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Audiopile Review: You may remember Naoki Zushi from our recent-ish write-up of his excellent album ‘IV’. He’s perhaps best known as a member of Japanoise legends Hijokaidan, but has surprising links to the lofi indie pop scene, specifically Nagisa Ni Te. As a solo artist, he produces truly epic psyche...
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Audiopile Review: Chicago-based duo Gastr Del Sol had an extraordinary avant rock pedigree. David Grubbs was a member of Squirrel Bait and Bastro before forming Gastr around 1993 to focus on the avoidance of anything vaguely resembling a rock cliché. He was soon joined by Jim O’Rourke, who was and...
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DAVID PAJO returns with his ongoing "M" recordings (AERIAL M, M, PAPA M, mmmm M). Eleven tracks that fall somewhere in the blue guitar-based, dreamy rock music thing, but also feature things like found sounds, intriguing instrumental passages and even vocals just to add to the ongoing mystery (misery?) of...
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Second VHF solo LP from the Pelt/Black Twigs mainstay, following 2022’s acclaimed “Evening Measures.” “April is Passing” builds on the striking solo Hardanger-style fiddle performances on the previous LP to take the music even further out, with deep drones and extended techniques defining a vocabulary that is Americana-adjacent, but a...
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VHF debut and second widely-available LP by Liam, part of a new generation of underground “American primitive” guitar players serving the traditions and smashing them up simultaneously. Prodigal Son is a portrait of an artist on the road, changing fast, recording things as they spring from the fountain. The sound...
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Red color vinyl. "Jules Reidy's sublime music maps the human experience in glittering constellations of sound. The guitarist is a driver of Berlin's fertile contemporary music scene. A wide-eyed imagination combined with technical mastery guide each work in Reidy's extensive catalog, from solo guitar albums and collaborations with innovative peers,...
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Wrekmeister Harmonies, the duo of JR Robinson and Esther Shaw, are sonic shape shifters with expansive ideas, and a distinctly dark bent. Inspired by artists such as Glenn Branca, Rhys Chatham and Lou Reed, Wrekmeister approaches each album as a new sonic adventure. Formed as an art collective by Robinson,...
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"Chuck Roth’s music wanders. The New York-based guitarist’s inquisitive style builds from rippling patterns that center the physicality of his instrument, roaming wherever they take him. watergh0st songs, his Palilalia debut, collects songs from the past half-decade, presenting an intimate snapshot of his music that draws from an eclectic background...
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Double LP version. Green color vinyl version. A classic compilation that emanated out of Osaka, Noise Forest brings together a powerhouse of early '90s Japanese noise stalwarts: Merzbow, C.C.C.C., Solmania, Dislocation, Monde Bruits, Masonna, Violent Onsen Geisha, and Incapacitants. The ultimate Japanoise collection, originally released in 1992 on the cult...
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***An almost impossible to imagine archive of underground DIY sounds from Japan dating 1979-1981. Inspired by the UK compilation album of the same name released in 1980 by Morgan Fisher, a one time member of Mott The Hoople, which features “miniature” works by an incredibly diverse group of 50...
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Geologist and D.S. meet in an expanding sonic field built up from a handful of pieces posted online. Lovingly reordering a few short minutes of music featuring the fine folk guitar chops and magic vibe of Sleepy Doug Shaw, Brian Weitz (Animal Collective’s Geologist) works a variety of loops and...
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Quabbin Winter is the latest gently fevered, psych-frayed full length LP from Northeastern America's SPECTRE FOLK—the now two-decade spanning solo-centric organized noise making outfit & nom-de-plume of Pete Nolan (Magik Markers, Virgin Eye Blood Brothers, et al) and friends. Recorded in late '23/early '24 with the help of Mike Donovan...
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Burritos, Inspiration Point, Fork Balloon Sports, Cards in the Spokes, Automatic Biographies, Kites, Kung Fu, Trophies, Banana Peels We've Slipped On and Egg Shells We've Tippy Toed Over is Cap'n Jazz's first and only full-length album, originally released in 1995 on Man With Gun Records. Undoubtedly one of the most...
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Audiopile Review: The deeper you dig into Gothenburg’s underground, the more certain names start to resurface—Hugo Randulv is among them. A member of lo-fi dream-pop favourites Amateur Hour, post-punk outfit Makthaverskan, and experimental folk collective Enhet För Fri Musik, among many others, he’s tied to a wide range of pursuits....
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While Les Rallizes Dénudés’ YaneUra Oct. ‘80 (DRFT13) was being prepared for release, a mysterious tape was unearthed. Discovered amid the piles of recordings left behind by frontman Takashi Mizutani, the undated cassette contained no recording info, and was referred to as “Unknown” during the archival process. There was...
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Operation Segerpil is a limited-edition release of 294 copies, packaged in brown cardboard sleeves with paste-on artwork and an insert. The album draws inspiration from Swedish mission work, the rawness of early 1980s bedroom electronic music, and uncompromising creative expression. Originally issued as two EPs on Förfall between 2022 and...
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A long time in the works vinyl edition of one of our favorite New Zealand albums. Rachel Shearers astonishing debut as Lovely Midget was originally released as a CD on Corpus Hermeticum in 2000. Mastered for vinyl by Giuseppe Ielasi and pressed in an edition of 500 copies, comes with...
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A collection of marvelous songs from the 13-year old Jayden Mont from Belle Vernon, PA, USA. Home recorded brilliance in the American lo-fi tradition of early K Records, Daniel Johnston, Shrimper stuff etc. Raw and heartfelt real music. Curation and sequencing by Gustaf Dicksson. Comes with a booklet containing the...
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Arriving in North America on Eremite, the debut recording by The Ancients, the intergenerational coalition of Isaiah Collier, William Hooker, and William Parker formed by Parker to play concerts in conjunction with the Milford Graves Mind Body Deal exhibition at the Institute Of Contemporary Art Los Angeles and now a...
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Audiopile Review: Blue Lake follows up his breakthrough LP, 2023’s Sun Arcs, with a mini-LP that’s apparently a warm-up for an as-of-yet officially announced full length due later this year. Weft continues down the same path that Sun Arcs initially set us on—the dusty Americana of his roots in Texas...
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Black Truffle presents a rare solo release from Konrad Sprenger, alias of elusive Berlin composer-producer-instrument builder Jörg Hiller. A prolific collaborator, Sprenger has worked extensively with icons of American minimalism such as Ellen Fullman (with whom her recorded the gloriously eccentric song album Ort) and Arnold Dreyblatt (as a core...
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Audiopile Review: The best ghost stories linger in the haunt—the shadows, the existential weight of what might be lurking beyond veiled thresholds—only revealing their full power in brief but potent flashes, exposing us to the all-too-real horror our world harbours. Waiting Room embodies the well-worn motif, a startlingly potent full-length...
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Glory Fades is a song book written using a common collaborative musical language developed by Yair Elazar Glotman and Mats Erlandsson, building intimate musical spaces, primarily focused on acoustic instrumentation with electronic counterparts contributing light and shade. Throughout the eight songs on the record, each piece unfolds according to its...
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Belt of Orion by Stockholm-based Isak Edberg is the composer’s second solo release on XKatedral, and his first to focus solely on instrumental music in the form of two pieces of extended duration for solo piano. Edberg is a composer of electronic and acoustic music as exemplified by Ondulations from...
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Slavic Folk Songs is a collection of songs and sacred chants from diverse Slavic regions, based on oral traditions and melodies often without authors or composers, with a special emphasis on Ukrainian songs. The songs have been arranged by the duo for two voices and are performed a cappella by...
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While she was waiting for her last album 'Pripyat' to be released, Catalan composer and producer Marina Herlop was restless. She was concerned about her (by then) uncertain music career, and felt emotionally unmoored. "Some days I used to sit on the balcony of my flat to catch some sun,”...
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‘Quintela’, the debut album by Carme López, a performer, teacher and researcher of traditional oral music from Galicia, is a new experimental work for Galician bagpipe. Influenced by the approach of composers like Éliane Radigue or Pauline Oliveros, the Spanish composer creates slowly modulating sound environments, and stretches the sonic...
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Limited Edition of 299 copies. Black vinyl. Urashima present the eagerly awaited reissue of Merzbow's seminal album Mercurated on double vinyl, originally released on CD in 1996 by Alchemy Records. This milestone in the noise genre captures the essence of Masami Akita's innovative approach to sound, an exploration of the...
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The second volume of the perfect pairing Brötzmann & Nilssen-Love, recorded at Zuiderpershuis in Antwerp, August 2015. The music is less frenzied and aggressive than listeners may be used to, as the musicians shared their exploration of new tools with a more contemplative approach. To be sure, both Brötzmann and...
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Self-released avant garde jazz – reissued for the first time! Recalling Kraftwerk precursor the Organisation, or contemporaries like Faust, Hünerberg employs flute, organ, bass and balloon to his DIY compositions. Over top of Gillespie's nimble, pointillist drumming (he also plays piano and harpsichord), Hünerberg employs flute, organ, bass and balloon...
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William Hooker is a musician, composer, and poet with over 70 recordings as a leader, encompassing jazz, new music, experimental music and multi-disciplinary forms of expression (e.g. dance, silent film and spoken word). He has been recognized as “an iconoclast, and one of the most innovative musicians and drummers of...
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Halki pilvien - transl. Through the clouds - brings exactly what one expects from the clouds. It is a collection of soft and gentle movements, as playful as a ‘Jan Anderzén type of music’ is always. A collection of patterns that solidify for just a brief moment in time, before...
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Gavin Vanaelst runs the space Aboli Bibelot in Antwerp where exhibitions and musical performances can happen side to side with dealings in centuries-old furniture and unique pieces of folk art or volkskunst. Gavin makes music under the aliases DJ Charme, Kassett and So Sorry. This is the first album under...
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Audiopile Review: After a few years laying low, long-running French drone-rockers France return to the physical format with a two-sided behemoth that captures their legendary live energy like never before. For the uninitiated, over the past two decades France has been piling up a totemic discography via dozens of labels...
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Audiopile Review: Nicolas Jaar is hardly one to sit still. A serial collaborator who releases work under various pseudonyms, he has become synonymous with both quality and variety—simply put, the guy doesn't miss. No work is a greater testament to that than his latest release, Piedras 1 & 2, a...
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David Allred is a prolific composer and producer based in Portland, Oregon. His new album The Beautiful World captures an enriched, realised understanding of why he composes in the first place. Dedicated to the expression of existential themes such as death, grief, longing and loss, the album’s core theme centres...
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Trost Records presents the latest release in its ongoing cooperation with Berlin's legendary FMP label, with the long overdue reissue of two classic live albums by the singular alto saxophonist Noah Howard, a key figure in New York's free jazz revolution during the 1960s. Schizophrenic Blues was a quartet date...
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Trost Records presents the latest release in its ongoing cooperation with Berlin's legendary FMP label, with the long overdue reissue of two classic live albums by the singular alto saxophonist Noah Howard, a key figure in New York's free jazz revolution during the 1960s. Berlin Concert was recorded live in...
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Since its founding back in 2014, Blume has carved a unique place in cultural landscape, issuing free-standing works, spanning the historical and contemporary, that represent singular gestures of creativity within the field of experimental sound. Joining their broad efforts in building networks of context and understanding, Blume returns with the...
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Since its founding back in 2014, Blume has carved a unique place in cultural landscape, issuing free-standing works, spanning the historical and contemporary, that represent singular gestures of creativity within the field of experimental sound. Joining their broad efforts in building networks of context and understanding, the label is now...
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Audiopile Review: It’s testament to the enormous role women played in experimental electronic music’s development that the title of 1977 compilation ‘New Music for Electronic and Recorded Media’ makes no reference to gender. But all the composers represented therein are women. How and why electronic music became a realm in...
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Minimum Table Stacks is proud to present the debut vinyl release from Voyeur’s Market, the solo project of Ashley Pridham of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Locals might recognize Ashley from her previous project, Vacuum Rebuilders, in which she played alongside Arielle McCuaig and Kayla MacNeill who would go on to form...
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Some bands you just have to hear. Japan's KOENJIHYAKKEI (aka Koenji Hyakkei) are just such a band. Tatsuya Yoshida’s (of the renowned bass and drum duo RUINS), progressive rock powerhouse is Area and ELP at their most excessive; Deus Ex Machina with tempo changes multiplied by 100; and Magma at...
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Audiopile Review: Peak Oil follow up their stunner from Wrecked Lightship earlier this year, dropping another doozy with this late ’24 contender from Lifted, the out-rock Baltimore collective that has now been whittled down to Andrew Field-Pickering (aka Max D, Dolo Percussion) and Matt Papich (Co La). Much like their...
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Audiopile Review: Italy-born, London-based percussionist Valentina Magaletti is a big fish in the small pond of Audiopile’s weekly newsletter. A serial collaborator with seemingly limitless energy, she has worked with everyone from Jandek to that bloke out of Super Furry Animals. Along the way, she’s become one of leftfield music’s...
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Marionette is pleased to present dessus oben alto up, the first collaborative recording by Andrea Belfi and Jules Reidy. Hailing from different ends of the globe (Australia and Italy) but both longtime residents of Berlin, Reidy and Belfi’s approaches have much in common, bringing together compositional precision and electroacoustic rigour...
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Circaea, the latest collaborative project involving prolific British musician Andrew Chalk (Ora, Mirror, Isolde...) debuts with The Bridge of Dreams. Alongside Chalk in this new adventure we find young cellist Ecka Rose Mordecai and classically trained guitarist Tom James Scott, also founder of the Skire label. The twelve delicate miniatures...
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