - Catch a Blessing (Geographic North/2019) M. Sage w/ The Spinnaker Ensemble - The Wind of Things (Geographic North/2021) M. Sage - Camouflage Repertoire (Patient Sounds/2012) Sage / Martens - Riding Fences (Edições Cn/2022) M. Sage - No Same River Twice (Scissor Tail/2014) Shabason, Krgovich, Sage - Shabason, Krgovich, Sage (Idée Fixe/2024) M. Sage - Lux Collapsing (Patient Sounds/2012) M. Sage - Music for Interior Shadows (Bandcamp/2011) M Sage - Rife W/ Typo (Orange Milk Records/2016) M. Sage - Tender / Wading (RVNG Intl/2025)   Track Listing   M. Sage - Michigan Turquoise [0:00] M. Sage w/ The Spinnaker Ensemble - Luffing Adrift [2:54] M. Sage - Motion Dazzle ii [5:40] Sage / Mertens - Rodeo Daughters [7:23] M. Sage - Hibernation Study [9:58] Shabason, Krgovich, Sage - Old Man Song [13:51] M. Sage - Sink the Stable [17:33] M. Sage - Maria Sheets [21:20] M. Sage - Progress Trap [24:03] M. Sage - Witch Grass [26:21] -- Support the artists! Click on label links to purchase music.

Mariska Baars is a Dutch artist whose main body of work has been released under the aka soccer Committe since early in the 00s. She is also a member of various duos and collectives that explore worlds where folk and improvised music and poetry meet. Her new album, Eye, was just recently release by morc records. She is this week's spotlight artist. -- soccer Committee - soccer Committee (Bandcamp/2005) soccer Committee - ❤️ /Lamb (Morc/2023) Machinefabriek, soccer Committee - Drawn (Digitalis/2008) FEAN - FEAN (Moving Furniture Records/2018) Piiptsjilling - In Spoar (Cloud Chamber/2023) soccer Committee - sC (Bandcamp/2006) Piiptsjilling - Fiif (Peter Foolen Editions/2017) soccer Committee - Tell from the Grass (Morc/2021) soccer Committee - Eye (Morc/2025)   Track Listing   soccer Committee - Look at You [0:00] soccer Committee - Aride Afar [2:12] Machinefabriek, soccer Committee - Very Well Drawn [4:25] FEAN - Oardesis [6:55] Piiptsjilling - Blaustimzen [15:16] soccer Committee - Flock [21:01] Piiptsjilling - Delstrutsen [23:32] soccer Committee - Song for Staying [27:00] soccer Committee - Horseclatter [28:43] -- Support the artists! Click on label links to purchase music

This week's spotlight, which is a little shorter than usual, is on Glasgow-based musician, painter and poet Joanne Robertson. She has been releasing music since 2007, both solo in collaboration with artists like Dean Blunt. Her new album Blurrr just came out on AD93. -- Joanne Robertson - The Lighter (Textile Records/2007) Joanne Robertson - Wildflower (Escho/2016) Joanne Robertson - Blue Car (AD93/2023) Joanne Robertson = Black Moon Days (Feeding Tube/2015) Joanne Robertson - Blurrr (AD93/2025)   Track Listing   Joanne Roberton - Lit [0:00] Joanne Roberton - Heven [3:16] Joanne Roberton - River Shock [7:33] Joanne Roberton - Black Moon Days [10:42] Joanne Roberton - Friendly [14:16] -- Support the artists! Click on label links to purchase music.

Photo by Daniel Aime Andy Cartwright is an English guitarist who has been playing recording as Seabuckthorn since 2008. His music, which can be found on a number of fine boutique labels, is a brand of uncanny folk that is resonant, at times unsettling or alternatively calming. His new album, A Path Within a Path, is due soon from Laaps. He is this week's spotlight artist. -- Seabuckthorn - The Silence Woke Me (Bookmaker Records/2012) Seabuckthorn - Through A Vulnerable Occur (IIKKI/2020) Seabuckthorn - Of No Such Place (Laaps/2022) Seabuckthorn - A House With Too Much Fire (Bookmaker Records/2018) Seabuckthorn - In Nightfall (Bookmaker Records/2011) Seabuckthorn - They Haunted Most Thickly (Bookmaker Records/2015) Seabuckthorn - This Warm, This Late (Quiet Details/2024) Seabuckthorn - Turns (Lost Tribe Sound/2017) Seabuckthorn - A Path Within a Path (Laaps/2025)   Track Listing   Seabuckthorn - Gathered and Unkept [0:00] Seabuckthorn - Sunken Room [3:37] Seabuckthorn - The Furnace and the Stillness [6:12] Seabuckthorn - What the Shepherds Call Ghosts [10:20] Seabuckthorn - Burnt Offering [13:36] Seabuckthorn - They Haunted Most Thickly and Sang [16:09] Seabuckthorn - Serre Noir [19:11] Seabuckthorn - The Trail Already in My Mind [22:08] Seabuckthorn - As Quiet as the Ruined House [26:02] -- Support the Artists! Click on label links to purchase music.

Cover photo by Harald Krichel -- Rebecca Foon has long been a fixture of the Montreal music scene, known as a key figure in and/or founding member of groups like A Silver Mt. Zion and Esmerine. She stepped into a lead role starting with her Saltland project in 2013 and is now about to release another new album called Black Butterflies under her own name in October for Envision Records. She is this week's spotlight artist. -- Esmerine - Dalmak (Constellation/2013) Set Fire to Flames - Sings Reign Rebuilder (Alien8/2001) Fifths of Seven - Spry from Bitter Anise Folds (Les Disques Du Soleil Et De L'Acier/2005) Saltland - A Common Truth (Constellation/2017) Sarah Neufeld, Richard Reed Parry, Rebecca Foon - First Sounds (Envision/2024) Rebecca Foon - Waxing Moon (Constellation/2020) A Silver Mt. Zion - Born Into Trouble as the Sparks Fly Upwards (Constellation/2001) Rebecca Foon - Black Butterflies (Envision/2025)   Track Listing   Esmerine - Barn Board Fire [0:00] Set Fire to Flames - Love Song for 15 Ontario (w/Singing Police Car)... [4:09] Fifths of Seven - Coeur, Arteries and Veins [7:18] Saltland - Under My Skin [12:09] Sarah Neufeld, Richard Reed Parry, Rebecca Foon - Day Three [15:27] Rebecca Foon - Ocean Song [20:14] A Silver Mt. Zion - Tho You Are Gone I Still Often Walk w/ You [24:21] Rebecca Foon - In a Time of Truth [29:04] -- Support the Artists! Click on label links to purchase music.

Mexican electronic artist Fernando Corona has recorded and performed as Murcof since the early 2000s. After making the Leaf label his primary home early on,  he's since branched out in styles, collaborations, and variety of projects, though his focus on the acoustic orchestral and it's combination to electronics has remained. His most recent releases have been under the Twin Color banner for InFiné recordings. He is this week's spotlight artist. -- Erik Truffaz + Murcof - Being Human Being (Mundo/2013) Murcof + Vanessa Wagner - Statea (InFiné/2016) Murcof - The Etna Sessions (Facade Electronics/2024) Murcof - Lost in Time OST (Casino Luxembourg/2014) Murcof - Remembranza (Leaf/2005} Murcof - Utopia (Leaf/2004) Murcof - Twin Color (Extended Play No. 2) (InFiné/2025)   Track Listing   Erik Truffaz + Murcof - Human Being (edit) [0:00] Murcof + Vanessa Wagner - Gnossienne n°3 (Erik Satie) [5:27] Murcof - Valle del Bove [11:18] Murcof - Chapitre VIII [15:54] Murcof - Ruido [18:44] Murcof - Muim (Colleen mix) [20:47] Murcof - Cosmic Drifter (edit) [25:08] -- Support the artists!Click on label links for download.