The final recordings of Antonio Infantino, made months before his death in 2018. Twenty-one tracks captured live, with no overdubs or post-production: voice, drum and the circling pulse of Lucanian tarantism, from the Beat poet who rebuilt the trance music of Basilicata into a songbook of his own.
Released in April 1986, Victorialand finds Cocteau Twins creating a world of extraordinary delicacy and atmosphere. Built around Elizabeth Fraser’s otherworldly vocals and Robin Guthrie’s shimmering guitar textures, the album floats free of conventional rock rhythms, inviting listeners into a landscape shaped by sound, silence and feeling.
Recorded by Fraser and Guthrie as a duo, Victorialand takes a more spacious, restrained path than the band’s earlier work. Its nine tracks unfold like scenes …
fluXus returns to CiS with a beautiful new album entitled 'Ghost Signs'. fluXus is Cornwall based artist Nigel Rushbrook. Born on the same day as Ralph Vaughan Williams and Alistair Crowley, Nigel lives and records in a cottage once owned by Sargeant Howie AKA Edward Woodward. 'Ghost Signs' brings some darker shades of ambience and classic electronic sounds, with Berlin School style sequencing and a retro sensibility. Nigel uses vintage analog and virtual synths and old-school effects. Nostalgic…
Every Thursday night, the ocean promenade in St Denis becomes an open stage for everyone who wants to sing, play, dance and enjoy maloya in one of its most festive and community oriented forms. Sets that last for long hours are charged with energetic songs, and are open to anyone who can sing or play. These songs belong to the creole culture and most of them are well-known to all participants. You do not come here to give a concert but to be a part of it. You sing, keep the rhythm for a few minu…
*200 copies limited edition* Twenty years after its original release, The Sound Of Lights When Dim remains a remarkable opening statement from Drew Sullivan’s Slow Dancing Society. First released on September 6, 2006, the eight-track album established a musical language that Sullivan would continue to explore and refine for the next two decades: slowly unfolding electronics, treated guitar, soft rhythmic movement and melody shaped less by conventional structure than by memory, atmosphere and emo…
*100 copies limited edition* Recorded on April 7, 2025 at Studio H in Beijing. Mix, mastering, recording and cover design by Jason Kahn. Many thanks to Zhu Wenbo and Yan Jun for all their work in making my tour through China and this recording possible.