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. […]
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 […]
Sifting through the best Madison music of 2016
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 […]