This 12-track album is the artist's first album released after changing from his stage name to his real name, Hidetoshi Koizumi. The songs were composed with the hope that they would be an opportunity for listeners to receive "signals" they need. Signals are everywhere. When aware of them, they touch the listener and evoke emotions and thoughts relating to various things around them that have influenced them. In life, we all are influenced by things such as the environment, nature, and other peo…
The present recording celebrates the staggering variety of the American string quartet in the 21st century. All but one of the five works was given its first performance by the Momenta Quartet, a group which since its founding nearly 22 years ago has proven itself equally comfortable with modernist complexity, neoromanticism, postminimalism, microtonality, and music with indeterminate and/or improvisatory elements. Echoes of all these aesthetics surface here, but each composer has carved out an …
Supersilent's 15th album and their first since 2018: a gatefold double LP with 15 tracks and 64 minutes of new improvised music, on Smalltown Supersound.
Second DarkSonicTales album by Swiss sound artist Rolf Gisler, drone minimalism and post-rock built from field recordings, mastered by Lawrence English.
David Granström brings the electric guitar into his long-form, digitally precise music, recorded partly at EMS Stockholm, with Maria W Horn on hurdy-gurdy.
Six-CD box issued alongside David Tibet's exhibition at Dox Gallery in Prague: the six installation musics played in its six rooms plus an overview of Current 93, with six colour cards of his paintings. None of this music appears on the vinyl or cassette.
Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard's Softenings for 7 Flutes, four movements named after the Greek winds, written for and played by the Icelandic flute septet viibra. World premiere recording, limited LP of 200 copies.
Sixteen audio scenes answering the long-exposure photographs of Brice Bischoff: cassette recordings of canyons, caves and ravines, reshaped in the studio with film-style spatial effects. Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi.
Chilean poet Cecilia Vicuña reads from Cloud Net over spontaneous music by pianist Ricardo Gallo and the Colombian trio Hombre de Barro, recorded in 2022 near Bogotá. A plea for water, life and ancestral knowledge.