Reverse Image – Éclipse Dissonante (FMOA Audio Postcard Series)

From our friend Reverse Image, who offers this 18-minute sound collage: “Reverse Image (Y’ng-Yin Siew) is a sound artist from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. She builds her works using a hybrid of analogue and digital tools, with which she explores the intersection between repetitive motifs and moments of discontinuity. Her debut Continue Reading

Ancient My Enemy – Ancient My Enemy

Once upon a time, there was an astounding good band based in Los Angeles called Pressurehed.  They were utterly phenomenal to watch live, and were kings of the “20-minute psychedelic jam,” so to speak.  Members would form the equally brilliant Farflung, whom I had the privilege of working with briefly Continue Reading

Ezra Sturm & Ernesto Diaz-Infante – Live at Day of Noise

This is the second time I get to present the father-son due of Ezra Sturm and the consistently wonderful Ernesto Diaz-Infante.  In this live improvisation, I get to hear more of a space rock sound.  There is a sci-fi element to the music, which makes the performance that much more Continue Reading

Slermpy Fishkins – I WANT TO PRODUCE FOR MY FAVORITE RAPPERS BEFORE THEY DIE

This is a weird one, admittedly, but it has enough charm for me to share it.  Slermpy Fishkins hail from Riverside, California, not terribly far from where I lived in California before moving to China.  They produce a grubby, lo-fi hip-hop laced with some very strange samples and cut-ups.  Interesting Continue Reading

Maâlem Mokhtar Gania & Bill Laswell – Tagnawwit: Holy Black Gnawa Trance

Maâlem Mokhtar Gania & Bill Laswell collaborate on bringing Gnawa music up-to-date in the 21st Century.  There have been a good number of Gnawa-related recordings which have come out over the past few decades, but having Laswell’s thundering bass supporting Gania’s instrumentation makes for quite a pairing.  

Capricorni Pneumatici – Witchcraft

I don’t ever recall using the word haunting to describe the sound of a record on this blog, but Witchcraft by Capricorni Pneumatici deserves that adjective.  There is a horrific, claustrophobic vibe to the album, as though it were made for a movie so frightening that it would give viewers Continue Reading