Another Reddit discovery. This artist said “I recorded and performed noise from 1997 – 2003. I don’t remember why I stopped…” To which I say, there’s nothing wrong with an occasional sa…

#124“BPPV”Some more ominous drone action, creating a low-level vibe that something bad may be lurking. Ambient with an edge. But what about that title “BPPV”? My guess is that it refers to benign p…

Almost two weeks ago Jim Mckenna created a short-and-sweet Reddit post that said, in its entirety: “I make experimental noise, cybergrind and electronic music. All free. Enjoy.” There were a handfu…

There sems to be something quietly stirring in my email recently, and that something is ambient music. Right in a row, I received emails from three different artists working generally in the genre.…

#123“Like The Dust Under A Mother’s Knife” with Leif ElggrenA fantastic live recording with a fantastic collaborator. “Like The Dust Under A Mother’s Knife” is one long piece. It starts…

[NOTES: This review originally appeared on Netlabelism.com (#RIP) in October 2014 –  the twins referenced below must be all grown up now! The album is now available directly from either the G…

#122“End Of The Year Tracks #2”Kevin released several EOY tracks in December 2019, this being one of them. There is also a #1 and #3 released at the same time, but we’ll get to them when we get to …

There’s something in the air. Flooba is back with “Diario di Aria,” a wonderful mix of ambient and other electronic sounds, plus field recordings, all blended into an interesting soundscape. Accord…

Color me intrigued by the whole package here. First, there’s the performance. The notes on “Dottori” indicate this is “a list of doctors’ addresses, captured on a minicassette by an unknown person …

This is a fantastic dark ambient album from Pyewacket (one of the creative musical outlets for Dan Dolby). There are spirits and hauntings and general creepiness all over this thing. It’s available…

I recently visited the Six O’Matic Bandcamp page to hear their latest EP “Ascension Span,” but an earlier release caught my eye as it was described as “ambient bagpipe.” I drum in a local bagpipe b…

#121“Technology”The base noise for this piece is skittering electricity; sometimes it’s the main sound, and sometimes it’s more in the background, but always there. Some of the material sounds like…

#120“Battering Rams”The cover of this album looks to me like a father and son exhibiting some tension and/or emotional distance. Combine that with the title and I was poised for loud noise. Instead…

With that album art and the abundance of “brain” and “melt” references in the song titles, it struck me that this album from w.ravenveer is sort of a doctoral thesis in noise form regarding how the…

Pete Hope always makes such interesting music. A few years back I wrote about his 1980’s collaboration with Richard H. Kirk called “Black & White Medicine.” (You can read about it here but, sad…

#119“Be Like A Tree”There are three tracks here coming in at a little over 14 minutes each. The first and third tracks, “Be Like A Tree I” and “Be Like A Tree II,” are (spoiler alert!) similar. The…

I recently ordered some Kevin Drumm-related materials from JMY Music on Bandcamp and, along with the package of Drumm, I received a few unexpected and unrelated extras, including two recordings inv…

As mentioned in my recent diary entry on “The Western Buzzer” (#117 on this page, if interested), clicking through the links on that original album page led me to JMY Music on Bandcamp. And there, …

#117“The Western Buzzer”A relatively relaxed mix of bubbling static, feedback and tone waves up and down the scale. Perhaps the title and photo are suggesting that some sort of modified vintage Wes…

“I Would Not Live Always” by Crone of the Wildwood The primary driver in all the tunes on “I Would Not Live Always” is echoey guitar courtesy of Zack Kouns. Joining in are Ed Wilcox (Drums), Ben Tu…

It’s always fun to get mail, right? I mean not bills of course, but I have been fortunate to have some good musical things sent my way recently from various locales. Below are five things pulled fr…

#116“All the Voices”I’m finally listening to a new one from the expansive Drumm catalogue. This hunk of harsh showed up in my Bandcamp collection a few days ago as Kevin’s latest release. It’s one …

Earlier this year I was scrolling through Reddit, as one does, when I ran across a post from a redditor named kingosleemer in the r/experimentalmusic subreddit where they announced “I’m produ…

A three-part blast of sound for my fellow noiseniks, released by the Goat (The Church of the Noisy Goat label, that is). Dan Dolby and Steve Holmes have collaborated to bring us the excellent “I Wi…

#115“Winter”This was released Christmas Day 2024. In the spirit of the season the cover art offers a small festive scene. The notes for this release include: “Regards to the DC-Offset Police.” My l…

“Take the Refuge in the Unknown” by Nakano – Kristof – Raia – Sato Quartet When I saw Michel Kristof’s name associated with this music I was, of course, immediately in…

[NOTES: This review originally appeared on Netlabelism.com (#RIP) in June 2015. The album is now available directly from Antonio Raia’s Bandcamp page with an extra track added to the original relea…

My Bandcamp music collection continues to grow through various methods (discography purchases, subscriptions, etc.). In a perfect world I would listen to everything thoroughly as soon as it appears…

#114“Nothing Under A Microscope”Time to get back to the Drumm Diary. And what better way to dip my toe back in the Kevin Drumm waters than with the shortest release I’ve listened to so far. This is…

“Goodnight b/w Theme” plus “Get Ready b/w Down on a Country Road” by USADOWN Muteant has released a couple singles from USADOWN in recent months. They say the songs are from an unreleased USADOWN r…

The second CD I plucked from my Gern mystery box had a photo on the cover that, at quick glance, might suggest the CD would include something like Moroccan folk music…my friends, it did not. Not ev…