Jesse Paul Miller – Dream Boxes and Psychic Microphones • Radio and Other Sounds From Southeast Asia 2008 – 2017

We find music in the strangest of places.  This release from Jesse Paul Miller is proof of it.  From his Bandcamp site: “These tracks consist of a series of sequential “sound collages”, based on recordings I gathered in Southeast Asia, between 2008 and 2017. There is NO Multi-Tracking or “Over-Dubbing” Continue Reading

Hani from Yunnan China – Hani Polyphonic Singing in Yunnan China

From our friends at Sublime Frequencies: “Mystic choral beauty drifting far into the outer cosmos, this other worldly traditional music ensemble creates a contemporary-sounding avant-garde vocal fusion combined with strange instrumental accompaniment. The HANI are linguistically derived from the YI branch of the Tibeto-Burmese and number a million and a Continue Reading

Baligh Hamdi – Instrumental Modal Pop of 1970’s Egypt

Sublime Frequencies never ceases to amaze me with the gems they dig up.  From their Bandcamp site: Sublime Frequencies finally unleashes it’s ESSENTIAL compilation from 1970’s Egypt. Modal instrumental tracks from Baligh Hamdi – one of the most important Arabic composers of the 20th Century (writing for legends Umm Kalthum, Continue Reading