The Sunday Soundcloud – Dash?

As regards this and the other Musicuratum website, the last week has largely been absorbed by the work after the work, which proved to be somewhat less protracted than the former but

Spring Is Here, Today

And it’s about time, too – this winter has dragged on and on. Well, on the occasion and to put some sprightliness into everyone’s step, here are three vivacious tracks found on

Pop Noir

An up-and-coming band based in Huntington Beach, though this fraternal duo, the lead singer Luke and the lead guitarist and producer Joe McGarry, hails from Manchester

The Soundcloud Round-Up: Givan Lötz, Mithatcan Öcal, The Sandman’s Orchestra

Tonight’s round-up begins with “Strutt,” a piece which an artist and composer living in Johannesburg, Givan Lötz, has loaded on his Soundcloud page; and but for its last extra letter, the

The Musicians of Billband, Considered Individually

As a coda to the previous text about Bill Ryan’s new album, it occurred to me to roll out an omnibus post featuring one or two recordings from each of the musicians that performed on it

T-Michael

Sometimes one comes across an image that is indeed more eloquent than any number of words (or even of notes?) could possibly be, and the convocation of beautiful people that just took

Through Rooms of Music: Heidi Locher and Frederick Paxton’s “Hotel Kalifornia”

The year coming to an end conduces to thoughts about transience – and about the zones wherein whatever comes and goes might abide for awhile. Pieces of music can provide the

Daniel Rhode

Adam Cuthbért’s close friend and collaborator on the Sight/Sound festival, Daniel Rhode, is likewise a composer, and though he currently lives in Michigan while in the last phase of his

A New Recording by Pursuit Grooves

The latest project of Pursuit Grooves (as the New York DJ Vanese Smith is known) will soon be released (under the alternate moniker 91 Fellows), and on her Soundcloud page she’s posted a

A Sunday Evening Interlude: “Bizarre Love Triangle”

To chance upon an allusion to “Love Will Tear Us Apart” today was unexpected, and the encounter threw me back forcibly to the time when that number was new; it struck me, but not for

Son Lux

Glimpsed from across the Atlantic, the current new music scene in New York looks and sounds as though more and more is happening on and off the grid there, where the paths of contemporary

Wise Blood

As one might already surmise from its name, the Pittsburgh band Wise Blood – a.k.a. Christopher Laufman, who, in his own recounting, at an earlier point in his life found work in some sort of

Pursuit Grooves

Pursuit Grooves, as the multitalented New Yorker Vanese Smith is known in her work as a DJ (in this capacity she performs frequently on both sides of the Atlantic) and music producer

Ben Carey

Ben Carey is a saxophonist, a composer, and a wizard of technology – the specifics of this side of his activity, I must admit, go over my head, though I can still admire

Xavier Baert

The hour’s gotten late and some silence is in order. But silence isn’t just one thing – some silent films are actually rather musical. Some of Xavier Baert’s short films represent

Christophe Ruetsch

Another interesting discovery on Soundcloud is Christophe Ruetsch, who’s active in the hub of musical activity in Toulouse that the composer, conductor, and performer

Samm Bennett et al.

Born in Alabama and having lived in Boston, Nigeria, various European countries, and New York – where he was well-known in the experimental music scene – before settling in Tokyo

Avant la Lettre

A young band from Amsterdam, Avant la Lettre – Laurens Radstake (vocals, guitar, keys, bass, programming), Erwin Stoepman (keys, guitar), Lyangelo Vasquez (bass, keys)