BEST-OF-2026-LIST ADDITION joshuaabrams.bandcamp.com/album/music-...

BEST-OF-2026-LIST ADDITION This feels like the culmination of a number of years / albums trying to push his sound into different territory panamerican.bandcamp.com/album/fly-th...

SLIPPERY GEOMETRY, Sub-Series H—I All these paintings are single material works, meaning the entire painting is a single bottle of ink. The variations in color are gained through dilution.

BEST-OF-2026-LIST ADDITION Rotted in Ethiopian tradition but also hybrid and not interested in being a genteel ‘world music’ album mrmorezon.bandcamp.com/album/arada

BEST-OF-2026-LIST ADDITION stroomtv.bandcamp.com/album/the-th...

farewell Éliane Radigue… elianeradigue.bandcamp.com/album/feedba...

BEST-OF-2026-LIST ADDITION mandyindiana.bandcamp.com/album/urgh

more from the cast light sketch series Alerted States, 1980 Testament of Orpheus, 1960

BEST-OF-2026-LIST ADDITION samshackleton.bandcamp.com/album/euphor...

BEST-OF-2026-LIST ADDITION janahorn.bandcamp.com/album/jana-h...

SLIPPERY GEOMETRY, Sub-Series D—III 2026 opalescent fountain pen ink on paper 16x12

Figure drawing workshop, 2/8/26

More from the Cast Light Sketch Series, this time the Long Farewell (1971) and Orpheus (1950)

Going to The Hague for ReWire in April!

Just posted the latest in my bi-monthly dj mix series. 50 tracks, 2.5 hours. Party in a box. on.soundcloud.com/9OVkgV76l2rl...

Okay, so I splurged a little in a post holiday fog: Disintegration Tape Loops box set. williambasinski.bandcamp.com/album/the-di...

It took months of fussing (and procrastinating) but I finished a new full size Slippery Geometry piece. The work is going through a major evolution and finding how it works in a new paradigm is proving to be hard scrabble. I finally found a sort of rhythm. I began to think of it as a graphic score.

Writing up my 2025 Yearbook, looking back on another year of listening. (Substack post includes link to playlist and Bandcamp pages) open.substack.com/pub/amessedi...

BEST-OF-2025-LIST ADDITION a stinging piece and performance: a delicate and subtly shifting breed of sound with variations and sonic events happening in the aural periphery. It’s the sort of album that draws you onto deep undivided listening anothertimbre.bandcamp.com/album/solo-i...

recent selections from my cast light sketch series

BEST-OF-2025-LIST ADDITION This a rare masterclass of an album. Subtle, spacious, often unexpected but also always in the right place. music.apple.com/us/album/day...

BEST-OF-2025-LIST ADDITION This album is truly, meanderingly genre agnostic. Trying to pin it down is like nailing water to the wall. music.apple.com/us/album/is-...

A like bit of amateur music writing with accompanying playlist. open.substack.com/pub/amessedi...

"Poem" by Joe Brainard.

BEST-OF-2025-LIST ADDITION harmonium, oscillators, flutes, turntables. Minimal, organic, mysterious, engrossing kraak.bandcamp.com/album/mirages

With the release of the last (?) career spanning Bowie box set, I go diving for pearls in his uneven turn-of-the-century run open.substack.com/pub/amessedi...

I love a good request. This playlist was made when someone asked me for a collection of anti-establishment music. It’s what I pulled together in an hour or so. music.apple.com/us/playlist/...

BEST-OF-2025-LIST ADDITION There’s a growing case that music in this vein represents a very new sub genre, one that I don’t think yet has a name. It’s DIY but highly produced, disjointed and dubby with elements of ambient and pop, liminal and lyseegic. leydenjars.bandcamp.com/album/illuso...

This playlist is emptied and made new every few weeks—it’s my latest tour through my own own vinyl collection. Also of note: I’ve made the switch to applemusic from Spotify. Hopefully they are slightly less evil. music.apple.com/us/playlist/...

I wrote a small essay on bands that radically change overt the course of three albums and why those transformative trilogies seem endlessly alluring and rich. open.substack.com/pub/amessedi...

BEST-OF-2025-LIST ADDITION This is an album of vibrant instrumental storytelling, abundant in rich textual detail, and it FUCKING SLAPS open.spotify.com/album/58q7CE...

My best efforts from figure drawing workshop this morning

The latest batch of 18 songs from the more planning stack next to my turntable open.spotify.com/playlist/7fc...

BEST-OF-2025-LIST ADDITION This is some seriously sophisticated and down right mad beat science. Just check the one-two punch of Three Foxes Chasing Each Other into Let Me. open.spotify.com/album/1bMzS9...

Strangely satisfying record. The stately background with crisply intoned, perplexing lists kind of reminds me David Byrne’s Knee Plays work ellenarkbro.bandcamp.com/album/how-do...

A fun little playlist made to order (we do requests!) Started with Kinks’ Big Sky and sonically free-associated for a while, then thinned it out and organized it into an order. It gained a theme of mostly spacious or stately (or both) tunes. open.spotify.com/playlist/7Jk...

This a bi-monthly mix series I make ‘cause I love spinning, even if it’s just for myself, but maybe you’ll enjoy it too? 50 tracks in 2.5 hours, mostly released in the last year. No repeats in the series. on.soundcloud.com/kSosdHF1U20C...

Mick Jones is 70 today. It made me realize he was 21 or 22 when the Clash debut released. He wasn’t even 30 before their run was complete. youtu.be/jDa8T9EM4Tg?...

Best-of-2025-List Addition What strikes me about this album is not the individual solos—which are stunning—but the songs, the charts, the interplay. It feels an album of compositional power supported and performed by amazing musicians and improvisers. open.spotify.com/album/4NQc2L...

Bill Frisell Trio in Seattle

Hear me out: as a person with an unholy love of heist movies, I say that at its heart, Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind is a heist, just of memories. Yes it’s a love / break up story, but the mechanics of it…. Plus, there’s heist precedent for someone who hires a team to steal from themselves.

Best-of-2025-List Addition Catherine Lamb has quickly become one of my favorite composers, and she’s been working with really interesting ensembles. catherinelamb.bandcamp.com/album/interi...

This collects tracks from the albums I scored crate digging in Japan last week. (At least from the albums that we’re in Spotify.) . open.spotify.com/playlist/5m6...

The latest batch of tracks from my now playing pile next to my turntable open.spotify.com/playlist/7fc...

Last couple of travel sketches in Tokyo before I head home…

If I’d’ve seen the brochure for the Kenjiro Okazaki exhibit, I might have said ‘meh, I’ll pass’ and I would’ve been an idiot. It was fucking inspiring. #museumofcontemporaryart #tokyo

museum courtyard polaroid selfie #blackandwhite #selfie #polaroid

stumbled on another record store in a far flung hood, and really… what’s just two more?

a view from the Asakusa Shrine, Tokyo