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Audiopile Review: Something just occurred to us about the marvelous trio albums Oren Ambarchi has been making with Johan Berthling and Andreas Werliin. They could almost be stripped-back mixes of tracks from the last couple of Talk Talk albums. That connection became clear when we heard ‘Kind Regards’, Ambarchi’s new...
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Audiopile Review: Like Oren Ambarchi, Lawrence English emerged from Australia in the early 2000s producing edgy takes on post-Fennesz ambient music. The similarities don’t end there. They’ve both recorded for Touch, they both run phenomenal experimental music labels (Black Truffle and Room 40), and they both have large back catalogues...
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Perila is very special to me, she is an artist I have followed almost since day one when I heard her first couple of tracks on Soundcloud, I immediately understood that here we have music coming out of someone who is very special. She has a very strong vision and...
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François J. Bonnet – Banshee Banshee is an ear directed towards the edges of the old world, where these infinite fines terrae cut and fractalize into coasts, harbours, fjords, peninsulas and archipelagos. Drawing its raw material from recordings made in the Inner Hebrides, Banshee tightly weaves a fabric where the...
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"I imagine that one of the first things I heard in the world was the explosion of a Russian ammunitions factory on the outskirts of my hometown. It blew up the night I was born a new GDR-citizen. I´m not sure I heard a noise when the Wall came down,...
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NATURAL INFORMATION SOCIETY, like their partners in time BITCHIN BAJAS, live their days in flow motion. Rhythms come and go, instruments sound as a means to a greater end. Their debut convergence, Automaginary, feels as natural as it does inevitable. Both groups were first heard in 2010, both emerging from...
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Stillness can imply either tranquility or stagnation. Walt McClements grappled with these opposing forces in the years it took to realize On a Painted Ocean: a suite of searching accordion and pipe organ-led pieces that travel a steady course, swelling and expanding with a tide of tender emotion. The composer...
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Two euphoric and crushing live sets from Vancouver Island's experimental rock demolition unit Earthball, featuring improv legends Steve Beresford and Chris Corsano. Pressing of 500 copies worldwide on 180gm black vinyl. Actual Earth Music: Volume 1 & 2 presents two caustic, yet alluringly unreal live sets from Canadian noise-rock entropy...
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The sounds, songs, and passages within Power Sucker are the very reason that Young Widows are still a band after an 11-year creative pause; they remain masters at making music with equal parts sonic and emotional weight. Young Widows have inspired scores of underground artists across the globe with their...
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"Donald Duck, kill Minnie!" These words, ordered with urgency against a circular series of drum strikes and manipulated guitar/electronic textures, come over three fourths of the way through the album known as SYR 5 (aka "Olive's Horn"). While the words and sounds taken on their own may shock, their appearance...
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Previously unreleased music from the archives of Can cofounder Holger Czukay will be released as an album in the new year. Out on March 28th through Grönland Records, Gvoon - Brennung 1 contains 65 minutes of material that's believed to date back to the '90s. The genesis for the release...
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Guitarist, sonic explorer, and Wilco bandmember Nels Cline presents the debut recording by his Consentrik Quartet featuring Ingrid Laubrock on saxophones, Chris Lightcap on bass, and Tom Rainey on drums. Cline’s fourth Blue Note album Consentrik Quartet features 12 evocative and far-ranging soundscapes composed by Cline....
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The second Silver Mt Zion album featured an expanded band, with a similarly expanded band name. The addition of cello, second violin and second guitar allowed SMZ to develop richer, denser arrangements while preserving live ensemble playing. The opening instrumental pieces picked up where the debut left off, with found-sound...
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Audiopile Review: The Manchester-based electronic music duo Demdike Stare continues to pump out quality product that encompasses a range of formats and concepts. And yet, it feels like DS hasn’t made a BIG statement since the three albums collected in 2011’s ‘Triptych’. On the surface, ‘To Cut & Shoot’ doesn’t...
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Japanese artists Yumiko Morioka and Takashi Kokubo unite for Gaiaphilia, a journey through ambient soundscapes that seamlessly blends Morioka’s graceful piano compositions with Kokubo’s immersive field recordings and atmospheric synthesisers. This collaboration brings together two of Japan’s most influential pioneers in ambient and new age music, each with decades of...
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Rounding off a trilogy initiated in 2019, this final volume of Geins’t Naït’s archives -as seen, compiled & triturated by Vincent Hachet & Thierry Mérigout, the original duo - showcases yet another facet of the composite industrial mashup the band discharged into the late 1980’s Dadaist French underground between 1986...
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After a limited self-release in 2022, Extravision, the deeply therapeutic musico-psychonautic offering from experimental guitarist Guy Blakeslee has received the Leaving Records “all genre” re-release treatment, with the understanding that more listeners should hear with this vulnerable and graceful document. The record is, in a word, a balm. Like a...
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The amphibian song revival begins here! This classic of both biological fieldwork and natural sound recordings, originally released by Folkways in 1958, presents 57 species of frogs and toads on 92 tracks, digitally remastered from the original master tapes. Compiled and narrated by renowned herpetologist Charles M. Bogert,...
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Limited and numbered edition of 250 copies. Die-cut box, 5 inlays and extensive booklet (Libretto). The opera "juHrop" was recorded with great effort at the Studio für Komische Musik Berlin and at the studio of Diamanda Galas in New York from 1996 to 2001. It is orchestral music produced with...
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A hazy, claustrophobic bridge between minimalism, drone, creative conceptualism, ambient music, and noise, we’re thrilled to offer the first ever vinyl reissue of Nord’s “Psycotron - 1” - one of the greatest and most sought-after holy grails of early Japanese Noise. Recorded by Hiroshi Oikawa only a handful of years...
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Audiopile Review: A long out of print and important piece from Brannten Schnüre’s mid-period gets another chance to cast its eerie glow. 2017’s Muschelsammlung might be considered the last of their albums before the underground finally caught up to them, and it’s also one of the more accessible points of...
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Audiopile Review: Truly weird shit is not prominent enough in electronic music, where recycling genre conventions is all-to-often replacing genuine experimentalism. Thank goodness for square pegs like Claire Rousay. You never know what to expect from her. Straightforwardly beautiful ambient drones? Bedroom indie folk? Bracingly extreme computer music? Rousay’s latest,...
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We are proud to collaborate with Oslo's Munch Museum for this compilation of music inspired by and featured in the Munch exhibition Trembling Earth! 18 of the label’s artists have created new tracks directly inspired by Edvard Munch’s atmospheric landscapes, organic processes and cosmic visions displayed in Trembling Earth. Ranging...
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Double LP version. For the first time a full album with recordings based on Yoko Ono's 1964 collection of texts, event scores and drawings Grapefruit, a foundational cornerstone of what became known as conceptual art, and enveloping the orbits of Fluxus and experimental music. Performed by The Great Learning Orchestra...
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Daniel Brandt (of Brandt Bauer Frick) returns with his first solo record in seven years. Without Us is "about the helplessness of the individual in the climate crisis and the apparent need to take radical global action to change the trajectory of the current threat of a climate disaster"...
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Siamo tutti in pericolo is the third album by Golem Mecanique, the nom de plume of French multi-instrumentalist composer Karen Jebane, to be released on Ideologic Organ. Jebane works within the fringes of contemporary folk (aka La Novea community), microtonal and early modern spheres, as well as touching upon the...
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Continuing much of the instrumental, musically dense partnership of Loren Connors and Suzanne Langille in the 80s and 90s, Crucible stands out as a clear highlight in the pair's musical partnership, despite the music not featuring the pair performing together. Full of Connor's beautifully droning walls of sound, and Langille...
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Formed in 1977, the Cheltenham-based band Hardware drew inspiration from proto-punk, Krautrock, the CBGBs scene, Pere Ubu, and the more adventurous side of the UK punk scene, and released two 7-inch EPs in 1979 on their own record label, N.A.R.C. (Not Another Record Company). They mainly played in Gloucestershire, with...
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This is the third album by Einstürzende Neubauten, also known as Halber Mensch, originally released in 1985. The album opens with the startlingly oppressive, almost fully a cappella title track, with contrapuntal, atonal, en masse chanting. The album progresses to include quite a repertoire of electronically-generated sounds, finding the band...
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After the poor sales of their debut album, Faust's So Far (1972) presents the more commercial and accessible side of the legendary German krautrock band without giving up their advanced and experimental personality. It is a perfect album to begin exploring the group's discography, featuring one of their most well-known...
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Audiopile Review: It’s tempting to try pigeonholing any musical artist with some pithy soundbite. But it’s always your word against theirs. You could try summing up the godlike Peter Hammill with a snappy “prog rock”. But this was the MF who (arguably) recorded the world’s first self-described “punk rock” album....
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Audiopile Review: Couple of things that MFs don’t seem to appreciate about Finnish minimal techno brutalists Pan Sonic. First, that the members released some pretty essential solo projects. Second, that these dudes could, when the mood took them, produce music that was shockingly dancefloor friendly. For evidence to back up...
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Cold Spring present the first ever release of Pitchshifter's legendary BBC sessions for the late, great John Peel. These ultra heavy industrial metal tracks were recorded over two sessions at the iconic Maida Vale studios: 28th April 1991 and 30th March 1993 and were sourced directly from the BBC...
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This is the first full length release by the duo of Lau Nau (Finland) & Joshua Burkett (USA). ‘~' was put together in the year 2024... with many thanks to Juho Toivonen, who is releasing this on CD on his great Akti label. (Josh met Juho in Finland last year,...
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"Jerzy Mączyński fuses utopian electronics and organic improvisation on sci-fi jazz odyssey, DO 555ps. Building on his 2023 collaboration with Jamal Moss aka Hieroglyphic Being, DO 555ps is Mączyński’s first self-produced album – a tour de force of spacious, galactic sound design that leans into drone, minimalism and the rich...
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Originally released in 1973, Neu!'s sophomore album finds the German legends further fine-tuning their Krautrock sound with the unstoppable 11-minute opener "Fur Immer" and simultaneously ushering in the concept of the remix with sped-up, slowed down and altered versions of what was initially just 20 minutes of newly recorded material....
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Audiopile Review: The 2021 death of Peter ‘Pita’ Rehberg was a tragedy for the world of experimental electronic music (glitch continent). It’s been a huge relief to see (and, of course, hear) his Editions Mego label continuing to release high-quality albums since then. And it’s been a delight to witness...
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Audiopile Review: Ah yes, that ol’ real shit. In the late 90s, Ramon Bauer and Andi Pieper founded Mego with Peter ‘Pita’ Rehberg and recorded two of that label’s most extraordinary albums. After 2000’s legitimately brain-boggling glitch masterpiece ‘Rechenkönig’ they went radio silent. But a couple of years ago, they...
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Russell Haswell and Florian Hecker have both a long history with Mego/Editions Mego. Individual releases have peppered the Mego catalogue since Haswell’s Live Salvage 1997->2000 cd release in 2001 and the debut Hecker release IT ISO161975 in 1998. The individual exploration of sonic phenomena by these two practitioners has resulted...
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Swiss rock band The Young Gods present the vinyl reissue of their acclaimed acoustic studio album Knock on Wood. Originally released in 2008, this album presents a captivating departure from the band's signature electronic sound. The reissue was remastered from the original 96kHz/24- bit files. With Knock on Wood (The...
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This is David's first solo release in seven years, and first straight-up DC release in over a decade (Blue Chopstocks have done the honors in our absence), but it's a record built on the concept of collaborative duos and other small groups. Here, David's working with combinations involving Rhodri Davies,...
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Formed 29 years ago (1996) by Nate Young, Wolf Eyes is currently a duo generally characterized as "noise," though they have called themselves "psycho jazz" (among other things). Extremely prolific, they have literally hundreds of releases and are a towering presence in underground music. Saxophonist Anthony Braxton was an early...
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"Rashied Ali stood as a magnetic force for the musical environment around him. In his last decades he sponsored rehearsal opportunities for young musicians, tightened up neighborhood street-corner drum circles he happened to pass, and for years would pull promising young talents into his orbit. One unique group that Ali...
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"Part of Rashied Ali's artistic strength involved turning improbable sound combinations into unchallenged masterpieces. After the pattern established by John Coltrane's Interstellar Space, and Duo Exchange with Frank Lowe, the drummer stepped into a rather unlikely duet with violinist Leroy Jenkins for Swift are the Winds of Life. Five years...
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Composer Ahmed Essyad was born in Salé, Morocco, in 1938. After studying music at the Rabat Conservatoire (Morocco) he moved to Paris in 1962, where he became a student of Max Deutsch and, later, his assistant. Trained in the avant-garde practices of Western musical composition, he also claimed the Amazigh...
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"A collection of writings by the mathematician and composer linking notions of continuity and construction across math, minimalist music and contemporary art. Noted mathematician and composer Spencer Gerhardt presents Ticking Stripe, a groundbreaking collection of essays linking notions of continuity and construction across the boundaries of math, art, music and...
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Limited edition DIY tape manoeuvres, hand stamped with unique variant covers. Sounds for meditation and other activities. ...
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Audiopile Review: Do the Germans have an unwieldy compound word to describe a record that’s so understated that you could barely notice it, but so compelling that you can’t stop listening to it? This is pretty much exactly Brian Eno’s original definition of ambient music, and he did get a...
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