As well as being home to composer Peteris Vasks, Latvia is home to a waterfall… Read the postWeek 421: “Pater Noster” by Peteris Vasks
Many people assume that working from home is absolute bliss. Make your own schedule. Work… Read the postWeek 409: “Wind” by Jamison Isaak
You know that feeling of floating between wakefulness and sleep? Of realizing that the thought… Read the postWeek 404: “Floating” by Jesse Brown
Matthew Bourne’s 2012 album, Montauk Variations, is one of those rare records that are compelling… Read the postWeek 382: “Juliet” by Matthew Bourne
“Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it… Read the postWeek 381: “Blooms” by Dead Light
Let’s take a second to appreciate the viola. Think of it this way: do you… Read the postWeek 376: “Simpson’s Point” by Vincent DiFrancesco
What did you do between the ages of 14 and 16? Start a band? Forge… Read the postWeek 363: “Growing Up” by Ben Sollee
For a long while, I wondered why Richard James, aka Aphex Twin, named this song… Read the postWeek 361: “Avril 14” by Aphex Twin
Discovering a new band, and discovering that you like virtually everything they’ve done, is an… Read the postWeek 356: “Motion Capture” by Snow Palms
We’ve approaching the midway point between Halloween and Christmas. It’s an odd time of year. It… Read the postWeek 341: “The Lamb” by John Tavener
This song deserves to be the “White Christmas” of Halloween songs. It should play in… Read the postWeek 338: “Half Sick Of Shadows” by The Parlour Trick
Let’s take a second to thank the country of Scotland for its uncanny ability to… Read the postWeek 320: “The Gallant Weaver” by James MacMillan
Does your family have that one Christmas album that gets played every year, even though… Read the postWeek 291: “Damascus” by Oskar Schuster
As we’ve already learned, cellists are the coolest members of the orchestra. But David Fernandez,… Read the postWeek 278: “Serial Lover” by Ecce Cello
Of all the weird and wonderful phenomena that Mother Nature conjures up, the weirdest and… Read the postWeek 270: “Northern Lights” by Ola Gjeilo
Ever wonder what classical composers would have been like if they had been born in… Read the postWeek 259: “Letters Of A Traveller” by Olafur Arnalds
Picking out a winter coat is a tricky business. It’s tricky because you can’t test… Read the postWeek 240: “Blafeldur” by amiina
My house is the last one on the street, and all down the west side… Read the postWeek 230: “Within It, Along” by Tess Said So
Mister Guzzetti: Italian pianist And sound designer. When he was a kid He saw Kraftwerk… Read the postWeek 202: “Haiku” by Stefano Guzzetti
Keeping with the European theme of last week’s entry, this week we move west to… Read the postWeek 20: “Les Deux Pianos” by Yann Tiersen