by eyes cast down | Apr 30, 2014 | Poems
Early in this blog’s life, I posted five poems from the mid-’90s, which I collectively call Divinations (after the book that would have contained them all). If you missed them, feel free to filter using the “Poems” tag, and there they are....
by eyes cast down | Oct 24, 2011 | Album Reviews
Bob Ohrum’s albums combine urban field recordings with drones, bass and keyboards in a highly personal, alchemical fusion. (I’ve reviewed Bob’s albums Elevated and Subliminal Listening.) Bob’s latest release (Relaxed Machinery 0020) is All...
by eyes cast down | Mar 22, 2011 | Album Reviews
Bob Ohrum, whose 2010 release Elevated I recently reviewed, returns with a reissue of his 2005 album Subliminal Listening, also on the Relaxed Machinery label. This album is Bob’s love letter to his hometown of Buffalo, NY. It plays like an urban version of the...