Tag: Lia Kohl

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For roughly half of the year I listened to everything, almost or near enough. Then I wilted, or the opposite of that, for come the summer I perked up in my stool and began to listen to summer ambiances like the chirping of birds, the splashing of hose pipes and water pistols or the sizzling of a barbecue. As...

The new album by a couple of close friends and fellow Chicagoans in Lia Kohl and Zander Raymond - which they completed remotely and released this week on the French label unjenesaisquoi - is built around field recordings made in spaces of transit, what Kohl calls 'liminal spaces' like bus stops and train stations, or on taxi journeys and...

Whitney Johnson and Lia Kohl are longtime collaborators who until now have managed to mostly skirt one another on record. But last week they made up one half of the quartet on the multi-instrumentalist Macie Stewart's new album When the Distance is Blue for International Anthem, which can sound like a cloistered piano recital, seeping through the walls and...