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Audiopile Review: The tenth anniversary of Oren Ambarchi’s ‘Quixotism’? We’re gonna skip having that make us feel old and go straight to enjoying the reminder of this great album. Ambarchi made his name with his starkly minimal solo releases on Touch. But the big group blowouts he went on to...
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'Music for a Bellowing Room' is a collaborative durational work by musician Sarah Davachi and filmmaker Dicky Bahto, both based in Los Angeles. With a performance/running time of three hours, 'Music for a Bellowing Room' is an exercise in resolution, inviting the audience to shift their concentration and perception through...
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Ellen Reid is a composer and sound artist whose breadth of work spans opera, sound design, film scoring, ensemble and choral writing....
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Calluna is the second collaborative release from Andrew Chalk & Tom James Scott, and was completed following the duo's first live performance in summer 2014. Recorded over a longer time period than Wild Flowers (2013), Calluna sees the haze of their debut lifted to reveal a clearer, more expansive sound...
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The Radial instrument was designed to explore various material's acoustic characteristics in ways that could only be achieved through mechanical and electronic control. It creates sporadic dense percussive sequences & sharp reciprocating sweeps or can focus in on tiny acute angles to produce deep shaking drones among a host of...
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Audiopile Review: Say what you like about genres and sub-genres, but they can prevent some important artists being lost to history. You might argue that ‘fourth world’ is not even a type of music, it’s just a term Jon Hassell invented to describe his irreverent avant exotica. Maybe it covers...
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Audiopile Review: In recent years, Los Angeles-born, Berlin-based Jake Muir has emerged as one of the most compelling voices echoing around that deeply conceptual end of the experimental electronic underground. ‘Enmixed’ is essentially a DJ mix drawing exclusively from releases on the enmossed label. But Muir makes the material his...
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Audiopile Review: The Japanese underground is often portrayed as a place of extremes. On the one hand, you have the mind melting Japanoise of Merzbow and Aube. On the other, the ramshackle indie pop of Maher Shalal Hash Baz and Nagisa Ni Te. But there seems to be a spot...
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Able Noise are a cross-continent duo based between The Hague (NL) and Athens (GR), built around the experimental baritone guitar and drum playing of George Knegtel and Alex Andropoulos. After a few formative attempts at collaboration, they officially came together as the Able Noise we see now in 2017, uniting...
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Akhnaten is the third instalment in the Glass’ trilogy of operas about men who changed the world in which they lived through the power of their ideas, Akhnaten‘s subject is religion. The Pharaoh Akhnaten was the first monotheist in recorded history. The opera describes the rise, reign, and fall of...
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The Body have been a leading force of innovation in heavy music for over two decades. The prolific duo of guitarist/vocalist Chip King and Lee Buford (on percussion/electronics) have consistently expanded the scope of what heavy music can be. The Body has produced a wealth of groundbreaking collaborations...
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Audiopile Review: Swedish minimalist composer Catherine Christer Hennix (1948-2023) remains one of those artists who make a nonsense of cultural gatekeeping. Ye olde critical discourse tends to define art as either Apollonian (brainy and severe) or Dionysian (wild and crazy). In music, you’ve got classical, which is brainy, and rock’n’roll,...
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Audiopile Review: Robert Rental, like his erstwhile collaborator Thomas Leer, is remembered as a pioneer of bedroom synth pop. But Rental and Leer emerged from the post-Throbbing Gristle industrial scene. And as anyone who’s heard side B of their classic duo album ‘The Bridge’ will tell you, they could get...
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Audiopile Review: Joseph Kamaru aka KMRU has been one of the most intriguing experimental electronic artists of recent years. When KMRU appeared on the scene, the fact that he came from Kenya was certainly part of the intrigue. But the consistent brilliance of his work meant that any spurious novelty...
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Recital is honored to publish composer Allan Gilbert Balon’s first full-length LP. Born 1986 in Les Abymes on the island of Guadeloupe, Balon is an artist (exhibiting at MoMA PS1 in 2022) who publishes beautiful handmade books and audio on XYÄ Edition run with Uta Guan Hyë in Créteil, France...
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Continuing his fruitful relationship with Discrepant after the third volume of his ongoing Organic Music Tape Series on Sucata Tapes, Tiago Sousa returns with two long-form pieces for organ with A Thousand Strings. A self-explanatory title in itself, A Thousand Strings drifts fluidly into a celestial realm of cascading melodies...
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Juho Toivonen is a 25-year-old experimental musician from Pori, Finland whose debut solo tape “Lament & Rejoice” was released in 2021 and soon after that his sophomore follow up "Suurpää" came to see the light of the day. After these releases filled with deep drones and ominous ambience, Toivonen is...
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Audiopile Review: Melbourne’s CS + Kreme quickly established one-to-watch status. The duo’s 2020 LP, ‘Snoopy’, had real ‘what is this even?’ appeal. It was the type of record that provokes a strong but confused reaction. Is this the kind of music I like? Is it ambient IDM? Old school post-rock?...
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Audiopile Review: Big week for the ambient crowd! Shop faves Ulla & Perila drop a 2xLP set that is also the first album that the long-time collaborators have recorded together while in the same space (imagine that!) after years of digital-only correspondence. Jazz Plates is the duo’s intimate take on...
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Audiopile Review: There’s a tendency for the Basic Channel/Rhythm & Sound duo to be portrayed as a legacy act. It’s true that Moritz von Oswald and Mark Ernestus pretty much invented dub techno in the 90s and early-2000s. But they’ve also continued to produce excellent, innovative work ever since. Notably,...
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HOME RECORDINGS (2018-2021) “Who is Yara Asmar and how does she make music so strangely beautiful? The 25-year-old instrumentalist-puppeteer lives in Beirut with her cat, Mushroom, and presumably that’s the feline’s shadow next to the artist’s on the album’s back cover. The warm light of that photograph and the quiet...
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Beautiful album from Andrew Chalk and Timo van Luijk, from pastoral snaphots to some oriental dreams. Eclectic ensemble of 18 instrumental arrangements invoking an epic and existential soundtrack determined by the power of momentary destiny and reflective sentiment. Guest appearences by Jean-Noel Rebilly and Tom James Scott
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Beautiful new album by Andrew Chalk and Timo Van Luyk (with Daisuke Suzuki on percussions and Ian Middleton on "accidental sounds"). Andrew Chalk is one of the most appreciate musician in this category floating between drone and ambient music, and his meeting with Timo Van Luijk has created an amazing...
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"The tremulous, electro-acoustic/ambient beauty ’Le Nid D’Ivoire’ marks the return of Andrew Chalk and Timo Van Luijk’s enchanted duo to the latter’s La Scie Dorée label. It's an engrossing smudge from oneiric wind, brass, keys and string tones to much gauzier, gently psychedelic scenes over the LP’s spellbinding narrative arc....
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Handmade slipcase by Andrew Chalk limited to 100 copies. The unique and visionary Elodie return with the latest of theirenigmatic, twilight meanderings. Sticking true to their roots, the lush Elodie signature sound has here been further refined to a delightfully high degree. Awesome!! Finally out, the fourth album by the...
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La Porte Ouverte is the Elodie's highly anticipated new vinyl-only album, released on Andrew Chalk own Faraway Press imprint. Andrew Chalk and Timo Van Luijk have been collaborating extensively as Elodie over the past year, often helped by Tom James Scott here tickling the keys of the piano to augment...
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The fifth full-length album by Elodie, here expanding on the first concert by Elodie as a quartet given in Leuven, Belgium in November 2012, with Tom James Scott and Jean-Noel Rebilly : piano and clarinet respectively. 'Le manteau d’étoiles' collects ten airy instrumental spheres glowing and evaporating in a universal...
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A collage of recordings made between 2003-2017. Layers of time from different places in between obligations, sometimes for purpose, sometimes not. A re-assemblage of left behind sounds....
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Audiopile Review: Western psyche rock groups often nodded to some vague idea of ‘far-eastern spirituality’. Japan’s High Rise turned this on its head by having songs called things like ‘Eucharist’ and ‘Deuteronomy’. You really notice the songs titles with this group because the same ones come up repeatedly across its...
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Audiopile Review: The original UK post-rock scene was largely based in London, but it had outposts in Birmingham (Broadcast, Pram, Scorn) and Glasgow (Mogwai, Long Fin Killie). A scene also developed in Bristol, and it was a scene that clearly reflected that city’s fierce independence from the capital. Bristol post-rock...
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Audiopile Review: While its been almost a decade since their last album proper, Shearing Pinx, the Nanaimo-via-Vancouver DIY lifers, awaken from a slumber with one of their most invigorating and potent full lengths since they spawned from the pot-holed alleys East Vancouver almost two decades back. The group, which still...
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Audiopile Review: Australia’s Lawrence English is a real mover and shaker in the international experimental-electronic music community. Aside from running the Room40 label, he has collaborated with Loscil, William Basinski, Alessandro Cortini, David Toop, Tujiko Noriko, Francisco López, and many others. English came onto the scene around 2005, when Fennesz’s...
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Lifetime is the tenth studio album from Sun Araw. Sun Araw continues to investigate space as a motionless field against which many motions are observed! Stasis: wheels within and wheels without! Please enjoy this adventure in sound! Double-LP set mastered at 45 rpm....
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Although many a vibe has shifted since the days of dubbing NNF001 one at a time on the floor of a Koreatown bachelor apartment in February of 2004, using stolen photocopies and tie-dyeing J-cards with wine, the label’s essential premise has not. Then, as now, the vision was to elevate...
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Audiopile Review: Music does not get the appreciation it deserves in our dumbed-down culture. Because of this, most legendary musicians, are not household names. Still, any legendary musician with a career as successful, significant, diverse, and lengthy as Ryuichi Sakamoto’s will likely have created something recognizable to millions across the...
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Beacon Sound present a reissue of Terry Riley's Descending Moonshine Dervishes, originally released in 1982. Recorded live in Berlin in 1975, and largely improvised, Riley plays a modified Yamaha organ with variable resistors to facilitate tuning in just intonation. This is a 50+ minute recording divided into two halves for...
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John Davis is a sound artist and filmmaker based in the Bay Area. Active since the mid-aughts, he has published recordings on labels such as Root Strata and Digitalis, as well as on his own Bimodal Press imprint. Landlines sees a return to the SOD catalog for Davis, following a...
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Sedimental presents the newest work, A Rift In the Horizon's Wall (ARITHW), from Paris-based electronic musician and sound artist Kassel Jaeger (François Bonnet), realized during a week-long artist residency at Epsilon Spires in Brattleboro, Vermont in June of 2023. In addition to creating and performing ARITHW he also performed Eliane...
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Black Pus is the guttural, raw, freeform project of singular drummer, vocalist, & artist Brian Chippendale. A heavy drum foundation and distorted electronics anchor Black Pus’ sound, and remain directly connected to the intensity of Chippendale’s legendary duo with Brian Gibson, Lightning Bolt. Recorded at Machines with Magnets by engineer...
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Since forming in 2000, toe have synthesized everything from pop, post- and math-rock, jazz, R&B, and electronic into one of the most distinct sounds in rock music. Their debut LP the book about my idle plot on a vague anxiety (2005) left an unmistakable imprint across the splintered worlds of...
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Beneath the technical flash, the fury, the fearless creative brinkmanship of the first two Mars Volta albums lay a potent seam of the blues, an existential vexation that powered every twist and turn of Omar and Cedric’s imaginations. That mournful vibe would come to the surface of the group’s third...
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The music of THE BEDLAM IN GOLIATH is seething, infernal stuff, their most intense, most heavily-loaded work yet, finally even leading to Band’s first recognition from the Recording Academy by WAX SIMULACRA winning a Grammy for Best Hard Rock Performance. An album at once muscular and inventive, an album given...
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In C and Rainbow in Curved Air get all the ink (inc?), but its own somewhat subtle way, 1980’s Shri Camel, the last of the three brilliant albums Terry Riley recorded for CBS, is every bit as groundbreaking as its hallowed predecessors. Not content to rest on his laurels as...
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Audiopile Review: Very few groups manage to stumble upon a simple but unique formula. Even fewer groups manage to provide endless permutations of such a formula across multiple decades. Goodness knows how The Necks managed, and continue to manage, it. Since forming in 1987, the Sidney-based trio of Chris Abrahams,...
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Audiopile Review: Another transmission from the fertile Danish underground, though this one doesn’t skew towards the sidewinding pop that we’ve been enamoured with through the year (see: ML Buch, Fine, Astrid Sonne). Coming courtesy of the recently launched 15 Love label, who have had our full attention since releasing the...
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In 1980, Les Rallizes Dénudés welcomed guitarist Fujio Yamaguchi (The Dynamites, Murahachibu, Teardrops) to its fold. The unconventional pairing of inimitable Rallizes frontman Mizutani with Fujio’s unrestrained, bluesier styles ushered in a new era for the band that excited fans old and new. This unique arrangement lasted lasted less than...
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"On August 26, 1965, we find John Coltrane and his quartet recording at RCA Victor Studios on 24th Street in Manhattan. In the tunes tracked for Sun Ship, we hear Coltrane revisiting ground he had covered in the...
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The follow up to toe's 2012 EP 'The Future Is Now', this album sees the band continue to grow and push their sound in exciting new directions. Die-cut jacket/printed inner sleeve. FFO: Mono, Envy, Russian Circles
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