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Omar Souleyman – Jazeera Nights
Sublime Frequencies The third compilation of Omar Souleyman’s Syrian party music to be released by Sublime Frequencies doesn’t require much in the way of context for new listeners. It’s a dance-pop...
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Oneohtrix Point Never – Returnal
Editions Mego The problem with the notion of Hypnagogic Pop was never the music, and Oneohtrix Point Never‘s superb Returnal demonstrates that fact perfectly. Brooklyn’s Daniel Lopatin makes tried and...
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Skjølbrot – Maersk
DIY/unsigned Recording studios are time machines, capable of layering conflicting alternate pasts, warping space into new configurations and building dreamlike gestalts from contrasting times and...
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Rangda – False Flag
Drag City The foundations of rock music are built on strata that have long eroded for all but the most credulous. It was initially fun, sexual and swaggering; angry, rebellious and irreverent;...
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Alan Licht & Loren Connors – Into the Night Sky
Family Vineyard While improvisation and social activity are natural bedfellows, improvisation and relationship can be a trickier proposition. It’s a reasonable – albeit vaguely fundamentalist –...
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Toshimaru Nakamura – Egrets
Samadhi Sound There are few musical instruments that are as conceptually pleasing as the no-input mixing board. It is part of a rich tradition in experimental music in which peripheral hardware and...
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K-Space – Infinity
Ad Hoc Every now and then you come across a product born of such radically alternative starting assumptions that it gets treated with near indifference by its potential audience, as though to even...
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Boduf Songs – This Alone Above All Else In Spite Of Everything
Kranky “My hammer feels the urge to nail you to the ground / to smash one through your cheek.” Welcome back Boduf Songs, straight off the starting blocks with another ingeniously constructed threat of...
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Paolo Angeli – Tibi/Fred Frith – Live in Japan
ReR There are four main ways of making music that sounds different to anyone else: by devising your own conceptual framework; using rare or unique instruments and equipment; developing an unusual...
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An Audience with Mark Sanders
If you’re reading this then you’re part of an experiment. Free improvised music – defined in necessarily loose terms by guitarist Derek Bailey as music with “no stylistic or idiomatic commitment… (its...
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The Remote Viewers – To the North
The Remote Viewers What a difference a well deployed field recording can make. The Remote Viewers’ ninth album, To the North begins with what sounds like footsteps on gravel, an approach made on...
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Spoils & Relics – Dependent Arising/A.O.N.; Mark Durgan with Spoils & Relics...
Mantile The packaging aesthetic of London-via-Nottingham based Johnny Scarr’s Mantile label suits Spoils & Relics to a tee; recycled card with grainy, degraded and indeterminate images of dubious...
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Josh T. Pearson – Last of the Country Gentlemen
Mute Woman when I’ve raised hell, there won’t be a star left untouched in your sky When my lighting crashes across that night No shadows of doubt or of turnin’ in that questioning little mind Just a...
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Steffen Basho-Junghans – Is
Architects of Harmonic Rooms and Records There’s something tantalisingly unreal about these direct to DAT solo twelve-string guitar compositions, recorded between 2000 and 2006. Capturing almost...
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Seth Cooke – Pneuma
LF This was conceived after a particularly arduous eighteen months whilst a basement flat beneath Seth Cooke‘s Leeds home was being renovated. Building noise, pneumatic drills, shouting, workmen...
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Every Contact Leaves a Trace label feature (Seth Cooke/Henry Collins/Ignacio...
Four releases from a shiny new label devoted to something like sound-art, but not as asceptic and dry as that genre has a habit of implying. Hopefully, label head Seth Cooke is already known to Freq...
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Seth Cooke – Sightseer
Organized Music From Thessaloniki Another tiny offering from Seth Cooke, the man behind Pneuma‘s panoramas. He certainly has a talent for pulling surprising stuff from unusual places — who’d have...
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Fort Process
Newhaven Fort, East Sussex 13 September 2014 Wow! This place was superb!! A semi-ruin with a labyrinth of white-clad tunnels eating into the gloom, the natural reverb promoting plenty of pseudo monk...
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Seth Cooke – Christ of the Abyss / Seth Cooke and Dominic Lash – Canary
Hairdryer Excommunication Following up from the no-input field recordings reviewed here, Seth‘s either in a spirit of intrepidly obtuse field recording, or taking the piss (either’s good, frankly). The...
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The Delaware Road: Ritual And Resistance
Salisbury Plain 17 August 2019 The British Army first started to clear the settlements from Salisbury Plain after the First World War, but it was during the preparation for the D-Day landings in 1943...
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