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"I'm considering, I'm considering, a move to Gothenburg Alongside being in possession of the last great previously untaken band name, Treasury of Puppies arrive with a debut album that adds increasing cogency to the argument that Sweden is producing the most interesting new music in the world right now, with Gothenburg its... -
There isn’t much to go on other than the soundscapes when it comes to Civilistjävel! What is rumoured to be a figment of the pre-internet era tapping into a similar consciousness as Biosphere, Chain Reaction or early Fax +49-69/450464 is ultimately left up to second guessing For the average listener crossing paths with the... -
Famed free jazz concert registration of an early New Direction for the Art performance Recorded in 1971 The performance by Takayanagi Masayuki New Direction for the Art at the Gen'yasai festival on August 14, 1971 was an intense, bruising collision between the radical, anti-establishment politics of the period in Japan and the... -
Ferocious JP/US free jazz bomb A rare meeting between the NYC free jazz scene and the Japanese free music scene Following hot on the heels of the first, mid-sixties generation of Japanese free jazz players like Kaoru Abe, Masayuki Takayanagi, Yōsuke Yamashita, Motoharu Yoshizawa, etc, an exciting second wave of younger players... -
“The following story might be bullshit (drug use and memory enhancements): years ago I was sitting at home staring into the middle distance and the phone on the wall rang (that should denote how long ago this was) On the other end was the booker from The Bottom of the Hill in San Francisco, who had never called me before She was... -
Jon K & Elle Andrews' MAL imprint returns with its second release - a long rumoured excursion from Equiknoxx skippers Gavin “Gavsborg” Blair and Jordan “Time Cow” Chung operating under the Gav & Jord masthead for the first time It’s their most probing x tight set of productions thus far - showcasing that... -
When words trail off at the beginning of claire rousay’s “everything perfect is already here,” ornate instrumentation is waiting to fill a void left by the breakdown of language Yet it becomes clear as we trace rousay’s collaged sonic pathway that breakdown, of meaning and also of melody, is also a place to rest everything... -
Having assembled 99 collaborators for their previous album The Consuming Flame, on their new album Baltimore-based electronic duo Matmos focus upon just one person: Polish polymath Bogusław Schaeffer Celebrated in his native land but not widely known beyond, Schaeffer innovated for decades across the boundaries of classical... -
It is shocking what your mind will choose to forget Almost always it needs a tear, a clean dash, a straight passage into what you've already known Looking back, West Kensington has achieved that very goal: creating a landscape for memory, an imprint of that horizon, suspended in the cosmos I heard it in real-time, percolating... -
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West African rhythms collide with just intonation guitars, art-fire saxophone, minimalist grooves, and collaged zapdowns on Interventions, the powerful third full-length from Baltimore's Horse Lords The band's Northern Spy debut is also the first Horse Lords album to explore the classic studio-as-weaponry strategies of yore,... -
Jon Porras draws a staggering array of atmospheres out of even the simplest instrumentation Across his work as one-half of psych-drone duo Barn Owl and his solo releases, Porras welds monoliths and ether into propulsive music that is deeply felt Arroyo, named for the Spanish word for “stream” in a nod to Porras’ heritage as... -
The music of Dewey Mahood is steadfast in its pursuit of transcendence For the past two decades as Plankton Wat, Mahood has contoured his melodic guitar playing into wholly transfiguring pieces His fluid compositions apply ethereal, elastic textures to grounded rhythmic grooves that recall the cosmic and the earthly in equal... -
The Swedish duo's mini-album touches upon a variety of moods, tones, beats and grooves that eschew genre and definition - seamlessly blending acid disco, thumping techno, rock, dub, acoustic instrumentation and more “The album is deeply rooted in a feeling of liminality,” say Mount Liberation Unlimited duo Tom and Niklas... -
2022 limited restock Alga Marghen presents a reissue of Intersystems' Peachy (1967) The sound work of Intersystems cannibalized stray bits of McLuhanism, psychedelia, Cagean experimentalism, and even the modernist gestural strains of nascent electronic music, yet it was all couched within a very particular DIY ethos Peachy pushes... -
Alga Marghen presents a reissue of Intersystems' Free Psychedelic Poster Inside (1968) Intersystems occupied a difficult-to-reach critical nook between the many tropes that had established to frame the various artistic trends of 1960s Announcing itself with a quivering beam of fluorescent sound, the beginning of Intersystems' Free... -
Vinyl reissue of an album originally released in 2015 While most ensembles are driven by personalities, the Necks are powered by an idea A very large and simple idea -- which now seems completely obvious but only because the Necks thought of it and made it work Now their pleasure is sequentially to re-imagine and explore that idea... -
A sprawling collection by Belgian loner blues savant Bram Devens aka Ignatz encapsulating the mystery, murk, and melancholy of his uncanny craft at its most windswept and wayward Originally issued via Goaty Tapes in September of 2015, this long-anticipated vinyl edition expands the saga with an additional 17 minutes of archival... -
Alga Marghen present the first ever release of Illuminations, or Charlemagne Palestine and Simone Forti duo interactions, illuminated with dim red lights In early 1970 Mort Subotnick asked Charlemagne Palestine to join his soon to be created Media Department at the new "Dream School of the Future" endowed by the Disneys to be... -
Alga Marghen presents the second and final chapter in documenting Charlemagne Palestine and Simone Forti seminal collaborations The Meditative Sound Environments LP is more centered around electronic music and also includes a unique two-voice work based on Simone's chanting, the magically suspended "Simone Tape" All the tracks of... -
XKatedral Anthology I is the first in a series of archival releases dedicated to presenting music by XKatedral affiliated composers working within the realm of slowly evolving harmonic and timbral music This double-vinyl set contains an array of pieces dating from 2010 - 2020 Four of the works included here were originally... -
Anybody who has witnessed a live performance of Anna von Hausswolff and band can attest to the extraordinary and commanding nature of the experience The distinctive music, as captured across five full-length albums, comes to life, shifting from hypnotic and mantra-like moods to thunderous drama, dissonance and cacophony The... -
In the first years of its existence, starting in 1997, the Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet worked as a collective, inviting all and any of its participants to contribute compositions to the band's repertoire Eventually, the Tentet would jettison scores and pre-planned structures altogether, opting for free improvisation, but on... -
Tibor Szemző presents two compositions on his new album Snap #2: The Other Shore & Cuba As the title implies, Snap #2 can be considered a sequel to his cult album Snapshot from the Island In that first album the island was a metaphor for isolation and now Snap #2 offers Szemző's reflections of his visits to real islands,... -
Magazine announce the album Waves 2 by Curd Duca, the second part of the trilogy Waves: Austrian electronic composer Curd Duca is widely known for his 1990s series of critically acclaimed easy listening 1-5 (Normal) and elevator 1-3 (Mille Plateaux) After a long break from the studio, Duca has issued part 1 of the Waves series in... -
Double LP version Includes three bonus tracks French pianist Vanessa Wagner continues her exploration of the minimalist repertoire by introducing her audience to pieces, many rare or unpublished, by acclaimed composers, young pianists, and genre-bending personalities from the ambient and electronic scenes In France or even Europe,... -
Richard Pinhas' album Iceland was first released in 1979 and is his third solo work, also the first after the split from Heldon This album seems like a long, inward-looking journey and is like a kind of counter-point to the expansive sci-fi worlds and the bombastic prog of Heldon; on Iceland you will find long, sublime tracks next... -
"IBTIHALAT is a wildly futuristic album of chromium-plated sound design, hi-end micro-sampling techniques, algorithmic psychoacoustics and field recordings, with a strong grasp of history, tradition and complex rhythmic structures It's an album that never loses its momentum with precision-engineered experimental club velocity -... -
Recorded back in 1999, 'Half a Dove in New York, Half a Dove in Buenos Aires' is the recorded debut of a NetCast improv between deep listening pioneer Pauline Oliveros and Argentinian free music trio Reynols >> a fascinating early example of the internet’s capacity to foster remote creativity in-the-moment that deploys... -
Genius-level, fractal re-arrangement from Keith Fullerton Whitman on his first vinyl release in what feels like years, here blessing Japan’s NAKID label with a new instalment in his forever-evolving ‘Generators' project, arcing from bleeping post-Kosmische sounds into completely unexpected drum mutations in footwork and grime... -
You could call Gabber Modus Operandi’s PUXXXIMAXXX LP a ‘scene-defining’ record That’s except there’s no real ‘scene’ to speak of where the DIY electronic duo come from, deep in the belly of the neo-colonial beast of Bali—an island province of Indonesia where tourism is its biggest industry, mainstream house and... -
"This is the neat little dog with the dainty walk that looks like a lamb and can fight like a demon" Mitt Stora Nu is the second album from the Gothenburg-based duo Treasury of Puppies, consisting of Charlott Malmenholt and Joakim Karlsson Nine tracks of life-affirming downer music that were mainly recorded during 2021 and that... -
The much anticipated second album from Astrid Øster Mortensen New in Gothenburg, the Denmark-born Astrid started to frequent the Discreet Music shop in the summer of 2020 Coincidentally, around the same time Gustaf Dicksson was looking for a Danish vocalist for his upcoming Blod album Missväxt and one thing quickly led to... -
New Enhet För Fri Musik album, recorded in Gothenburg and Malmö in 2020 by Hugo Randulv, Sofie Herner, Gustaf Dicksson, Matthias Andersson and Dan Johansson A concept album on relationships, family values and broken promises 18 songs Limited edition of 700 copies, Grapefruit has the exclusive for this record in the US with... -
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Amaryllis is a six-song suite performed by a newly formed sextet of master improvisers, including Halvorson, Patricia Brennan (vibraphone), Nick Dunston (bass), Tomas Fujiwara (drums), Jacob Garchik (trombone), and Adam O’Farrill (trumpet) The Mivos string quartet joins for three of the songs, making this the largest ensemble... -
With Companion, Otto A Totland completes his trilogy of personal, sparse piano compositions, following in the footsteps of 2014's Pinô and 2017's The Lost As a self-taught pianist, Otto further determines himself as a timeless composer who follows nothing but his own gut and heart The outcome is something so pure it’s hard to... -
Originally released as two private edition cassettes and then reworked for a CD release on iDEAL in 2008, Kassettmusik still stands out as one of Dan Johanssons’ most confounding and bold moments Upon its release, the extremely minimal and restrained approach on the recording took a quite unexpected turn compared to the brutish... -
Duo LP from Finn Loxbo (guitar, electronics, voice) and Karin Johansson (piano, accordion) Artwork by... -
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The trio of Keiji Haino, Jim O'Rourke, and Oren Ambarchi return to Black Truffle with their tenth release, recorded live in Tokyo in February, 2017 While many of the trio's recent works have seen them focusing primarily on their core guitar/bass/drums power trio format, on Each side has a depth of 5 seconds A polka dot pattern in... -
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Black Truffle announce For McCoy, a new work by Eiko Ishibashi dedicated to the widely loved character of Jack McCoy, portrayed by Sam Waterston in Law & Order Following on from Hyakki Yagyō (BT 064LP), For McCoy finds Ishibashi further exploring the unique space she has carved out in recent years, bringing together musique... -
"Black Truffle proudly present The Refrain from Melbourne-based artist Francis Plagne, whose growing catalog of collaborative and solo releases range from song-based work to abstract audio collages Closely aligned with Plagne's Moss Trumpet LP (released by Penultimate Press in 2018, PP 038LP), The Refrain's two side-long tracks... -
Editions Mego welcomes Powell to its roster with a bizarre and strangely emotive new album of synthetic computer works entitled Piano Music 1-7 Via his own Diagonal Records imprint, his work on XL Recordings and, most recently, the opening of audio/film platform A Folder [afolderstudio], Powell has firm footing in the contemporary... -
Double LP version "Gonzen, uminari or retumbos Perhaps you've heard these sounds They're known to occur all over the world and, as one might expect, humans have strained to offer various explanations for these unsettling emissions that materialize unbidden from the sky We like to say that we've understood what's happening so that... -
For the past five years the London / NYC film collective Deeper Into Movies have been screening important contemporary cinema, overlooked gems and rarely seen documentaries in the world of reparatory cinema and DIY spaces In December 2021 they launch the new label Deeper Into Movies Records, that promises to continue Deeper’s... -
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Movietone were part of the Bristol scene in the 1990s that contained Flying Saucer Attack, Third Eye Foundation and Crescent Band members from all three of these bands played in Movietone, with Kate Wright being the main songwriter Signed to Planet Records, Movietone did their first John Peel Session a few weeks after the release... -
One Day the dreary, new normality became an endless loop of unsteady moods and contradicting sounds Marlene Kollender, Gregor Darman and Sebastian Welicki from Düsseldorf became Folie 2 Now it all makes sense! Marking TFGC’s 20th Release, Folie 2 present a fascinating cosmos of sound and feeling No shortcuts, this is a... -
Remastered, expanded gatefold double LP version (briefly available as a single LP in 2001 and o/p for 10 years now) This version features new artwork by Tina Frank, based on the original 2001 Mego release Contains "Ohne Sonne" and "47 Blues," previously only available on the Japanese CD versions, as well as a new, extended version... -
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"Whether it is traditional or contemporary, we need to be authentic," says Gözen Atila who performs as Anadol "I don't claim that I am authentic, but this is what I want to achieve" A sense of authentic exploration, introspection, and celebration coats every inch of Anadol's latest album After 2019's Uzun Havalar (PING 065LP),... -
Never Stop Texting Me by More Eaze and Claire Rousay is a pop record Melodies and chorus in every track about crushes, collaborating with friends, and the mundane of everyday life Maybe the first mention of Bandcamp Friday in a pop song Mari and Claire share an equal amount of duties on the record, rendering it a pure...
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