Hamfuggi Records has released a compilation documenting 50 tracks of new experimental music from Spain. Their curatorial abilities are as astounding as ever, as I don’t know hardly any of the musicians, but all sound good in a radically weird way.
Spain
Caamaño & Ameixeiras – Quitar o Aire
This album by Caamaño & Ameixeiras is a pleasant surprise from the pater patriae, so to speak. It’s traditional music from the region of Galicia in Spain, heavily inspired by Celtic mythology. Though the instrumentation is basic for this sort of music (accordion, violin), there’s an intangible spark to the Continue Reading
L’Ham de Foc Cor de Porc
L’Ham de Foc is a band that I have always hoped would get a proper reissue of their classic album. The Valencian band is a prime example of the quality of ethnic music that dots Spain. So many regions deserve their local traditional music to be either better exposed or Continue Reading
Carmela & Carme López – Vinde Todas
This is something of a live music artifact containing not only the work of avant-garde gaitera Carme López but that of some of the best names of the Celtic music scene in Spain.
Kaleikia – Makali
Some heavy progressive rock from Galicia, one of my paternal ancestral homelands: “Makali (from the Bubi Makálé/Makòlé) was a drill born free in the jungles of Bioko, in Equatorial Guinea. He was captured by humans and sold to Galician sailors who took him to Meaño. There he lived with his Continue Reading
BlindººCoyote – numb:slide:cloud (triptych)
Our esteemed friend, Drem Bruinsma, enlightened us about an early BlindººCoyote release we missed. From his Bandcamp site: “What started as an experiment with the effects of re-recording source material at different sampling rates, ended up becoming something way more layered, complex and meaningful: three parts fading into one another, Continue Reading
Various Artists – Industrial Complexx: Sobaki Tabaka Remixes
Thanks to our friend Philippe Gerber, who alerted us to a compilation he contributed to from the Spanish label Industrial Complexx. The 37 tracks on the album range from Industrial dance to breakbeat. A properly varied compilation.
Various Artists – Vampisoul: Rangarang
From the Bandcamp site of the consistently solid record label Vampisoul: “”Rangarang” is a compilation of forgotten jewels from pre-revolutionary Iran. These songs tell the stories of an artisan community that flourished during the 1960s and 1970s before vanishing into oblivion. The pop stars who stayed in Iran were summonsed Continue Reading
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.
Juan Antonio Nieto & Jan Kruml -Break The Silence
Juan Antonio Nieto was a percussionist who, at one time, was a member of the legendary Spanish new wave/experimental band, Aviador Dro. He went on to collaborate with exceptional experimental musicians both in Spain and internationally. Nieto passed away in 2022, but one of his final works was a collaboration Continue Reading