Improv and Avant-Garde

Nils Frahm Shares Surprise Album 'Graz' for Piano Day

PUBLISHED Mar 30, 2021

Continuing his annual celebration of Piano Day (the 88th day of the year), Nils Frahm has shared a previously unreleased effort titled Graz...

Colin Fisher Pushes Instruments in New Directions on 'Reflections of the Invisible World'

PUBLISHED Mar 25, 2021

Toronto-based multi-instrumentalist Colin Fisher continually pushes his music in new directions. His guitar and saxophone are malleable in...

Bell Orchestre Reboot Their Avant-Garde Explorations on 'House Music'

PUBLISHED Mar 16, 2021

In many ways, House Music feels like a Bell Orchestre reboot. Having started informally in the early '00s as a loose group of musicians who...

SXSW Review: 'Disintegration Loops' Doc Fails to Connect the Ambient Classic to Our Current Moment

Directed by David Wexler

PUBLISHED Mar 16, 2021

William Basinski's The Disintegration Loops is arguably the definitive piece of 9/11-inspired art, but David Wexler's documentary of the sa...

William Basinski's 'Disintegration Loops' Explored in New Documentary

PUBLISHED Mar 15, 2021

Ambient composer William Basinski continues to deliver new and archival recordings — most recently with 2020's Lamentations. But his defini...

Godspeed You! Black Emperor Will Debut Their New Album with a Special Film Broadcast

PUBLISHED Mar 11, 2021

Next month, Godspeed You! Black Emperor will return with G_d's Pee AT STATES END!, their first new material since 2017's Luciferian Towers....

Alessandro Cortini Returns with New Album 'SCURO CHIARO'

PUBLISHED Mar 10, 2021

After turning it up to 11 on 2019's VOLUME MASSIMO, Alessandro Cortini has shared details of a new album. The onetime Nine Inch Nails membe...

Sarah Neufeld Heads into the Mediterranean Wilderness in "With Love and Blindness" Video

PUBLISHED Mar 10, 2021

Arcade Fire and Bell Orchestre mainstay Sarah Neufeld is due to release her third solo album Detritus in May, and today, she is sharing a n...