“This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.”
So it goes.
So *something* goes. For now – until it becomes something else. Yet, still – the same.
Featuring bass clarinet, and breathing.
released January 29, 2026
Periodically, things happen. The specifics depend upon whom they are happening to. Regardless, it can be understood as the union of two sets – that which is expected, and that which is not.
The expected is best met with preparation – practice makes perfect, when a thing can be practiced.
The unexpected requires something else – it asks of us a certain height. To achieve what we can, and to go beyond it, even – especially – imperfectly.
Featuring clarinet.
Local optima aren’t – plurality runs counter to true highs. Yet such sweet spots are satisfying nonetheless, and worth indulging in from time to time. Ideals, subjective or otherwise, are still a matter of perspective, and benefit from such reflection.
Featuring electric keys and effects.
A baffle makes all the difference. If baffled, consider – shifted. Though much remains similar, a new perspective offers altered wavelengths.
Featuring overdubbed tenor saxophone.
Claims are often made that such and such is, in some ways, superior to this and that. Neither this nor that are deeply considered – they are but side characters to the heroics of such. Yet when scrutiny is applied, superiority is revealed to be merely difference, where its directionality is subjective and complex. The imposition of power over difference becomes a dubious mark.
Featuring Teenage Engineering OP-Z synthesizer and riser effects.
Things – even great things – are imperfect. But, when considered in context, and in space, they can still be appreciated. Reflections on surfaces, delayed over time, give rise to a variety of perceptions. By seeing the signal in the noise generated by the signal, we acknowledge the signal for both what it is and what it can be.
Featuring flute and effects.
Hung – over.
…
Perchance, to dream,
with visions of a better.
A better?
Sometimes, stopping is
good –
a suspension of maladaptive behavior.
Sometimes, stopping is.
Featuring clarinet.
Sometimes, we live. Sometimes, we rush, headlong into the many of the many and the concerns of the lesser and the greater and the in-between.
Sometimes, we live. Sometimes, we speed, from this to that to this again and this other this that was not even a that which we thought of.
Sometimes, we live. Sometimes – we breathe.
Featuring piano and orchestral strings.
Pickups and Porsches, on the same street,
>From the left and the right, in the middle they meet,
One belies labor, and one portrays wealth –
Both reflect life and all that is dealth.
Featuring a pickup, a Porsche, and effects.
Some records speak to the moment. Unrealest documents it.
With his ninth blocSonic release, Timezone Lafontaine crafts an album that’s as intellectually dense as it is sonically raw. This is the artist in full architect mode-constructing a sonic space where broken tech, political unease, and identity fatigue all collide into an abstract reality you can live inside. If only for 37 minutes.
“Big Picture” turns advertising jargon into philosophical horror. “Tech Noir” explores seduction as surveillance. “The Ratio” gives voice to the creative’s dilemma in a world built for consumption. Together, these songs form a kind of audio collage—fragmented, frenzied, and painfully accurate.
TZLF’s collaborators lean all the way in. Headsnack, CM aka Creative, 34Pro, Blak Madeen, Donnie Ozone, and Cheese N Pot-C all show up not just as guests but as co-conspirators. Their verses aren’t just about skill, they’re tethered to the album’s themes like layers in a shared thesis. “Let’s Go” is less a cypher and more a collective manifesto.
What elevates Unrealest is its emotional depth. Amid the data paranoia and cultural critique, there’s a search for connection, for creative meaning. “Stay High” and “Victory Lap” show a different side of the project—where resistance becomes rhythm, and the act of creating is a form of healing.
Sonically, the album fuses lo-fi textures with hi-concept execution. It’s dusty, distorted, and filled with spectral voices—some sampled, some real, all relevant. It’s not trying to polish the sound of the moment, it’s trying to record the feeling of living through it.
Timezone Lafontaine doesn’t offer escapism. Unrealest asks you to stay. To look. To listen.
Because sometimes the only way through unreality… is to make something real.
After a few years, it’s great to finally have a new album by the man who’s been bringing us the incredible 20-Minute Workout on Tha Bloc Report! This album is such a beautiful sonic and lyrical journey… mega thanks to Timezone and all collaborators!
Of course, thanks once again to you for downloading & listening. We always strive to deliver the music you’ll love. Please spread the word about blocSonic, if you enjoy what we do. Remember… everything we release is cool to share! Always keep the music moving… share it… blog it… podcast it! If you’re in radio… support independent music and broadcast it!
A physical device, with keys pushing hammers via levers, was utilized. The relative position and velocity of the hammers was measured via optical sensors, digitally recorded, and wirelessly transmitted. These numerical records were reconstituted via software and samples of previously recorded audio – more numbers.
You are most likely hearing the result after it has been stored and transmitted several more times, and used to trigger very particular vibrations of air molecules via whatever digital audio hardware you have available. Finally, your ear receives those vibrations and converts it back into electrical signals, which are interpreted by your brain in a process that is still largely inscrutable.
You imagine the experience as acoustic, an organic occurrence of natural sound. But the organic experience only happened once, and we are left with this artifact – a very particular arrangement of bytes.
Featuring improvised piano, mediated via many bytes.
Know your audience, know yourself. Introspect, or obsess – a strange loop come unfurled. A journey, a place, a time to face. Now gnawingly, no notes know – yet.
Featuring improvised clarinet.
Ten years ago – another time. Simpler? Not really. Earlier, and with different players playing a different game. A new player at the time – Jazzaria – now marking its first decennial. May it see decades to come.
Featuring improvised clarinet.
Searching – stumbling. Seeing – staring. Blankly – blinking. Blinding – blitzing. Being – buzzing. Feeling – futzing.
Featuring improvised piano.
When one fears the unknown, the only solution is to investigate – and there’s only one operative for the job. The name’s Craft – Lovecraft. Otherworldly affairs and supernatural concerns are their specialty. Be thankful for what you don’t know you don’t know.
Featuring synthesizer, strings, choir, piano, drums, guitar, church bell, laughter, and effects.
Necessary. Inevitable. Unavoidable. Imminent. Impending. Foreseen and pre-ordained. Inescapable. Irresistible. Undeniable. Unceasing. Meant to be.
Featuring improvised piano.
There’s something strange – and clearly, not good. Life, stifled. Free expression, caged.
The next chapter is unwritten. Consider picking up a pen.
Featuring clarinet.
1, 2. 1 te 2 te. 1-ti-te-ta 2-ti-te-ta. 1-ta-la-ta-li-ta 2-ta-la-ta-li-ta. Hamburger.
Featuring a Wittner wooden metronome and clarinet.
Finally, the origin is discovered – the home planet of counterpoint, the source of fugues. It was always implausible that such balanced beauty was chained to one planet – and now we confirm that these semi-symmetric vibrations are at home throughout the universe.
Featuring Bach’s otherworldly organ prelude BWV 649, chromatically shifted and with effects.
released September 29, 2025
On this release, Reflections Of Stars is Wes Meadows and Dann Herwerden
Written, recorded, mixed, and mastered 9/26-9/28 2025 at Dann’s house
FPR-263
Distimed, not displaced – dancing along through technical grace. Wet reeds vibrate all the same, and fingers play a similar game. Sound that matters, sound it out – music will allay your doubts.
Featuring bassoon and clarinet.
Sometimes you must venture to places unknown, through ways unseen. Uncertainty abounds – and must be acknowledged. Allow Dense Fog Advisory to guide your caution and temper your approach.
Featuring rompler instruments, including bass, synth, strings, choir, drums, electric piano, and effects.
