My dear brother in music, Heathertoes, has released a great album for rainy-day listening. Elements of dub, trip-hop, and a crunch, almost lo-fi electronic music aesthetic, spice up an album’s worth of brilliant ideas sketched into pleasant daytime listening.
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Jeff Gburek – Sprites + Persian Dub Synergies + Raw Radio Captures from Feb 28, 2026
The latest album by Jeff Gburek has quite a story behind it. From his Bandcamp site: “This an album containing three albums. Three swung in a swirl. Three moments of attention framed by the different kinds of time and listening horizons. Sprites is about ephemeral ionospheric lightning such as you Continue Reading
Jeff Gburek – Rounded Sleep (for Eliane Radigue)
Perhaps the most important contemporary experimental musician, Éliane Radigue, has passed away. Jeff Gburek offers a wonderful tribute in her honor. Words fail at the moment.
Jeff Gburek – Musica Povera Electronica: Volume 1
Jeff Gburek is constantly crafting new music for us. From his latest Bandcamp release: Prose Poem for Musica Povera Electronica Launch! You know they have ways to minotaur the voice chat labyrinth, even I should be able to score a surveillance industry gig. I know how to listen to things Continue Reading
Siekiera - Nowa Aleksandria
This release by Polish post-punk band Siekiera is something of a revelation. Poland had a very active cold wave scene and Siekiera were the top of the back. This is going to appeal to fans of the Belarusian post-punk band Molchat Doma.
Jeff Gburek – Sound Travels in Babadag (Romania)
As the year comes to a close, we receive a gift of field recordings by Jeff Gburek from one of his recent trips to Romania. It’s one of those releases where you can simply close your eyes and briefly forget you’re in the city.
Jeff Gburek & Friends – Decembryonic Journey 2025
As the year heads to a close, our friend Jeff Gburek offers up one of his last releases of 2025. From his Bandcamp site: “Although most of these tracks were realized in October and November, I’ve chosen to give the title over to the coming moon of December and the Continue Reading
Jeff Gburek (Mental Health Food Store) – Taurids Encke, Overture & Entanglements
This is one of the latest releases by our esteemed friend and composer Jeff Gburek. From his Bandcamp site: “Inspiration comes literally from the meteorite shower Taurids Encke as an energetic immanence, along with the other great astronomical influences on our horizon, such as comets 3I/Atlas, comets A6 and R2, Continue Reading
Jeff Gburek – Round About Kaponiera
Jeff Gburek has a new release of instrumental guitar work that is simply sublime listening. From his Bandcamp site: “These tracks, were recorded in October, at home, quickly, via mono instrument microphone and with with a Boss reverb pedal in the mixer’s effects loop. The pieces on the album reiterate Continue Reading
Saagara – 3 The Shackleton Versions
From Waclaw Zimpel’s Bandcamp site: “Saagara’s album 3 made itself right at home in the tak:til universe as soon as it was released to considerable acclaim last October, quickly becoming as much of a touchstone for the label’s Fourth World aesthetic as Jon Hassell, 75 Dollar Bill and Širom. A Continue Reading