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Deepest Currents is a Portland, Oregon-based music website, focusing on new releases and general reviews, as well as cultural events happening around the Pacific Northwest. Genre coverage varies widely, highlighting everything from indie rock to experimental. Navigate to the "About Us" tab for more information and the "Contact" tab to reach out. To browse what has been written already, scan this page, visit the "New Music" or "Features" tabs, or use the search function.
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Recommended Listening: Karima Walker - Waking the Dreaming Body
As evidenced by DC's 2020 coverage, we are big fans of Orindal's output, and while each artist on the label is absolutely unique, hints of s
Nathan Yoder
Feb 4, 2021
Recommended Listening: Andrew Tuttle & Padang Food Tigers - A Cassowary Apart
On their new collaborative album, A Cassowary Apart, these ambient musicians, separated by continents, combined forces to create something t
Nathan Yoder
Feb 3, 2021
Recommended Listening: James Osland - Almond Drive
James Osland is a UK sound artist who has been involved with one of our favorite tape labels, Rusted Tone Recordings, from their inception.
Nathan Yoder
Feb 2, 2021
Recommended Listening: Carmen Villain - Sketch for Winter IX - Perlita
GN invited Carmen Villain, the Norwegian-Mexican musician and producer, to paint winter scenes via sonic textures, and the result is exquisi
Nathan Yoder
Jan 22, 2021
Recommended Listening: Nick Schofield - Glass Gallery
On Glass Gallery, Montreal-based composer Nick Schofield brings a similar warmth and light, but via his vintage Prophet-600 synth. His cent
Nathan Yoder
Jan 21, 2021
Recommended Listening: Allred & Broderick - What the Fog
The duo has joined forces in the past, but their most recent offering is a distillation of an 11-hour (!!!) soundtrack to Jennifer Anderson
Nathan Yoder
Jan 19, 2021
Recommended Listening: Subsonic Eye - Nature of Things
Subsonic Eye hails from Singapore, but their sound pulls from all sorts of international influences. Twin guitar noodling on Fruitcake and
Nathan Yoder
Jan 19, 2021
Recommended Listening: Yvette Janine Jackson - Freedom
Jackson is an accomplished composer, sound installation artist, and assistant professor in Harvard's music department. She chose radio dram
Nathan Yoder
Jan 13, 2021
While We Were Away
Though the release calendar tends to thin out a bit between Thanksgiving and the new year, excellent albums do drop, and are sometimes overl
Nathan Yoder
Jan 4, 2021
Album of the Week - Nicholas Maloney - Lignum Muzek
In case you haven't experienced enough unsettledness in 2020, here is an offering of longform pieces characterized by backwoods field record
Nathan Yoder
Nov 23, 2020
Album Preview - Oleksandr Demianenko - Tapes Recorded for Watercolors Vol. 2
Just as he captures and preserves images on film, Demianenko collects field recordings when exploring remote corners of the world. Sometime
Nathan Yoder
Nov 19, 2020
Album Preview - Ian William Craig & Daniel Lentz - In a Word
For RVNG Intl.'s 16th volume in their FRKWYS series, in which they invite two musicians of different generations to collaborate, the Brookly
Nathan Yoder
Nov 18, 2020
Album Preview - Lisa/Liza - Shelter of a Song
When Liza Victoria repeats the lyric "you know I've walked down dark alleys" through the opening track of her new album, it sounds like a li
Nathan Yoder
Nov 17, 2020
Album Preview - Jordan Reyes - Sand Like Stardust
On his first album, Reyes used only eurorack synthesizer, but knew that on Sand Like Stardust, he wanted to explore a more organic sound. T
Nathan Yoder
Nov 16, 2020
Album of the Week - Ana Roxanne - Because of a Flower
Because of a Flower is Ana Roxanne's first official full-length album (though ~~~ is a noteworthy release, too) and it took five years of ha
Nathan Yoder
Nov 16, 2020
Album Preview - William Basinski - Lamentations
Lamentations is an anthology of sorts, and the massive scope of recordings Basinski has collaged together from 40 years of archival entries
Nathan Yoder
Nov 10, 2020
Album of the Week - Gidge - New Light
Sometimes nature-based albums feel lazily pastoral, but on New Light, Gidge presents PNW landscapes as active and dynamic. The title track
Nathan Yoder
Nov 9, 2020
Album Preview - Secret School - Ambergris
Secret School has expressed a love of both ambient and dance music, and on Ambergris, his unique blending of these genres with neoclassical
Nathan Yoder
Nov 2, 2020
Albums of the Week - Selah Broderick - Anam + Mat Eric Hart Spirits & Reflections
Both selections not only feature beautiful music, but are also tinged with nostalgia - the artists seeming to recognize the importance of
Nathan Yoder
Nov 2, 2020
Album Preview - Benjamin Finger & James Plotkin - We Carry the Curse
Though there are elements of drone through the four long-form tracks found on We Carry the Curse, each track is filled with unique texture.
Nathan Yoder
Oct 29, 2020
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