archived brainwashed reviews
Laura Cannell, “The Rituals of Hildegard Reimagined” (Brawl, 2024)
This latest album from English violinist/avant-folk visionary Laura Cannell is billed as “an offering of contemporary minimalism to a 12th century composer, a thank you to a lost uncle and […]
Oren Ambarchi / Johan Berthling / Andreas Werliin, “Ghosted II” (Drag City, 2024)
This singular trio composed of Australian avant-guitar visionary Oren Ambarchi and the rhythm section from Sweden’s Fire!/Fire! Orchestra first surfaced back in 2022 with Ghosted and they are now back with […]
Zaliva-D, “Total Withered” (WV Sorcerer Productions, 2024)
My first exposure to Li Chao’s long-running project “from the filthy concrete cave of smoggy Beijing” was 2022’s Misbegotten Ballads (SVBKULT) and that album’s unique collision of grimy, junkyard-style “early […]
Shackleton & Six Organs of Admittance, “Jinxed By Being” (Drag City, 2024)
This collaboration could not possibly have come at a better time, as Sam Shackleton has been riding quite a varied and adventurous hot streak over the last few years with […]
KRM & KMRU, “Disconnect” (Phantom Limb, 2024)
This collaboration between Kenyan soundscape auteur Joseph Kamaru and industrial dub heavyweight Kevin Martin came as quite a wonderful surprise, as their seemingly unlikely pairing turned out to be a […]
Frédéric D. Oberland / Grégory Dargent / Tony Elieh / Wassim Halal, “SIHR” (Sub Rosa, 2024)
This unique quartet unusually originated as a collaboration between two French photographers, as Frédéric D. Oberland and Grégory Dargent performed some improvised duo concerts a few years back to accompany […]
John Cage/Aaron Dilloway, “Rozart Mix” (Hanson, 2024)
In 1965, John Cage “composed” a piece for Alvin Lucier that debuted at Brandeis University’s then-new Rose Art Museum (Lucier was employed as Brandeis’s chorus director at the time). The […]
Madeleine Cocolas, “Bodies” (Room40, 2024)
This latest full-length from Australian composer Madeleine Cocolas is billed as a companion piece to 2022’s acclaimed Spectral, as the two albums have something of a conceptual yin/yang relationship: Spectral […]