Archive for the Experimental Category
Nik Pascal “Zero Gravity” (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 1972 by the Narco imprint. Fans of f.i. Silver Apples, the Berlin School, or any kind of […]
Jenny Hval “The Long Sleep” (Sacred Bones)
The follow-up to Jenny Hval’s acclaimed 2016 album Blood Bitch is The Long Sleep, an adventurous new EP that sees the Norwegian multidisciplinary artist embracing an instinctive, even subconscious, approach to creating meaning. In contrast to Hval’s more explicitly conceptual work, The Long Sleep foregrounds the act of composition itself, […]
Nik Pascal “Sixth Ear” (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 1972 by the Narco imprint. Fans of f.i. Silver Apples, the Berlin School, or any kind of […]
The Caretaker “Everywhere At The End Of Time – Stage 4” (History Always Favours the Winners)
The Caretaker slips beyond recognition in the first “post awareness” stage of Everywhere At The End Of Time. The ability to recall singular memories gives way to confusions and horror. It’s the beginning of an eventual process where all memories begin to become more fluid through entanglements, repetition, and rupture. […]
Jonny Greenwood “Bodysong” (XL Recordings)
Bodysong. is Jonny Greenwood’s first original score for a film, and makes up the soundtrack to a BAFTA winning documentary film of the same name, directed by Simon Pummell. “Bodysong boasts an abundance of forward-looking ideas and possibilities, a conversation between melody and cacophony that can provoke with finesse. Not […]
Jan Jelinek & Computer Soup ” Improvisations And Edits, Tokyo 26.09.2001″ (Faitiche)
Faitiche present the first vinyl issue of Improvisations And Edits, Tokyo 26.09.2001, originally released on CD in 2002 on Soup-Disk. Jan Jelinek and the Japanese trio Computer Soup (Satoru Hori – trumpet; Osamu Okubo – toys and electronics; Kei Ikeda – toys and electronics) present eight tracks, all recorded one […]
Taj Mahal Travellers “August 1974” (Aguirre)
Aguirre Records present a reissue of Taj Mahal Travellers’ August 1974, originally released in 1975. A monumental work by the Japanese experimental music ensemble. In April 1972 a group of Japanese musicians set off from Rotterdam in a Volkswagen van. As they crossed Europe and then made their way through […]
Huerco S “For Those of You Who Know (and Also Those Who Have” (Proibito)
REPRESSED – Please note new artwork – Nine of the densest ambient and meditative music pieces since the dawn of music!! Sounds both extremely of this time. and of no time whatsoever. Monolithic and stark but extremely warm. intensely personal. and for every one in every which way. We are […]
Eva Geist “Defsan” (Macadam Mambo)
First album of the talented Eva Geist. a journey into the deepness of her enchanting music. a world full of fantasy. This is probably one of the most singular. surprising and brilliant electronic project in the genre at the moment. And amazing artwork by the genius Maria Torres
The Body “I Have Fought Against It, But I Can’t Any Longer” (Thrill Jockey)
Absolutely no one makes music like The Body. On their follow up to 2016’s acclaimed No One Deserves Happiness, the Portland duo of Lee Buford and Chip King conjure the sublime from the unexpected by turning their compositional approach on its head. The Body continue to defy the constraints of […]
Jean-Michel Blais “Dans Ma Main” (Arts & Crafts)
Jean-Michel Blais is a neoclassical pianist and composer that pairs pop melodicism and classical training with lush electronics and surprising improvisational turns. Blais’ compositions feel as lucid as they do dream-like, weaving together expressive piano with austere synths.
Dylan Carlson “Conquistador” (Sargent House)
In the year of his 50th birthday, Earth’s Dylan Carlson mounts his 4th solo album Conquistador, spelling out a signature, disenchanted sound ideal for brooding in the desert while waiting for the eschaton. Accompanied by Converge guitarist Kurt Ballou on 2nd guitar and production, as well as Emma Ruth Rundle […]
Grouper “Grid Of Points” (Kranky)
Not long after recording her tenth album Ruins, Liz Harris traveled to Wyoming to work on art and record music. She found herself drawn towards the pairing of skeletal piano phrasing with spare, rich bursts of vocal harmony. A series of stark songs emerged, minimal and vulnerable, woven with emotive […]
Roberto Musci/Giovanni Veno “Water Messages On Desert Sand” (ReR)
Following up on the material reissued via Music From Memory, here is a reissue of Roberto Musci and Giovanni Venosta’s sought after ambient masterpiece from 1987. The album realises sound from electric, acoustic and documentary source, taking ethnic field recordings (from Africa, Indonesia, Asia, India) as the thematic centre. While […]
Mystic Jungle “Night of Cheetah” (Periodica)
Minimalistic funk and boogie disco jams by Mystic Jungle.
Jonny Nash & Lindsay Todd “Fauna Mapping” (Island of the Gods)
Jonny Nash (Guissian Curve / Melody is Truth) and Firecracker s Lindsay Todd get barefoot and turn out a stunner of an LP. Over the course of twelve compositions we find the pair utilising their recordings in a whole host of ways. avoiding the well-trodden cliches of the exotic and […]
Palta “Universal” (Melody as Truth)
With his debut MAT release entitled Universel. Palta almost paints with sound. Working a defined palette with subtlety and clarity of vision. we are taken to places that are alien yet somehow familiar a world whose delicate exterior belies a profound depth and power.
Dark Buddha Rising “II” (Neurot)
Prepare the mind, the body, the deepest recesses of the soul: the black gates that Dark Buddha Rising opened a decade ago with I open further in 2018: the band’s II EP continues to twist spiritual gyres and follow calls from beyond. For ten years, this Finnish band has convened […]
Maya Deren “Divine Horsemen Of Haiti” (Psychic Sounds)
MAYA DEREN journeyed to Haiti to make a film of ritual dances, instead, she came to be accepted as a Voudoun initiate, whose devotees commune with the cosmic powers through invocation, offerings, song and dance of the Voudoun pantheon of deities, or Loa, whom are witnessed as being living gods […]
Stars of the Lid “Gravitational Pull Vs. The Desire For An Aquatic Life” (Kranky)
The release of Music For Nitrous Oxide, the 1995 debut by Stars Of The Lid, heralded a new strain of the American underground music scene, one born of the heat and humidity, boredom, and the insular, constipated, rock-ist music scene of Austin, Texas, home of the duo of Brian McBride […]
The Nightcrawlers “Boombox” (Anthology Recordings)
Double LP version. Gatefold sleeve. “Deep, diverse, and unheralded, the Philadelphia ambient electronic music scene of the 1980s is explored with The Nightcrawlers’ The Biophonic Boombox Recordings, an expansive archival collection documenting the hard-knuckled kosmische synthesizer trio’s home recordings self-released and distributed over 35 cassettes between 1980 and 1991. Featuring […]
Corrupted “Felicific” (Cold Spring)
Corrupted is a mysterious Japanese doom metal band, formed in 1994. Immensely down-tuned guitar and crushingly slow bass are shrouded under deep layers of feedback. They are rightly hailed as one of the heaviest and darkest doom metal bands of all time. This record isn’t your standard doom fare. The […]
Robbie Basho “Live in Forli, Italy 1982” (ESP-Disk)
Robbie Basho (1940-86), who died young after a stroke, never got his due in the culture at large, but steel-string guitar enthusiasts have known for decades that he was one of the greats of “American Primitivism”. Technically adept and compositionally imaginative, fusing the music of many cultures into a mesmerizing […]
Derek Bailey “Lot 74” (Honest Jon’s)
Honest Jon’s Records present a reissue of Derek Bailey’s Lot 74, originally released by Incus in 1974. Recorded at a private house in West London, the side-long title track is a masterwork: a twenty-two-minute, starkly personal, freely expressive, itchily searching re-casting of orders of rhythm and sound into a new, […]