2020: what a year, right?<\/p>\n
Under pandemic conditions, without concerts or other in-person settings to share the experience of music with others, my listening became even more isolated and disconnected from whatever else was going on in music. My consumption of ambient music and other forms of beatless experimental music went way up in part because my creation of it went way up (ambient being especially conducive to socially distanced performance conditions<\/a>). Also, I taught classes on campus just once a week this fall, which reduced my commuting a lot this year \u2014 better for the environment, but worse for how much metal and techno I could play at full volume. But I needed music in 2020 as much as ever before, and it was still there to find.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Deradoorian<\/strong> \u2013 Find The Sun<\/em><\/p>\n Angel Deradoorian climbed the mountain in search of new sounds and enlightenment. That those ended up a little krautrocky is perfectly fine with me.<\/p>\n