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    Various Artists – Mailbox Records: Music for Another Sky

    February 24, 2021 - By 

    This collection of ambient music is curated by British record label Mailbox Records.  From their Bandcamp site: About this release: This compilation has been put together in order to raise awareness and/or raise money for the UK charity, Refuge. This means 100% of proceeds from all sales will go to them (after the standard deductions from Bandcamp and PayPal). It was 1971 when Refuge opened the world’s first safe house, so this year marks the 50th year they’ve been helping women and children escape a life of abuse and violence; the first to make the point that violence in the…

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    Gaye Su Akyol – Yort Savul: İSYAN MANİFESTOSU!

    February 23, 2021 - By 

    Gaye Su Akyol has an EP release out, and it’s punchy.  Four powerful tracks of modern Andalou psychedelic rock and groove will be enough to whet your appetite for more. Turkey seems to really have it going on when it comes to psych music these days!  The Grey Lady (or the Old Hag, depending on what side of the political fence you sit on), known to readers as the New York Times, interviews Gaye Su, who has much to say about politics, the situation in Turkey, and awesome musicians like Barış Manço over here.

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    Seirios Savvaidis – Moly (μώλυ)

    February 22, 2021 - By 

    Seirios Savvaidis is a Greek singer and songwriter who brings a raw, ancient sound to his brand of folk music.  One can hear not only his acoustic guitar, but also bagpipes, bouzouki, percussions, electric guitar, accordion, synths, and polyphonic ensembles.  The music is dense, rich, and harkens back to a hazy, mystical era in Greek history. A really impressive album.  This will appeal to fans of the Japanese band Ghost, Krautrock like Popol Vuh and perhaps to those who like Current 93 as well.

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    Jeff Gburek – Three New Albums

    February 19, 2021 - By 

    We have the tremendous pleasure of announcing three new albums by composer Jeff Gburek. The first album is in collaboration with his partner Karolina Ossowska, who plays violin, ocarina and kalimba on this release.  Gburek performs on zither, mandolin, miniature bandura and something called a blue-sky instrument, something new to me.  The music is quiet, thoughtful, and meditative.  It was a relaxing experience hearing Jeff’s and Karolina’s interplay. The next release deals with shortwave radio sounds.  This is in keeping with the best of experimental music, where one lets the noises speak for themselves.  Jeff states: Flux and Permittivity is…

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    Coagulant – The Typhonian Experiments

    February 17, 2021 - By 

    Coagulant hail from Uruguay, a country not known for a deep experimental music scene.  This release, however, should attract attention to those who enjoyed those ritualistic post-Industrial music cassettes of the 1980s.  There’s a heavy B-movie soundtrack vibe to this release mixed with electroacoustic music. Quite enjoyable.

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    Lagas Turmales – §︴

    February 16, 2021 - By 

    Lagas Turmales is a producer out of Monterrey, Mexico who produce a quiet, droning, monochrome ambient music.  It’s lack of dynamics is precisely how ambient music should sound to me, if we’re talking about a purist definition of the genre.  This is warm, rippling ambient music worth relaxing to.  One could say it would fit in well as part of a Tarkovsky soundtrack. This is a project I’d like to know more about.  Transitory Tapes is responsible for releasing this intriguing album.

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    Hiiro Issiki – 1000 Plateaux

    February 15, 2021 - By 

    1000 Plateaux is the debut record by Hiiro Issiki, a Japanese composer.  I don’t find too much information on Issiki’s background, but this record is a musical chimera, sprouting patterns and shapes at will, yet maintaining cohesion, and in many parts, beauty.  What a stunning piece of work this is! Respect goes to Bedouin Records out of Bangkok, Thailand, for releasing this album.  It’s motivation to explore their catalogue further.  

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    Emel – The Tunis Diaries

    February 13, 2021 - By 

    NPR does a great disservice comparing Tunisian singer Emel’s voice to Björk.  There’s absolutely no comparison, and I say this as someone who likes Björk’s work a lot.  Emel is simply a better singer. Her album, The Tunis Diaries, is something closer to the Portuguese band Madredeus, whose singer, Teresa Salgueiro, Emel bares some vocal resemblance to. The production is sparse, and it works perfectly for this album.  She also does a great rendition of David Bowie’s, The Man Who Sold The World, which you can hear below.  Remarkable.

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    Various Artists – Audion Magazine #36 (Multimedia)

    February 12, 2021 - By 

    I had a good friend whom I worked with at a record shop in Los Angeles called Dana, who was probably 20 years my senior or so, and he was always amazed at how I managed to retain so much information at a young age (I was 23 when I met him) about prog, psych and other weird musics.  I told him it was simple – I had family who liked weird things, and I bought Audion Magazine quarterly without fail for many years. I’m very happy to see the Freeman Brothers, who are responsible for this magazine and Ultima…