"This monumental recording, created behind the Iron Curtain in the perestroika era, combines minimalism, drone music and improvisation based on electrified violins and amplified household objects, showcasing a Ukrainian violinist’s extraordinary creativity."
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Liner notes: "My task is to allow the listener to penetrate deeper into the music. The music is wholly improvisational. It ... read more

"The Submissives are a girl group disintegrating in front of you. The six members of this Montreal-based damaged pop band were nearly all non-musicians before joining up together. They play in the most block-simple way, and not especially well. Their melodies wander aimlessly without regard to thousands of years of ideas about song structure. Their guitar work slides up and down the neck, brash strums giving way to oddly jazzy little fills. A violin swoons tipsily in the space between ... read more

"GUO GAN presents his new Chinese music trio. After his experiences through several collaborations with musicians of various parts of the world (Mali, Turkey, France) or his solo album of classical pieces by legendary composer Liu Tian Hua, in this album GUO GAN returns to his roots presenting a new trio, named SWORDMEN TRIO, with two skillful COMPANIONS on fundamental Chinese instruments: Liu Yi Qing Pipa (lute,vocal) and Chen Jiann (Guzheng,vocal). The program blends classical ... read more

A tribute album to the late American roots music icon John Fahey, led by drummer Jose Medeles. Rather than covering the great guitarist’s songs themselves, Medeles and a cast of musicians including M. Ward, Marisa Anderson and Chris Funk use his uniquely loose style of playing as an inspiration for their own meandering compositions.

"La chitarra “preparata”, le elettroniche e la voce sono ancora e sempre gli attrezzi del procedere di Angeli nel ricordo accecante del passato, nell’orizzonte sgomento del futuro, nel momento obliterato del presente. Il suo è un codice arcaico che si sloga e tracima, cerca di farsi linguaggio per perdersi nell’istante successivo, incapace di forma eppure formato, come la persistenza segreta di un’impronta sulla roccia, come il riflesso frantumato del ... read more

"I brani di “Ritmico non ritmico” non nascono da melodie, ma dall’elaborazione di piccoli motivi, che possono essere, ad esempio, rappresentati da mattoncini: nel modo in cui, poi, i suoni vengono messi l’uno dietro l’altro, nasce una musica piuttosto che un altra. Per uscire fuori dai parametri stringenti di un arte, utilizziamo delle analogie: la linea nella pittura può diventare il suono lungo; il punto, invece, il suono breve. Quindi, ci sono delle ... read more

Descriptors: Slow, heavy, hypnotic, psychedelic, repetitive, dense, dark, doom/sludge, post-metal

Descriptors: mesmeric, noisy, repetitive, hypnotic, aggressive, dark, mechanical, U.K.,

The follow-up to the critically acclaimed "A Moon Daguerreotype" from the art rock ensemble from Milan, Italy.

"The Cliché Of Falling Leaves" is based on one single piece of music, on the basis of the symphonic poem, ruled by a narrative cyclic scheme. Sixteen musicians took part of the recording of this 43 minutes suite: from horns to clarnets, saxes, double-basses and many other classical timbers.

Goodbye, Kings became a massive rock orchestra for the occasion, ... read more

"[...] Nikolaj Kulikov, oscuro e dimenticato militare sovietico scelto dall’Armata Russa «per un percorso di addestramento tra terra e spazio» volto a creare un sistema di difesa simile allo “scudo spaziale” statunitense. Vera o meno che sia la vicenda dello sfortunato e dimenticato astronauta sovietico, Manzan imbastisce una retrospettiva ad ampio spettro disseminata in tre volumi in cassetta – unico formato, oltre al digitale, in cui questo disco ... read more

"Isaiah Ceccarelli is a percussionist and composer. 'Toute clarte m'est obscure' (2013 with a revision in 2018) consists of three long pieces, each over fifteen minutes long, three written interludes, and two shorter pieces. Bourdons is a kind of group meditation on long sustained notes with fluttering dissonance in several instruments. Intermede 2 is scored for the lower registers in the ensemble, which creates a brooding atmosphere. The title piece is a setting of a fourteenth-century ... read more