Laila Sakini - Paloma LPPaloma, meaning the symbol of peace, a white dove, is the fourth LP by Laila Sakini, and her debut for Modern Love. Invoking hope, in hopeless times, is perhaps the central aim of this album which has links and references to similarly spirited exercises: the aspirations of Veronica Veronique to fatefully discover herself through song in Kieslowski's The Double Life of Veronique, a high school band readying their first performance, a theater production

“I’m Going in a Field” — the first cover song Massage has committed to tape — closes out the digital version of the EP

where it becomes purposeful expression

In thirty-five minutes and a few seconds

Vivre la Mort du Vieux Monde evokes an (imaginary) association of Frank Zappa and Jacques Higelin

at least suggesting that in striving for the bigger ideas we might find truth

this record continues the deconstruction of assumptions around the idea of a music group or "band" to descend further into rough shards of notes and ideas

Lars Finberg has been leading the group -- sometimes being the entire group -- for nearly 20 years

step by step

highly abstract noise piece for bowed gong (gifted by sculptor Robert Morris)

It is the noisy experimental rock album that opened the door and welcomed in so many artists working behind the scenes

Spirits & Embellishments by Behavior

when it seemed like any scrappy indie band might stumble across a hit