Meitei made its debut in 2018 with this freakishly disturbing, yet beautiful, experimental album. It was a revelation for a lot of music critics, and each listen makes you feel like you’re locked in some disjointed Kurosawa film. Kitchen Music and Evening Chants have combined to reissue this seminal album Continue Reading
Gibraltar Drakus – Hommage A Zanzibar
Awesome Tapes From Africa, the legendary blog and record label, have produced another winner, this time from a Cameroonian artist called Gibraltar Drakus, who produced bikutsi, a local dance music. From the release’s Bandcamp site: “By the early 1990’s, Les Têtes Brûlées were indisputably the most famous and influential artists Continue Reading
Samo Salamon, Emanuele Parrini & Vasco Trilla – Eating Poetry
Another dear friend of the blog, Samo Salamon from Slovenia, brings along a few friends for a well-done, gorgeously recorded improvisational album. Joining Salamon on this disc are Emanuele Parrini on violin and Vasco Trilla on drums and percussion. From Samo’s Bandcamp site: “A great improvising trio session of three Continue Reading
Baklava – From Skopje With Love
Our friends over at the indomitable CPL-Music have released a charming disc of traditional music from my second homeland of Skopje, Macedonia! Baklava, the subject of today’s listening, work with folk music and does sterling work reinterpreting it for a more modern, updated sound. Speaking of that sound, the band Continue Reading
Jeff Gburek – Vigilance Suite I & II
Fellow giromondo Jeff Gburek offers another incredibly profound album, balancing perfectly his own signature experimental sound touched with folk and blues, with the spirits of Robbie Basho and John Fahey once again coming along for the ride. For the influence behind this album, please consider taking the time to read Continue Reading
Ernesto Diaz-Infante – Bats in the Lavender Sky
We have a cause to celebrate here at the MYNTH office, as our friend, the erstwhile Bay Area guitarist Ernesto Diaz-Infante has released a new album on a label you will be hearing more about on this website. Ramble Records, an Australian label, is releasing some high quality guitar music, Continue Reading
Various Artists – GRAMMOFON-MISSIONEN – A Selection of Swedish Jesus Music 1967-1982
As a practicing Eastern Orthodox Christian, this Jesus music might be a subject I know a little something about, though my normal preference is more Byzantine, Arabic or Slavonic and dates back to at least the 5th Century rather than the 20th. Still, give mad respect to Subliminal Sounds for Continue Reading
Various Artists – Glücklich VI – Compiled by Rainer Trüby
From his days as a member of the seminal A Forest Mighty Black to collaborations with the who’s who of downtempo music (think Kruder & Dorfmeister, Jazzanova and so many others, Rainer Trüby has been of Trip-Hop’s finest tastemakers. We can celebrate today that after 20 years, there is a Continue Reading
Charif Megarbane – Marzipan
Habibi Funk presents the latest release of Beirut, Lebanon’s most prolific producer, Charif Megarbane. Though there are only two tracks available to listen to on Bandcamp, you can surely find more tracks to hear on quality sites like Qobuz or Deezer to check out the album in its entirety. From Continue Reading
Various Artists – TogoPop: Marche Noire
I realized I didn’t have many records from Togo listed on the blog, so, going down the rabbit hole, I found this curious compilation on TogoPop Records. It sounds NOTHING like what I was expecting. If anything, the artists on this compilation sound more like they were influenced by French Continue Reading