Dabrye | Super-Cassette
Tadd Mullinix returns to his Dabrye alias for Super-Cassette, his first release of new material since 2018. Comprised of intentionally instrumental hip-hop tracks, referential yet modern, it’s both a back-to-basics beat tape and a multi-styled update to the minimalist sound he’s crafted since his breakthrough 2001 One/Three album on Ghostly International. Fans have long hoped […]
Joshua Van Tassel | The Recently Beautiful
The ambient music upon which Joshua Van Tassel has built his reputation has often been pushed by large concepts: the life cycle of a giant squid, a sci-fi folk tale, a custom score for craniosacral therapy. Those compositions lean long, psychedelic, grandiose—music for the sonic intellectual. For the follow-up to 2020’s Dance Music Volume II, […]
The Closest Thing to Silence
In August 2022, Australia-based, French born fourth-world music legend Ariel Kalma was invited to participate in BBC Radio 3’s Late Junction series of special collaborations. The program pairs artists who have not previously worked together to create new music cooperatively. Kalma was quick to suggest working with two musicians whom he had never met – […]
Medusozoa Vol. III
In a now annual tradition, Tartelet leans into the introspective mood of the winter months with its third compilation of downtempo and ambient titles. The artists involved on this 24-track collection include recent frontliners as well as long-standing extended family and breakthrough talents. Medusozoa Vol III offers a perfect opportunity to dig into the dimensions […]
Aus | Everis
Tokyo-born composer and producer aus has announced the release of a brand new album via London independent label Lo Recordings x FLAU. Everis features 10 songs performed on piano, strings, clarinet, flute, voice and electronics that encompass ideas plucked from disparate genres such as classical, spiritual jazz, indie, avant-garde and folk. Vibrations of everyday life […]
Ben Lumsdaine | Murmuration Without End
Murmuration Without End is a collection of rhythmic studies by producer, composer, percussionist & multi-instrumentalist Ben Lumsdaine. Whereas the tracks began as meditative synth drones recorded by Lumsdaine when quarantined in the basement studio of his friend’s home, over time they became multi-textural, poly-rhythmic sound worlds as he disrupted the meters and pulses implied by […]
Bersarin Quartett | Systeme
Finally the 5th album of the imaginary German quartet – as always via Denovali. Although the title “Systeme” suggests a perhaps rather distant-cool album, it is the most personal and concentrated soundtrack so far created by Thomas Bücker from Münster in his “E-Smog-Playground” studio. In 2008, the quartet still flirted with cyrillic-mysterious melancholy and red […]
Greg Foat & Ayo Salawu | Interstellar Fantasy
Greg Foat is one of the UK’s leading jazz pianists and composers. He has recorded prolifically in recent years for Jazzman Records, Athens Of The North and, most recently, for Strut, switching effortlessly from soul-jazz fusions to cinematic, haunting compositions, pastoral acid folk and electronic soundscapes. A concept album of Analogue Electronic Sci Fi Library […]
Lord Of The Isles & Ellen Renton | My Noise is Nothing
‘My Noise is Nothing’ is the collaborative LP between Lord of The Isles and Scottish poet Ellen Renton, set for release on the 29th September 2023. For the pair, both the poems and music came to them in a quick and concentrated period. Renton’s poems were written during 2020 and capture something of that time- […]
Yoshinori Sunahara | Lovebeat (Kioon)
Lovebeat is the fourth solo studio album by Yoshinori Sunahara. It was released on Ki/oon Records on May 23, 2001. Ken Hollings of The Wire wrote, “Sunahara’s fourth solo album finds the Techno dreamer extraordinaire returning to basics in its reappraisal of origins and influences.” Snoozer placed the album at number 8 on the “50 […]
Thandi Ntuli with Carlos Niño | Rainbow Revisited
Liner Notes by Thandi Ntuli: I travelled to Los Angeles and the USA for the first time in 2019. Although I had not met Carlos in person, we connected via Instagram where he saw a video of me playing a piano motif (titled ‘The One’ in this sequence) that he really liked and expressed a […]
K15 | Resonance
“Resonance” is the latest offering from K15, arriving on 2000Black. Resonance opens with a meditative chord arrangement that gets subtly layered with percussion and programmed drums, creating a song of depth and richness.Within Reach is the most playful track on the record. An uptempo ride, filled with class and flair and demonstrates K15’s evolution of […]
Basil Neptune | Honkytonk Cheeseballs
The Nag’s Head was a warts-and-all vessel for the sonic meanderings of Brighton artist Stephen Maskell. Taking in richly textural techno, corrupted pop and ASMR drone sculptures, his four releases on Kit documented the ecstatic mundanity of life in broken Britain. Maskell’s impressive ear for a dancefloor bothering rhythm (most likely recorded using a biscuit […]
Resavoir | Resavoir
Resavoir – the collaborative project led by Chicago producer/composer Will Miller – presents their second self-titled album. The new ‘Resavoir’ is a subtly radiant symphony interweaving modern-day soul-jazz with bedroom beats, synth serenades and twilight sonatas. It represents Miller’s most assured and refined work to date. Imagined, instigated and produced by Miller, who ties the […]
Fabiano do Nascimento | Das Nuvens
Los Angeles-based Fabiano Do Nascimento is a multi-string guitarist and songwriter who melds the traditional idioms of his native Brazil (i.e., samba, choro) with the more contemporary and experimental strains of jazz, pop, and electronic music. Das Nuvens (“The Clouds”), out July 21, 2023 on Leaving Records, is a crisp, frequently blissful, and deceptively groove-oriented […]
Tropics | Nothing Strange
Tropics about to release his highly anticipated album ’Nothing Strange’. The final singular offering ‘Infinite (For Real)’ welcomes the vocals of London based BINA in a stripped back, soul soaked cut that only wets the pallet more for the ten track collection en route. In what is set to be a career defining collection, Tropics […]
Coma World | Coma Wong
Betamax (The Comet Is Coming, Soccer96) and Pete Bennie (Speakers Corner Quartet) have come together again to produce a further batch of rhythmically enlightened Dystopian Jazz, alongside illustrious graphic and sound artist Raimund Wong (Floating World Pictures) for this record – ‘Coma Wong’ – coming 13 October 2023 on Byrd Out. “The storm clouds are […]
High Pass Filter | Nice Coordinated Outfit
Nice Coordinated Outfit is a journey through history to a time before the internet and social media and before inner city gentrification, when Fitzroy was the beating heart of Australia’s avant-garde music and culture. Musically, it showcases the band’s incredible range from deep minimal dub to bizarre electronica with elements of shoegaze and experimental noise. […]