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23—09—27
Comité Hypnotisé
Comité Hypnotisé will let you flip-flop into his eleven chambers of the ‘Danza Del Piri-Piri.
Levitating and shimmering a glistering way through deep old skool 70’s sitar vibes and jitterbug grooves.
This boogieman aka the Millionaire mastermind and member of the Evil Superstars has carved some hot smoked out bass and organ flared cuts on wax. Ready to never leave you again.
Whether it’s with wood chopped kazou sounds stretching into hazy sunshine desire or dazzling basslines blending with interstellar and stuttering kick drums: the Danza Del Piri-Piri swings and slams into a wiggly relentless sonic future.
released September 8 on cortizona.
23—09—24
Junk Funk
The collaboration between Klara Lewis and Nik Colk Void somehow seemed inevitable. Both artists having seen their releases published by Editions Mego, individually carving out idiosyncratic voices in the worlds of extreme, abstract electronic music.
With Full-On, Lewis and Void explore and assimilate the very edge of their individual practice where a unique collaborative interface allows two voices to combine and morph into a third voice.
Lewis and Void play ping pong with the conversation of sounds, generating ideas and bouncing them off each other, simultaneously encouraging the other to go further with their ideas opening up an opportunity to engage with previously unexplored terrain. Guitars, synths, euro rack modular systems, voice, sampling and outboard processing are folded in a playful unification with a propensity to tease, explore and extract new ideas and shapes, sometimes brutal, sometimes playful.
Trust was also a compositional tool allowing instinct to freely move on any aspect of the sound and space. This sound/feeling/instinct/association let this wild and wonderful material grow organically into something new.
The result of this exploratory interplay are 17 intense miniatures reveling in the process of unadulterated experimentation and whimsical interplay, not just between the humans, but the machines themselves. United in an endless series of sonic U-turns, this daring duo intertwine pop and noise whilst also bringing together visions of tender techno and forthright ambient.
The various zones manifest from all this reveals vocals shifting in mysterious ways, dust drenched beats churning limpidly and devilish string loops navigating a disorientating domain. The experience of listening to Full-On is to be confronted with a range of ideas resulting in a platter of emotions. A place where beauty and the beast collide with the impulsive and outright weird. What a wonderful world.
23—09—23
Atlas
by Laurel Halo.
Atlas is a suite of sensual ambient jazz collages, designed to take the listener on a roadtrip through the subconscious. Blending both synthetic ambient textures and acoustic instrumentation, the album is a series of endlessly listenable maps, rife with hidden detail.
23—09—15
Smart woods
Piotr Kurek’s new album “Smartwoods” is a sprawling root system of tiny melodic phrases that loop and curl around subtly evolving instrumental thickets. The Warsaw-based producer and composer takes his cues from early music, baroque music and experimental jazz, entangling his influences with filigree traces of contemporary computer music and fueling it with sonic vapors from the near future.
Made up of seven distinct segments, the album blurs its acoustic and electronic elements into an illusory hedge of abstract sound. Harp, saxophone, clarinet, double bass, voices and guitar twist into computerized processes and synthesizer chirps, creating an uncanny dreamworld where the real isn’t always what it seems. Each player is entwined with the other to create a living, breathing whole.
23—09—13
Full Time Lover
Across 28 tracks, FULL TIME LOVER finds Eyedress working with a host of collaborators including new friends The Drums, HOMESHAKE and Gonjasufi – west coast homies; Provoker, Vex Ruffin, Zeroh, Paul Cherry and Nosaj Thing – Pro skate friends; Na-Kel Smith, Lucien Clarke and Franky Villani – East coast rappers; Chuck Strangers, YL & Starker – and his trap community; Slimesito, REALYUNGPHIL, BOOFPAXKMOOKY, CASHCACHE, and BigSmokeChapo.
23—09—08 
Alabaster DePlume is a Manchester-born, London-based bandleader, composer, saxophonist, activist and orator. A long-time affiliate of London’s Total Refreshment Centre, DePlume has released albums on Lost Map Records and Chicago label International Anthem, with his most recent album, Gold, widely acclaimed as one of the best jazz records of 2022.
Composed in the act of performance by and with:
Alabaster DePlume – tenor sax, guitar, synths and voice
Falle Nioke – voice, percussion
Rozi Plain – guitar
Sarathy Korwar – drums, tabla
Tom Skinner – drums
Kenichi Iwasa – percussion
James Howard – guitar
Tom Herbert – double bass
Natalie Pela – voice
Rosa Slade – voice
Elly Condron – voice
Luisa Gerstein – voice
Matt Webb – double bass
Michael Chestnutt – synths
Ursula Russell – drums
Conrad Singh – guitar
Hannah Miller – cello and voice
Donna Thompson – voice
Matthew Bourne – piano
Momoko Gill – lead vocal
Ruth Goller – bass
23—09—06
Distance
Ian MacPhee’s ‘Distance’ is a collection of meditative ambient drone intertwined with field recordings and radio frequencies, largely inspired by his travels in Japan. Written between 2022 and 2023, new sounds are crafted through experiments in digital processing. The album also has a visual component, by way of a photo zine and music video for lead single “Move”, which document many of the places where the field recordings were captured. Each component of ‘Distance’ feels intentional and deeply personal, soundscapes that are given space to unfold, build, and ultimately transport you to MacPhee’s experiences.
Releases October 6 on Already Dead.
23—09—01
Limited Edition 7″ Vinyl on Heavenly Recordings.
Sinéad O’Connor, 1966 – 2023.
Soon I will be done
With the trouble of the world
Trouble of the world
Trouble of the world
Soon I will be done
With the trouble of the world
Going home to live with God
No more
Weeping unwilling
No more
Weeping unwilling
No more
Weeping unwilling
Going home to live with God
Soon I will be done
With the trouble of the world
Trouble of the world
Trouble of the world
Soon I will be done
With the trouble of the world
Going home to live with God
I want to see my mother
I want to see my mother
I want to see my mother
Going home to live with God
Soon I will be done, oh
Trouble of the world
Trouble of the world
Trouble of the world
Soon I will be done
With the trouble of the world
Going home to live with God
