Field Notes
- Interview
Kirin McElwain
To see Kirin McElwain perform live is to watch a structured and intentional artist navigate cello, synths, and voice with perfect precision. A classically trained multi-instrumentalist, Kirin...
- Interview
ybot
In Seattle, ybot aka Toby McKes draws inspiration from emerald green water, skipped ferry rides, and high school jazz band recordings. The unassuming member of Basement State and side project SAD BOIX...
- Interview
Earthroom
It's a big year for Philadelphia artists at Mystery Circles - three out of four releases in 2024 have landed from the City of Brotherly Love, and this latest installment takes us to the neighborhood...
- Interview
MANNA
Manna Pourrezaei aka MANNA is comfortable existing outside of expected forms, categories, and definitions. Coming off a year of intense long-form modular live performances at Great Circles’ Passages...
- Documentation
2023 Year In Review
Our 2023 was filled with sonic textures as we continued to release a wide variety of progressive electronic, textural ambient and synthesizer music. There's endless new content out there, and we truly...
- Interview
Tangent Universes
Using field recordings, modular synths, a DIY Lyra-8, and guitar drones, Carolyn (Zaldivar) Snow creates immersive compositions from her Mid-Atlantic context exploring collective memory in science and...
- Interview
Dissolve in Sepia
South Brazil based producer Ramon Fassina aka Dissolve in Sepia blends acoustic and electronic instruments, tape loops, field recordings and modular synthesizers into dreamy and vivid musical...
- Interview
Marigold Sun
In December 2021 we released “Suspended In Blue”, a fluctuating ethereal soundscape that feels like a cluster of comforting memories hitting you all at once. Taking more of a free form approach,...
- Interview
Go Outside
As ambient music listeners, we’re often placed into an evolving world an artist has built for us. The music of Vermont musician Andrew Shaffer aka Go Outside feels more like being placed into a...
- Interview
Andrea Cortese
In November of 2021, we released “Antientropic”, a hazy adventure through a forest of texture and rhythm. Recorded to four track cassette, it marked a lateral move in production for Cortese, losing...
- Interview
No Translation
From California to Taiwan to Montreal to Cologne and many places in between and back again, Emma Palm (aka No Translation) weaves voice, field recordings, synthesizers, and atmospherics into sonic...
- Interview
Felipe Ayres
Regardless if he knows it, Felipe Ayres is a fearless musical force, pouring his inquiring energy into his various sound creations without restraint. From soundtracks and music to foley and sound...
- Interview
Almanacs
An interview with Wilmer Murillo of Almanacs on music as therapy, taking inspiration from the Honduran landscape, and his Mystery Circles cassette release, Manglares.