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A traditional hymnal is a collection of timeworn favorites, designed to be sung in worship.  Lyra Pramuk‘s set is decidedly modern, in some ways the antithesis of Johnny Cash’s My Mother’s Hymn Book and in other ways a companion piece.  The artist calls it “book of worship songs: for the Earth, the cosmos, and all life-forms, living and dead.”  The shared elements are a sense of wonder, a…

Stefan Christoff is a friend and collaborator of mine, who has often contributed mixes to this blog. We are pleased to announce that our latest tape will be released as part of the third batch from Polish label OKLA, alongside a new work by the great Manja Ristić. But before we get to that, Stefan has put together a mix to celebrate Montreal tape label Jeunesse Cosmique, who released our previous…

Presque Tout launched in 2019 as a Bandcamp page, a humble ongoing digital archive of field recordings from around the world. Anyone can participate, and the parameters for inclusion are very straightforward: Make a recording from an open window, with no editing and minimal signal processing, and then email it to them. Submissions took off during the pandemic, while so many of us found ourselves…