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The Tonearm

  1. Orlando, Florida
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  1. In This Desert
    by Michael Sarian
  2. Bondo
    by bondo
    Strummer Strummer
    "There’s a feeling to each song we try to listen to, as opposed to projecting a concept onto it. We all go into each song with an awareness of what the song wants. There’s a good Townes Van Zandt quote about him writing brilliant songs, where he says, 'I didn’t write them. I just happened to be there at the right time.' That’s the feeling we have."

    Check out our interview with Bondo on The Tonearm ✨→ www.thetonearm.com/the-whole-greater-than-its-parts-bondo-on-bondo/
  3. LICHTUNG
    by hackedepicciotto
    Zeitenwende Zeitenwende
    "We had the realization that once we had left those architectural structures behind—hallway, kitchen, living room, bedroom, bathroom—why should we contain our music in the same sort of structures? Intro, verse, chorus, verse, middle eight, verse, double chorus … we just decided to base everything we do on the interaction between the two of us …"

    Check out our interview with hackedepicciotto on The Tonearm ✨→ www.thetonearm.com/hackedepicciotto-find-their-clearing-in-lichtenrade/
  4. Trip the Night Fantastic
    by Terri Lyne Carrington, Social Science, Aaron Parks & Matthew Stevens
  5. Unfolding
    by Alf Jetzer
  6. Her Bright Smile Haunts Me Still
    by Sophie Wellington
    Scolding Wife Scolding Wife
    "It's a sign of a successful folk revival that we can carry these tunes by teaching them person to person … Even if a tune is being, in some people's opinions, bastardized and played wrong, the tune itself isn't fragile. I think that the tunes are stronger when people bring themselves to them and bring grace to each other when playing them."

    Check out our interview with Sophie Wellington on The Tonearm ✨→ www.thetonearm.com/the-tune-isnt-fragile-sophie-wellington-on-a-living-tradition/
  7. Teleportations
    by Danalogue
    Moebius Triptych Moebius Triptych
    "To have that kind of hopeful imagination, just as a thought experiment, is beautiful—to keep open what possibilities we might have as a human race down the line, without it being some billionaire trying to go and mine Mars or the moon. There's got to be a more interesting way of looking at exploration."

    Check out our interview with Danalogue on The Tonearm ✨→ www.thetonearm.com/danalogue-leaves-gravity-behind-teleportations/
  8. Tongues
    by Myth Math
    Deep Down Deep Down
    "Myth Math is still kind of pulling from all these different influences, even when I'm not sampling. It's still outsider art or music, in a way, which sampling always was, because when you start using samples to create music, especially when you're almost exclusively using samples, you end up mining new territory."

    Check out our interview with Myth Math on The Tonearm ✨→ www.thetonearm.com/illegal-art-myth-math-and-the-end-of-anonymity/
  9. Curió Curió
    by Curió Curió
    Amor Doente Amor Doente
    "I wanted to explore something new. Luiza has a style, so you want to match and support it instead of forcing it into something it's not. We didn't reinvent the wheel, but we tried to express ourselves. We wanted to make a Brazilian project, and since we have inspirations and references—because we're fans, not only creators—we tried to blend it together."
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    Check out our interview with Curió Curió on The Tonearm ✨→ www.thetonearm.com/curio-curio-turns-distance-into-a-collage-of-voices/
  10. Islands Alight
    by James Murray
  11. Beneath Lifted Skies
    by Linda May Han Oh
  12. Noise Trip Explosion
    by Nolan Hildebrand
    Raw Data Speed Demons Raw Data Speed Demons
    "I always want to put forth a certain aesthetic with my art so, when things are open, I'm still giving text notes instead of just saying 'do whatever' … I don't want them to play a pretty little melody or quote some Mozart passage or something like that."

    Check out our interview with Nolan Hildebrand on The Tonearm ✨→ www.thetonearm.com/the-euphoric-and-exuberant-noise-of-nolan-hildebrand/
  13. MY SKYSCRAPER
    by Nirosta Steel
    TRIANGULARIZE TRIANGULARIZE
    "Half of my songs are about someone, and the other half are not. I realized a lot of my songs talk about the concepts of heaven and perfection when I listened to them. When you add love into that, where do you go from there? The idea of 'First Love' is okay; you’ve got love with its associations and limitations, but what if there is something else?"

    Check out our interview with Steven Hall/Nirosta Steel on The Tonearm ✨→ www.thetonearm.com/i-still-miss-someone-the-boys-of-nirosta-steel/
  14. ResoNation Trio / Ultra Resonance
    by Steven Bernstein
    Rubidium Rubidium
    "I was telling someone that as much as it's improvisation, it's also spontaneous composition. If I improvise something, you call it improvising. If I take that same improvisation and write it down, it's called a composition. What's the difference? It's the exact same thing."

    Check out our interview with Steven Bernstein on The Tonearm ✨→ www.thetonearm.com/steven-bernstein-no-permission-required-sexmob-trumpet/
  15. Dive 2: Sonoluminescence
    by Brass Clouds, Fog Net, & Volcanic Pinnacles
  16. Grub
    by Water Shrew Trio
  17. Niebla
    by Gabriel Vicéns
  18. Spinoza
    by Navin Kala
  19. Halfway to Mellowtown
    by Cento Threeo
    The Judy Valve The Judy Valve
    "I like to call it conversational music. We're trying to have a conversation. … We've been developing a language, or just becoming aware of the way each other plays, so we can anticipate each other a little more. Sometimes we coincide in really musical and fun ways; other times you're just chasing each other around."

    Check out our interview with Don Cento of Cento Threeo on The Tonearm ✨→ www.thetonearm.com/cento-threeo-always-halfway-there/
  20. CIANI/ORKEST
    by Suzanne Ciani, Metropole Orkest, Simon Dobson