Andy Beta

3 weeks ago | pitchfork.com | Andy Beta

In the waning weeks of 1970, Alice Coltrane put the finishing touches on her latest album, Journey in Satchidananda, recorded in the basement of her Long Island home, in a studio her late husband John Coltrane had conceived, but didn’t live to see through to completion. She wrote the album’s liner notes and commented on her imminent five-week trip through India and Ceylon (soon to be rechristened Sri Lanka) with her guru, Swami Satchidananda.

4 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Andy Beta

20 hours agoPakistan: Pakistan conducts airstrikes targeting India’s S-400 Defense Systems, sources say..UNKNOWN LOCATION, PAKISTAN - MAY 10, 2025 - Fighter jets from the Pakistan Air Force launched an operation targeting Indian territory on Saturday, May 10, according to Pakistani security sources. The sources claimed the aircraft successfully struck India’s S-400 missile defense systems.

Feb 28, 2025 | boisestatepublicradio.org | Andy Beta

For most of the '00s, Panda Bear and Animal Collective scribbled outside the lines of indie rock and made up their own rules, releasing albums that flouted expectations. Animal Collective built its buzz in the mid-2000s by arts-and-crafting album covers, wearing masks onstage, and making a ramshackle, spasmodic type of indie music that could be seen as being as childlike as a tantrum. Old album reviews abound with allusions to nursery rhymes, enchanted forests and Peter Pans.

Oct 21, 2024 | andybeta.substack.com | Andy Beta

I first met Surya Botofasina at a Midtown restaurant back in the winter of 2017. Up until that point, Botofasina had been in his New York City hustle mode, whether that meant working in restaurants (like this one) or appearing in Boardwalk Empire. On that day, I was there to chat with him about his childhood spent at Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda’s ashram in California. That conversation became part of Luaka Bop’s ever-transcendent The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda set.

Oct 16, 2024 | daily.bandcamp.com | Andy Beta

LISTS The Road to Aphex Twin’s “Selected Ambient Works Volume II” By Andy Beta · October 16, 2024 My decades-long obsession with Aphex Twin started with a mixtape (it was the early ‘90s after all). A friend needed something to fill the final two minutes of Side A and slotted in one of the untitled selections from the recently released monolith Selected Ambient Works Volume II. The work of British producer Richard D.