Archive for the Experimental Category
Marc Ribot “Songs Of Resistance 1942-2018” (Anti-)
With his new album Songs of Resistance 1948 – 2018, Ribot—one of the world’s most accomplished and acclaimed guitar players—set out to assemble a set of songs that spoke to this political moment with appropriate ambition, passion, and fury. The eleven songs on the record are drawn from the World […]
Catherine Christer Hennix “Selected Early Keyboard Works” (Blank Forms/Empty Editions)
Selected Early Keyboard Works is the first in a series of planned archival records of the unheard music of Swedish composer, philosopher, poet, mathematician, and visual artist Catherine Christer Hennix, co-released by Blank Forms Editions and Empty Editions. It comes hot-on-the-heels of Traversée Du Fantasme at the Stedelijk in Amsterdam, […]
Colored Music “Colored Music” (WRWTFWW)
140 gram vinyl; Comes in Stoughton tip-on sleeve. WRWTFWW Records announce the reissue of the 1981 self-titled album from cult Japanese duo Colored Music. Includes liner notes in English and Japanese by digger, curator, connoisseur, writer, and legend Chee Shimizu. An incredible mix of cosmic new wave, unconventional disco, avant-garde […]
Sarah Davachi “Gave In Rest” (Ba Da Bing!)
Sarah Davachi has quickly risen in prominence since her first release five years ago, and Gave In Rest represents her highest artistic achievement. By infusing her compositional style within a predilection for medieval and Renaissance music, Davachi unearths a new realm of musical reverence, creating works both contemplative and beatific, […]
Cyrnai “Charred Blossoms” (Dark Entries)
A reissue the debut album from Carolyn Fok / CYRNAI, an Asian-American female solo artist from the Bay Area. Carolyn’s adventures in sound began with recording stories on a tape recorder at age 9 in 1976. A short time later, exploring the scattering of musical instruments and effects units her […]
Cyrnai “Hypno-seizure” (Dark Entries)
A reissue of the 3rd full length from Carolyn Fok / CYRNAI, an Asian-American female solo artist from the Bay Area. Carolyn’s adventures in sound began with recording stories on a tape recorder at age 9 in 1976. A short time later, exploring the scattering of musical instruments and effects […]
Cyrnai “Parts Of The Insomniac Wheel” (Dark Entries)
A reissue of the 2nd full length from Carolyn Fok / CYRNAI, an Asian-American female solo artist from the Bay Area. Carolyn’s adventures in sound began with recording stories on a tape recorder at age 9 in 1976. A short time later, exploring the scattering of musical instruments and effects […]
Cyrnai “To Subtle-Drive” (Dark Entries)
A reissue of the 4th full-length from Carolyn Fok / CYRNAI, an Asian-American female solo artist from the Bay Area. Carolyn’s adventures in sound began with recording stories on a tape recorder at age 9 in 1976. A short time later, exploring the scattering of musical instruments and effects units […]
Midori Takada & Lafawndah “Le Renard Bleu” (Midori Takada & Lafawndah)
Le Renard Bleu, the new musical and cinematic collaboration between Lafawndah and composer Midori Takada, and filmmakers Partel Oliva, takes a cross-generational echo as ground zero for recovering a crucial myth for uncertain times: the blue fox. As transmitted by Takada, the fox appears in both ancient Senegalese and Japanese […]
Faust “The Faust Tapes” (Superior Viaduct)
Faust stand among the most influential creative forces to have emerged from Germany in the late ’60s and early ’70s. Along with Can, Agitation Free, Neu! and others, Faust rejected the Anglo-American norms of rock ’n’ roll to start a back-to-basics and uniquely Teutonic revolution in sound—later dubbed by the […]
Raul Lovisoni & Francesco Messina “Prati Bagnati Del Monte Analogo” (Superior Viaduct)
Of all the releases on Italy’s legendary Cramps Records, Raul Lovisoni and Francesco Messina’s seminal LP from 1979 has long remained among the most beloved. Prati Bagnati Del Monte Analogo not only introduced the world to the work of two gifted composers, but also is notable for being produced by […]
Automatisme “Transit” (Constellation)
Reclusive glitch artist and electronic music producer William Jourdain has been keeping busy since the release of his acclaimed 2016 debut Momentform Accumulations for Constellation under the moniker Automatisme. From his home studio in the Quebec town of Saint-Hyacinthe, alongside his day job at Fréquences (one of the country’s leading […]
Caterina Barbieri/Eleh “Split” (Important)
Highly synergistic split from Eleh and Caterina Barbieri featuring two sides of similar audio dimensions. These two electronic sound poems slowly unfurl rich timbre and harmonics with an austere stillness that is, somehow, ever-changing. It hardly matters whose side is whose.
Nurse With Wound “Homotopy To Marie” (Rotorelief)
Rotorelief present a reissue of Homotopy To Marie. the fifth album by Nurse With Wound, originally released in 1982. Music and sleeve created by Steven Stapleton. The album is “a step on from the Dadaist rock of Merzbild Schwet, with much use of tape manipulation and classical avant-garde techniques”. The […]
Orquesta De Las Nubes “The Order Of Change” (Music From Memory)
The Music From Memory label continue their unearthing of spanish musician Suso Saiz, after releasing Rainworks in 2017, they look into one of his groups, Orquesta de las Nubes. The Order Of Change is a compilation of their experimental and minimalist ambient/world sound with tracks taken from their releases ‘83-’87 […]
This Heat “Live 80 – 81” (Modern Classics)
Formed in 1976 in Brixton, a multicultural, and – at the time – down-at-heel part of south London, This Heat were born into a music scene in rapid flux, first thanks to the punk explosion and then via new wave and its myriad offshoots into pop, rock and art-rock. But […]
This Heat “Repeat / Metal” (Modern Classics)
Formed in 1976 in Brixton, a multicultural, and – at the time – down-at-heel part of south London, This Heat were born into a music scene in rapid flux, first thanks to the punk explosion and then via new wave and its myriad offshoots into pop, rock and art-rock. But […]
Sunn O))) “White 2” (Southern Lord)
Sunn O))) have reissued their two White albums in high fidelity vinyl format. Originally released in 2003 and 2004 respectively, White 1 and White 2 were actually conceived as acoustic albums. But as Sunn O))) co-founders Stephen O’Malley and Greg Anderson note, the outcome of the recording sessions at Oregon’s […]
Sunn O))) “White 1” (Southern Lord)
, Sunn O))) have reissued their two White albums in high fidelity vinyl format. Originally released in 2003 and 2004 respectively, White 1 and White 2 were actually conceived as acoustic albums. But as Sunn O))) co-founders Stephen O’Malley and Greg Anderson note, the outcome of the recording sessions at […]
Swans “Soundtracks For the Blind” (Young God)
Swans Soundtracks for the Blind, their last studio album released in 1996 prior to their 2010 reformation, will be released for the first time on vinyl by Young God Records on July 20th 2018. Much requested by Swans fans, the vinyl package will consist of four LPs in jackets enclosed […]
Nik Pascal “Magnetic Web” (Wah Wah)
Psycho electronic weirdness from LA-based pioneer Nik Pascal (a.k.a. Head, a.k.a. 107-34-8933, a.k.a. Nik Raicevic), reissued on vinyl in a run of only 500 copies. This seriously tripped-out album was originally released in 1973 by the Narco imprint. Fans of f.i. Silver Apples, the Berlin School, or any kind of […]
Max Richter “Blue Notebooks” (Deutsche Grammophon)
Released in 2004, the LP was written and recorded in 2003 in response to the US invasion of Iraq. It has since become one of the most iconic pieces of classical and protest music of the 21st century, appearing in films such as Arrival, Shutter Island and Waltz With Bashir. The reissue follows Richter’s […]
Peter Brotzmann “Machine Gun” (Cien Fuegos)
Cien Fuegos present a reissue of the Peter Brötzmann Octet’s Machine Gun, originally released in 1968. One of the most important albums of European free jazz, finally in the Cien Fuegos series. Recorded May 1968 at “Lila Eule”, Bremen. Personnel: Peter Brötzmann – baritone saxophone, tenor saxophone; Peter Kowald – […]
Peter Brotzmann “Machine Gun – Alternate Takes” (Cien Fuegos)
Alternate versions, never before released on vinyl from Peter Brötzmann Octet’s Machine Gun (1968).