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Metastasis - The Kármán line
a closer listenFollow “Metastasis move through sound as if traversing an unstable dimension, where compositions emerge as temporary formations within a larger sonic…” yesterday →
Wild Orchestras of Garden of Star - Fraternity
a closer listenFollow “Field recordings are often presented for their own sake, but on a trio of new recordings under a variety of…” 2 days ago →
ithnān - اثنان
a closer listenFollow “Originally conceived as a silent visual poem by Philippe Garrel in 1968, Le Révélateur emerged in the aftermath of the…” 3 days ago →
Lea Bertucci - The Days Pass Quickly Immersed in the Shadow of Eternity (Excerpt)
a closer listenFollow “Photo by Katherine Finkelstein. Courtesy the artist. Lea Bertucci is a mainstay of the US experimental music scene, bridging ideas…” 4 days ago →
Werner Dafeldecker / Lawrence English - Fathom Tides IV
a closer listenFollow “Fathom Tides is an LP of incremental change. Best heard as a single, slowly-developing piece, the album reflects the pace…” 5 days ago →
SHHE - Katávasi
a closer listenFollow “THALASSA begins and ends with the sound of breath. The Greek goddess for whom the album is named is the…” 6 days ago →
Matteo Stella - Maggio a Botontano
a closer listenFollow “Matteo Stella’s Radeche Fonne resists the pastoral temptation that often shadows music rooted in place. While deeply embedded in the…” last week →
Ptastvo - The Witch
a closer listenFollow “The Grit is one of the most striking documents to emerge from Ukraine this year. Written from the perspective of…” last week →
Anastasia Kristensen - Magpie Song
a closer listenFollow “Bestarium Sombre is a spiritual successor to Dominic Eulberg’s Mannigfaltig, a clubworthy album on which nearly every track is dedicated…” last week →
HWXXNG - Shift Key
a closer listenFollow “What is K-Core? In the hands of DJ HWXXNG (Jaeho Hwang), K-Core deconstructs traditional Korean music and refits it for…” last week →
Kreng - You Are Here
a closer listenFollow “Eleven years have passed since The Summoner was released, long enough for us to wonder if we’d ever hear from…” last week →
Johnny Bell - Departure Valley
a closer listenFollow “When Alabama sings “play me some mountain music,” they express their love for an Appalachian style of banjo-picking, heavily reliant…” last week →
Buildings and Food - Geese
a closer listenFollow “Yutori is the Japanese art of slowing down to create room for reflection. Literally translated as “room to breathe” or…” last week →
kyïvite - ballad of a soldier
a closer listenFollow “Earlier this year, we covered the first iteration of kyïvite‘s broadcast, which has since inspired two more broadcasts and attracted…” on May 1st →
KINACT - Cercle de Tambour Kinact
a closer listenFollow “Kinshasa in Action is a unique release that represents something few outside of the Congo have ever seen: a street…” on Apr 30th →
Francesco Pellegrino - Pray for the dead
a closer listenFollow “Cover art by @anita.intothewoods Francesco Pellegrino’s Wartime Monk emerges from a space where abstraction can no longer remain insulated from…” on Apr 29th →
Luigi Turra (Scores by Sylvain Chauveau) - 13
a closer listenFollow “Cover artwork from Sylvain Chauveau’s #2 score In Diastima, Luigi Turra delivers what could be labelled “the Chauveau variations”—not because…” on Apr 28th →
Mirt • Ter - Excerpt I
a closer listenFollow “Happy tenth anniversary to Poland’s Saamleng label, home to a remarkable run of 71 pure field recording releases. While the…” on Apr 27th →