Experimental
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“We go through life. We shed our skins. We become ourselves.” This line from Patti Smith was going round and round Felix Manuel’s head as he gradually constructed Under Tangled Silence, his first album in six years and a record of a literal creative rebirth. Felix originally began it in...
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Another one of the very best ever Tribal Ambient Dub albums, originally released on the famous Australian Extreme label. This 59 minute piece was conceived as part of a total environment for the exhibition Deus Ex Machina. The project as a whole seeks to define and articulate the emotional, cultural...
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Bill Orcutt is of course famous for his bluesy free improv acoustic guitar playing, which he has been performing since he re-emerged with the 2009 solo album A New Way To Pay Old Debts, 12 years after the dissolution of his seminal noise rock band Harry Pussy. He has also...
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"Bill Orcutt’s latest 'counting' album, The Anxiety of Symmetry, completes a trilogy on his Fake Estates label that started with Pure Genius (2020) and A Mechanical Joey (2021), all realized with his own Cracked computer music software. Comprising two 15-minute-long improvisations, the album’s terrain is limited to six samples of...
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In 1957, R&B singer Richard Berry scrawled a few crude stanzas on a strip of toilet paper, and chant-sung them in fake patois over a shuffling rhythm to capitalize on the Latin craze tearing up the charts. "Louie Louie" didn't make much of a dent in the national consciousness in...
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Hanne Lippard, Ellen Arkbro, and Hampus Lindwall’s How do I know if my cat likes me? is an existential meditation on the empty expanses of our automated everyday—corporatized minimalism tinged with cool formalism, structured by the deft deployment of sonic and lyrical repetition. By untethering sound from meaning through a...
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We’re delighted to announce the triumphant return of Steve Marreyt, aka Edgar Wappenhalter. Here he reverts to making gritty reverb-drenched folksongs. But the poetic and electronic elements from his previous album remain – they’re just incorporated in the songs this time. It makes ‘Ijsschots Veenlaag Mist’ probably Wappenhalter’s most balanced...
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This release, previously featured in the TG Berlin box set and available on vinyl for the first time, captures Throbbing Gristle's unforgettable New Year’s Eve performance, part of a specially curated series of live events held at the Volksbühne, Berlin in 2005 and 2006. The setlist included a preview of...
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Kohei Matsunaga, a musician and illustrator born in Osaka in 1978, started drawing at an early age and went on to study architecture at university. He has been actively making music since 1992, with notable releases on labels such as Raster Noton, Wordsound, Mille Plateaux, PAN and Skam Records. Kohei...
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Jameszoo (Mitchel van Dinther) returns to Brainfeeder with a wonderfully cinematic album embarking on adventures on the fringes of jazz and contemporary classical. Imbued with the same spirit of adventure and experimental outlook as his previous work on the label, ‘Music for 17 Musicians’ is a new work written for...
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"This is the first Six Organs of Admittance record to be recorded in a studio. No computers were harmed (or used) during the making of this record. Free-jazz sensation Chris Corsano contributes drums with the greatest sympathy. It's a fantastic new album, as just a fraction of a listen will...
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To celebrate Arvo Pärt in the year of the composer’s 90th birthday, the 2023 album Tractus is now presented in an elegant 2-LP vinyl edition, which includes all previous liner notes in a high-grade print-run. Tractus emphasizes Arvo Pärt compositions that blend the timbres of choir and string orchestra. New...
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Going belly up, guess it's always a possibility. Following the release of their latest acclaimed record You Never End (Pitchfork, The Quietus, RA) Moin follow up with their latest EP, Belly Up....
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Audiopile Review: Some groups start out determined to avoid musical clichés at all costs. Sonic Youth and Scritti Politti are two acts that set out with this modus operandi. As members of those legendary ensembles would doubtless tell you, this is a fundamentally unsustainable artistic strategy. It is, however, a...
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Originally released on Förlag För Fri Musik back in 2015, now finally reissued on Discreet Music. A very important piece in the Gothenburg-puzzle and the milieu around acts like Amateur Hour, Blod, Leda, Arv & Miljö and Sewer Election that eventually culminated in Discreet Music. Recorded in Gothenburg, winter 2014,...
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Audiopile Review: Gothenburg-trio Amateur Hour return with their fourth album, coming after a three-year wait since their sprawling double LP, Krökta Tankar Och Brända Vanor, an album that sideswiped us with a raw whirlwind of industrial aesthetics, rip-it-up-again post-punk attitude and coded dream-pop. The trio, made up of Discreet mainstays...
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For their second album 'The Foel Tower', Quade holed up in an old stone barn in the cradle of a Welsh mountain valley. The valley was a stark and windswept backdrop with little daylight, as the band would huddle around crackling fires each evening. “There was very much a feeling...
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Thalia Zedek’s considerable body of work demonstrates a clarity of vision, a singular performance style, and an expansive range. Her ability to deliver raw emotions through her vivid stories of loss and hope, strife and triumph is unmatched. Zedek has long been a melodic songwriter in a series of heavy...
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Left Ear are delivering two previous unreleased Australian ‘experimental’ electronic tracks from the 80’s and honouring them with a split 12” release. Side A: Features an unreleased full-length version of Tim Gruchy’s Jungles, a solo electro-percussive piece recorded in Tim’s Lab D’Avoid studio in Brisbane. The track is emblematic of...
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Pythagoras, the new Pyramids album nine years in the making, is set for release in 2025 via avant-tastemakers The Flenser. Yet another daring study in genre synthesis, the band continues to push boundaries in both sound and aesthetic, blending jagged fragments of black metal and shoegaze as they have done...
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After previous under-the-radar releases on the fabled Low Comapny and The Trilogy Tapes, Zaheer now appears under his own name on Thomas Bush's Men Scryfa. The sixth Screfys release, an image of wingless flight through flowing darkness. Focused Buchla studies exploring the process of unbelieving and realisation of the ultimate...
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Orchid Mantis, by Michelle Helene Mackenzie and Stefan Maier, is a work that draws its inspiration from the history of the Sanzhi Pod City, in northern Taiwan. Sanzhi Pod City was built from 1978 onwards, made up of buildings constructed from assemblages of ‘pods’ inspired by the futuro houses of...
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ICR distribution present a new Nurse With Wound LP, remastered by Colin Potter. 600 copies. The Grave And Beautiful Name Of Sadness features two archive mixes of the original 1984 recording. A 2007 epic variation recorded for possible inclusion in Peter Strickland's film 'Katalin Varga' and a unique 'psychedelic' version...
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Audiopile Review: Between "Jazz Codes", last year’s lauded collaboration with Ulla, and her late-2024 2LP behemoth "Intrinsic Rhythm", Perila has been keeping us incredibly well-fed. Now she returns with The Air Outside Feels Crazy Right Now, a collection that deepens her intimate, all-encompassing sense of atmosphere. Evoking the arid textures...
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Audiopile Review: Rashad Becker is probably best known as a vinyl mastering engineer. In this role, he’s occasionally achieved the technically impossible, cutting 20-plus-minute sides at 45rpm and whatnot. His evident scorn for the bounds of mere space and time is strongly evident on the two volumes of ‘Traditional Music...
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The Mars Volta's ninth studio album represents a significant milestone for the band, which has been continually reinventing itself for more than 20 years. With "Lucro sucio; Los ojos del vacio," they deliver an album that celebrates their roots, allowing them to reconnect with their origins. Fans are invited to...
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Hüma Utku returns to Editions Mego with her new album. The title Dracones makes reference to the mediaeval latin term "Hic sunt dracones" (Here be dragons), marking the unexplored, dangerous places on world maps, expressing the fear of chaos, the unexpected and the unknown. This new work by the Istanbul...
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"Lacinia”is a new and important cycle of compositions by Stefano Pilia, which continues and expands the poetics and compositional ideas that the Genoese composer and guitarist introduced with the previous "Spiralis Aurea", the double album released by Die Schachtel in 2022. "Lacinia" (meaning "lace" in Latin) continues Pilia’s exploration of...
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faitiche edition no.2 (concerts on tape) - 1st edition of 100, 2nd edition of 100 cassettes (C36, white), hand numbered Jan Jelinek plays The Carpenters, concert by Jan Jelinek for four loudspeakers, 20th July 2022 at Uferstudio 1, Berlin. For this live performance, Jelinek used a sample from the song...
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Originally released on my Pavilion imprint in 2011. "I was invited by the Incubate Festival and the city of Tilburg to participate in an artist residency where I would explore the region’s unique chapels built for the Virgin Mary. After writing the music for about six months by drawing on...
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CEM has gained international notoriety over the past years for bewitching club and festival audiences alike with his feverish, polymorphic and richly referential DJ sets. For his debut full-length album, FORMA, the Berlin-based Herrensauna founder momentarily departs the dancefl oor, instead contributing a refl ective and at times menacing compositional...
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‘Presence’ is a triumph of improvised, elemental musicality that distills aspects of myriad folk traditions in pursuit of the artist’s own truth. For 40 minutes of singularly weird, locked-in performance, Rai Tateishi diverges his formative training in the shinobue (a bamboo flute) to applications for its elder sibling, the shakuhachi,...
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Grails – the experimental rock institution who have cultivated a quarter-century career out of crate-plunging cultural curiosities – returns a mere two years after the lauded Anches En Maat with their most personal and emotionally resonant album to date. While the band still revel in rearranging bizarre and obscure sources...
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2025 repress. "1995: new composition methods involving the dirty textures of rock guitar, a synthesis of disparate elements -- a nexus where Alvin Lucier, Sonic Youth, My Bloody Valentine, and Eno blend together. A prescient vision of the next phases of listening space. CD version originally released in1998 on Dexter's...
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There is something intensely alluring, almost addictive, about Kansas City-based artist Jackie Meyers. Known for her innovation and fluidity on the keys and her sultry, bluesy vocals that could spark warmth in even the iciest of souls, she has a way of leaving all your flabbers ghasted and with a...
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With Umwelt, room, An’archives releases the first vinyl LP by Japanese singer, songwriter and guitarist, Kotonashiso. An elegant collection of seven slow-moving, free-ranging song forms, Umwelt, room is reflective, pensive, and yet has a great, expansive sense of movement, each song’s parameters feeling almost infinitely flexible. Born in Tokyo in...
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An’archives are proud to announce the release of the debut album by Tête de Chou, the trio of Mark Anderson, Kurumi Kido, and Arlo Wynks. Some may know Anderson for his membership of Greymouth, 番長Taste, Mysteries Of Love, and Suishou No Fune; Kido and Wynks have more personal, sporadic musical...
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Audiopile Review: Three releases in, and the Pin catalogue has been a love letter to both minimal and dub techno. Segmenting the cavernous and hypnotic qualities associated with the latter while formulating compositions akin to the former, SnPLO craft meticulous, hypnotic sequences but maintain a dubbed-out rigidity. The A-side is...
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Audiopile Review: In the post-everything age, scenes that used to be bound by strict codes of conduct have embraced anything-goes eclecticism with a frankly absurd fervour. Metal new releases have become a perplexing cavalcade of genre mashups. And hip-hop gave up on the tedium of keeping it real long, long...
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Slow, methodical organ recordings on this major new work from Kali Malone; a quietly subversive double album featuring almost two hours of concentrated, creeping organ pieces governed by a strict acoustic and compositional code with ultimately profound emotional resonance. ‘The Sacrificial Code’ takes a more surgical approach to the methods...
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There’s no mistaking the sultry lilt of Eliana Glass—alternating between an offbeat, searching quality and her poignant, awe-inspiring range. Her piano playing also possesses this stirring push and pull between the otherworldly and painfully human—each melody its own unique, aching realm. Glass’ sparse, meditative music often captures, in her words,...
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Four years after his rock juggernaut Puritan, Chris Brokaw delivers Ghost Ship, a landscape meditation (at sea) for vocals and electric guitars. "I set out to make an 8 song statement like Desert Shore or Raw Power, but it became a 9 song... something else. I've described it to friends...
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Featuring contributions from Jordan Tice (of Hawktail), Jay Bellerose, Harrison Whitford, Rayna Gellert, Dylan Day, Mark Goldenberg, Rich Hinman and Robert Bowlin, CRK, a self-titled affair, finds Cameron Knowler at an exciting crossroads between American tradition and forward looking guitar soli - toeing the line between personal regionalism and the...
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Throbbing Gristle revisits TGCD1, long out of print, now available on CD for the first time in 25 years and on vinyl for the first time ever via Mute. This release includes the original sleeve notes by all the members of the band, uncovering the story and ethos behind TG’s...
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Hausu Mountain continues the HausLive series of live show recordings that capture some of the headiest moments in Chicago underground music. On HausLive 4, we rewind the clock approximately one year to May 3rd, 2024 at Constellation, where the all-star Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet (featuring Wendy Eisenberg, Ava Mendoza, and...
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"Years past the space time of Automaginary, Bitchin Bajas and Natural Information Society have reported back at last from beyond. If the new title doesn't clue you, Totality brings good news. Since their first collaboration, the path ways that lead from Natural Information Society's ecstatic all-world jazz to Bitchin Bajas'...
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the fun years', comprised of multi-instrumentalists Ben Recht and Isaac Sparks, have been making music together since the turn of the century, producing intriguing interrogations of ambient, drone, post-rock, and turntablism. Originally released in 2008 on the now-defunct Barge Recordings, 'baby it’s cold inside' is perhaps...
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Infinity Drips is one of 57 (re)mastered albums that form the musical oeuvre of Omar Rodríguez-López. All albums are released in collaboration with Clouds Hill - some as re-releases, some are available on vinyl for the very first time now. A result from a trip to Jerusalem, reflecting Arab influences...
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