“There is something special about music created by artists who must collaborate with each other from afar rather than together in person. Take the short-lived yet beloved synth-pop duo, The Postal Service. Two artists, electronic musician and DJ Jimmy Tamborello of Los Angeles and Ben Gibbard, singer of the indie band Death Cab for Cutie, of Seattle decided to collaborate with each other undeterred by the distance between them. Jimmy and Ben overcame said distance by sending recordings back and forth via, no joke, the United States Postal Service. I find this mode of collaboration endearing, and I still hold The Postal Service‘s one album Give Up near and dear to my heart. Dark ambient doom-jazz band Last Call at Nightowls followed the same formula The Postal Service employed to create their debut album Ask the Dust.” Suspicious package.
The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble
Joel Fausto & Illusion Orchestra – Inside the Throat of a Giant Insect Review
“To say the opening moments of Joel Fausto & Illusion Orchestra‘s new album are jarring would be an understatement. With a title like Inside the Throat of a Giant Insect, how could it not be?” This place crawls.
Insect Ark – Portal/Well Review
“Once upon a dark and glum time, also known as the beginning of the dank ‘90s, a bunch of enigmatic German misfits got together, formed a band called Bohren & der Club of Gore, and started playing music that was quite novel for its period.” The age of Jazz doom is upon us.