Anthony Pirog – Pocket Poem

Anthony Pirog is a guitarist from New York City whose album here, Pocket Poem, is a release that Cuneiform Records has featured on its $5 Fridays promotion.  From his Bandcamp site: “Pirog has established himself engaging in genre-blurring activities in the disparate veins of indie rock, rockabilly, avant-folk, creative jazz, Continue Reading

Yusuf Mumin – Journey To The Ancient

I might have missed it, but I never came across the term “spiritual jazz” in my youth. I was already struggling to understand the different styles of jazz, such as bop, cool jazz, big band, and Dixieland. If there is an album that truly embodies the genre, it is Yusuf Mumin’s Journey Continue Reading

Philippe Gerber – Pelicula Fantastica

Our friend Philippe Gerber, composer and label owner, announces the release of his latest album, “Pelicula Fantastica.”  The album is 30 tracks of brutally dark soundtrack music.  It boggles the mind that he hasn’t yet become sought after in Hollywood for horror music, but then again, it’s a closed club where Continue Reading

Hubert Heathertoes & Zan Hoffman – The Substance of Meraki

The great Hubert Heathertoes and Zan Hoffman return with a new release! This album is definitely experimental, featuring elements of 1980s cassette culture along with a more polished post-industrial sound and a nod to John Oswald’s plunderphonics. It is quite a fine listen.

Avram & Dumitrescu – Performed by Hyperion Ensemble – Sacrum et Profanum

Ana-Maria Avram and Iancu Dumitrescu were a husband-and-wife duo renowned in the spectralism genre. Avram passed away suddenly in 2017, but her body of work continues to be performed regularly and is well-documented, as evidenced by this release. Dumitrescu remains active as a composer and, from the latest recordings I Continue Reading

Virgo – Novel

Mahorka Records has surprised us with a release that leans less toward experimentation and more toward the style of Sakamoto. Although the talented Japanese artist Virgo is categorized as performing IDM (Intelligent Dance Music), this release is much more elegant than that genre suggests. In fact, it resembles something you Continue Reading

Fallen Sun – Parallel Disalignment

Our dear friend Y’ng-Yin Siew, who composes under the moniker Fallen Sun, offers a new album that presents a blistering wall of noise complemented by electroacoustic music. This work embodies organized, well-composed chaos. From her Bandcamp site: “Fallen Sun, as the name itself alludes to, is a rather more intense and explosive Continue Reading

Antonina Nowacka – Lamunan

Somewhere between the angelic and experimental lies the vocal work of Antonina Nowacka.  From her Bandcamp site, and it’s quite a good read: “Forged alone in a cave on the island of Java, and recorded in a fortress in Poland, Antonina Nowacka’s “Lamunan” is an intimate exploration of a mysterious Continue Reading