Here’s a cool new musical project that feels both out-there and extremely mundane. In 2022, the great Colorado experimentalist M. Sage teamed up with Lieven Martens under the name Sage Martens. Their album, Riding Fences, was an ambient classical exercise designed to explore the idea of “Western” music. They’re back this year with another conceptual offering that speaks to the deepest parts of my dad-soul — though, based on their artist’s statement, maybe I shouldn’t feel great about that.
