Legendary Pink Dots frontman Edward Ka-Spel has a catalog of music so vast that I don’t think anyone has managed to track all the releases yet. This is one of his solo efforts: a weird, psychedelic experiments that borders on post-industrial music, Krautrock, psychedelic rock, and apocalyptic folk.
Netherlands
Ton de Leeuw – The Electronic Works
Ton de Leeuw was a microtonal composer who passed away in 1996. The Netherlands has produced an amazing array of composers and improvisers, but for all their wealth, such luminaries as de Leeuw rarely get promoted. Thankfully, the Dutch Oscillation Series, headed by the legendary Jos Smolders, is rectifying this Continue Reading
Edward Ka-Spel – Hallucinating Happy Land
Edward Ka-Spel, the leader of the Legendary Pink Dots, has a back catalog of scores of solo albums, and today he offers his latest, which you can read about on his Bandcamp site or hear here. This is a purely solo album featuring voice, electronics, and devices that create powerfully Continue Reading
Fleur – Jour D’été EP
Fleur is a Dutch singer who brings yé-yé music back to life with this EP, due for release on June 12. There is one track available, and I was pleasantly surprised to hear yé-yé, psychedelic pop, and garage rock melt together into something wonderful to listen to.
BJNilsen – True than Nature
BJ Nilsen is a Swedish composer based in Amsterdam, and has long been one of the true treasures of labels such as Touch and Ideologic Organ. His latest album, from 2025, combines sumptuous field recordings with soft drones. This is wonderfully organic-sounding.
BlindººCoyote – Improv in Minor/Major 7th Clusters
Our dear friend Drem Bruinsma, currently performing under the name BlindººCoyote, has released a single track of improvisations. This piece features abstract music infused with glitch-hop influences. It evokes the nostalgic feel of the Made To Measure albums from the 1980s, bringing back some fond memories.
Various Artists – SWP Records: Forgotten Guitars From Mozambique
From the SWP Records Bandcamp site: “This selection of Hugh Tracey recordings from the 50s represent what later became known as marrabenta. In fact in the early 50s there were 3 centres of guitar music in central and southern Africa – the Zambian Copperbelt, the Katanga mines in Congo, and Continue Reading
Legendary Pink Dots – So Lonely In Heaven
Edward Ka-Spel offers a very welcome surprise in the form of a new album! From his Bandcamp site: “‘So Lonely in Heaven’ is The Legendary Pink Dots’ second album since the World stopped for a Global Pandemic. With members scattered across three countries and two continents, our guilty confession is Continue Reading
Burial Beyond The Sea – Smoldering Remains
The Last American Poet, Shane Beck, collaborates on this album with stoner/doom band Burial Beyond The Sea. I’m pleasantly surprised to see how well spoken-word balances with doom.
Jos Smolders – Textuur 2 [ |||| – – – – ]
![Jos Smolders – Textuur 2 [ |||| – – – – ]](https://musicyouneedtohear.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/a1058058926_16.jpg)
Dutch composer Jos Smolders, a friend of this site, has a new release out on Portugal’s Crónica Electronica Records. This is a sample of the text associated with the album, which you can read in full here. “Each Textuur project is built up in a similar fashion. There are two Continue Reading