Helena Espvall / Ernesto Diaz-Infante / Marjorie Sturm – A Shadowed Fulguration

Thanks ever so much to Ernesto Diaz-Infante for alerting me to his latest release with percussionist and Nepalese flute player Marjorie Sturm (his spouse, if I am not mistaken) and cellist Helena Espvall. Musically, there is a gritty, lo-fi feel to the recordings, with the guitar sounding more like a Continue Reading

Various Artists – Spotted Peccary Records: 33 – Free Ambient Electronic Sampler

From the label’s Bandcamp site: “Spotted Peccary Music is an independent record label with a focus on deep, vast and immersive soundscapes. From deep drone, to chillout, to high energy beats, Spotted Peccary traverses the worlds of Ambient Electronic, Classic Berlin-School, Ethereal Atmospheric, Spacemusic, Rock, Pure Acoustic and more; all Continue Reading

Hervé Perez and John Garner – Bell of Evening Skies

This has to be one of the first albums where the Shakuhachi plays a large role in improvised music that I’ve come across.  From the duo’s Bandcamp site: “This album is the first encounter between improvisers John Garner and Hervé Perez. We came across each other’s work through the jazz Continue Reading

KABRA – The Return of the Cambrian Period

KABRA are another discovery from the near-flawless Reverse Alignment Records out of Sweden associated with our friends at Unexplained Sounds Group, themselves possessing exquisite taste when it comes to dark ambient and drone music.  We know nothing about them (him, her?) except for the music, but what music it is!  Continue Reading

Oksana Linde – Travesías

From Buh Records’ Bandcamp site: “Venezuelan composer Oksana Linde presents Travesías, her second album released by Buh Records, featuring pieces created between 1986 and 1994 in her private studio in San Antonio de Los Altos, Venezuela. These compositions belong to the same creative period as the works included in her Continue Reading

Various Artists – Murder tbs: Never Enough

From the Murder tbs Bandcamp site, this compilation serves as a good introduction to hard techno and post-Industrial dance music out of Tbilisi, Georgia, which looks to be my new home in the not-terribly-distant future: “After five years of existence, we are starting a new chapter with our most extensive Continue Reading

Scanner & Nurse with Wound – Contrary Motion

It looks so strange to see these two names paired up together for the first time, yet it feels weird that they had never collaborated before (to my knowledge).  Neither project should need an introduction as both Robin Rimbaud (Scanner) and Steven Stapleton (Nurse With Wound) have nearly four decades Continue Reading

MadMen Duo – Through the Night

Our dear friends at Mahorka Records continue to surprise and delight us.  Their latest release features two musicians, the MadMen Duo (I don’t know where they are from, but they did record these tracks in Bulgaria if I understand correctly) whose music comes off as a wonderfully dark combination of Continue Reading