2025 Repress! Ships late December “What kind of ambient record would Richard D. James, a.k.a. Aphex Twin, create with a chamber ensemble and a church organ?” Given those […]
2023
For his third studio album, Los Angeles composer Brendan Eder rented a cavernous church sanctuary in Arcadia, gathered a dozen-odd musicians, many of them woodwind players, and offered […]
Kumachan Seal: solo project of Japanese vocalist/keyboardist/songwriter Sairi Ojima, who has been playing in numerous indie bands, including Neco Nemuru, since her teens. She began her solo career […]
A buoyant masterpiece from the early 90s, “The Water Garden” was created by Okinawa-born Kojun Kokuba under the inspiring image of a “happy Asia” thriving in the sea-based […]
13 new pieces from the ‘Isophonic Music’ innovator via Osaka’s EM Records. A diverse array of appealing and joyful celebrations of music and life!
Produced by Yuta Matsumura (Th Blisks), Wilurarrakutu is the stunning debut album from by Keanu Nelson, an indigenous musician from the remote community of Papunya. At times recalling […]
Translucent Purple Vinyl Recorded in its entirety using just a laptop, a pair of headphones and a midi sampler, Indentations is the debut full length album from New […]
Highly recommended for fans of a.s.o., Hysterical Love Project, HTRK, and James K, Acopia is the latest group to emerge from Melbourne/Naarm’s vibrant downtempo / dream pop / […]
Highly recommended for fans of Robert Ashley and Lovely Music Ltd., The Beat My Head Hit is a beautiful exploration of voice and text by a NY-based 4-piece […]
One of our favorite releases of 2023, Lashes is the debut album from New Zealand-based duo Hysterical Love Project aka Kiwi producer Ike Zwanikken and vocalist Brooklyn Mellar. […]
Released late 2023, ALWAYS + FOREVER is the first compilation from do you have peace?, a Bristol-based label founded by Amos Childs (Jabu / Young Echo / O$VMV$M). […]
2023 was a big year for UK bass music veteran Shackleton. The Skull Disco co-founder released three albums including collaborations with Japanese experimentalist Scotch Rolex and Polish jazz […]
This striking, dreamy ’90s trip hop-inspired debut by Berlin based duo a.s.o. (Tornado Wallace and Alia Seror-O’Neill) has been somewhat of a modern staple here at the new […]
South Carolina singer and producer Niecy Blues’ debut album Exit Simulation arrived last November via Kranky and has been steadily finding new audiences through the winter (the album […]
Organic experimental electronic pop from the breathy-voiced Japanese singer NTsKi, who collaborated with 7FO on that beautiful Brenda Ray / Naffi Sandwich cover in 2019. Slow tempos, peculiar […]
Another favorite from 2023, Recreational Kraut is a collection of ECM-adjacent ambient and jazz-infused electronic compositions performed by Jordan Czamanski (Jordan GCZ) & David Moufang (Move D). While […]
Easily our favorite rising star of 2023, Baltimore-born singer-songwriter Marcus Brown aka Nourished by Time was raised on hip-hop, jazz, ’90s R&B, and attended the prestigious Berklee College […]
After an incredible trilogy of EPs, Holy Tongue, a group consisting of producer Al Wooten aka Deadboy, drummer/percussionist Valetina Magaletti, and bassist Zongamin, returns with their first full-length […]
Brazilian guitarist Fabiano Do Nascimiento explores Hermeto Pascoal’s concept of Universal Music, “a rejection of nationalistic tendencies in order to express all of one’s musical influences all at […]
Fazer drummer Simon Popp links up with Munich-based producer Polygonia for a set of experimental electronic / futuristic third stream jazz compositions steeped in improvisation and fluid abstraction. […]
Sam Gendel and his longtime partner, illustrator-artist Marcella Cytrynowicz, created Audiobook as a series of spontaneous collaborations after the two were making stuff in the same room. Gendel […]
This 2-LP set from EM Records chronicles the legacy of underground Japanese techno legends Cycheouts – pronounced ‘psyche outs’ in English. Originally formed in 1994, the group quickly […]
Another favorite of 2023, NY-based artists Salenta and Topu debut on Belgian label Futura Resistenza. The pair met serendipitously in the summer of 2019 at a mutual friend’s […]
ssabæ is a “nebula of friends gathering in studios, meadows and tiny apartments all over France.” Le Roi Est L’Oiseau (The King and Mister Bird) follows up the […]
Hu Vibrational is a group led by handrummer/percussionist Adam Rudolph who has played and recorded with Pharoah Sanders, Yusef Lateef, Don Cherry, Jon Hassell, Wadada Leo Smith, Bill […]
“Orpheu the Wizard has a magic touch at finding records that fall between the gaps in music – oddities, curios, the weird, the wonderful. But that’s just half […]
Now signed to Peanut Butter Wolf’s iconic Stones Throw Records, Eddie Chacon continues his triumphant return to music with Sundown, a collection of balearic downtempo soul songs written […]
Another favorite of 2023 – local hero Dyami O’Brien, aka Jamma-Dee, comes through big with his debut album for Nothing But Net, Perceptions. A masterclass of modern funk and […]
After a year of touring extensively, Seoul-based leftfield electronics duo Salamanda return to present their most refined offering yet inspired by the processes and instruments acquired during their […]
Bay Area DIY pop duo Loveshadow join up with Dark Entries to release II, their sophomore LP. Anya Prisk and Izaak Schlossman met in Oakland in 2016, bonded […]
Bristol’s Tara Clerkin Trio continues a streak of unmissable releases with On The Turning Ground, their most mature outing yet, on World of Echo. Baroque classical guitar and […]
It’s hard to believe Radio Red is Laura Groves’ debut full length under her given name. After releasing a slew of singles over the last decade with Bullion’s DEEK […]
Sublime, ethereal minimalism: the first drawing together of Hiroyuki Onogawa’s soundtrack compositions, plotting a decade of music for films by cult filmmaker Gakuryū Ishii. Sequenced into an album […]
Sun Arcs is a gorgeous new collection of acoustic folk and jazz from Copenhagen-based multi-instrumentalist Jason Dungan aka Blue Lake. Inspired by Dungan’s summers spent in a cabin […]
On her latest full-length album Ulaan on Squama Recordings, Enji continues her seemingly exponential growth as she steps into a bandleader position, bringing together an international quintet featuring […]
For the last 15 years, Baba Stlitz has primarily been known as an electronic artist, but with his 2022 tape release Baba Stiltz in LA, he turned to the […]
Purelink has quickly established themselves as prominent figures in the ever-expanding world of ambient and sound design. Signs, the group’s fifth release, finds them stripping back a bit more, […]
Futuristic electronic pop of the highest order, Natural Wonder Beauty Concept, a new project from Ana Roxanne and DJ Python (Brian Piñeyro), draws from a shared love of melancholic […]
In Akron, Ohio, four friends get together every Tuesday with gas station snacks and various instruments to see where the night takes them. They call themselves Lemon Quartet […]
Mesmerizing debut solo full-length from Manchester based multi-instrumentalist John Haycock. Having trained with Gambian griot and kora master Jali Kuyateh, Haycock takes the 21 string African harp and […]
Kyoko Takenaka + Tomoki Sanders have created an auditory environment that brings forth all the emotions of what it means to be uniquely yourself. Kyoko Takenaka: “Thats what […]
Two keyboard maestros from different musical worlds, UK jazzman Greg Foat and Italian ambient hero Gigi Masin, meet for the first time on this amazing new LP released […]
Bristol multi-instrumentalist, producer and nature freak Will Yates aka memotone arrives on the always excellent NYC-based label Impatience with a collection of singular balearic ambient, left-field grooves, and […]
HTRK’s Jonnine Standish meets Laurent Richard aka DJ Sundae’s Idle Press imprint for a match made somewhere between hell and heaven. Maritz, named after Standish’s mother, is a collection […]
A further exercise in musical curation, Child Of Nature is our latest sonic confluence of self-released tracks from the loners, hippies and outsiders of the 70s and early 80s. A […]
Transparent Green Vinyl The bulk of Perpetual Care, Early Fern’s third album for Métron Records, was inspired by memories of a time and place of great emotional significance. […]
Rhythm & Sound collaborator Paul St. Hillaire aka Tikiman delivers his first solo album in over a decade with the future classic Tikiman Vol.1. One of dance music’s […]
Originally released on CD-only in 1994 and recently reissued by Osaka’s EM Records, Purple Garden is a hidden gem featuring futuristic ambient-Mandarin pop from Shanghai-born vocalist Xiao Yun […]
The first track on the Chicago bassist and bandleader Joshua Abrams-led Natural Information Society big band opens with rhythm: Abrams thrumming his double-bass strings while percussionists Hamid Drake […]
The latest from Munich’s Squama Records is a debut from multi-instrumentalist Julian Klaas. Centered around an old Wurlitzer piano gifted from his sister, Klaas’ Impromptu is a quiet offering […]
Clear Brown Vinyl Following the release of his album trilogy (Kwaidan, Komachi and Kofū), Meitei has established himself as a defining voice in contemporary Japanese music. By sharing […]
A collection of fragile folk songs from UK singer-songwriter Joanne Robertson’s archive of unreleased solo recordings. Similar to ‘Painting Stupid Girls’ (released 2020 via Dean Blunt’s World Music […]
Transformative deep listening from percussionist Yohei Yamaura composed in memory of those who lost their lives in the East Japan Earthquake of March 11, 2011. WaNoWa was previously […]
We’ve been big fans of Canadian electronic artist Dylan Khotin-Foote since his debut album, Hello World, landed on 1080p in 2014. His lush, self-released 2018 album Beautiful You was a big […]
Cosmic Americana, minimalism, dub, left field beats, and European kosmische? Say no more! Seance Centre’s latest is a project “recorded across decades and continents” with Malmö-based musicians Emanuel […]
The latest by Chicago trio Purelink unspools an alchemical suite of fractal ambient, dusted dub tech, and interstitial electronica, born from a spirit of unity and flux: “All […]
Far-out and insanely fresh experimental R&B infusing elements of jazz, soul, hip hop, and modern club music featuring production from John Carroll Kirby, Mndsgn, and Solomonophonic, but mostly […]
Coloured vinyl editions include a 60cm x 60 cm poster. ‘Suntub’ is the second full length album from ML Buch, a double record of 15 pieces by the […]
