#17. 7 June 2019

friends!

i hope you're all well. 

time is short. my greetings are suffering. but the suffering ends there for me. at the greetings. all things else are peachy-friggin-keen. 

hey so there's good music out the and i feel pretty excited that i get to listen to it. here are some things.

Merry Peers :: Merry Peers
so brad henkel and yoshi klein are two of my favorite people. and they happen to be two of my favorite musicians. and they happen to be married. and they're brand new (like 2 weeks ago or not even) parents. and they released this recording DAYS before Charlie was born. brad plays trumpet like no one else on planet earth. yoshi often plays recorders but here plays synth. the music on this recording  is 100% unexpected. ambient. melodic. sometimes a little squirrelly. moments of spoken word. just. really good. please listen.

Julia Reidy :: brace, brace
julia is a rad aussie pal who lives in berlin. on the same UK label as Merry Peers, julia reidy recently released this awesome 12 string guitar recording. her playing is subtly virtuosic and her finger-picking gloms several lines together into a singular trippy ambience. this music is really special. please please listen.

Dykes and Young :: on tour
just heard jeff and laura play a beautiful duo set in pittsburgh last night. scope their sounds and GO HEAR THEM LIVE. it's GOOD. beautiful acoustic ambient violin and upright bass imprompositions. that is, improvisations that have morphed into compositions. yeah i made it up. what?
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