Archive for the Experimental Category
Floating Points “Crush” (Ninja Tune)
Sam Shepherd aka Floating Points has announced his new album Crush will be released on 18 October on Ninja Tune. Along with the announcement he has shared new track ‘Last Bloom’ along with accompanying video by Hamill Industries and announced details of a new live show with dates including London’s […]
Kath Bloom & Loren Connors “Sand In My Shoe” (Chapter Music)
The extraordinary creative partnership of New Haven, CT duo Kath Bloom and Loren Connors has haunted psych-folk fans since the early 80s. Kath taught herself guitar during shifts as a janitor at a New Haven cemetery, while Loren’s free-form idiosyncratic style had been developing since the late 60s. Between 1981 […]
Sun City Girls “Dawn Of The Devi” (Abduction)
Abduction Records reissue Dawn of the Devi, Sun City Girls’ follow up album to Torch of the Mystics. Originally released in 1991 on Majora Records, many who had discovered SCG via the preceding Torch LP were immediately alienated and blindsided by Devi and all the harshness that comes with it. […]
Eliane Radigue “Chry-Ptus” (Important)
Eliane Radigue’s Chry-Ptus is her very first piece for the modular synthesizer. It was composed in 1971 using a Buchla 100 which had recently been installed at NYU by Morton Subotnick. This double-LP was mastered by Golden and pressed at RTI for maximum fidelity. From the original press release: “Chry-Ptus […]
Bill Orcutt “Odds Against Tomorrow” (Palilalia)
“After two LPs and over half a decade spent toiling in the margins of the American Songbook, Bill Orcutt returns to original composition and the blues with his latest LP, Odds Against Tomorrow. Taking its title from Robert Wise’s 1959 film noir, Odds Against Tomorrow retrofits familiar folk/blues forms to […]
Juan Hidalgo “Rrose Selavy” (Discos Transgénero)
Discos Transgénero present an official reissue of Juan Hidalgo’s Rrose Sélavy, originally released by Cramps Records in 1977. Juan Hidalgo (1927-2018) was born in Las Palmas, Canary Islands. He studied composition and piano in Spain and later in Paris and Geneva. He moved to Milano in 1956 where he has […]
Lightning Bolt “Sonic Citadel” (Thrill Jockey)
Lightning Bolt play with abandon that is unmatched and remarkably undiluted since the duo’s formation 25 years ago. They are often called one of the loudest rock outfits in existence, both on record and on (or famously, off) the stage. Brian Gibson creates sounds that are unexpected and remarkably varied […]
Kath Bloom & Loren Connors “Moonlight” (Chapter Music)
The extraordinary creative partnership of New Haven, Connecticut duo Kath Bloom and Loren Connors has haunted fans of fragile folk and blues since the early 80s. Kath taught herself guitar during shifts as a janitor at a New Haven cemetery, while Loren’s free-form idiosyncratic style had been developing since the […]
Winfried Muhlum-Pyrapheros “Music Nova Contemplativa” (Blume)
Blume present the first ever reissue of Winfried Mühlum-Pyrápheros’s Musica Nova Contemplativa, originally released in 1970. This stunning artifact of its era has, until now, remained among the rarest artifacts in the field of cross-disciplinary efforts known as the Artist Record: sonic adventures embarked on by artists primarily dedicated to […]
Original Sound Track “Antichrist” (Cold Spring)
Cold Spring Records announce the first ever official physical release of the soundtrack to Lars Von Trier’s controversial film Antichrist, originally released in 2009. Ten years after the film’s initial release, the extreme, provocative performances from Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg in Antichrist still have the power to shock, repulse, […]
Francois J. Bonnet & Stephen O’Malley “Cylene” (Editions Mego)
First time outing from two ardent explorers of peripheral sound tactics. Cylene is the first collaboration by François J. Bonnet (Kassel Jaeger) and Stephen O’Malley (Sunn O)))). Laid bare, you have a subtle and nuanced study of their individual practices forming a titanic whole. O’Malley’s guitar inscribes a void that […]
Buddy Collette “Polynesia” (Trunk)
The rarest of all exotic LPs, like Eden Ahbez but with extra added death. This bizarre, rarely heard masterpiece brings together jazz, ancient manuscripts, and a convicted murderer… Issued originally in 1959 it originates from Phoenix, Arizona. The concept behind the recording was unusual — to bring together two unconnected […]
Third Ear Band “Alchemy” (Esoteric)
“One of the first releases on EMI’s progressive rock label, Harvest in July 1969, Alchemy was the debut album by Third Ear Band. One of the earliest signings to Harvest, the band was formed in 1968 around a nucleus of Glen Sweeney (percussion), Paul Minns (oboe), Richard Coff (violin, viola) […]
Mike Patton “Corpse Flower” (Ipecac)
Mike Patton and renowned French composer Jean-Claude Vannier, who is perhaps best known for his work with Serge Gainsbourg, have come together on the 12-song album, Corpse Flower. “Jean-Claude and I met while working together on a Gainsbourg retrospective at the Hollywood Bowl in 2011,” explains Patton. “We bonded immediately. […]
SQÜRL “The Dead Don’t Die” (Sacred Bones)
The Dead Don’t Die is writer/director Jim Jarmusch’s unique, semi-comic take on the zombie apocalypse genre. As with his recent efforts Only Lovers Left Alive and Paterson, the film’s score was composed and performed by SQÜRL, the band Jarmusch and producer Carter Logan founded in 2009. The score to the […]
Mika Vainio “Arc 1” (Sahko)
Mika Vainio left behind a lots of unfinished projects and unreleased music. This archive series is presenting some pieces which can be considered as completed works. The first volume comprise of two selections from the 48:22 long untitled recording Mika Vainio did as Ø for the radio project Ambient City […]
Dots “Dots” (Astral Industries)
Astral Industries reissue Atom Hearts 1994 ambient work Dots on vinyl for the first time.
J-Zbel “Dogs Fart Is SO Bad The Cat Throws Up” (Brothers From Different Mothers)
Originally designed as a friend-to-friend, unofficial comp to be played on your car system by the parking lot of some local minimarket with the woofers set to eleven, mullet in the wind and cans of energy drinks pouring, J-ZBEL’s longed-for debut LP ‘Dog’s Fart Is So Bad The Cat Throws […]
Eiger Drums Propaganda “II” (Macadam Mambo)
After a well remarked start last year, half-Pilotwings, Louis Ebola’s project, returns with a more dancefloor tribal oriented album than the previous one which was a bit more experimental, incorporating again flutes, weird voices and dreamy elements on down beats tempos, revivaling the early New Age/Trance era to modernise it […]
Nils Frahm “Encores 3” (Erased Tapes)
Nils Frahm releases Encores 3 on September 20, 2019 — the third and final instalment of his Encores series. The three EPs will be available as one full length release titled All Encores featuring 80 minutes of music on October 18, to follow his masterful 2018 album All Melody. Whilst […]
Sui Zhen “Losing, Linda” (Cascine)
Melbourne artist Becky Sui Zhen has been making experimental pop music for a while now, on her 2012 debut Two Seas and 2015’s Secretly Susan, and later this year she’ll release her third full-length album, which is called Losing, Linda. “It’s an album about missing people after they are gone […]
Keiji Haino/Jim O’Rourke/Oren Ambarchi ” In the past only geniuses were capable of staging the perfect crime (also known as a revolution) Today anybody can accomplish their aims…” (Black Truffle)
Double LP version. Full title: In the past only geniuses were capable of staging the perfect crime (also known as a revolution) Today anybody can accomplish their aims with the push of the button. For its 50th release, Black Truffle presents the ninth album from one of the label’s core […]
Francois J. Bonnet & Stephen O’Malley “Cylene” (Editions Mego)
First time outing from two ardent explorers of peripheral sound tactics. Cylene is the first collaboration by François J. Bonnet (Kassel Jaeger) and Stephen O’Malley (Sunn O)))). Laid bare, you have a subtle and nuanced study of their individual practices forming a titanic whole. O’Malley’s guitar inscribes a void that […]
Various Artists “Strain Crack & Break: Music From The Nurse With Wound List Vol. 1” (Finders Keepers)
After years of mythology, misinterpretation, and procrastination Nurse With Wound’s Steven Stapletonfinally chooses Finders Keepers as the ideal collaborators to release “the right tracks” from his über-legendary psych/prog/punk peculiarity shopping list known as The Nurse With Wound List, commencing with a French specific Volume One of this authentically titled Strain […]