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    Corrado Maria De Santis – Over a Long Time

    November 7, 2023 - By 

    One of the great joys of my vocation is discovering musicians I would probably never otherwise encounter.  Enter Corrado Maria de Santis, courtesy of our dear friends at Lost Tribe Sound: “Corrado Maria De Santis, an Italian guitarist, skillfully combines the raw spontaneity of improvised guitar with computer-generated sounds, crafting captivating sonic landscapes characterized by ambient drones and glitch-infused textures. Having contributed to various notable music labels, he now presents his inaugural album on Lost Tribe Sound. ‘Over a Long Time,’ is a deeply personal collection for Corrado, capturing an extended and challenging period of life surrounding the passing of…

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    Gold – A Higher Purpose

    October 22, 2023 - By 

    You may wish to lower the volume a bit for this one.  Gold is a magnificently harsh noise-rock band out of Leeds, U.K., whose brutal take at experimental music is both ear-blasting, yet strangely soothing at the same time.  A full album is coming in November.

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    Mimik Banka 表情銀行 – 狗​日​子​ (Dog Days)

    October 19, 2023 - By 

    One of the benefits of being in Beijing at a high-grade academy is that I run into some rather brilliant young minds who are turning me on to great local music, case in point being Mimik Banka, who listeners would compare their music favorably to acts like dream pop and pop-psych bands like Dream Academy during their less somber moments and Khruangbin in places, and something radically their own in other spots.  Perhaps my new favorite Chinese indie band at the moment.

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    Ian Vine – Five Strings

    October 11, 2023 - By 

    Ian Vine, a composer out of the United Kingdom, provides us with a conceptual piece of classical music.  From his Bandcamp site: “Recently I have written a series of pieces that are concerned in one way or another with the presentation of unique, and yet similar, events or objects. In this work I examine closely a chord played by four guitars and bass guitar. There is no repetition in the piece, except gesturally.. five strings is presented in its original 36-minute version and also as five shorter pieces, five strings I-V. In January 2021 I asked our mother, my brother…

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    María Cristina Kasem – Obras – (2006 / 2017)

    October 8, 2023 - By 

    Friends and readers, thank you for indulging your scribe a well-needed rest after 1,000 days of activity.  We relaunch with one of the most gorgeous electroacoustic recordings I’ve come across in a while.  María Cristina Kasem is a composer and violinist from Argentina who has an extensive body of work in academic experimental music.  These three works are eerie, but so incredibly engaging that the sounds managed to soothe my ears.  A very pleasant find.

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    Jeff Gburek – The Dunning​-​Kruger Effects

    September 27, 2023 - By 

    Today is an auspicious occasion as this post will mark 1,000 consecutive days of posting music for my readers and friends.  It’s most appropriate that number 1,000 would be someone who has appeared quite a few times on the blog, but Jeff Gburek offers an album that is as (primitive) bluesy as I’ve heard in some time.  The playing is mournful in parts, but it wraps your ears up and demands your attention.  Most importantly, I think this is the first time I’ve heard Jeff sing.  His voice sits perfectly in the point where blues, psych and acid folk all…

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    Skyphone – Oscilla

    September 26, 2023 - By 

    Our friends at Lost Tribe Sound have released yet another gem in their catalog.  This release is from the Danish group Skyphone, and their Bandcamp release page explains further: “The new Skyphone record original began as a project to explore long form close-miced acoustic sessions. The trio worked to record and capture the intimacy of various acoustic instruments. The recordings were very meticulous and long, and were largely meditations over harmonies and fugue-like movements of guitars, bass, synths, piano as well as mandolin, bells, wind instruments and acoustic drums. The trio spent a lot of time building the right sound,…