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     Markus Reuter - Winter Solstice EP
    Bizarre soundscape versions of traditional songs usually associated with this time of year, at least here in Germany. In addition to the meditative soundscapes I've overdubbed the original melodies. Enjoy this parallel universe... It's strangely hypnotizing. Only available from December 17th to December 31st.
    - released December 17, 2018
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    Etienne Jaumet - 8 Regards Obliques
    From Sun Ra with “Nuclear war”, Miles Davis in “Shhh / Peaceful” or “Theme from a symphony” by Ornette Coleman to “Caravan” (already quoted by many jazzmen), Etienne enjoyed revisiting classic jazz masterpieces and paying tribute to his inspirations. He allowed himself only one personal and original composition, “Ma révélation mystique”.

    Etienne Jaumet
    French producer and musician Etienne Jaumet started out in the '90s with folk rockers The Married Monk, before going into the studio as an engineer and working on his own projects. One of these is the Krautrock-infused electro-disco outfit Zombie Zombie with Neman Herman Düne (of Herman Düne). Jaumet's debut album, Night Music was released in October 2009 by Domino Recording Co. in the US. Inspired by the work of avant-minimalist Steve Reich, the record was produced by Carl Craig.
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    Newish (March 22, 2018 on Touchtheplants)
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    Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
    Electronic Series is an annual offering, and each volume will consist of a musical recording, accompanied by a short episodic comic about two friends – a plant and a human being – having an existential conversation. Each volume will focus on a different theme and context intended to nourish inquisitiveness.
    The theme of Volume 1 is “abstractions” - based on a collection of works by filmmaker Harry Everett Smith.
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    DEWA BUDJANA - guitars, soundscapes
    JORDAN RUDESS - keyboards
    MARCO MINNEMANN - drums
    MOHINI DEY - bass guitar, konnakol
    Special appearances:
    JOHN FRUSCIANTE, MIKE STERN and SOIMAH PANCAWATI
    -Released December 10, 2018 on MoonJune Records
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    With too many projects to mention across a range of skillsets, Benjamin Finger’s latest release sees him put down his writers pen and directors hat to focus on this warm, adventurous and mature release.

    There are multiple ingredients and influences in evidence across the four pieces as he brings together busy ambience with electro-acoustic and modern classical elements. Recorded and mixed in Oslo, Into Light is a classy meld of analogue synths, guitar and field recordings with vocals by Inga-Lill Farstad and cello by Elling Finnanger Snøfugl. A deliberate symmetry is at play in the albums breakdown into two short pieces followed by two sprawling tracks that build up like a slow movement towards a point of no return. . . . .

    Multi-instrumentalist and filmmaker Benjamin Finger was educated at Oslo Photo Art School before studying film on his way to becoming a director at the Film and TV Academy (NISS) in Oslo.

    He has been composing music with a healthy disregard for genres since 2007. Benjamin´s sonic palette moves from psych-collages, droned outjams, piano miniatures, classical minimalism, off-kilter pop, and an occasional stab at garbled dance music. A textural and emotionally resonant cocktail in a blurred, shimmering, and psychedelic world.

    His albums have been released on a multitude of independent labels including Time Released Sound, Digitalis Recordings, Eilean Records, Oak Editions , Shimmering Moods and Flaming Pines amongst others.

    Benjamin’s work has been reviewed/featured in The Wire, Tiny Mix Tapes, A Ransom Note, Impose Magazine, KEXP, Igloo Magazine, Textura and many more.

    He has taken his unique sound on tour playing everywhere from clubs and venues in Norway (both as an artist and DJ) to the US, UK, Austria, Croatia and many more. Highlights include appearances at Supernormal Festival, Cafe Oto, Klangfest Festival and Rewire.

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    Jac Berrocal, David Fenech and Vincent Epplay return with Ice Exposure, their second album for Blackest Ever Black. A sequel and companion piece of sorts to 2015’s Antigravity, its title couldn’t be more apt: sonically it is both colder, and more exposed – in the sense of rawer, more volatile, more vulnerable – than its predecessor, capturing the combustible energy and barely suppressed violence of the trio’s celebrated live performances with aspects of noir jazz, musique concrète, no wave art-rock, sound poetry and spectral electronics all interpenetrating in unpredictable and exhilarating ways. While there are moments of great sensitivity and even a cautious romanticism, the prevailing mood is one of anxiety, paranoia, and mounting psychodrama: close your eyes and Ice Exposure feels like a dissociative Hörspiel broadcasting from the seedy backstreets of your own troubled mind. . . .
    . . . .This is a searching and singular trio operating at the absolute peak of their powers, with an interplay that transcends studio and stage and occurs at an almost telepathic level. Ice Exposure is a triumph of that group mind, an underworld dérive as life-affirming as it is unnerving and psychologically precarious.

  • What's not to like here?  Great modern jazz tunes and arrangements.   Myra Melford on piano.  Ben Goldberg on clarinet.  Kirk Knuffke on trumpet/cornet. Jenny Scheinman on violin. And a rhythm section of Allison Miller and Todd Sickafoose.    Released Feb 1 on Bandcamp.   Coming soon to a February "Best of Jazz on Bandcamp" list near you... (hint, hint @jonahpwll :-)    )




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    ShapeShiftingAliens - ST.
    Released February 15, 2019 by Sublunar Society
    ShapeShiftingAliens is a Swedish duo, consisting of Niklas Rundquist and J.P Cléve. They create the music and the unusual and eccentric videos together; Cléve is the singer. Their inventive approach appealed to Nolan Cook from The Residents, with whom they have collaborated.

    Rundquist and Cléve met when they worked with Iodine Jupiter. Cléve has, for several years, been a producer and composer, live musician and studio musician (guitar) for artists and film. In the past he has also toured and performed.

    In the beginning of the 80s Rundquist participated on Lustans Lakejer‘s first record and performed with The Leather Nun. In the past he also composed music for films, documentaries and commercials, for example the vignette for Sandrew Metronome. He has created music for Cirkus Cirkör, Iodine Jupiter, and various artists on the London scene (in the beginning of the 90s). Today, Rundquist is back with The Leather Nun (on violin) and stands behind Brainshadow.

    ShapeShiftingAliens and The Sublunar Society signed a record deal in 2016, and this far Sublunar has released three singles with the duo. In 2017, the self-titled albumShapeShiftingAliens came out. In 2018, the critically acclaimed one-track-single“Showing My Face” was dropped. In early 2019, it was followed up by another critically acclaimed single, “Fade Away”. and the self-titled album was released on CD.


  • New Porya Hatami! With Aaron Martin! (And Roberto Attanasio, who is new to me)


    Sallaw by Porya Hatami | Aaron Martin | Roberto Attanasio

    “Sallaw” is a Kurdish word that expresses the passing of time, and on this new album the three sound artists have found a way of expressing that notion in music. Four tracks of slowly unfolding ambience make up this collection, each piece named after different months, again in Kurdish. The four sections represent the different seasons and their movement through time.
    I ordered the special edition CD in a wooden case, which seems to already not be available any more, at least it's not showing on the bandcamp page:
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     -  I have always been searching for a way to articulate the intangible area between the recognizable and the unfathomable, a feeling perhaps informed by some long-abandoned experiments with psychedelics. This has been a continued pursuit starting with my tape experiments in the 1970’s until the present, with technological evolution driving new ways of expression. 
    With the exception of Xé May, which is performed on an Elektron Octatrack, these pieces were constructed for live performance using a laptop computer running programs I have built in the MAX programming language. Okajouki and Xé May were composed in 2011, all the rest are from 2018. The pieces use a technique of time slicing that I first started doing back in the 90's, notably with my piece MOM's, wherein sound files are metaphorically shattered in time like glass and then reorganized into mosaic patterns. The technique used to require laborious preparation outside of real-time before the files could be brought onstage. Now not only can it be done spontaneously while performing, but also with a degree of flexibility that I find quite liberating. They are a lot of fun to play and hopefully to listen.
     - Carl Stone
    Unseen Worlds
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    Hassan Hakmoun: Sintir, Vocals, Qarqaba
    Adam Rudolph: Conga, Tabla, Bendir, Percussion
    Don Cherry: Pocket Trumpet
    Richard Horowitz: Ney
    Morocco's leading young Gnawa musician plays ancient African music of healing and trance, joined by world class jazz and new music improvisers.
    - released March 1, 2019 
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    Composed by Den Sorte Skole & Karsten Fundal


               Released July 9, 2018                 
    The second symphony was premiered together with the Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra in the Radiohouse in Copenhagen. The symphony was build around the universe of Indians & Cowboys with new arrangements as well as completely new compositions.
    - Den Sorte Skole - Den Sorte Skole at Emusers  - +

    Additional information:

    - This is Symphony 1 - It is my library in 128 kbps, I have no idea where I got it from.

    - According to Discogs it was released at the end of january 2019, but no signs of it in digital format, yet.
  • Love  Revelation
    Releases in a couple of days, already available to stream. It has them in very reflective mode, and some moments stretch my tolerance for country, but as usual some great melodies and lyrics.

  • The Caretaker - Everywhere, an empty bliss
    Released February 26, 2019

    *AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD ONLY UNTIL JUNE 16th, 2019. 

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    Groovin With Golson
    Benny's still out there, god love him. Curtis Fuller (also still with us) trombone, Ray Bryant piano, Paul Chambers bass, Art Blakey drums 

    eta, Of course this should have been on What are you listening to now...Though notable, pretty much not a New release
  • Newish: 

    Bojanek & Michalowski - Solid
    "Solid" — the second full-length album of Piotr Michałowski and Grzegorz Bojanek is the result of their nearlyten-year cooperation. After "As Far As It Seems" — a record released by Ohm Resistance (USA) — Michałowski and Bojanek joined their forces yet again, in search of new sounds and textures. This over 50-minute release showcases a very unique collection of subdued, oneiric tones, the duo has always been appreciated for.
    - N_CODED - Emusic
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    The 180 Gs is a group of 5 singers (who also happen to be brothers) based in Detroit, Michigan and led by composer and multi-instrumentalist David Minnick. They have carved out their niche in the music world by creating new versions of severely iconoclastic albums of the 1980s and 1990s using only their voices. Their debut album is a collection of the works of sound collage artists Negativland.The album titled "180 d'Gs to the Future" was released in 2008 on Negativland's label, Seeland Records. The 180 Gs second album is an a capella version of the British band Cardiacs' monumental 1995 double album "Sing to God". This project took the group 4 years to complete. It was finally released in the summer of 2018 to critical acclaim. We are now happy to present their third album, a cover of the Residents seminal 1980 release: "The Commercial Album": 40 distinct songs, 60 seconds each.

    Homer Flynn of The Cryptic Corporation says about it:
    "The thing that’s most impressive about the album is that the Gs are not merely imitating the Residents’ masterpiece of minimalism, but reinventing it, while staying completely faithful to the source material. 

  • - And here it is, the brand new album from:

    Low Distance is Deaf Center´s third full-length studio album and perhaps the most focused effort by the Norwegian duo to date. After their last record Owl Splinters (2011) was quite an eclectic endeavor, Erik K Skodvin & Otto A Totland draw their sound back into something more quiet and minimal.
     
    The record starts with a piece of sweeping analougue electronics. It´s a spacious, yet dynamic opener that leads directly into the static tones and piano motivs of Entity Voice, which balances a new sense of abstractation with the classic Deaf Center sound. It´s warm and close while sounding like it´s set in the outer horizon. Overall Low Distance feels both alien and familiar with its atonal synths, close pianos and drowned out noises.
     
    After meeting in studio for the first time since 2011, the recordings came out of a 3 day session in 2017. It was then mixed at both EMS Stockholm and at Erik´s home studio over a longer period to create a blend of deeply layered as well as stripped down pieces. Both Erik & Otto have been active individually since their last meeting as Deaf Center: Otto released 2 solo piano albums, while Erik has furthered his descent into musical abstractation both under his own name and as Svarte Greiner. It´s long overdue to hear them connect their personalities into something new. Low Distance is a welcome return replete with beauty, mystery and uncertainty.
    - Sonic Pieces.
  • @Brighternow already posted the Soundcloud sample, here's the cover art. Out April 26.


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    Out today on Transversales Discques:

     Never released before recording by french avant-garde electronic composer Igor Wakhevitch, who composed a bunch of major experimental albums in the 70’s such as « Logos », « Docteur Faust » , « Hathor » "Les Fous d'Or", "Nagual" and "Let's Start" 
    After spending almost 30 years in India, Igor Wakhevitch digged in his archives this unreleased work recorded in 1999 on his « Mysterious Island 88 » system. Esotheric, sacred and cosmic , « KSHATRYA, The Eye Of The Bird » is the logical follow up of Igor’s early works and a monumental piece of electronic music. A must!
    I G O R   W A K H E V I T C H  (Mitra)
    IGOR WAKHEVITCH started his career as a brillant classical pianist and was the pupil of the great french composer Olivier Messiaen at the “Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique et de Danse” in Paris, the most prestigious music school of France.
    Born in south of France in Gassin, a small village on the top of  a hill above the Gulf of Saint-Tropez, Igor Wakhevitch is a composer who has worked in many musical directions, always sensitive to new ways of expressing sonic sound constructions. In different contexts, he explored the acousmatic approach of processed sounds but also occasionaly dissipates this compositional form into psych rock aesthetic.

    His musical background is heavily influenced by contemporary avant-garde, dodecaphonism and sound experimentations, including electro music.
    He notably learned electroacoustic technics with the « Group of Musical Researches » (known as G.R.M. French National Radio ORTF) under the guidance of  the famous french musicologist Pierre Schaeffer, a visionnary of music's future and a kind of "father" of  the concrete music.
    « Logos » (EMI) and « Nagual » (EMI), « Hathor » (Atlantic) « Let’s Start » (EMI), and many other compositions (Dr. Faust, les Fous d'Or, To Be God, “Ahata-Anahata”, “the Girl of Sixteen”, “the Winds of Shiva”, “Echo and Narcissus”, “Arachnea”,etc.) reveals pretty excellent spectral forms and modulations which concentrates the listener in seriously profound, immersive mentalscapes. A few pieces contain rocking, spaced out instrumentations in the genre of cosmic krautrock classics ; closely associated to their performances on stage, Igor Wakhevitch was a great friend of Robert Wyatt and Mick Ratledge, the fantastic musicans of the british "avant-garde" psychedelic rock band, the "Soft Machine" ; at the same period, he met several times the legendary psychedelic pop-rock band, the "PINK FLOYD".

    Igor Wakhevitch aged of 26 only was honored to compose the music of SALVADOR DALI’ s opera-poem « ÊTRE DIEU » ("To Be God"), featuring Salvador Dali in person : the music including the various characters (Dali in person, etc.) was recorded at EMI Studios in Paris). Igor Wakhevitch is the only composer to have experimented the privilege to work directly during many weeks in the row in close collaboration with Salvador Dali and in studio as well : an unique testimony about Dali's personal involvement in a piece of music: his own "Opera" !  .... 
    Igor Wakhevitch's works are largely devoted to dance-theatre, epic electronic pieces blended with symphonic orchestra, choirs, percussions, rock band, abstract elements … not forgetting entities, elemental creatures, telluric beings, invisible creatures, occult powers, inner worlds, straight meditative synthezisers .....
    Igor Wakhevitch is also one of the very rare composer to count six of his compositions to have been created at the "National Opera of Paris" : "AOR" (Symphonic orchestra and magnetic tape - Igor Wakhevitch-Jean-Michel Jarre ) ... followed soon after by the trilogy "This-That-the Other" added later on by "the Beginning" ("Human Called Being" ) …  concluded by "the End : a monumental ballet-theatre performance in a form of opera in five parts, a pentalogy directed and choreographied by the great Carolyn Carlson.  Five years of continuous work between Carolyn Carlson, the Group of Paris Opera Theatral Researches, and Igor Wakhevitch for the music.

    Igor's music and esthetical approach is introducing the listener slowly by slowly and step by step to the anteroom of a cosmic language unveiling the mysteries of the Counsciousness: kind of reckless explorer of sonic mysterious worlds, pioneer of our days in mutation, visionary of a new era in which the Art will be the main transmitter of the "gnosis", the Divine Knowledge : Igor Wakhevitch daring angle and perspective over the hidden worlds of sound (soundmysteriouscience) provides an amazing collection of experimental electronic recordings and many more to come.
       
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    dUASsEMIcOLCHEIASiNVERTIDAS - DscI/Parpar split


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    Grzegorz Bojanek - Pure
    „Pure” EP is a set of four ambient tracks which confirms the fact that Bojanek is one of the most mature ambient artists in Poland.

    It’s not the first time that Bojanek’s music appears in N_Coded’s catalog. His music appeared previously on „Solid“ – an album made together with Piotr Michalowski, the founder of the label. „Solid“ was a 50-minute record filled with subtle, oneiric sounds which are typical for both artists.

    It’s not different in case of Bojanek's latest solo release. „Pure” is, as the artist says, a „pure ambient” consisting of deep, massive drone sounds shimmering with countless details. . . .
    - I have been intending to record a "purely ambient" album for a long time. I love to listen to such music myself, but when I was creating my own interpretations of this genre, I couldn‘t limit myself in form. "Pure" is my attempt to deal with "pure ambient", not enriched with rhythm or other ornaments.

  • Will Bolton - April Spiral

    https://rustedtonerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/april-spiral-2

    After appearing on both RTR Samplers Vol. 1 & 2, Wil Bolton’s newest album, ‘April Spiral’, comes to Rusted Tone Recordings. Bolton is a veteran within the experimental music scene; the London-based musician has released on labels such as Hibernate Recordings, Time Released Sound, Dauw, Fluid Audio, and many more over the past decade.
    ’April Spiral’ collects four pieces of re-sampled synthesisers, warm ambient loops, and lo-fi textures, perfectly suited for the gradual shift into the Spring season.
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    Mentioned above, Now released, Arovane and Porya Hatami - C.H.R.O.N.O.S.
    https://karlrecords.bandcamp.com/album/c-h-r-o-n-o-s

    After “Organism” (2017) and the musique concrete influenced “Organism_evolution” (2018) UWE ZAHN alias AROVANE and PORYA HATAMI continue their sonic explorations with “C.H.R.O.N.O.S.”, the fifth collaborational album by the German electronic producer and the Iranian sound artist. While the duo’s last album was a collection of 23 mostly short tracks, each an acribic examination of sounds that treated by techniques like modular synthesis, granular synthesis, spectral processing, granular synthesis, resynthesis and resonator / modal synthesis, ““C.H.R.O.N.O.S.” consists of five longer compositions that focus on creating a contemplative, zen-like atmosphere of subtle beauty. Rich in details, carefully sound-designed, AROVANE and PORYA HATAMI prove once more their top notch skills when it’s about creating state of the art contemporary ambient. 


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    Posted on Facebook with no further info. 
    - A must for Bobuck/Hardy Fox (The Residents) fans, I'd say . . .

    ETA:
     
    A depressed man spends too much time by himself in a room with strange wallpaper.
    An enhanced Website with illustrations by H.Fox and a soundtrack by H.Fox as Bobuck.
    Read by Joey R
  • 60 minute field recording from founding member of This Heat, Charles Hayward:

    - Released March 19, 2019 on Blank Editions.
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    Goodiepal & Pals - 100% Pro​-​Monarchist X​-​tra Kone Radio
    - a western world political weather forecast for 2019
    released January 1, 2019

    Gp&pls is a refugee organization disguised as a tech rock band
    And we are also a hot and hardcore feminist movement. And we are also a pro monarchist polygamist extratone orchestra. And we make anti-authoritarian communist tunes for you and your family.

    GP&PLS is supporting people on the move who are trying to enter Europe, but because of violent borders and euro racism have a hard time moving around and making livable lives.

    GP&PlS believe that if you have a powerful passport it is your duty to help and involve with the people who don’t. If you have a powerful position in society, such as friends, education and money, it’s your duty to share it.

    All money that this album make will go straight to the pockets of stranded refugees on the European border:
    Money for border-crossing tools, such as shoes and clothes when you have to hide in the forest for days, bandages and medicine for when police have beaten you up. Cellphone and credit so you can gps your way into EU and you can keep in contact with your family and friends at home

    Kristian Vester aka. Goodiepal, Mainpal Inv. and Gaeoudjiparl
     - a Danish/Faroese experimental electronic musician, performance artist, composer and lecturer, although he has also been described as a horologist. His work discusses the future of computer music, his own compositional practices and resonance computing, and in the past his own idea of Radical Computer Music. His tours have included 150 universities internationally. . . .
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    Released May 2, 2019

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    Released by Columbia in 1971 and re-released by Trunk Records in 2019:

    Basil Kirchin's Worlds Within Worlds: Part I And II is one of the most important experimental and improvised jazz-based recordings of all time. Released in 1971 it sold just a handful of copies, but has become a keystone in the development of ambient sounds; originals now fetch £1000+. This is the first time this exceptional, unique, and highly desirable record has been repressed.
    Originally conceived whilst walking round the docklands in Hull, Basil Kirchin felt that the futuristic music he had often imagined could actually be made. Only in 1969 and with the help of an arts grant could he afford the vital equipment he needed: a Nagra tape machine and Sennheiser directional microphone. Armed with these tools he set about recording landscapes, people, places, machines, animals, birds, bees, the zoo, and the autistic children from Schurmatt in Switzerland. He then took these recordings, edited them and then began the process of slowing them down to reveal the "little boulders of sound" hidden deep within the recordings. Kirchin built up layers of noise, symphonies of slowness, and then encouraged his jazz associates including Derek Bailey and Evan Parker to improvise along. The result was WWW, and nothing quite like it had been made or heard before. Today it offers listeners a mesmerizing sonic experience that remains years ahead of its time.

    - Soundohm

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