Trajectories – Quiet on Kökar

Trajectories is a troupe from Quebec who produce electroacoustic music.  From their Bandcamp site: “The album Quiet on Kökar was conceived of during a recent artist residency undertaken on the small island of Kökar in the Åland Archipelago in Finland, experimenting with a variety of recording set-ups and collaborative compositional Continue Reading

OBUKHOVAUDIO – Sphärenlicht

Even down to the cover art (which looked like it would have been a fine one for a 1970’s period Klaus Schulze), it seems Obukhovaudio (a.k.a. Alexander Obukhov) has a knack for making an album that encapsulates the genre of electronic music, the Berlin School, that he loves dearly.  Fine Continue Reading

Lionel Marchetti & hamaYôko / Yôko Higashi – U chu Jin (les êtres en dehors de la Terre)

French electroacoustic composer Lionel Marchetti makes absolutely mind-blowing soundscapes made out of percussion and found sounds, which is impressive enough.  However, in this 20-minute piece done in collaboration with vocalist hamaYôko, he puts a level of eeriness that will be extremely engaging to fans of avant-garde music.

Maria Teriaeva – Sayan – Savoie

“Maria Teriaeva is a Siberian-born, Paris-based musician and composer. She uses the Buchla modular synthesizer as a framework for her music combining it with acoustic instruments and voice,” so says her bio on Bandcamp.  She has become quite a revelation to me, as her music is some of the must Continue Reading

Gûldur – Despair

Gûldur is part of a wonderful collective based in Porto Alegre, Brazil, a place I would like to visit before I rest my bones in this Earth.  Some of the bands and labels associated with this scene produce consistently good experimental, noise, dungeon synth and other related genres, which brings Continue Reading

Andy Summers & Robert Fripp – The Complete Recordings

No reviews today thanks to having to have a hospital visit, but I would like to announce one of my favorite guitar albums in its most complete glory.  DGM Live Records offers the original albums remastered plus previously unreleased material.  From the website: “‘The Complete Recordings 1981-1984’ by Andy Summers Continue Reading

modest by default – The Rojava Documents (ثورة مستمرة)

Nothing is as it seems when you’re dealing with vaporwave artists.  Take modest by default, whose record, The Rojava Documents, starts off with a gorgeous, mellow flute solo worth of something produced by Herbie Mann.  The sounds on this album range from chilled-out downtempo beats to almost-straight-ahead jazz.  This is Continue Reading