It All Begins Here

It All Begins Here

It All Begins Here

Lisa Mezzacappa 5(ish): othrwrldly (2026) Queen Bee

oakland reductionist orchestra: west and east baying (2025) Queen Bee

It All Begins Here

It All Begins Here

It All Begins Here

A riveting together of rust-pocked aesthetics beholden to multiple eras/genres/subcultures of celebratory oppositionality. A musicking of and for electronic bodies, their neural circuitry, and their microbiomes.

The third album by animals & giraffes features a live set captured in san francisco at the marvelous medicine for nightmares bookstore concert series. core members phillip greenlief and claudia la rocco are featured with special guests kyle bruckmann (oboe, english horn, electronics), alexandra buschman roman (voice, electronics), and mexico city free improvising bassist adriana camacho torres, this record boasts other worldly electro-acoustic textures and a theater of voices.

It All Begins Here

Caustic squelch, thudding trudge and trippy squish collide in a double-EP of de-minimalized techno plagued by ghosts of early Industrial and Cold Wave.

Vintage analog synthesis, electrifried English horn and DAW-mangling comprise this distinctly alte Schule solo indulgence. Bear in mind that Bruckmann, for all his principle current notoriety as an oboist in contemporary classical and free improv circles, is the precise coeval of the fictional teenage protagonists in a certain wildly-popular, 80s-centric streaming TV series. While he is less prone to wearing eyeshadow these days, he’s been playing the synthesizers all along, and a little corner of his charred heart never quite left the batcave.

It All Begins Here