Tag: Nala Sinephro

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'Where your attention is, that becomes lively' is just one of the quotes or aphorisms which David Lynch tends to fall back upon whenever he is asked to explain the nature of ideas or creativity or in his own inimitable helium-winged Midwestern way, the consuming happenstance of 'catching the big fish'. Lynch with his longtime collaborative partner Chrystabell are...

The new album by Nala Sinephro opens as a trio over a sustained tone and emergent blips and beeps, with the muted saxophone of James Mollison and Morgan Simpson's gently careening percussion giving a mercurial sense of drive to Sinephro's elegant keys and oscillating synths. Continuing more or less where she left off upon the release of her acclaimed...

  Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders, and the London Symphony Orchestra - Promises The generation-spanning album by the electronic producer Sam Shepherd, the legendary saxophonist Pharoah Sanders, and the London Symphony Orchestra carries a simple conceit, shifting endlessly around the spare framework of a seven-note melody played variously on piano, harpsichord, and synths. The ascending pattern provides the loosest of scaffolding for...