Loren Connors & David Grubbs – Evening Air

What an absolutely sublime record performed by two legends, released on one of the best labels in operation today.  From Room40’s Bandcamp site: “Evening Air is the result Loren Connors and David Grubbs’s first trip to the recording studio in the two decades since their first duo album, Arborvitae (Häpna). Continue Reading

Deficit – Elämä Toisesta Paikkasta (With Marcelo Diaz / Mads Records)

Deficit is a project of Vyacheslav Ismagilov, an author of electronic experimental music from Tashkent, Uzbekistan, so says his Bandcamp site.  The drones are rather gentle for noise music and made for a fascinating listening experience.  This is one you want to use your headphones for. His collaborator, Marcelo Diaz, Continue Reading

Paolo L. Bandera – Riconnessione Iconoclastica Sacrale

Raffaele Pezzella’s consistently astounding Unexplained Sounds Group is perhaps the best-curated label covering dark ambient and ritualistic music.  They present former Sigillum S member Paolo L. Bandera’s latest release, and present notes originally posted from the Bandcamp release site here: “Paolo L. Bandera (a.k.a. NG5361) has been propagating unconventional sounds and Continue Reading

Jeff Gburek & Orkiestra Gaiafonica – Sept (ember) Sorties, 2024

From Jeff Gburek’s Bandcamp site: “None-sense Opera is what I will call it. It’s not noise, not merely musical soundscapery nor just anything rushing in to fill the 4/33 gap. My selections are operant, intuitive but their sense often only dawns on me later in the twilight when I become Continue Reading

Willebrant – Coastal___

Karl Willebrant released an EP’s worth of meditative music that would be appealing to fans of groups like Embryo and Popol Vuh.  The tunes are gentle, a bit on the kosmische side, and well-balanced in terms of its sonic character.  This is a rather fine little release.