Articles
Reviews, dispatches, and occasional sonic conspiracy theories.
Mar 07, 2026
Cellphone Music
Music in the Sahara spread phone-to-phone via Bluetooth and memory cards long before streaming. Sahel Sounds documented that grassroots network, tracked down the artists behind the shared MP3s, cleared rights, and released compilations like Music from Saharan Cellphones. The project shows how low-cost phones and social sharing created a people-built music distribution system that labels later helped bring to global audiences.
Mar 01, 2026
Don Cherry: Pioneer of Musical Borderlessness
Don Cherry was a pioneering jazz trumpeter who helped launch free jazz alongside Ornette Coleman, notably on The Shape of Jazz to Come.
In the 1960s and 70s he expanded beyond jazz, traveling widely and blending African, Indian, Middle Eastern, and Western traditions into a truly borderless sound. His album Brown Rice and the trio Codona cemented his role as an early architect of world fusion.
Cherry’s legacy is a vision of music without borders, rooted in curiosity, collaboration, and deep respect for global traditions.
Feb 26, 2026
Mary Halvorson – Amaryllis Sextet live in Amsterdam at the BIMHUIS, 7 November 2025
Mary Halvorson Amsterdam Concert
Jan 10, 2026
Music for Yoga
A thoughtful playlist of music for yoga.
Jan 10, 2026
Hello, Peng
A tiny manifesto for weird radio and why the button matters.
Jan 01, 2026
Space Rock
Nov 15, 2025
The sound-house that women built
Nov 12, 2025
Watching Kahil El’Zabar at 229 and thinking of the older musicians: creative music in expansion.
Nov 08, 2025
Mary Halvorson – Amaryllis Sextet live in Amsterdam at the BIMHUIS, 7 November 2025
Oct 26, 2025
Endless Love with RadioPeng
Oct 25, 2025
Gianni Papa Listens: Tangerine Dream’s Zeit and the Patience of the Cosmos
Oct 24, 2025
Musical cellphones in the world
Oct 22, 2025
Genesis: The Shape-Shifting Beasts of British Art Rock
Oct 22, 2025
Brian Eno: The Man Who Taught Machines to Daydream - Part 2
Oct 20, 2025
Piero Scaruffi: A Life in Knowledge, From Italian Rock Encyclopedias to a Vast Online Archive
Oct 16, 2025
Drexciya’s Afrocentric Surrealism and the Re-Centering of US Electro
Oct 12, 2025
John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme: Recording & Pressings
Oct 06, 2025
Bad Brains and the Discipline of Lightning
Oct 05, 2025
The reclusive psychedelia of Kendra Smith
Oct 04, 2025
Betty Davis: Funk’s Untamed Catalyst
Oct 03, 2025
Rosa Balistreri ' I am not a singer, I am an activist with guitar'
Oct 02, 2025
Masks, Mirrors, and a Night at The Cube
Sep 26, 2025
Pete Cosey or the revolution of electric guitar
Sep 24, 2025
Jaco Pastorius: The Bright Comet That Burned Too Fast
Sep 22, 2025
Cosmic Frequencies: Happy Birthday, John Coltrane
Sep 14, 2025
Goodbye, O Bruxo: Hermeto Pascoal, The Mad Sorcerer of Sound
Aug 09, 2025
Grateful for Biggie at 5 Points Roanoke — A Surprising Mashup That Works
Jul 30, 2025
Henry Flynt: Appalachian Noise, Conceptual Fire
Jul 20, 2025
Les Rallizes Dénudés: The Loudest Band You’ve (Sort Of) Heard Of – And Why Google Image Search Is a Trap
Jul 15, 2025
“Canción Mixteca”: A Lament That Crosses Borders (and Breaks Hearts)
Jul 09, 2025
Lucio Dalla: The Astronaut Who Played Clarinet in the Alley
Jul 08, 2025
Keith Jarrett: The Man Who Argued with Silence
Jul 08, 2025
John Fahey
Jun 23, 2025
99 Posse: Napoli’s Radical Rhythms and Revolutionary Riddims
Jun 22, 2025
Haruomi Hosono: The Eternal Tourist in a Synthesized World
Jun 21, 2025
CCCP Fedeli alla Linea: Punk Liturgies in the People's Disco
Jun 20, 2025
Mina: The Voice That Disappeared but Never Left
Jun 19, 2025
The Holy Minimalist: Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru and the Sound of Sacred Solitude
Jun 19, 2025
Carol Kaye Said No—And Rock 'n' Roll Might Finally Deserve It
Jun 18, 2025
William Parker: The Sonic Shaman of Free Jazz
Jun 17, 2025
Falling Down the Autechre Rabbit Hole
Jun 16, 2025
The Curious Case of Aphex Twin
May 29, 2025
Finale Furioso: When Musicians Die Weird
May 27, 2025
Bootsy Collins: The Cosmic Funk Shaman We Didn’t Deserve
May 26, 2025
Exploring the Sonic World of Natural Information Society
May 23, 2025
Yoko Ono
May 22, 2025
The Brian Jonestown Massacre: Sonic Cults, Chaos, and Beautiful Noise
May 21, 2025
Moondog: The Viking of 6th Avenue
May 20, 2025
Noise, Nails, and Neubauten: A Love Letter to Sonic Collapse
May 18, 2025
Ava Mendoza: Redefining the Boundaries of Guitar and Sound
May 14, 2025
NOFX: Punk's Irreverent Jesters and Accidental Revolutionaries
May 12, 2025
The Sonic Alchemy of Patricia Brennan
May 11, 2025
Flying Lotus Is Probably an Interdimensional Jazz Wizard
May 09, 2025
Listening to Jon Hassell in a Disjointed Age
May 08, 2025
Edgar Froese: The Sonic Visionary Who Dreamed in Tangerine
May 07, 2025
Cosmic Feedback Loops and Inner Astronauts: A Love Letter to Ash Ra Tempel
May 07, 2025
Cool, Crooked, and Full of Ghosts: Chet Baker Still Haunts Us
May 06, 2025
The Curious Case of Ethan Iverson: Jazz’s Bookish Trickster
May 05, 2025
Shabaka Hutchings: Shaking the Foundations, Rewriting the Future of Jazz
May 04, 2025
Mary Halvorson: The Sonic Origamist of Jazz Guitar
May 03, 2025
Herbie Hancock and the Infinite Funkiverse
May 02, 2025
Gerry Mulligan: The Baritone Buddha of Cool
May 01, 2025
A Quirky Dive Into the World of Biosphere
Apr 30, 2025
Static, Seafoam, and Austrian Sorcery: The Beautiful Noise of Fennesz
Apr 29, 2025
John Coltrane: The Sonic Astronaut Who Took Jazz to the Moon (and Brought It Back in 5/4 Time)
Apr 28, 2025
WILLIAM BASINSKI: the man who taped time
Apr 28, 2025
The Sonic Soup of Loscil: A Field Guide for the Sonically Curious
Apr 28, 2025
The Soft Rebellion of Harold Budd: A Lullaby for the Weird
Apr 28, 2025
Erik Satie: The Velvet Gentleman Who Scored the Absurd
Apr 28, 2025
Eluvium: Music for Imaginary Planets and Very Real Feelings
Apr 28, 2025
Brian Eno: The Man Who Made Silence Weird
Apr 28, 2025
Bing & Ruth: The Sound of Your Brain Taking a Bubble Bath in the Void
Apr 28, 2025
Alice Coltrane and the Harp of Cosmic Funk
Oct 08, 2023
Wayne Shorter
