Music You Need To Hear

Expand your taste in music. Based in Tbilisi, Georgia.

Month: December 2023

Ofege – How Do You Feel

This album is quite a revelation!  Ofege, A group of hippies from Nigeria came together to record an absolutely solid disc full of tunes that sound less Afrobeat and more West Coast psych.  A cool album, indeed.

Gianni Oddi – Dreamin’ / Geronimo

Four Flies Records is an Italian label which “rescues golden age soundtracks from oblivion,” and we here are MYNTH are thankful for it!  This release is a 7-inch record by Italian saxophonist Gianni Oddi (in Italian) which blends a grimy…

Johanna Juhola – A Brighter Future

What a joyous release this is!  Accordion-based music out of Finland is just what the doctor ordered for our chilly Beijing day.  Johanna Juhola is one of many incredible artists on the Nordic Notes imprint who have blown my mind…

Jonathan Sharp – Divided Time

Castles In Space are a label whom I just stumbled into over the past few days, and I’m liking what I’m hearing from them a lot.  This particular piece of hauntology comes from Jonathan Sharp, a composer who is, like…

Deena Abdelwahed – Jbal Rrsas (جبل الرصاص)

Deena Abdelwahed is an artist and DJ who hails from Tunisia and cut her chops in the music in the capital of Tunis before relocating to Paris, France.  Her sound is brutal, slow, mixing a nearly tribal Industrial sound with…

post doom romance – prairie transmissions

Post Doom Romance presents a new album of some of the gentlest “noise” I’ve ever heard.  The tones are low, sparse, and somehow calming.  Perfect for cold-weather headphone listening.

Groove Paradise – BitterSweet

Magnificent funk/soul/R&B/AOR-influenced vaporwave from Groove Paradise from Spain.  We’ve featured the lads before, and they continue to produce, slick, polished, mellow grooves.

Valerio Cosi – The Aqueduct Walk

Valerio Cosi is an Italian composer I’ve had the pleasure of following for many years online, but this is the first time in a while that I have seen his work commercially available.  It is a fine example of musique…

Various Artists – Magnificent Sounds Records: A Chant About the Beauty of the Moon at Night: Hawaiian Steel Guitar Masters 1913-1921

Magnificent Sounds Records is a record label out of Buffalo, New York, and they specialize in rare archival recordings and remastering music from a century ago in a lot of cases.  From this magnificent compilation of Hawaiian music, you can…

Disen Gage, Alexei Borisov, Misha ‘MOX’ Salnikov, Eugene Voronovsky – Bionika

Russian experimental band Disen Gage have collaborated with some of the country’s most notorious experimental musicians.  Alexei Borisov, for instance, has been featured on these pages before.  MOX and Voronovsky are new names.  The music is an impressive mix of…