THRU Magazine Archive
Danbert Nobacon’s new protest album cannot resist toe-tapping. Resistance is the central message of Stardust to Darwinstuff, Danbert Nobacon’s newest full-length album, and it is so upbeat that you may forget you’re resisting the presidency of Donald Trump. The album is a protest, not just against Trump, but a whole generation of conservative, corporate globalist governments in […]
Lea Bertucci’s All That Is Solid Melts Into Air I lay awake at night listening to the scratchy strings of a post-post-modernist whose youth finds the profound in things that occupy physical space, and I’m worried that if I fall asleep then gremlins will come pouring out from beneath the bed. New York based talent […]
Portland improvisers Dr. Catherine Lee and Matt Hannafin’s self-released LP Five Shapes Five Shapes lulls the mind with its gentle spaciousness into a personal creative space. It is five improvisations of nameless shapes, making one whole prime number. In case you forgot, five cannot be divided by any other whole number (hence prime). Recorded live in […]
Spooky electro artist Lota released the Amarantia EP last month on Pakapi Records The haunting introduction may lead you to believe that a droning synth-noise album is in store. As soon as you settle into that, the feeling changes. A beat drops and rhythms push out of that darkness. Psychoactive rain showers from sideways planes, […]
Qasim Naqvi’s musical response to the art of Pippo Lionni I received my copy of Chronology several months back. Composer Qasim Naqvi had asked me to review his forthcoming album before the experimental/electronic music label, New Amsterdam Records, picked it up for release on November 4. The first time I heard it, I wasn’t sure what to […]