

Inspired by the ideas of meditation and selflessness found in religious texts, like Annie Dillard’s Holy the Firm, and the quieter side of Brooklyn’s environment, Herb Lore’s Mysticism is an improvised guitar record that could clearly be classified as “elemental music.” Recorded largely in single takes, Mysticism finds Herb Lore discovering freedom in playing acoustic…
Surrealistic electro-folk experimentations adventurously abound throughout the new self-titled album by North Carolina Piedmont-based trio, Setting. Made up of multi-instrumentalists Jaime Fennelly, Nathan Bowles and Joe Westerlund, Setting freely improvises on banjos, zithers and synthesizers with tape loops, electronics and an abundance of percussion instruments. The trio leaned into their musical instincts by jamming loose…
Out of the sea spray mists of Asbury Park comes the mystically hypnotic sound bath jams of Monks Pond. For their fist full-length record, this heady six-piece blends together a hallucinatory brew of influences from Indian, Egyptian and Middle Eastern music, plus the stoic atmospheres of post-doom and cinematic ambient soundscapes. With immersive woody harmonium…
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