That's Understanding
Having listened to this disk 20 or so times over the past week, I have been struck time and again by the gently naif quality of Dan Beckman-Moon's songwriting. I keep thinking of Neil Young's earliest solo tunes, particularly 'Sugar Mountain,' as a sort of spiritual touchstone, although truthfully the music doesn't really sound anything like that. Still, the emotional core of the material has a similar sweetness and simplicity, while managing to steer clear of mawkishness with a nimble delicacy …
Fata Morgana
On their new album Fata Morgana, an illusory trip of emotion and confrontation, Belgian duo schntzl conjure mirages of fleeting realities while diving headfirst into a trance-driven, confrontational digital sound. Fata Morgana unfolds like a hyper-visual journey, constructing enveloping dreamworlds through trance-infused live electronica. Yet trance here is present not in form but in essence—an intensity, a state of being. It may stir the same emotions as club music, but schntzl express them in …
Triple Cool Hang
On Triple Cool Hang, Family Underground turn two decades of haze into a single spool of time, threading freezing‑church jams, Brooklyn collaborations, and after‑hours Copenhagen séances into deep, slow‑burning cuts that hum with tape hiss and lived‑in drone.
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*150 copies limited edition* Headlights Recordings presents Manuel Mota's new work 1-7. Manuel Mota is known for the personal vocabulary he has developed for the guitar. His music draws inspiration from a multitude of references loosely rooted in the blues tradition to craft a sound which was highly regarded by Derek Bailey. Actual but transmitting an enigmatic sense of timelessness. The moment of creation- composition, and the instrumental execution- playing, are to him indistinct, and that's w…
Forever
It's been a long ride to Forever - but now that they've arrived, the vibe's lightning and the blink of an eye. Glyders have been dreaming up this sound for over a decade. Joshua Condon and Eliza Weber founded the band in Chicago back in 2014, building a reputation through countless shows, late nights at the tape machine, and a revolving door of drummers that never quite clicked. They self-released EPs (DIM, Lend a Hand) and in 2023 delivered their debut full-length, the acclaimed Maria's Hunt - …
Messe Pour Le Temps Présent (LP)
Early 70's re-pressing on Philips of the adventurous groovy electro-aacoustic psychedelic music for a ballet by Maurice Béjart with the addition of excerpts from other three nasterpieces from the 1960's (Le Voyage. La Reine Verte, Variations Pour Une Porte Et Un Soupir). Like all Pierre Henry's output, beautiful music and essential record.
Live at San Bias
*20 copies limited release* Live performance recorded in July 2023 at Trattoria San Biagio in Orsenigo (CO). Electronic rhythms blend with long guitar improvisations over deep bass lines. The Telamons lead, a forest becomes a mountain, and the faithful move forward through lysergic journeys filled with presences.
Monomonomono
*20 copies limited release* Gabriele Ghezzi (Guitarist for Node and Telemons) first solo project. The songs are recorded live, allowing his technique guitar practice to follow the edges of the drum machine and effects taken to the extreme. A fiery project born from the machines. Psy-death-core.
Doo Dah Nean
A bizarrely entrancing jewel from the depths of the Japanese underground, Doo Dah Nean was originally released in small run of hand assembled cassettes by the La Musica label in the late 90’s. The album is the sole release and evidence of Nean, an entirely under-the-radar trio that crossed the sensual, disassociated female vocals of Japanese iroke kayōkyoku music with off-balance shamanic rhythm and echoing electronic rumble. Nean were the trio of Yui on bass and electronics, Naoko on voice, and…
Godstar (12"EP)
1985 picture-disc version on Temple Records of the 12" single with two extended mixes of the song dedicated to the Rolling Stones' Brian Jones in generic white sleeve.
Godstar (7")
1985 7" single on Temple Records with two mixes of the song dedicated to the Rolling Stones' Brian Jones.
Godstar (2x7")
1985 2x7" singles with gatefold sleeve version on Temple Records two with mixes of the song dedicated to the Rolling Stones' Brian Jones plus two other tracks.
The Magickal Mystery D Tour EP (7")
Rare second pressing with corrected matte picture sleeve of the 1986 7" EP on Temple Records with a cover version of the Beach Boys masterpiece b/w a song dedicated to director Roman Polanski and an additional 7" with two more tracks.
The Magickal Mystery D Tour EP (7"+poster)
Rare poster-sleeve version of the 1986 7" EP on Temple Records with a cover version of the Beach Boys masterpiece b/w a song dedicated to film director Roman Polanski plus two more tracks.
The Magickal Mystery D Tour EP (2x7")
1986 2x7" with gatefold sleeve version on Temple Records of the EP with a cover version of the Beach Boys masterpiece b/w a song dedicated to director Roman Polanski plus two more tracks and additional 7" with a cover of Gainsbourg's classic "Je t'aime moi non plus" b/w a new mix of "Godstar".
Tornada
Assembled by Pedro Alves Sousa, Má Estrela is a conjuration of ideas and obsessions around dub, leftfield dance phenomena and the hypnotic potential of urban somnambulance.
De Salla Jaktmarkerna
300 copies only! De Sälla Jaktmarkerna brings together Sewer Election and Ån for a collaborative work recorded during 2024 in Kortedala, on the outskirts of Gothenburg. The album represents a meeting point between two distinct voices in the Gothenburg experimental scene. Dan Johansson (Sewer Election) has spent recent years exploring increasingly nuanced territories in synthesized sound. Here, he collaborates with Matz Engdahl (Ån), a late bloomer in the milieu around Longest Night whose acclai…
Howl
Howl by Daisy Rickman offers a luminous journey through Cornish and English folk, steeped in mythic sun worship, nocturnal dreamscapes, and meditative storytelling. Recorded and performed entirely by Rickman herself, this second album channels solitary creativity and multi-instrumental textures into ten radiant pieces where sun, memory, and spirit intertwine in slow-burning, ornamental songforms.
Fistful of Ivy
Fistful of Ivy is the debut LP by a loosely floating aggregation of individuals, brought together by musician/producer Kevin S. McMahon, at whose New Paltz NY studio it was recorded. The concept for Pelican Movement arose a quarter century ago, but the only previous graspable evidence of its existence is half of an obscure 7" from 2015. Fistful of Ivy will be most listeners' introduction to Pelican Movement's sound/image, and the LP is as fine an intro to anything as could be imagined. The album…
Live at The Tavern
While we wait for Aaron Rosenblum to finish up his album of field recordings, we sometimes ask him about various tapes he has recorded of other artists. These, he tends to provide more quickly. Thus, here is the first of what we hope to be a series of live shows by various artists, documented by Mr. Aaron. The artist in Pat Gubler, aka PG Six. The venue is The Tavern at Hampshire College. The date is March 30, 2001. This was still an early point in Pat's solo journey, but the aesthetic documente…