Virgo – Novel

Mahorka Records has surprised us with a release that leans less toward experimentation and more toward the style of Sakamoto. Although the talented Japanese artist Virgo is categorized as performing IDM (Intelligent Dance Music), this release is much more elegant than that genre suggests. In fact, it resembles something you Continue Reading

Fallen Sun – Parallel Disalignment

Our dear friend Y’ng-Yin Siew, who composes under the moniker Fallen Sun, offers a new album that presents a blistering wall of noise complemented by electroacoustic music. This work embodies organized, well-composed chaos. From her Bandcamp site: “Fallen Sun, as the name itself alludes to, is a rather more intense and explosive Continue Reading

Antonina Nowacka – Lamunan

Somewhere between the angelic and experimental lies the vocal work of Antonina Nowacka.  From her Bandcamp site, and it’s quite a good read: “Forged alone in a cave on the island of Java, and recorded in a fortress in Poland, Antonina Nowacka’s “Lamunan” is an intimate exploration of a mysterious Continue Reading

Checkpoint Staalplaat: Revisiting Radical Sound, with Geert-jan Hobijn

What a pleasant surprise this turned out to be!  Staalplaat Records was the label my friends and I would swear by on every release they put out when we were teenagers, and the quality never left them.  From the Youtube channel (sorry, my Chinese friends, but this will be remedied Continue Reading

Duo Noire – Night Triptych

Thomas Flippin and Christopher Mallett are Duo Noire, who perform astounding guitar duets. From their Bandcamp site: “Duo Noire’s playing throughout is virtuosic, sensitive, and calibrated beautifully to the style of each work. “Night Triptych” contributes an hour’s worth of important new music into the repertoire, presenting works that will Continue Reading

Various Artists – Canary Records: What Heaven Has Against Me: Central & Southern Turkish Folk Music, ca. 1928-55

From the Canary Records Bandcamp site: “Armenian singers from the central, southern, and eastern regions of Turkey — Urfa, Diyarbekir, Malatya, Gaziantep, Harput, etc. — recorded prolifically in the U.S. from the mid-1910s through the ‘20s. Meanwhile, Darü-1 Elhan (Istanbul Conservatory) was founded in 1916. During the 1920s, academics there Continue Reading