Various Artists – Ostinato Records: Synthesizing the Silk Roads: Uzbek Disco, Tajik Folktronica, Uyghur Rock & Tatar Jazz from 1980s Soviet Central Asia

I know it must be troublesome to actually click on the link when you can read most of the review from the comfy confines of social media, but this time I implore you to actually click on the link and read the story of how this album came to be.  Continue Reading

Sverre Knut Johansen – Distant Shore (30th Anniversary Edition)

Thirty years is a very long time to manage missing the work of a critically acclaimed artist like Sverre Knut Johansen.  His work on this album sounds like a combination of the better aspects of New Age and early electronic music, a more relaxed version of progressive rock and a Continue Reading

Abul Mogard & Rafael Anton Irisarri – Live at Le Guess Who?

Abul Mogard and Rafael Anton Irisarri, from Italy and Spain respectively, are two of the most outstanding ambient music composers going today.  They collaborate here on a live work that sounds so atmospheric as to be nearly holy, especially since it was performed at a church in Utrecht.

Various Artists – Future Sounds Of Kraut Vol. 3 – Compiled by Fred und Luna

Our friends at Compost Records have the third release in the series Future Sounds of Kraut, but it comes on the heels of some heartbreaking news.  May good Rainer Buchmüller rest in peace.  He has left quite a legacy behind.  From Compost’s Bandcamp site: “Chapter 3 of the successful compilation Continue Reading

Al Wootton – Lifted From The Earth

From the Bandcamp site: “Guess-again shapeshifter Al Wootton continues a fertile streak of releases for ZamZam, Livity and his own Trule label, as well as an acclaimed collab with Susumu Mukai and Valentina Magaletti as Holy Tongue, on a killer new album for Berceuse Heroique’s tape series, a screwed navigation Continue Reading