Balmorhea’s music has always been cinematic in scope, imbued with a distinct sense of time, place, and wonder. But that connection has never been more fully realized than in the band’s new concert ...

On this edition of All Songs Considered, our resident Viking, Lars Gotrich, and I give voice to artists making music on the outer fringes. First, it's Julie Christmas and a voice that can scrape souls ...

Ahead of a 2010 Balmorhea show in Brooklyn, the New Yorker gushed in its listing sections about the band’s fourth album, Constellations. “It is an exemplary experiment in restraint, lush with a ...

When it’s done well, music, like all art, can create a truly evocative experience. Just take Balmorhea. The sextet from Austin, Texas, led by founding members Rob Lowe and Michael Muller, creates the ...

Better than: Whatever else you had planned after the busy Saturday afternoon in Dallas. A large and eager audience crowded around the small stage of the Loft at 10:30 p.m. on Saturday to see Japanese ...

Chris Hrasky wishes there was a better backstory to Big Bend (An Original Soundtrack for Public Television), Explosions in the Sky's first new album in five years. A grueling hike on the South Rim ...

Jesse Dayton has always been a man of motion. His band names (the Road Kings, the Alamo Jets) reflect a sense of movement, as does his restless curiosity about music — recently he was into 1950s Cuban ...

When "Constellations," the fourth full-length album from Austin instrumental group Balmorhea, finally sees the light of day on Feb. 23 , it will have been sitting on the shelf an entire year. In fact, ...

Sweeping generalizations aside, both Aoki and Gillis are famed DJs with similar mashup stylings, as the kids say. Both fellas like to take multiple songs and cram them all into one, a style Gillis has ...

Austin’s Balmorhea, a minimalist, instrumental post-rock project formed in 2006 by Rob Lowe and Michael Muller, is as consistently great and inventive as they come in a genre than can suffer from ...

The Wind, the highly anticipated new album from lauded minimalist group Balmorhea, is out today via Deutsche Grammophon; listen/share below. The record comprises a dozen tracks inspired variously by ...

Balmorhea, “The Wind” (Deutsche Grammophon). Among Austin’s most adventurous bands of the last 15 years, Balmorhea was formed by instrumental composers Rob Lowe and Michael Muller before growing into ...