L'eil au centre de L'oeil
L'oeil au centre de l'oeil by La STPO distills decades of avant-garde experimentation into a collection where tumultuous rhythms, surrealist poetry, and unrestrained instrumentation converge. The album’s elliptical structures mirror the disjointed vividness of dreams, mapping an abstract and ever-changing sonic landscape that refuses conventional boundaries and draws listeners into a whirlwind of meticulously orchestrated chaos.
Live in Rhein Main
Live in Rhein-Main by Gestalt et Jive documents the group’s most audacious mutations through two pivotal live sets, revealing an intricate interplay of improvisation and postmodern eclecticism. The album’s raw edges and unpredictable transitions expose the band’s commitment to redefining avant-rock’s boundaries, blending kinetic jazz idioms, punk dissonance, and European experimental traditions into a deeply engaging experience.
DUO
Yukiko Shiina Sakurazawa and Kon Okuma’s DUO, distills collaboration to its most elemental form. Through piano, reeds, and silence, the album traces an unfolding conversation where each phrase is both response and provocation, moving between fragility, tension, and fleeting union.
Diastrophism Dance
Kaori Komura and Yutaka Hirose’s Diastrophism Dance, renders the Earth’s slow violence as sound. Combining environmental recordings, electronics, and acoustic fragments, it transforms geological tension into choreography—a meditation on tectonic movement, fragility, and endurance.
Particles and Waves
Takashi Masubuchi and Yosuke Morone’s Particles and Waves, drifts between gesture and suspension. With guitar, electronics, and tape fragments, the duo render vibration itself as material—each piece a study in how the smallest sonic particle can shape an immense aural field.
Idiorrythmie
Shuta Hiraki and Shuma Ando’s idiorrythmie, examines the art of moving together apart. Through fractured beats, drone layers, and asymmetrical pauses, it turns musical structure into a study of parallel autonomy—two voices in orbit, touching only at unexpected points.
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(Kiku (sense) the [drawing + sound]) 描奏をきく
Shiori Sasaki’s 描奏をきく (Kiku (sense) the [drawing + sound]), transforms visual gesture into an audible world. Merging live drawing with acoustic improvisation, it invites the listener into a synesthetic space where ink lines and sonic textures share the same breath.
Sonifying the Sun: The Mass Emergence of Brood XIII and XIX Periodical
Patrick Quinn’s Sonifying the Sun: The Mass Emergence of Brood XIII and XIX Periodical Cicadas, blurs the boundary between scientific observation and ecstatic sound art. Using data sonification and field recordings, it shapes the cicadas’ cosmic rhythm into a resonant meditation on time, light, and collective life cycles.
Otolith
Florian Kolb and Thanos Polymeneas-Liontiris’s otolith is a deep dive into the body’s hidden navigational systems. Translating sonic vibration into a study of balance and disorientation, it shifts between seismic lows and crystalline highs, mapping an aural terrain of tilt, sway, and sensory recalibration.
Notions de Confort
Lise Barkas and Jean-Baptiste Geoffroy’s Notions de Confort is a provocative dismantling of musical ease. Rooted in improvisation yet fractured by raw timbres and spatial instability, it turns comfort into an elusive mirage—challenging the listener to question habitual listening.
Rien de ça
Bruno Duplant’s Rien de ça is a sparse and spectral meditation on presence through absence. Built from near-silences, fractured tones, and shifting aural shadows, it listens like an eroded diary—each sound a ghost of intent, each pause a deliberate, resonant void.
Black Spur
Atsuko Hatano and Joe Talia converge on Black Spur, translating improvisational dialogue into a landscape of flickering tonal mirages. The album bends cello, percussion, and electronics into dark, cinematic forms—meditative, unpredictable, and haunted by unresolved tension.
Bloodroot Spitball
Vinylization of a CD-R released by Josh Burkett's Mystra Records by this great cassette manipulator, who was long a central part of the Boston Whitehaus scene. Bloodroot Spitball is a bit different from Arkm Foam's other Feeding Tube releases, since it incorporates a bunch of 'real' instruments into the mix. This hearkens back to Mr. Foam's first solo LP, The Foam Doesn't Fall Far From The Shore (2013), on Hot Releases. As on that one, there's another player heard here, when Andy Allen (who was …
Four Fold
Four Fold unites four singular musicians—Iva Bittová, Marilyn Crispell, Benedicte Maurseth, and David Rothenberg—in a chamber where jazz, improvisation, and modern composition intertwine. Voices and instruments curve and spar, yielding an album of subtle poetics and palpable communion whose articulated silences are as charged as its most explosive moments.
Eternal Brink
Floris Maniscalco’s double LP Eternal Brink is a genre-fluid, exploratory release grounded in Basel, Switzerland. Spanning meditative textures, fragmented rhythms, and voice contributions from local collaborators, the album unfolds as a sonic diary documenting shifts in mood and meaning over an extended creative period. Presented on Plattfon Records, it invites attentive listening through its tactile soundscapes and subtle narrative arc.
Another Perfect Day
Eight years since his last solo electric guitar record. Bill Orcutt returns to what made his playing essential: slashing chords, frenzied double-picking, angular runs that climb and ricochet. Recorded live at Cafe OTO. No computer loops. No gentle melodic glow. Just Orcutt and his four-string Fender through a tattered Twin Reverb.
Kagome Kagome
Two decades of French experimentalism meets Japanese spiritual practice in this haunting collaboration. Recorded around a 104-year-old harmonium, Dora and Suzuki channel otherworldly beauty through voice and electronics - music of prayer, magic, and genuine mystery.
Blanca
Julia Eckhardt is a musician and organiser in the field of the sonic arts, a founding member and artistic co-director of Q-O2 workspace in Brussels—a laboratory for experimental music and sound art—and co-director of the Oscillation festival. She received training as a classical viola player and worked in various ensembles and orchestras, including the National Orchestra of Belgium, before founding Q-O2 in 1995 with a few friends to play contemporary music and practice improvisation. Brussels ar…
Luna Surface
A landmark in avant-garde jazz returns: the definitive, remastered edition of Alan Silva’s 1969 Paris session for BYG’s Actuel series. Leading his 11-piece Celestial Communication Orchestra — with titans like Anthony Braxton, Archie Shepp, and Grachan Moncur III — Silva channels the raw, boundary-pushing energy of the New York free jazz explosion. Deluxe packaging, restored artwork, and new liner notes by Kevin Le Gendre complete this long-sought treasure. Originally released in 1969, this explo…
Within Without
"I first owned a fender rhodes electric piano in the late 1970s. It was a Mark 1 model (wooden key action). I had a band with my younger brother and my best friend from school and this was my ‘portable’ gigging instrument that weighed ‘a ton,’ and only just fitted in our small car. (I eventually got smart and left the 15 kg lid at home.) I had one effects pedal, a Boss chorus. Sadly—due to the rise of synthesisers and electronic keyboard instruments—I sold this lovely instrument in the late 1980…