For listeners who want to travel time to visit ancient civilisations, you could do worse than bend an ear to
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Dawit Yifru (self-titled): songs hearkening back to the Golden Age of Ethiopian jazz
Dawit Yifru, self-titled, Ethiopia, Muzikawi, vinyl LP (2023) This compilation of songs performed by keyboardist Dawit Yifru and several other
Continue readingBlack Tides: a whimsical ride through blackened surf rock / psychedelia and Lovecraft-lite horror
Kólga, Black Tides, United States, self-released, CD / vinyl LP (2024) One look at that wacky album cover and I
Continue readingVissiones ov Naeku the’e Plowmanne: a mediaeval English pilgrimage through forest and mountain landscapes of northern India
Piyakdu, Vissiones ov Naeku the’e Plowmanne, United States, Grime Stone Records, (no catalogue number) cassette / CD (2023) Partly inspired
Continue readingGet to know the Green Personality
Three new items from the Discus Music label, all arrived 7th November 2022. Green Money (DISCUS 142CD) is by Day
Continue readingSighs and Whispers
Ad-hoc improvising group VÖ here on The Sounds of VÖ (THANATOSIS PRODUKTION THT19), a double-CD set and featuring some of
Continue readingThe Clear Distance: a contemplative work of quiet minimal improvisation
Bill Seaman & Stephen Vitiello, The Clear Distance, Australia, Room40, RM 4201 CD (2023) As a media artist, academic and
Continue readingCarry Them With Us: Scottish Gaelic folklore given new life by smallpipes and saxophone duo
Brìghde Chaimbeul, Carry Them With Us, Germany, Glitterbeat, GB 139 CD / vinyl LP (2023) Albums of instrumental music centred
Continue readingDAIKAN: reissue of a dronescape work beautiful and serene, dark and forbidding, blissful and hypnotic
Thomas Köner, DAIKAN, Germany, Mille Plateaux, MP49 CD digipak / double vinyl LP (2022) Twenty years after its original release
Continue readingBecoming More Horse
Toronto musician Nick Storring with his solo record Music From Wéi (ORANGE MILK RECORDS OM161), produced entirely using pianos (and
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