The Sonic Cloth

Ok, I've been taking a breather since March. The Sonic Cloth will be back later with a new & improved format. More fun and spontaneity to be had with the same commitment to exploring rabbit holes of deep music.  Why I need a breather Recent listening Top albums of 2024 so far 3 music podcasts to fill the void Every Album Ever Secret House Against Demolisten Chip in your pocket change to help me pay my podcast hosting fees so I can keep old episodes up while I'm on break. Donate @ https://linktr.ee/TheSonicCloth Follow @thesoniccloth on Instagram Feedback, trash talk, and inquiries: [email protected]

Sijal Nasralla is a diaspora Palestinian who makes music and maqluba in Durham, North Carolina. Dunums is a project that describes itself as "Arty, noisey, post-rock, bedroom fake-jazz for a free Palestine. Blending memory and homeland heartache into feelings, full sonic moments on family, love, rage, and how "God" will always be greater". SIjal also plays drums in The Muslims, a "crunchy, kickass punk band of Black + brown queer muzzies."   Sijal and I set out on a deeply personal and liberatory rabbit hole where we pass the aux cord back and forth at the Free Palestine party. This mixtape is quintessentially diasporic; reflecting the experience of having our feet in two cultures that are in constant and intense flux with one another. We abhor the empire but adore Dolly Parton.  Free Palestine // End the Genocide // Zionist Punks, Fuck Off Listen to the episode's mixtape @ https://spoti.fi/3SOBiDe Listen to Dunums on Bandcamp @ dunums.bandcamp.com/music Listen to The Muslims on Bandcamp @ themuslims.bandcamp.com Support Medical Aid for Palestine and pick up a digital copy of Dunums & Manas @ radiokhiyaban.bandcamp.com/album/dunums-manas United Musicians and Allied Workers (UMAW) Resources for Palestine @ weareumaw.org/news/bds

As a year, 2023 was an abomination. Thankfully, the music makers made some great music for us. New friend and fellow Flenser enthusiast, Wes, hopped on the show to discuss a bunch of 2023 albums we thought were overlooked in the usual music fandom spaces. We each chose four AOTY and then another five runner ups so strap in because this one went long…fuck else you got to do?  Ceasefire Now // Save Gaza // End the Occupation // Free Palestine Get this episode on all podcast apps. Subscribe & never miss a new rabbit hole. Wes’s Albums of the Year: Sluice - Radial Gate Fire! Orchestra - Echoes Spirit Possession - Of the Sign… John Bence - Archangels   Wes’s Runner Ups: Tujiko Noriko - Cr​é​puscule I & II Victory Over the Sun - Dance You Monster To My Soft Song! Agriculture - Agriculture BIG|BRAVE - nature morte The Hirsch Effekt - Urian   Jamil’s Runner Ups: Lankum - False Lankum Cool-Aid - Leather Blvd. Powers / Pulice / Rolin - Prism Trhä - §​º​an​Ω​ë aglivajsamë cá n​ë​lh​¶​iha i eddana pi​¶​e Greg Mendez - Greg Mendez   Jamil’s Albums of the Year: Sprain - The Lamb as Effigy Defcee & Messiah Musik - The Golem of Brooklyn Nightosphere / Abandoncy / Flooding - 3 Way Split Bríi - Último Ancestral Comum Follow Wes’s Very Tiny Glaciers project on Bandcamp Follow @thesoniccloth on Instagram Feedback, trash talk, and inquiries: [email protected]

I am joined by early metal blogosphere music writer and black metal enthusiast, Jon Rosenthal (Invisible Oranges, Decibel Magazine, Brooklyn Vegan). Jon leads us down a rabbit hole of eight fantastically bizarro black metal tracks. We’re talking operatic vocals, proggy breakdowns, Matrix-style club beats, dreamy lo-fi dirges, bebop covers, and other crimes against black metal orthodoxy.    Follow @ronofjosenthal on Twitter  Read Invisible Oranges, one of the oldest and still the best metal blog in the whole damn world Here is a list of excellent interviews and album spotlights to accompany Jon’s tracklist: Ved Buens Ende: Written in Waters Deep Into the Brousse: Lugubrum's "Albino de Congo" Ten Years Later Records of the Week With Jon and Ted: Solefald’s The Linear Scaffold Haunted By Horror: A Conversation With Diabolical Masquerade The Inarguable: Interview with Mamaleek Get this episode on all podcast apps. Subscribe & never miss a new rabbit hole. Follow @thesoniccloth on Instagram to grab the track list Comments, questions, and bullshit can be sent to [email protected]

I am joined by Mega and Jet, two-thirds of Secret House Against (@SecretHouseTokyo), a Tokyo based, Leftist heavy, Hip-hop, Art, and Culture discussion channel, to dive deep into a partial discography rundown of the idiosyncratic rapper and artist, Billy Woods. This exemplary run of albums spans six years and includes both Billy Woods and Armand Hammer (Billy Woods & Elucid) releases. In this episode, we dive into each album and examine themes, moods, lyricism, bars, and good old fashioned dopeness.  Releases Discussed: Known Unknowns (2017) Paraffin (2018) Hiding Places (2019) Terror Management (2019) Shrines (2020) Brass (2020) Haram (2021) Aethiopes (2022) Church (2022) We ran out of time so had to leave 2023's Maps release off the episode :( Follow the Secret House Against Youtube channel who will be hosting the video version of this collab episode. Make sure to like the video, subscribe to their channel, and consider joining the Secret House Against Patreon community. You can snatch up music and swag direct from Backwoodz Studioz. Check out the Caltrops Press blog and give em a follow on Twitter and IG Follow Krofle160’s Billy Woods Features & Non Album Tracks playlist on Spotify  Read Political Art As Critical Theory In Armand Hammer’s “Haram” Listen to The Rap Music Plug Podcast interview with woods Correction: In this episode, we stated that Ashes57 was an alias for Geng PTP, however they are not the same person, despite having collaborated on the visual design. Apologies!  ----------------------- Subscribe & never miss a new rabbit hole.. Follow @thesoniccloth on Instagram to grab the track list. Feedback, trash talk, and inquiries: [email protected]