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NEW
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AMEN
DUNES
"Death jokes"
Amen Dunes has always worked with an outsider’s verve, but
as he approached his seventh album in fall 2019, it was clear
to Damon McMahon that he needed to become an outsider to his own
history. “I was tired of the music I’d become convinced
I had to limit myself to.” Instead of embarking on a familiar
project, he decided to become a beginner again, immersing himself
in the fundamentals of both piano and the electronic music he’d
grown up with at raves and clubs but never imagined himself able
to make.
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file under: sub poop ]
   
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YAYA
BEY
"Ten fold"
New York's Yaya Bey announces her forthcoming album Ten Fold due
May 10th via Big Dada. Picking up where she left off with the
powerful one-two punch of her 2022 album Remember Your North Star
and 2023’s followup EP Exodus the North Star, Yaya’s
new album is a free-spoken and flowing self-portrait defined by
in-the-moment reflections on the past, present and future. Brimming
with the nuances of Yaya’s identity and the various facets
of her creative endeavors, Ten Fold turns her focus inward and
meditates on her inner being while carving out spaces for the
humor and cutting social commentary that’s been a defining
characteristic of her work.
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file under: soul r.&b. ]
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BETH
GIBBONS
"Lives outgrown"
Lives Outgrown is the debut album by Beth Gibbons featuring 10
beautiful new songs recorded over a period of 10 years, the album
was produced by James Ford & Beth Gibbons with additional
production by Lee Harris (Talk Talk). Lives Outgrown is, by some
measure, Beth’s most personal work to date, the result of
a period of sustained reflection and change — “lots
of goodbyes,” in Beth’s words. Farewells to family,
to friends, even to her former self. These are songs from the
mid-course of life, when looking ahead no longer yields what it
used to, and looking back has a sudden, sharper focus.
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file under: post trip hop ]
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MICHAEL
HEAD & THE RED ELASTIC BAND
"Loophole"
62 years of music, loves, losses, long summer days and longer,
darker nights are vividly recalled by ‘our greatest living
songwriter’, Michael Head and The Red Elastic Band as he
plays out flickering scenes from his life on new album, Loophole,
set for release on Fri 3 May 2024 on Modern Sky. 12 evocative
and autobiographical songs to be accompanied by the written word
as Michael Head prepares his memoirs for release with an autobiography
with Nine Eight Books. UK Tour dates announced for May and December,
ending the year with a career-spanning, home city set at Liverpool
Philharmonic.
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file under: indie pop ]
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IBIBIO
SOUND MACHINE
"Pull the rope"
Pull the Rope, the new record by Ibibio Sound Machine, casts the
Eno Williams and Max Grunhard–led outfit in a new light.
The hope, joy, and sexiness of their music remain, but, further
honing the edge of their acclaimed 2022 album Electricity, the
connection they aim to foster has shifted venues from the sunny
buoyancy of a sunlit festival to a sweat-soaked, all-night dance
club. The atmosphere has changed, but you’re still having
the time of your life.
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file under: world disco ]
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MARY
LATTIMORE AND WALT MCCLEMENTS
"Rain on the road"
Mary Lattimore and Walt McClements are two of contemporary music's
most renowned innovators. Each has managed to expand the perception
of their instrument’s capabilities. Lattimore inventive
harp processing and looping has brought the instrument to a new
audience. Her prolific run of celestial solo albums and evocative
film scores have redefined the instrument in the modern consciousness.
Her genre-agnostic collaborations include work with Kurt Vile,
Steve Gunn, Jeff Zeigler, Meg Baird, Bill Fay and Thurston Moore.
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file under: harp ambient ]
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JASMINE
MYRA
"Rising"
Elevating, uplifting and beautifully arranged. Jasmine Myra's
sophomore album Rising builds on the success of her breakthrough
album Horizons to deliver a major statement from one of UK Jazz's
rising stars. Produced by Matthew Halsall and mixed by Greg Freeman
(Hania Rani, Matthew Halsall, Portico Quartet), Rising delivers
a confident and vibrant follow up that joins the musical dots
between Myra’s influences Kenny Wheeler, Bonobo and Shabaka
Hutchings while delivering something unique, beautiful and profound.
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file under: gondwana sounds ]
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JESSICA
PRATT
"Here in the pitch"
On her fourth album, west coast artist Jessica Pratt expands the
scope of her artistry, placing her sharpest songs to date within
an ever-broadening pool of influences including spectral '60s
pop, Hollywood psychedelia and bossa nova. Whereas Pratt's 2019
record, Quiet Signs, floated elegantly in the ether, Here in the
Pitch is entrenched in more earthen characteristics, as the title
suggests, and her craft is emboldened with a newfound gravitas.
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file under: twilight pop ]
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VILLAGERS
"That golden time"
Following the kaleidoscopic adventure of Villagers’ fifth
album Fever Dreams, award-winning Dublin singer-songwriter-instrumentalist-dramatist
Conor O’Brien returns with the intimate inventory that he
has named That Golden Time. No less intense than its more feverish
predecessor, the exquisite new album un-furls O’Brien’s
trademark melodic flair, his gift for simultaneously vivid and
subtle arrangements and lyrics that couch his hopes, fears and
dreams in richly absorbing poetry.
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file under: alt pop ]
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KAMASI
WASHINGTON
"Fearless movement"
Turning his attention to dance for his latest album, Fearless
Movement out this May on Young, Kamasi Washington resumes his
ongoing study of music as a means of connection. His 2015 album
The Epic, as well as 2018’s Heaven and Earth were received
by critics and audiences as a reimagination of modern jazz showcasing
Washington’s larger-than-lift compositions full of celestial
grandeur and his distinct blend of jazz, Latin, funk, classical,
hip-hop and soul.
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file under: nu fusion jazz ]
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NEW
RELEASES APRILE 2024: WHAT'S GOING ON MY MUSIC
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JOE
ARMON-JONES
"Wrong side of town"
Wrong Side Of Town is the first in a series of releases on Aquarii
dedicated to a tradition of ‘dub’ music. Now recognised
as an intrinsic part of the UK musical landscape, dub music evolved
from the music brought to the country by the first wave of Caribbean
immigrants in the 1950s and 60s, a continuum that also takes in
more contemporary genres of British music such such as jungle,
drum & bass, dubstep, grime, and more.
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file under: dub sounds ]
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CLARISSA
CONNELLY
"World of work"
Scottish and Danish composer Clarissa Connelly’s debut album
on Warp Records, World of Work. Over the years Clarissa has explored
sacred sites and mythology, finding inspiration in Celtic and
Nordic culture. For her most recent album, The Voyager, Clarissa
walked the Scandinavian landscape, channelling melodies from ancient
pre-Christian sites. The album received global acclaim and was
awarded the prestigious Nordic Music Prize. On World of Work,
Clarissa explores themes of acceptance and growth, by creating
a sonic embroidery, a powerful testimony of her production and
composition abilities.
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file under: folktronica ]
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KHRUANGBING
"A la sala"
The title makes it clear. A La Sala (“To the Room”
in Spanish), the fourth studio album by Khruangbin, is an exercise
in returning in order to go further, and do so on your own terms.
It extends the air of mystery and sanctity that’s key to
how bassist Laura Lee Ochoa, drummer Donald “DJ” Johnson,
Jr. and guitarist Mark “Marko” Speer approach music.
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file under: psychexotic ]
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DENT
MAY
"What's for breakfast?"
Every morning when Dent May wakes up, the first thing he says
is, “What’s for breakfast?” For the Los Angeles-based
songwriter and pop auteur, this question is part inside joke with
his girlfriend, part sitcom-style catchphrase, and part mantra
about getting up every day and persevering in the face of good
or bad is happening around you in your life. It’s also the
title of his sixth album, which is out on Carpark Records. What’s
For Breakfast? is May’s most immediate, nostalgic, and rollicking
LP yet, one that’s concerned with breaking daily routines
and rediscovering the joys of songwriting.
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file under: twilight pop ]
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KELLY
MORAN
"Moves in the filed"
For over a decade classical pianist and composer Kelly Moran has
been making a name for herself. It has seen her release five albums
– some mini, some full length – and work with artists
like Oneohtrix Point Never, FKA twigs, Margaret Leng Tan, Kelsey
Lu and Yves Tumor. Now Moran has returned with her new album,
‘Moves In The Field’, and she’s brought a friend
along. The fried in question might not be who you expect. It isn’t
any of the above, for instance. Instead, Kelly Moran has chosen
to work with a Yamaha Disklavier. This is a fancy version of a
player piano.
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file under: modern classical ]
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FABIANA
PALLADINO
"S/t"
Made in the wake of the end of a long relationship, the album
is an intimate record that sees Fabiana Palladino confront complex
questions about love, loneliness, and normativity in relationships.
The result is a 10-track full-length of shapeshifting sonics that
draws inspiration from the big R&B, Soul, Pop and Disco studio
productions of the 80s and 90s and filters them through a modern
lens.
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file under: pop & soul ]
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PYE
CORNER AUDIO
"Endless echo"
Martin Jenkins returns with his latest Pye Corner Audio album
The Endless Echo. It’s been a minute since we heard The
Head Technician in that introspective, esoteric mood; his most
recent ventures have found him mixing acid solutions for Emotional
Response and creating resplendent psychedelia for Sonic Cathedral.
The Endless Echo, however, is a marked difference from the Sun
worshipping warmth of 2022’s Let’s Emerge!, returning
to the sci fi indebted hauntology of his Ghost Box works. As he
reaches into the sonic library once more, he taps into anachronistic
anxieties by exploring the intersections between past, present,
and future.
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file under: electronic ambient ]
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CLAIRE
ROUSAY
"Sentiment"
Claire Rousay’s vocals and guitar take center stage on sentiment.
Her intimate, diaristic lyrics contrast with her mechanical-inflected
vocal effects, emphasizing a powerful desire for connection, a
deep yearning and a lingering sense of separation. “I
want to belong to the worlds and communities I look up to. Same
as someone using a Fender guitar or dressing like Kurt Cobain.
Emulate your heroes,” says Rousay.
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file under: experimental pop ]
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SHABAKA
"Perceive its beauty, acknowledge its grace"
Shabaka Hutchings’ tenor saxophone shows up exactly once
on this album. Around 10 minutes before the LP ends, he summons
the fierce momentum and sandpapery grit that have powered beloved
bands like Sons of Kemet, the Comet Is Coming, and Shabaka and
the Ancestors, and helped to make him one of the most celebrated
jazz musicians of the past decade. As is usually the case when
Shabaka—now billed by first name only—picks up what
he has called the “big, loud, shiny horn,” the solo
is thrilling.
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file under: son of kemet ]
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JANE
WEAVER
"Love in constance spectacle"
Recalibrating her singular journey in the British musical landscape
with her most open-hearted, direct and intimate collection of
material yet. Love In Constant Spectacle evokes spectacular imagery
and distills the artists’ vision in its purest form, elevating
her inimitable sound and poetic vision to new heights. Recapturing
the melancholy of her early work whilst propelling it forward,
she sketches scenes as we watch new colours, shapes and languages
emerge and fill the frame. Love In Constant Spectacle sees her
take measured steps towards a vivid, dreamlike record, that offers
resolve in the face of life’s inevitability.
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file under: alternative pop ]
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NEW
RELEASES MARZO 2024: WHAT'S GOING ON MY MUSIC
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DRY
CLEANING
"Boundary road rnacks and drinks - Sweet"
Dry Cleaning’s first two EPs now remastered on one LP with
original artwork and lyric sheet. Following two critically acclaimed
John Parish-produced studio albums – New Long Leg (2021)
and Stumpwork (2022) – South London’s Dry Cleaning
take a moment to reflect on their journey and pay homage to their
roots with the release of their first two EPs, now remastered
and reissued together on one single vinyl that features the original
artwork and lyric sheet.
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file under: post-punk ]
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FOUR
TET
"Three"
Three is his 12th studio album as Four Tet. The first came out
in 1999 when he was also a guitarist in UK post-rock band Fridge.
Now based in the US, he ranges through a vast world of sounds
in his music. Acoustic instruments coexist with computers and
synthesisers. You can hear koras, dulcimers, gamelans, improvised
jazz, junglism and techno. They’re underpinned by Hebden’s
holistic sense of everything connecting and his skill at making
the links.
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file under: electronica ]
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JULIA
HOLTER
"Something in the room she moves"
“My heart is loud,” Julia Holter sings on her sixth
album Something in the Room She Moves, following an inner pulse.
The Los Angeles songwriter’s past work has often explored
memory and dreamlike future, but her latest album resides more
in presence: “There’s a corporeal focus, inspired
by the complexity and transformability of our bodies,” Holter
says. Her production choices and arrangements form a continuum
of fretless electric bass pitches in counterpoint with gliding
vocal melodies, while glissing Yamaha CS-60 lines entwine warm
winds and reeds. “I was trying to create a world that’s
fluid-sounding, waterlike, evoking the body’s internal sound
world,” Holter says of her flowing harmonic universe.
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file under: alt pop ]
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DEE
C. LEE
"Just something"
The brand new album from Dee C. Lee - ‘Just Something’,
out 22 March on Acid Jazz. It follows the incredible response
to the new single ‘Walk Away’ and last year’s
double-sider ‘Don’t Forget About Love’ / ‘Be
There In The Morning’, marking the return of one of the
UK’s most revered soul singers. Dee is known for her work
with The Style Council, Wham!, Slam Slam and Animal Nightlife,
and an illustrious solo career (including the Top 3 hit ‘See
The Day’). ‘Just Something’ is her first new
record since 1998, and her debut for Acid Jazz.
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file under: acid jazz ]
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ADRIANNE
LENKER
"Bright future"
On bright future, adrianne lenker, a songwriter known for turns
of phrase and currents of rhyme, says it plainly, “you have
my heart // i want it back.” documented with analog precision,
what began as an experiment in collaboration, became proof adrianne’s
heart did return, full to the brim, daring her into the unknown.
This vinyl record is 100% analog-analog-analog (AAA).
No digital process was used in the production of this sound recording.
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file under: alt folk ]
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MILDLIFE
"Chorus"
“Chorus is about a coming together of disparate elements.
Not in some sort of utopian aesthetic where everything works perfectly,
but in the natural flow and state of things,” shares the
band’s Jim Rindfleish. “It’s about cosmic compatibility
and chemistry: what makes things work? Not just what makes the
band work, but what makes good music, art or love? It’s
the rhythm of nature”.
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file under: cosmic fusion disco ]
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NOOR
MOTHER
"The great bailout"
How do you engage the stunning, evocative, haunting gift that
is Moor Mother’s latest album The Great Bailout? Only by
following the trail of verbal and sonic poetry delivered. Only
by letting Moor Mother and her co-conspiring collaborators –
Lonnie Holley, Mary Lattimore, Alya Al Sultani, Kyle Kidd and
more - “people who have their own path of positivity and
connectedness,” be the tour guide. The Great Bailout is
Moor Mother aka Camae Ayewa’s ninth studio album and third
with ANTI- Records. Called “the poet laureate of the apocalypse,”
by Pitchfork, Ayewa’s music contains multitudes of instruments,
voices and cacophony that take on themes of Afrofuturism and collective
memory with the forebearers of jazz, hip hop and beat poetry in
mind.
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file under: afro futurism ]
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SEAN
ONO LENNON
"Asterisms"
Released on John Zorn’s Tzadik Records, with Devin Hoff,
Yuka C. Honda, Michael Leonhart, João Nogueira, Mauro Refosco,
Ches Smith, Johnny Mathar, Sean Ono Lennon. The music is powerful,
trippy, and intensely imaginative, blending rock, electronics,
jazz, and more into an exciting new musical soundscape. With driving
rhythms and a brilliant sense of orchestration, this album is
sure to surprise and delight.
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file under: ambient sounds ]
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WAXAHATCHEE
"Tigers blood"
Katie Crutchfield’s sixth album refines the breezy country
of her 2020 breakthrough Saint Cloud and finds her as compelled
by the complexities of life as its eases.
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file under: americana ]
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YARD
ACT
"Where's my utopia?"
Second album syndrome must be particularly daunting for Yard Act
following their genre-defining debut. Initially met with both
acclaim and accusations of ripping off The Fall, they became the
face of modern post-punk with their quick wit and political lyrics.
On ‘Where’s My Utopia?’, Yard Act are ready
to begin a whole new chapter. With the help of Gorillaz’s
Remi Kabaka Jr, they lean more heavily into the experimental elements
of retro hip-hop and disco. What remains unchanged is their sense
of humour, referring to themselves as “post-punk’s
latest poster boys” who “ride on the coattails of
the dead” on ‘We Make Hits’.
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file under: post-punk ]
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ERIKA
DE CASIER
"Still"
The 33-year-old Danish singer, songwriter and producer built a
cult following with her 2019 debut album Essentials, and built
on that “cult” designation with 2021’s Sensational,
her first for 4AD. Since then, she’s performed at some of
the biggest festivals in the world, written for pop stars (NewJeans)
and sung on hyped dance tracks (Mura Masa, Shygirl). She may have
won a lot of new fans in the past three years, and a lot of high-profile
collaborators (Dua Lipa, Blood Orange, Eartheater, etc.) but as
this album’s title confirms, she’s the same old Erika
de Casier. Still.
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file under: nu soul ]
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FRIKO
"Where we've been, where we go from here"
Adding to Chicago’s long lineage of forward-thinking indie
rock, Friko transform each song into a moment of collective catharsis.
On their full-length debut, vocalist/guitarist Niko Kapetan and
drummer Bailey Minzenberger sustain the combustible energy of
their break-out single Crimson To Chrome, merging elements of
post-punk, chamber-pop and experimental rock, magnifying their
music’s exhilarating power with a barrage of spirited ensemble
vocals. Poetic, explosive, and sublimely raw in feeling.
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file under: alternative ]
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KALI
MALONE
"All life long"
Kali Malone's anticipated new album "All Life Long"
is a collection of music for pipe organ, choir, and brass quintet
composed by Kali Malone, 2020 - 2023. Choral music performed by
Macadam Ensemble and conducted by Etienne Ferschaud at Chapelle
Notre-Dame-de-L'Immaculée-Conception in Nantes. Brass quintet
music performed by Anima Brass at The Bunker Studio in New York
City. Organ music performed by Kali Malone and Stephen O’Malley
on the historical meantone tempered pipe organs at Église
Saint-François in Lausanne, Orgelpark in Amsterdam, and
Malmö Konstmuseum in Sweden.
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file under: experimental ]
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REAL
ESTATE
"Daniel"
Real Estate’s
sixth full-length album Daniel was recorded in an ebullient nine-day
spree at RCA Studio A, in Nashville with GRAMMY-winning producer
and songwriter Daniel Tashian (Kacey Musgraves). In 11 compulsively
tuneful songs, they connect the uninhibited wonder of their earliest
work with the earned perspective of adulthood. Several
days into recording, all five members of Real Estate were discussing
album titles when someone suggested “Daniel,” simply
because it seemed funny to bestow a human name upon a record.
Was it for Daniel Tashian? Maybe.
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file under: indie states ]
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LAETITIA
SADIER
"Rooting for love"
Laetitia issues a call to the traumatized civilizations of Earth:
we’re urged to finally evolve past our countless millennia
of suffering and alienation. Her songs score the complexities
and harmonies within this directive: organ, guitar, bass, synth,
trombone, vibraphone, live and programmed drums, and a vocal assembly
of men and women billed as The Choir, working intricate chord/tempo/and
dynamic changes, as Laetitia’s empathic presence leads the
way.
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file under: dream pop ]
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NADINE
SHAH
"Filthy underneath"
A lot has happened since Nadine Shah last put out an album –
2020’s ‘Kitchen Sink’ - both in terms of world
affairs and Nadine’s own life. Nearly four years on, ‘Filthy
Underneath’ is a different beast, but it’s fair to
say that it’s at least as good. This is an album inextricably
linked to the context during which it was created: a suicide attempt;
the end of her marriage; her role in caring for her mother, who
was terminally ill with cancer. While grieving, she listened to
Iranian pop icon Googoosh, Indian singer Asha Puthli, and, as
she puts it “shitloads” of glam rock.
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file under: alternative ]
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MAYA
SHENFELD
"Under the sun"
Maya Shenfeld’s expansive, kaleidoscopic music
is as illuminating as it is exquisite. Classically trained, Shenfeld
has fast grown into one of contemporary music’s most exciting,
vital voices. Every aspect of her dazzling, multifaceted output
interrogates the way we experience the world around us - be it
solo microtonal explorations, site-specific installations or commissions
for leading New Music ensembles. Shenfeld’s
2022 debut album In Free Fall established the composer as a potent
force in new music.
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file under: ambient electro ]
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TIGA
& HUDSON MOHAWKE
"L'ecstacy"
The creative partnership between Tiga & Hudson Mohawke expresses
a mutual love of “hardcore romance,” a liminal state
where the bounds between euphoria, melancholy and the raw power
of friendship disintegrate completely. Recorded in Los Angeles
from 2019-2023, these commonalities ebbed and flowed through various
recording sessions, culminating in their debut album - L’Ecstacy.
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file under: electronica ]
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TOECHTER
"Epic wonder"
toechter is an all-female trio operating from Berlin. toechter’s
2nd full-length album »Epic Wonder« sees its classically
trained members blend elegant string arrangements with ethereal
indie pop and delicate rhythms. Katrine Grarup Elbo, Lisa Marie
Vogel and Marie-Claire Schlameus exclusively use analogue sound
sources (such as violin, viola, cello, and their voices), which
were then electronically processed. Named after the Greek god
of the wind, toechters 2022 album »Zephyr« exhaled
deeply with concurrently invigorating and confusing sounds. »Epic
Wonder«, their second album, was created in the spring and
summer of 2023.
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file under: modern classical ]
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RAFAEL
TORAL
"Spectral evolutionPearlies"
After a two-decade interlude, Jim O’Rourke’s Moikai
returns with Spectral Evolution, a major new work by Rafael Toral.
Making his name in the mid-1990s with influential guitar drone
platters like "Sound Mind Sound Body" and "Wave
Field" (both reissued by Drag City in recent years), Toral
has never been one to rest on his laurels repeating his past glories.
In the early years of the 21st century, Toral laid the guitar
aside, along with the focus on extended tones that had defined
much of his music until that point.
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file under: drones ]
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AFTAB,
IYER, ISMAILY
BROWN SPIRITS
CLEO SOL
DECLINING WINTER
ELLEN ARKBRO
EMERSON AVALON & THE CHARM
EMMA ANDERSON
EMMA TRICCA
GREG FOAT & GIGI MASIN
IDRIS ACKAMOOR & THE PYRAMIDS
JAMILA WOODS
JESSIE WARE
KARA JACKSON
KELELA
LUCINDA CHUA
MARY LATTIMORE
MATTHEW HALSALL
MODERN COSMOLOGY
MORITZ VON OSWALD
NABIHAH IQBAL
NECKS
ULTRAMARINE
VANISHING TWIN
YUSSUF DAYES |
“Love
in exile”
“Solitary transmissions”
“Heaven”
“Really early, really late”
“Sounds while waiting”
“S/t”
“Perlies”
“Aspirin sun”
“Float”
“Afro futuristic dreams”
“Water made us”
“That! Feels good!”
“Why does the earth give us people to love”
“Raven”
“Yia”
“Goodbye, Hotel Arkada”
“An ever changing view”
“What will you grow now?”
“Silencio”
“Dreamer”
“Travel”
“Send and return”
“Afternoon X”
“Black classical music” |
[
file under: world music ]
[ file under: psycho kraut ]
[ file under: nu-soul ]
[ file under: alt post-rock ]
[ file under: ambient drone ]
[ file under: ledftfield electro
[ file under: dream pop ]
[ file under: bella union ]
[ file under: ambient chill out ]
[ file under: jazz xperimental ]
[ file under: nu soul ]
[ file under: nu disco ]
[ file under: spoken word blues ]
[ file under: new warp sounds ]
[ file under: contemporary ]
[ file under: harp sounds ]
[ file under: spiritual jazz ]
[ file under: alt indie pop ]
[ file under: ambient tresor ]
[ file under: alternative ]
[ file under: experimental ]
[ file under: electronica ]
[ file under: kosmische lab ]
[ file under: cinematic ] |
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EMMA
ANDERSON
"Pearlies"
Emma Anderson, co-founder of Lush, releases her debut solo album,
‘Pearlies’, on October 20, 2023. One of the most underrated
British songwriters to emerge from the era that encompassed shoegaze
and Britpop, she has teamed up with producer James Chapman (aka
Maps) for this collection that combines effervescent electronic
pop with psych and folk textures with lyrics covering themes such
as confronting your fears, embracing independence and moving on
in life.
[
file under: dream pop ]
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BIOSPHERE
"Inland delta"
inland Delta
contains nine new musical pieces recorded from 2022 to 2023, featuring
mainly improvised performances on newly restored vintage keyboards.
All tracks written and produced by Geir Jenssen.
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file under: experimental ]
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BRUCE
BRUBAKER
"Eno piano"
As Brian Eno
famously said, "The studio is a musical instrument,"
Bruce Brubaker now says, "A musical instrument can be a studio."
Can a single instrument convey ambient music originally made through
studio techniques and tape loops? On November 10, 2023, InFiné
will release American musician Bruce Brubaker's 12th studio album
Eno Piano, including a selection of Brian Eno's iconic ambient
music, including Music for Airports. Eno Piano is a companion
to Bruce Brubaker's acclaimed album Glass Piano (2015) —
even the two album covers are companions. Named by Pitchfork "One
of the most exciting pianists in the contemporary American classical
scene," Brubaker, in Eno Piano, shows that just as the studio
can be a musical instrument, a single musical instrument can be
a studio.
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file under: ambient ]
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CLEO
SOL
"Heaven"
Heaven is the
follow up to Cleo Sol's second album, Mother, which was released
in 2021. In celebration of its two-year anniversary, she tweeted:
"Two years since we released mother into the world, thank
you for embracing me, and seeing me, writing my truth is sometimes
difficult, but it’s freeing, and having you support me pushes
me to be brave." The primary vocalist for Sault, Cleo Sol
primarily collaborates with producer Inflo.
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file under: nu-soul ]
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MARTA
DE PASCALIS
"Sky flesh"
If there’s
one specific component that grounds “Sky Flesh”, it’s
the focus. Italian musician and sound designer Marta De Pascalis
flexed her technical muscle on 2020’s “Sonus Ruinae”,
layering various sounds and processes in an attempt to touch the
sublime. In contrast, “Sky Flesh” is a single thought,
composed using just one instrument: the Yamaha CS-60. A slimmed-down
sibling to the gargantuan CS-80 – the analog synthesizer
used by Vangelis to create his iconic “Blade Runner”
score – the CS-60 was released in 1977, a few years before
the MIDI protocol was introduced to help standardize production
methods.
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file under: sound design ]
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LARRY
JUNE & THE ALCHEMIST
"The great escape"
The Great Escape
is the debut collaborative album from San Francisco Legend, Larry
June & prolific super producer, The Alchemist. Through a process
that felt very organic, the two churned out an extra healthy amount
of music that resulted in what may be their magnum opus. At 15
tracks, the album includes tasteful features from some of Hip-Hop's
most celebrated figures; Action Bronson, Big Sean, Ty Dolla $ign,
Slum Village, Boldy James, Evidence, Wiz Khalifa, Jay Worthy,
Curren$y & Joey Bada$$.
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file under: rap & hip hop ]
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MORITZ
VON OSWALD
"Silencio"
What are the
differences and similarities between human and artificial sound,
between oscillations generated by vocal cords and synthesizer
voices, voltage amplified by speakers? On Silencio, his latest
album for Tresor Records, Moritz von Oswald works with a 16-voice
choir to explore this concept. Drawing from the ensemble works
of long-standing inspirations Edgard Varèse, György
Ligeti and Iannis Xenakis, von Oswald and Vocalconsort Berlin
delve into the space between sounds, creating a deeply textured
collection that shifts between light & ethereal and dark &
dissonant.
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file under: ambient tresor ]
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DARIO
ZENKER
"Reflection"
Ilian Tape co-founder
Dario Zenker has consistently served up some of the label's best
releases and now he goes long on this double album, Reflection.
He calls it "a reflection through wild times channeled into
63 minutes of machine funk" and we call it 12 tracks of devastating
techno on both an emotional and physical level. His tracks often
fix with wispy synth lines that bring subtle light to the dusty
drums and muggy atmospheres and on the likes of 'Da Conducter'
he offers up thumping house with grainy lo-fi pads and muffled
leads that hook you in deep. The vast rhythmic variation and switch-up
in tempos and moods throughout this album is what keeps it so
fresh.
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file under: electro dub ]
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NEW
RELEASES OTTOBRE 2023: WHAT'S GOING ON MY MUSIC
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IDRIS
ACKAMOOR & THE PYRAMIDS
"Afro futuristic dreams"
Idris Ackamoor
& The Pyramids are back with their first major new studio
album in over 3 years, an epic, sprawling new work exploring the
future, the past and the urgent reality of the present, ‘Afro
Futuristic Dreams’. Recorded between San Francisco and London
and brought together by the genius of Malcolm Catto at his analogue
Quatermass Studio, the new recording represents another bold step
in Ackamoor’s ever-evolving journey in jazz, adding full,
intricate scores including string sections and choral elements
to the Pyramids’ trademark
spiritual Afro-jazz sound.
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file under: jazz xperimental ]
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ELLEN
ARKBRO
"Sounds while waiting"
Sounds While
Waiting documents the latest organ works by composer and musician
Ellen Arkbro – following her phenomenal debut, 2017's
For Organ And Brass, and the more recent CHORDS. Recorded at
a centuries-old church in Unnaryd, Sweden in June 2020, these
pieces reveal the enchanting qualities of sustained harmonic
sound, how patterns of listening dissolve and emerge as textured
space. On opening track "Changes," long radiant tones
ebb and flow like divine breaths, while "Leaving Dreaming"
builds with dynamic tension to unlock a subtle, otherworldly
ambience.
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file under: ambient drone ]
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BIXIGA
70
"Vapor"
"Key to
Bixiga 70’s style is how the group both breaks ground
and can sling a universally appealing tune...balancing a sense
of modernity with retro brass and hand percussion that draws
on the centuries-old West African-Caribbean connection still
so crucial to Brazilian musical aesthetics today." -- Pop
Matters
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file under: braqzil afrobeat ]
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BOYGENIUS
"The rest EP"
The Rest is
the second extended play by American indie rock supergroup Boygenius,
released through Interscope Records on October 13, 2023. A follow-up
to the band's first full-length album The Record, individual
songs were revealed one at a time while on tour, eventually
performing the entire EP.
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file under: alt indie ]
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FOREST
SWORDS
"Bolted"
Forest Swords
(aka electronic producer/composer Matthew Barnes) returns with
a new album ‘Bolted’. Having spent the past few
years working as an in-demand composer and sound designer –
writing music for ballet, film and video games – 'Bolted'
was recorded over the past year in a warehouse factory space
in Barnes’ home city of Liverpool. Across its 11 tracks
he dives deeper into his unique sonic vocabulary to weave together
a set of tracks that sounds equally muscular and bleak, haunting
and euphoric.
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file under: electronica ]
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MARY
LATTIMORE
"Goodbye,
Hotel Arkada"
Through evocative,
emotionally resonant music, Goodbye, Hotel Arkada, the new LP
from American harpist and composer Mary Lattimore, speaks not
just for its beloved namesake — a hotel in Croatia facing
renovation — but for a universal loss that is shared.
Six sprawling pieces shaped by change; nothing will ever be
the same, and here, the artist, evolving in synthesis, celebrates
and mourns the tragedy and beauty of the ephemeral, all that
is lived and lost to time.
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file under: harp sounds ]
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SAMPHA
"Lahai"
Sampha is the
inimitable voice called upon by some of the greatest artists
of our lifetime, from Kendrick Lamar to Stormzy, Drake to Solange,
Frank Ocean to Alicia Keys, and musical releases with the best
of the underground. His work expands across multiple disciplines,
with previous creative partnerships including the fashion designer
Grace Wales Bonner and filmmaker Kahlil Joseph. In 2023, he
returns with new and highly anticipated album LAHAI.
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file under: nu soul r&b. ]
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VANISHING
TWIN
"Afternoon X"
Following a
series of line-up changes, Vanishing Twin is now the tightly
honed collective of singer and multi-instrumentalist Cathy Lucas,
drummer Valentina Magaletti (Holy Tongue, Tomaga, Moin) and
bassist Susumu Mukai (Zongamin). Harnessing the diverse touchstones
of its members; Lucas’ left-field song-craft, Magaletti’s
singular approaches to experimental percussion, and Mukai’s
long history in the production of electronic music, the band
has refined a hypnotic sound at the juncture of minimalism,
kosmische, post-punk, and dream-laden, psychedelic pop.
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file under: kosmische lab ]
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JUSTIN
WALTER
"Destroyer"
The music of
Justin Walter veers between nebulous and numinous, coaxed from
the translucent tonalities of his signature instrument, the
EVI (Electronic Valve Instrument). Destroyer, his latest, and
third for Kranky, marks his most multifaceted work yet. Inspired
by minimalistic urges (evading grandiosity, condensing scope,
embracing spatial restraint) tempered with the drama of triptychs
(becoming, destruction, aftermath), the album’s 11 tracks
thread a keening suite of aching, opaque beauty, traced in absence
and breath.
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file under: experimental ]
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JAMILA
WOODS
"Water made us"
While 2017’s
HEAVN saw Jamila celebrating her community within a lineage
of Black feminist movement organizing, and 2019’s Legacy!
Legacy! reframed her life’s experiences through the storied
personas of iconic Black and brown artists, Water Made Us is
self-revelatory in an entirely new way. The upcoming album reveals
a new side of Jamila never fully shared with her previous work,
making this her most personal album yet.
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file under: nu soul ]
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MUSIC TARGET
( OBIETTIVO MUSICA ) |
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| Listening
Wind |
| Sounds
& Visions |
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pomeriggio |
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ARCHIVIO
(SENTIRE ASCOLTARE) |
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| PILLOLE
2024 |
| Aprile/Maggio |
| Febbraio/Marzo |
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2023 |
| Novembre |
| Settembre/Ottobre |
| Giugno/Agosto |
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2022 |
| Ottobre/Novembre |
| Agosto/Settembre |
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2021 |
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2020 |
| Ottobre/Novembre |
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2019 |
| Novembre |
| Settembre/Ottobre |
| Giugno/Agosto |
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| PILLOLE
2018 |
| Novembre |
| Settembre/Ottobre |
| Giugno/Agosto |
| Aprile/Maggio |
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2017 |
| Novembre |
| Settembre/Ottobre |
| Giugno/Agosto |
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2016 |
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| Ottobre*/Novembre* |
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PILLOLE
2010 |
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2009 |
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PILLOLE
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2002 |
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2001 |
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| Boxed
Set |
| Canterbury
Classics |
| Celebration |
| Disco
Discharge: |
| Groove
Collection |
| History
never repeats |
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ELECTRONIC
"S/t"
Bernard Sumner
and Johnny Marr's debut album as Electronic gets the deluxe
treatment with this expanded 2CD special edition. The release
features the original album (remastered) plus a 2nd disc of
rarities including 8 previously unreleased tracks of alternate
versions, edits & instrumentals.
[
file under: madchester ]
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CRISPY
AMBULANCE
"The plateau phase"
Factory Benelux
presents a new CD edition of The Plateau Phase, the debut album
by Manchester postpunk group Crispy Ambulance, originally issued
in March 1982. Recorded at Strawberry 2 with producer Chris
Nagle, this acclaimed album captured Crispy Ambulance at the
peak of their creative powers. Bonus tracks include extended
12"single The Presence Concorde Square, produced by the
legendary Martin Hannett, and farewell single Sexus.
[
file under: factory sounds ]
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THE
NAMES
"Swimming"
Factory Benelux
presents a new CD edition of Swimming, the debut album by Belgian
new wave group The Names, originally issued in June 1982. Swimming
has come to be regarded as a European cold wave classic. Bonus
tracks include the popular singles Calcutta and Nightshift (also
produced by Hannett) and the band's John Peel session from February
1982. This new Factory Benelux CD edition also features original
artwork and poster design by Benoit Hennebert.
[
file under: factory sounds ]
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RIP
RIG + PANIC
"God"
Named after a
Roland Kirk album, Rip Rig + Panic were one of the most exciting
bandsof the 1980s, fusing funk, jazz, punk and world music influences
into a unique whole. With lead singer Neneh Cherry, the band
recorded three albums for Virgin Records which have never been
legitimately available on Cd. All three LPs are now remastered
from the original master tapes with a raft of bonus tracks taken
from non-album singles. Original band members Gareth Sager (ex-Pop
Group) and Mark Springer are involved with these releases, with
the blessing of Neneh Cherry and (current PiL) drummer Bruce
Smith.
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file under: white jazz funk ]
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ANNETTE
PEACOCK
"I'm the one"
In 2010 Annette
Peacock quietly reissued her 1972 album I'm The One on CD via
her own Ironic label. It was only available via her site or
CDBaby, but now I'm The One is being given a full reissue shakedown
by Light In The Attic. Peacock
collaborated with Salvador Dali, bought a Moog direct from Robert
Moog, was confidant to Timothy Leary, and turned down an offer
to tour with David Bowie, telling him to buy his own synthesizer.
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file under: essential avant-funk ]
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THE
POP GROUP
"For how much longer do we tolerate
mass murder?"
Reissue of The
Pop Group’s ‘For How Much Longer Do We Tolerate
Mass Murder’ - one of the most challenging records of
the post-punk era. Upon its release in 1980, For How Much Longer
received mixed reviews, with publications at the center of post-punk
discourse (such as the NME) dismissing its agit-prop didacticism
in favor of the fevered mysticism of the group's debut album,
Y.
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file under: post-punk ]
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LIZZY
MERCIER DESCLOUX
"One for the soul"
Remastered from
original tapes. Housed in heavyweight, tip on-style gatefold
with essay by Vivian Goldman and download code including 2 bonus
tracks “By the time poet, singer-songwriter, and artist
Lizzy Mercier Descloux recorded 1984’s Zulu Rock, she’d
marked herself out as both a globe trotter with more passport
stamps than Tintin and a musical innovator whose loose, arty
spirit could be applied to styles as varied as no wave, Bavarian
oompa and Soweto jive.
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file under: no wave ]
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VIVIEN
GOLDMAN
"Resolutionary (Songs 1979-1982)"
Vivien Goldman
went from being a musical participant of the early-'80s London-New
York fusion of dub, post-punk, reggae, hip-hop and African sounds
to a keen, informative critic and professor of those genres
in general. This excellent album is the first collection of
Goldman's brief yet vibrant musical explorations. Included among
the various talents are members of the Slits, PiL, the Raincoats,
Robert Wyatt, Steve Beresford, David Toop, and Adrian Sherwood.
These tracks combine a pop sensibility with the avant-dub deconstructionist
mindset that lends her work that rare and special mix of accessibility
and experimentation.
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file under: dub post-punk ]
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25
"Always now"
Factory Benelux
presents a deluxe double disc edition of Always Now, the debut
album by cult Factory Records group Section 25, produced by
legendary sonic architect Martin Hannett in 1981. Recorded as
a trio at Pink Floyd's Britannia Row studio in London, Always
Now combined austere post-punk rhythms with elements of Can,
Krautrock and modern psychedelia. Key tracks include non-albums
singles Charnel Ground, Je Veux Ton Amour and Girls Don’t
Count. This new Factory Benelux 2xCD edition is housed in a
miniature version of the folding pochette wallet designed by
Peter Saville - famously one of the most expensive sleeves produced
by Factory.
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file under: factory sounds ] 
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