Earlier this week, we at Tone Madison rounded up our favorite music that Madison artists released during 2016. We published our top 20 Madison records of the year list, and a longer list of honorable mentions. Several Tone Madison contributors helped pick the list and write about why we chose the releases that we did. Three of […]
Mahr’s eerie electronic wanderings
Last year’s self-titled EP from Mahr (pronounced like “mare”), aka Madison-based producer Nicole Wilson, landed among our top Madison records of 2016. The record’s six tracks explore ambient music and techno with a touch that’s a bit eerie but also a bit bright, combining synths and percussion samples with scratchy organic sounds. It’s an approach that […]
Chants gets aggressive
Long before he started his electronic project Chants in 2010, Madison-based musician Jordan Cohen was trained as a jazz drummer. He still plays drums in jazz outfits, including the New Orleans-style Mama Digdown’s Brass Band, and if there’s one constant in Chants’ three albums and three EPs, it’s a devotion to syncopation and flat-out rhythmic irregularity. […]
The electronic netherworld of Syneva
The new album from Madison electronic project Syneva, Limbo Victorian, is basically an ambient record but it covers a lot of territory in a short amount of time. Its 20-year-old creator, Hendrix Gullixson, uses software and a couple of MIDI controllers to explore eerily gritty soundscapes (opening track “Storm Presents Itself Wise” and “Soaring Together”), […]
Tashi Dorji & Tyler Damon
On Friday, September 15, 2017, Arts + Literature Laboratory presents the improvisational duo Tashi Dorji (electric guitar) and Tyler Damon (drums/percussion). Tickets are $10 online at dorjidamon.bpt.me or at the door. Online sales end 1 hour before the show. Doors open at 7:30pm. Show starts at 8pm. Tashi Dorji grew up in Bhutan, on the […]
WORT Charts A Fall Bounty of New Music!
Punk icons Pere Ubu (pictured) return with their first album of new material in decades, and it’s intense! New adds from Primus, King Khan and Jessica Lea Mayfield are also harbingers of a great fall music harvest. Our world, jazz and electronic music charts are also up to date below. Enjoy the best new tunes […]