Piyakdu, Vissiones ov Naeku the’e Plowmanne, United States, Grime Stone Records, (no catalogue number) cassette / CD (2023) Partly inspired
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Aha: tape deck compositions still sound fresh after nearly 40 years
Anne Gillis, Aha, Belgium, La Scie Dorée, limited edition vinyl LP (2024) Nearly 40 years after its first release, French
Continue readingOdium: blackened death metal / industrial soundscape journeys through a hostile, malevolent cosmos
Mahr, Odium, Germany, Amor Fati Productions, AFP250 CD / vinyl LP (2023) Like fellow Prava Kollektiv bands Arkhtinn, Hwwauoch, Pharmakeia
Continue readingTago Mago: a classic of joyful, jazz-inspired improvisation embracing trance, funk, psychedelia and experimentation
Can, Tago Mago, United Artists Records, UAS 29 211/12 X, 2 x vinyl LP (1971) The news of Damo Suzuki’s
Continue readingUnder the Gaze of Dissolution: diving into a black sonic universe of pain, torment and madness
Hwwauoch, Under the Gaze of Dissolution, Germany, Amor Fati Productions, vinyl LP (2023) Along with four other bands, these being
Continue readingTo Infect | To Inflict: a murky, noisy work of cosmic black metal
Voidsphere, To Infect | To Inflict, Germany, Amor Fati Productions, AFP 251 CD / vinyl LP (2023) Like its sibling
Continue readingMaenadic Ecstasy: a brutal and bestial set of black metal noise ambience
Pharmakeia, Maenadic Ecstasy, Germany, Amor Fati Productions, AFP 252 cassette / vinyl LP (2023) The youngest of the Prava Kollektiv
Continue readingThird Disaster: interstellar raw BM / dark ambient racing to the edge of the cosmos
Arkhtinn, 三度目の災害 (Third Disaster), Germany, Amor Fati Productions, AFP 253 CD / vinyl LP (2023) Arkhtinn is the most senior
Continue readingTropic of Capricorn: notions of what is natural and what is not shown to be based on assumption and stereotyping
Lawrence English / Werner Dafeldecker, Tropic of Capricorn, Switzerland, Hallow Ground, HG2301 limited edition vinyl LP (2023) Both prolific artists
Continue readingLe désespoir utopique: eclectic selection of genre elements results in a wistful and complex meditation on human displacement
Forêt Endormie, Le désespoir utopique, Fiadh Productions, United States, FP210 cassette / vinyl LP (2023) In an age when, according
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