I’m interested in context and color, music, and the language that surrounds it. I’m interested in the stories.
A desire to find and to share is behind just about every project and professional choice I’ve made over the past decade-plus working around independent music and culture. This website is a working document of where that’s led and what I can offer now, through collaborative projects (with you, perhaps).
Thanks for stopping by.
Featured album bio: Space Afrika - Quiet Storm
Space Afrika, the Manchester/Berlin-based duo of Joshua Tarelle Reid and Joshua Inyang, make raw, intensely detailed, visceral music with shades of ambient, trip-hop, techno, and modern classical, drawing spacious urban dubscapes from the contours of their city. Quiet Storm, the duo's highly anticipated follow-up to their 2021 LP on Dais Records, expands on its predecessor’s sound and scale in every direction as a sprawling, collaborative vision shaped with profound patience and intention. The leap, both technical and emotional, outlines the duo’s development — two polymath producers, composers, performers, and visual artists who’ve met expectations with mastery, embedding their own coming-of-age story within a moving suite of cathartic abstraction. Songs allude to spirituality and the human condition, the tension between boldness and softness, ambition and the inner demons that persist. Contributors include Axelle Fanyo, Alto Aria, Deuén, Klein, RXKNephew, Tony Njoku, Kiala Ogawa, and Kelly Moran.
Featured copy project: Ghostly x Audika & Tom Lee
In our reverence for great artists, Ghostly International has once again partnered with Audika Records and the estate of virtuosic and prescient musician Arthur Russell (1951-1992) on a limited capsule collection of some of his most memorable visual works. In 2019, we launched a handful of items from the archive of New York-based visual artist Tom Lee, highlighting postcard flyers he designed for his longtime partner, Russell. It’s been an honor and a privilege collaborating with these two stewards of Russell’s legacy, who were just as excited as we were to continue the project.
The second capsule further celebrates Russell’s visual language, bringing an expanded series of flyers by both Russell and Lee to a new spread of short and long-sleeve tees, plus a crewneck sweatshirt, and a baseball cap…
Featured curatorial project: Stack (and what’s next)
Hype Machine’s weekly discovery newsletter, Stack, launched in 2014 as “a snapshot of what’s happening in music now, from our hearts to your inbox.”
Five tracks, a featured album, a good mix, and a good read, delivered every week. That’s roughly 2500 songs from almost as many artists over the past decade.
Writing Stack, I highlighted a range of music, something interesting from each loosely defined sonic bin. The practice of listening, reading, and putting Stack together was a regular reminder that there is real joy in discovery. (I hope that it’s brought some to readers as well.)
The 500th and final Stack was sent in August 2025. Stack will return in another form. Add your email for updates here.