Alain Goraguer, La Planète Sauvage, France, Pathé, 2C 066-12698 vinyl LP gatefold (originally released 1973) Recent news I heard that
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Tag: avant-rock
Anthology of Persian Experimental Music: a tasteful survey of alternative music in Iran
Various Artists, Anthology of Persian Experimental Music, Italy, Unexplained Sounds Group, CD digipak (reissued 2019) First released in digital format
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The Earth is Silent: epic death / doom metal album delivers a work of art and beauty in themes of grief, loss and despair
Sun of the Dying, The Earth is Silent, Germany, Art of Propaganda, limited edition CD digipak / 12″ vinyl (2019)
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Desert Song
Abronia are a rather sombre and serious-looking six-piece combo from Portland, and here’s their second LP The Whole Of Each
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Freestyle Stroke
English combo Rutger Hauser from SE London are a six-piece featuring Lisa Busby and John Harries; we’ve noted Busby before
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Rebuild all your Ruins
Welcome return, I think, of the highly distinctive Polish occult-folk combo 23 Threads, led by driving force Marek Spazm Marchoff
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Protozoan Infections
Enjoyable instrumental rock music from Genoa in the form of band calling themselves Apeirophilia. On Interrelate: L.U.A. (NO LABEL) the
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Metal Mickey
Ken Matsutani deserves to be reckoned as a hero of Japanese underground rock. He formed Marble Sheep and the Run-Down
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Pyroclasts: companion album to “Life Metal” is a complete work in its own right
Sunn0))), Pyroclasts, United States, Southern Lord, SUNN 333 vinyl (2019) Recorded in the same sessions as the earlier 2019 release
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Sand Enigma: an ambitious foray into a multi-universe of many possibilities but not plumbing very deeply
Land of Kush, Sand Enigma, Constellation Records, CST146 CD / vinyl double LP (2019) As long as I’ve been writing
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