A weekly(ish) answer to the question “What have you been listening to lately?” It’s lightly annotated because I don’t like re-posting material without providing some context. I hope to write more about some of these in the future, but didn’t want to delay sharing them.
▰ [Maria Chavez reworks]((https://mariachavez.bandcamp.com/album/asleep-awake-ekawa-peelsa-spring-2021)) recordings of singing bowls on four turntables, each equipped with remarkable [“double needles,”](https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=956561938159653) meaning we’re hearing two different parts of each record simultaneously, for eight separate lines of audio:
▰ Christopher Hanlon submits deeply lofi, nostalgia-rich, crackly instrumental hip-hop in supreme slow motion with [“Old Blue”](https://soundcloud.com/chrishanlon/old-blue):
▰ Evgueni Galperine and Sacha Galperine’s superb score for the series [*Scenes from a Marriage*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGSZ7tz2FpY) deserves a listen as close as the microphones were placed to the instruments, which by all appearances was quite very close, indeed.