Various Artists – Ruptured Sessions Vol. 1: Live at Radio Lebanon
Ruptured Sessions has produced a compilation of Lebanese folk and blues. Considering the horror happening in the region, hearing mournful folk and blues music seems appropriate. May God save Lebanon from evil.
Geräusche von Hallesches Ufer – Golden Peaches of the Sun
Geräusche von Hallesches Ufer hail from Poznań, Poland, and have a sound that is as bleak as Current 93 at their most experimental touched off with a Kosmische Musik vibe. Quite a profound listen for those into wyrd-psych music.
KABRA – The Return of the Cambrian Period
KABRA are another discovery from the near-flawless Reverse Alignment Records out of Sweden associated with our friends at Unexplained Sounds Group, themselves possessing exquisite taste when it comes to dark ambient and drone music. We know nothing about them (him,…
Orbit Service – Leave For Good
Orbit Service is a side project of Randall Frazier and Erik Drost of the Legendary Pink Dots. This music is a bit less apocalyptic folk in nature, and has more of a dark, drony, psychedelic rock vibe to it. The…
Conal Ó Gráda – Anú Abú
A happy St. Patrick’s Day to my friends and readers. I won’t post any cheesy folk-rock to spare your ears. Instead, I offer some proper traditional music from the Emerald Isle courtesy of a fine flautist, Conal Ó Gráda.
Oksana Linde – Travesías
From Buh Records’ Bandcamp site: “Venezuelan composer Oksana Linde presents Travesías, her second album released by Buh Records, featuring pieces created between 1986 and 1994 in her private studio in San Antonio de Los Altos, Venezuela. These compositions belong to…
Nightshade – Wired (2025 Remaster)
Though I’m not the greatest fan of metal music (with a few legendary exceptions), Switzerland’s Nightshade plays metal at full throttle. This album is 25 years old now, and the drum tracks, already brutal sounding, were reprogrammed using AI. Interesting,…
Kurt Elling – Passion World
I am a latecomer to the voice of Kurt Elling, and I now regret not exploring his catalog more deeply before. He has a phenomenal voice, rich and full of expression, and he truly excels at these jazz standards. This…
Various Artists – Murder tbs: Never Enough
From the Murder tbs Bandcamp site, this compilation serves as a good introduction to hard techno and post-Industrial dance music out of Tbilisi, Georgia, which looks to be my new home in the not-terribly-distant future: “After five years of existence,…
Tom Johnson – Organ and silence
From the ANTS Bandcamp site: “A music concerned for, as the author writes in the disc notes, “… the importance of silence in music…”. This work is conceived not “for organ” but, really, for “organ and silence”, as the silence…