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Incantation: The Dawn Recordings 1970-1971

2 CD Coming together in 1969, The Trio featured JOHN SURMAN (baritone & soprano saxes, bass clarinet), BARRE PHILLIPS (bass) and STU MARTIN (drums). All three musicians had earned fine reputations for excellence in the Jazz world and had a desire to push musical boundaries in their work and had a desire to appeal to […]

II

LNZNDRF’s II is a mass hypnotism, somehow both thunderous and trance-inducing. Recorded in extensive, shamanistic jam sessions at Austin’s Public Hi-Fi in September 2019 and later edited down to give it shape, these songs feel like Right Now, with some toes testing the waters of the future. The brothers Scott and Bryan Devendorf (The National), […]

Born Horses

In upstate New York, deep in the seam between the Catskills mountains and the Hudson Valley, a richly swelling, spellbound sound emerges, eddying and fowing like the local Esopus Creek, or in the slipstream of the grander Hudson river, carrying the fotsam and jetsam of our hopes, dreams, fears A sound composed of organic and […]

Convocations

5 LP Various Colours Limited to 2000 copies Blue, Green, Orange, Purple and Pink. Convocations, the new instrumental album from Sufjan Stevens, moves like a two-and-a-half-hour electronic / ambient mass for our present age of anxiety and dread; its 49 tracks work through the stages of grief and gladness with emotional mood music that is […]

Evil Dead: A Nightmare Reimagined

2 LP TRACKLIST: A1 A Nightmare Reimagined / Overture A2 Main Title A3 Evil Dawn – The Cabin Revisited A4 Automatic Writing A5 Get The Lantern A6 Incantation B1 Eye Games – Charm B2 The Vines B3 Panic B4 Won’t Let Us Leave / Card Tricks / Pencil It In B5 Love Never Dies C1 […]

Oh Death

Formidable psychic warriors, channelers of the mystic and proponents of a spiritual quest that transcends this realm, Goat remain a band shrouded in mystery. Travelling from their inscrutable origins in the Swedish village of Korpilombo across the stages and festivals of the world in the last decade, this band has created their incendiary music entirely […]

Happy Hour

With Happy Hour, her ravishing new LP, Hollie Cook matures into the queen of modern day “lovers rock”—the lush girly harmony reggae style beloved in Britain since the 1970s. Evolution rings from the bittersweet opening title track; tender yet assertive, Hollie’s voice caresses evocative lyrics through the arrangement’s tumbling changes. Hollie dares to invite listeners […]

American Rituals

On the outskirts of late 1970s Olympia, Washington, something stirs, sings, and breathes. Cheri Knight, a music composition student at the Evergreen State College, is developing her practice in a quaint but adequately equipped campus recording studio, amalgamating with the sonic timbre of the surrounding time, space, and place, while devoting to her own inner […]