A night landscape of soil, mud, forests. Walls of intricate vegetation. A dense, humid atmosphere. Rain. The smell of swamps, rotten wood, decaying leaves. All senses are overwhelmed, and yet we’re not sure of what we hear: is it natural or artificial, almost mechanical?
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From the band: Cult Italian band Larsen will be releasing a new collaborative album on 11 November 2021 via Torino-based publisher Witty Books. Over the course of 2020 Larsen released a series of monthly sessions of improvised music. It was a project intended as a sonic real-time documentary made available to their supporters on the Patreon platform.
The latest video linked to Gagarin‘s epic Great North Wood album, released on Geo Records in 2020, of arboreal wonder and wanderings comes from USRNM, AKA Stuart Bowditch. The video, shot by Stuart, takes the viewer on a glide on a path through the trees as the music unwinds in pumping dancefloor-friendly […]
Carton Records and Coax Records have jointly released Betel by French musician JF Riffaud, also known as RIFO. The album draws on the music of sub-Saharan Africa such as that of Sunny Ade or Flamme Kapaya as much as being influenced by American primitivists and minimalists from John Fahey to […]
The next step for Invictus Hi-Fi after the release of their Market Deities album earlier in 2021 is a video for the bonus track “Delete”.
Happy Robots Records have announced the release on 24 September 2021 of the new full-length album from Mood Taeg, about whose Exophora disc Mr Olivetti noted “an obvious love for all things motorik and German-influenced, but reflected in a modern and rather charmingly effervescent style that brims with repetitive joy” at […]
New York City-based artist Wolff Parkinson White has collaborated with Hayden Chisholm on a new self-released album, Off World, out from 14 May 2021. Of the record, they say: Close to a decade in the making, this highly anticipated collaboration between multi-instrumentalist, singer and poet Hayden Chisholm from New Zealand and […]
Gagarin‘s The Great North Wood, released on Geo Records in late 2020, reflects on the ancient south London woodland of the same name. The track “Eskil” is premiered here in its “Green Shoots” remix, part of a series of what Graham Dowdall dubs “virtual 12″s”.
Timeless Editions are publishing The Universe Is A Haunted House: COIL through their art and archives, a new 400-page full colour hardback book compiled from the personal archives of John Balance and Peter Christopherson. Conceived not only as a showcase of Coil’s much-admired album artwork, but also to offer a […]
Gagarin AKA Graham Dowdall is a leading community music practitioner, expert in music and disabilities, and a lecturer at Goldsmiths in London, as well as a member of and contributor to groups as diverse as Suns Of Arqa, Rothko, Pere Ubu, Roshi ft. Pars Radio and Nico‘s band, among many others. His […]
Inspired by Luis Sepulveda, Noise of Trouble‘s album title Mis Sueños Son Irrenunciables, Obstinados, Testarudos y Resistentes acts as their statement for a record made under lockdown. Rethinking the many facets of the world outside my home, it came natural to put together the sound of my instruments, the rhythms […]
“This is what love sounds like when it isn’t working and yet we keep fighting and we keep looking until the end” — so says Adam Brody, lead singer of Stage Door Guy, whose album Wroclaw is out on 30 October.
Marionette I listened to this this morning and the rabbits came. Bear with me. I was listening on headphones, which seems the most appropriate way to access this and the rabbits started to emerge from the hedgerows as I walked through the field to work. They couldn’t hear, unless they […]
SPEKT1 released his latest Instinct EP on his own We Got This label on 8 June 2020. The bass-heavy EP draws on his DJ past and his love of genres from trap to techno, drum and bass to reggae, glitchhop to soul-funk also features guest spots and collaborations from the […]
Dubby and delirious, Korin Complex‘s “New Growth” is a collaboration with Pugilist and appears on the just-released Winding River EP, released by Miracle Drug Records.
Released on 23 April, The Microdance‘s new EP via Somewherecold Records is premiered below. The EP is available to download from Bandcamp. Speaking about the EP, Alex Kevill says
“Deepblue”, in its “Slowmix” incarnation, is the lead track on the 12″ vinyl release april.#02 Live from Kashiwa Daisuke via Subcontinental records. The video for the track was directed by Sharath U Holla and is premiered below.
Stuart Bowditch‘s ever-reliable Courier Sounds label releases the Symbiosis split LP from Rorquals and Dead Circuits on 20 April 2020. The album features three tracks from each artist, two of which are collaborations with each other, and showcases their similarities and differences as .
The I-go-I-e benefit album is now available from Wave Folder. Based on environmental and other sounds recorded by Radek Rudnicki (of RPE Duo) which were then interpreted by twenty-one different electronic artists and then assembled into an album. Ichi-go-ichi-e (一期一会) means “treasuring the unique nature of a moment, each moment […]
Nonplace Having relocated to New York City, drummer Jochen Rueckert has formed a new quartet around the axes of Lage Lund on guitar, Matt Penman on bass and Mark Turner at the saxophones. Wolff Parkinson White‘s new Small Favours EP on Nonplace features guest vocals