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  • Amon D??l II* ? Meetings With Menmachines Unremarkable Heroes Of The Past
    Amon D??l II* ? Meetings With Menmachines Unremarkable Heroes Of The Past
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    Underrated album by UK Amon Duul affiliates. Label: Abstract Sounds – ABT049CD Format: CD, Album, Reissue Country: US Released: 2008 VG+/VG+ Image may not be from actual item.

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Coltrane* ? “Live” At The Village Vanguard 11-01-1961
    Coltrane* ? “Live” At The Village Vanguard 11-01-1961
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    Recorded at “Village Vanguard” NYC, November 1, 1961. Label: Impulse! – MVCI-23001 Format: CD, Album, Reissue Country: Japan Released: 1991 VG+/VG+ Image may not be from actual item.

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Archie Shepp ? Attica Blues
    Archie Shepp ? Attica Blues
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    “Attica Blues is one of Shepp’s most successful large-group projects, because his skillful handling of so many different styles of black music produces such tremendously groovy [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Kamasi Washington – Fearless Movement
    Kamasi Washington – Fearless Movement
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    Turning his attention to dance for his latest album, Fearless Movement out this May on Young, Kamasi Washington resumes his ongoing study of music as a means of connection. His […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Sleaford Mods – Divide And Exit
    Sleaford Mods – Divide And Exit
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    Allying strong words and minimal electronics, Sleaford Mods’ second ‘proper’ album the self-released Divide And Exit was not only Andrew Fearn and Jason Williamson’s most effective artistic [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Future Islands – People Who Aren’t There Anymore
    Future Islands – People Who Aren’t There Anymore
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    There are bands that come and go, and then there are those that carve their own unique path, leaving an indelible mark on the heart of listeners. Future Islands are […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Cocteau Twins – Milk & Kisses
    Cocteau Twins – Milk & Kisses
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    Released in March 1996, Milk & Kisses is the eighth and final studio album by Cocteau Twins. And like its predecessor, 1993’s Four Calendar Café, it’s yet to be formally […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Bar Italia – The Twits
    Bar Italia – The Twits
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    bar italia are the London based three-piece of Nina Cristante, Jezmi Tarik Fehmi and Sam Fenton. They will release their second full length of 2023, ‘The Twits’, on November 3, […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • DJ Speedsick – You People Make Me Fucking Sick CDr
    DJ Speedsick – You People Make Me Fucking Sick CDr
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    New sixteen-minute piece by DJ Speedsick of cut-up style harsh noise and claustrated blues guitar entrails descending into a vortex; comprised largely of archival recordings and audio extracted [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Emiliana Torrini – Miss Flower
    Emiliana Torrini – Miss Flower
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    Emilíana Torrini emerges from hiatus with a brand new album, MISS FLOWER. Returning to an illustrious career, spanning chart-topping hits like ‘Sunny Road’ and ‘Jungle Drum’ from acclaimed albums [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Michael Rother – Sterntaler
    Michael Rother – Sterntaler
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    Digitally remastered reissue of 1978 solo debut by this bassist/ guitarist/ keyboardist for Krautrock duo Neu & early member of electronic pioneers Kraftwerk.

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • SUSS – Birds & Beasts
    SUSS – Birds & Beasts
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    SUSS’ fifth release, Birds & Beasts, on Northern Spy Records, finds the New York-based ambient trio digging deeper, populating its stark, ethereal soundscapes with primal currents of sound [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Folk / Country
  • DAF – Fur Immer
    DAF – Fur Immer
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    Many things have been said about this band: they were called the godfathers of techno, the pioneers of EBM and the forefathers of electropunk. Yet they only laugh coolly and […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Harmonia – Live 1974
    Harmonia – Live 1974
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    a previously unavailable concert recording from the German super-group made up of Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius (of Cluster) and Michael Rother (of Neu!). They re-defined not only the [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Sissy Spacek – Mirror Aggressor State
    Sissy Spacek – Mirror Aggressor State
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    Sissy Spacek Mirror Aggressor State CD Helicopter HEL 99099 On the heels of their F.O.A.D. LP and mid-west/east coast tour, a new full-length album from the Isaac Horne/Charlie Mumma/John Wiese [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • DJ Speedsick – Samples and Loops
    DJ Speedsick – Samples and Loops
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    Undistributed DJ Speedsick business card CDr of samples & loops. Tracks 1, 7-9, 33: samples Tracks 2-6: drum shots Tracks 10-32: loops

    GENRE: Soundtracks / Library Music, Techno / House / Electronic
  • Boards Of Canada – Tomorrow’s Harvest (LTD ED)
    Boards Of Canada – Tomorrow’s Harvest (LTD ED)
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    The idolized and enigmatic duo are back. After considerable speculation by their rabid fan base (not to mention the media following every step of the way), Boards of Canada have […]

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • Throbbing Gristle – The Third Mind Movements CD
    Throbbing Gristle – The Third Mind Movements CD
    $16.00 | Ships on/around Aug 23, 2024 Add to cart

    Throbbing Gristle unveils a brand new reissue of The Third Mind Movements, released commercially for the first time on CD and vinyl via Mute. Formed in 1975, Throbbing Gristle, aka […]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Laibach – Deutschland 1985
    Laibach – Deutschland 1985
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    CDr packaged with fold over cover in polybag. A bootleg live recording from Oberhausen, Germany, performed on 4 December 1985. Bringing to mind the best of underground industrial tapes in […]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Gerrit Hatcher ? Burnt Pan Rolling Boil
    Gerrit Hatcher ? Burnt Pan Rolling Boil
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    GERRIT HATCHER – TENOR SAXOPHONE RECORDED AT BEL_AIR SOUND STUDIO ON MARCH 29TH, 2019 RECORDED, MIXED AND MASTERED BY TODD CARTER ALL MUSIC BY GERRIT HATCHER (BMI) ART & DESIGN […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Gerrit Hatcher Group – The Good Instinct of the Morning
    Gerrit Hatcher Group – The Good Instinct of the Morning
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    GERRIT HATCHER – TENOR SAXOPHONE KATIE ERNST – BASS BEN LAMAR GAY – CORNET KEEFE JACKSON – TENOR SAXOPHONE JULIAN KIRSHNER – DRUMS RECORDED BY EDWARD HAMEL ON MAY [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Gerrit Hatcher / Peter Maunu / Julian Kirshner – Live at Splice Series
    Gerrit Hatcher / Peter Maunu / Julian Kirshner – Live at Splice Series
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    GERRIT HATCHER – TENOR SAXOPHONE PETER MAUNU – GUITAR, VIOLIN AND MANDOLIN JULIAN KIRSHNER – DRUMS RECORDED LIVE AT THE BEAT KITCHEN 9/25/19 RECORDED, MIXED AND MASTERED BY BILL [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Keefe Jackson, Jim Baker, Julian Kirshner ? Routines
    Keefe Jackson, Jim Baker, Julian Kirshner ? Routines
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    KEEFE JACKSON – TENOR AND SOPRANINO SAXOPHONE JIM BAKER – PIANO AND SYNTHESIZER JULIAN KIRSHNER – DRUMS RECORDED BY BILL HARRIS ON SEPTEMBER 26TH, 2019 AT THE SHAPE SHOPPE, [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Rob Magill – Blues Etudes
    Rob Magill – Blues Etudes
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    RECORDED AND COMPOSED BY ROB MAGILL IN OJAI, CA IN FEBRUARY 2022 MIXED AND MASTERED BY JEHF JONES ARTWORK BY ROB MAGILL LAYOUT BY GERRIT HATCHER PHOTO BY BRETT WILLIAM […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Gerrit Hatcher – Solo Five
    Gerrit Hatcher – Solo Five
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    GERRIT HATCHER – TENOR SAXOPHONE RECORDED BY TODD A. CARTER AT BEL_AIR SOUND STUDIO, MAY 31ST, 2021 MIXED AND MASTERED BY TODD A. CARTER ARTWORK AND LAYOUT BY GERRIT HATCHER […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Near Miss – The Natural Regimen
    Near Miss – The Natural Regimen
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    ROB MAGILL – TENOR AND SOPRANO SAXOPHONES AND BASS CLARINET GERRIT HATCHER – TENOR SAXOPHONE BILL HARRIS – DRUMS RECORDED BY BILL HARRIS ON SEPTEMBER 27TH, 2022 AT THE MUSIC [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Glaciers – Superposition
    Glaciers – Superposition
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    TODD A. CARTER – PIANO, RHODES, SYNTH, PERCUSSION, TOYS, ORGAN MICHAEL HARTMAN – PIANO, SYNTHS, DRUMS, PERCUSSION RECORDED AT BEL_AIR SOUND STUDIO NOBLE SQUARE 2019 – 2022 [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Devouring The Guilt – Not to Want to Say
    Devouring The Guilt – Not to Want to Say
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    BILL HARRIS – DRUMS GERRIT HATCHER – TENOR SAXOPHONE ELI NAMAY – BASS RECORDED JULY 10TH, 2021 AT THE MUSIC GARAGE, CHICAGO RECORDED, MIXED AND MASTERED BY BILL HARRIS COVER [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Ted Byrnes & Michael Foster – Solfege CD
    Ted Byrnes & Michael Foster – Solfege CD
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    It’s always very special for me as a ‘harsh noise’ artist to be able to discuss the improvisational works of colleagues such as Ted Byrnes and Michael Foster as I […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • INTRAVIS Compilation
    INTRAVIS Compilation
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    A compilation featuring Nota Grave, Vampiros Kosmos, Universal Cell Unlock, Zach Rowden, Energy Gradient, Tval, Shredded Nerve, Mortido, Prosperity, and Cienfuegos.

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Vacation ? Rare Earth
    Vacation ? Rare Earth
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    “Vacation’s new album Rare Earth comes at a time when the powder keg of civilization as we know it is particularly vulnerable to the spark that swallows our very existence. […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Stereolab –  Switched On Volumes 1-5 (8xCD Boxset)
    Stereolab – Switched On Volumes 1-5 (8xCD Boxset)
    $60.00 | Add to cart

    An anthology boxset that compiles all five volumes of the Stereolab Switched On series: 94 non-album tracks and sought after deep cuts by the groop. Includes the original Switched On […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • New Monuments – Language Is The Skin CD
    New Monuments – Language Is The Skin CD
    $13.00 | Ships on/around Jun 30, 2022 Add to cart

    What our staff has to say: “The birth of NEW FREE JAZZ. A completely unhinged document of New Monuments. Fresh new quartet line-up. This is the next level, and the […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Point Of Memory – Void Pusher
    Point Of Memory – Void Pusher
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    Void Pusher is acoustic computer music; combining digital cut ups and live ambient noise with raw organic qualities. Inaudible super-bass frequencies pumping through a room filled with acoustic [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Running – Wake Up Applauding
    Running – Wake Up Applauding
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    2016 release from the alt-punks. Running elbows in quick from the City of the Big Shoulders with Wake Up Applauding. Delivered loudly, dripping in unintelligible menace with the occasional flash [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Running – Vaguely Ethnic
    Running – Vaguely Ethnic
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    The screech. The wall. The slanted-floor nausea. There’s not a word for the signature cyclical howling that Chicago’s RUNNING harnesses and tortures into submission. They play with their food [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Merzbow / Sissy Spacek – Coronado
    Merzbow / Sissy Spacek – Coronado
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    In their first collaborative album, pioneering Japanese sound artist Merzbow and prolific outsider outfit Sissy Spacek unite to unleash an unstoppable firebomb of frenzied electronics and raging [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Sissy Spacek – Cosm
    Sissy Spacek – Cosm
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    A new Sissy Spacek album in the realm of free-improv, but a great expansion of the perimeter. This power trio features Charlie Mumma on drums, Masahiko Ohno (Solmania) on guitar, […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • C.C.C.C. – Community Center Cyber Crash / Live In Pittsburgh
    C.C.C.C. – Community Center Cyber Crash / Live In Pittsburgh
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    A searing document of C.C.C.C.’s indelible live performance at Wilkins School Community Center on October 11, 1992, Community Center Cyber Crash/Live In Pittsburgh voyages into an abyss of [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Noel Meek & Mattin – Homage to Annea Lockwood Book + CD
    Noel Meek & Mattin – Homage to Annea Lockwood Book + CD
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    Recital presents a book and CD homage to the New Zealand-born American composer Annea Lockwood (b. 1939). The unique concept for this album was conceived by artists Noel Meek (New […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Sissy Spacek – Live In Hong Kong
    Sissy Spacek – Live In Hong Kong
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    Sissy Spacek is known for their extended approach to sound and performance. Founded in 1999, the group (since 2013, primarily a duo of Charlie Mumma and John Wiese) have released […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Kreuzweg Ost ? Gott Mit Uns
    Kreuzweg Ost ? Gott Mit Uns
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    2nd monumental album from Kreuzweg Ost for Cold Spring, headed by Michael Gregor (SUMMONING / AMESTIGON). “We see a light through the dim and cloudy shadows of our existence. In […]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Sistrenatus ? Sensitive Disturbance
    Sistrenatus ? Sensitive Disturbance
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    Blurring the lines between Dark Ambient, Industrial and Noise, Sistrenatus storms forth, shifting between oppressive aggression and unsettling atmospheres. “Sensitive Disturbance” is [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Kollaps ? Until The Day I Die
    Kollaps ? Until The Day I Die
    $11.00 | Add to cart

    “Until The Day I Die” is the third album from Australian post-industrial outfit KOLLAPS. “Until The Day I Die” is a merciless and visceral assault on the senses and [...]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • NDE – Krieg Blut Ehre Asche
    NDE – Krieg Blut Ehre Asche
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    Debut from this Belgian duo. Like the dark solitary figure which adorns the cover, NDE are shrouded in mystery and desolation. No website. No social media. No contact details. The […]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics, Metal
  • Splinterskin ? Wayward Souls
    Splinterskin ? Wayward Souls
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    Splinterskin unveils his spell after years of solitude and hermetic isolation, in the form of a harsh, dark folk music. His tales are told using an old classical guitar accompanied […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Trepaneringsritualen – Veil The World
    Trepaneringsritualen – Veil The World
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    »All seals have been broken« proclaims a demonic voice on the titular track of Veil The World, and that is something terrifyingly evident in the music contained therein. On Veil […]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • South Saturn Delta ? Experience The Concreteness
    South Saturn Delta ? Experience The Concreteness
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    This is South Saturn Delta’s debut album, featuring their finest live recordings from between 2003-2005, in Osaka and Tokyo. SSD is a kind of Japanoise supergroup, formed in 2003, with […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • NBDY – Woods & Wires
    NBDY – Woods & Wires
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    Czech Republic based artist NBDY utilities precise measures in his approach to cut-up noise. Tearing into passages with precise immediacy which at points abruptly hyperextends into crisp, bracing [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Harko City – Harko City
    Harko City – Harko City
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    Harko City is a cult industrial/ horror electronics project of Evan Price and Cory Rowell (Demonologists). The debut album for Harko City contains 15 tracks, 4 of which have the […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Demonologists – Dissociative Themes
    Demonologists – Dissociative Themes
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    Released October, 2020

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Demonologists/Utarm
    Demonologists/Utarm
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    Released December, 2020

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Equipment Pointed Ankh – Changing Legs
    Equipment Pointed Ankh – Changing Legs
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    What our staff has to say: “EPA return with a disc of duos. I would say this is a good disc for all Improv Heads, Kraut Rock Dropouts, & Kentucky […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Smut – How The Light Felt
    Smut – How The Light Felt
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    Smut shines a spotlight on the sounds of the 90s across genres – a record scratch, a spacey synth line, a breakcore beat – all while maintaining freshness and originality. […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Fuxter Schittly – “1998 – 1999 God Particles”
    Fuxter Schittly – “1998 – 1999 God Particles”
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    What our staff has to say: “An excellent example that we have no real grasp on what is going on around us. In a world of fake news and discordianism, […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Devin DiSanto – Waiting and Counting: Domestic Ritual for the Stereo Field
    Devin DiSanto – Waiting and Counting: Domestic Ritual for the Stereo Field
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    Waiting and Counting : Domestic Ritual for the Stereo Field Material for this release is based around a performance determined by a partial system of cues (max patch) that occur […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Sissy Spacek – Reslayer CD
    Sissy Spacek – Reslayer CD
    $11.00 | Ships on/around Aug 01, 2022 Add to cart

    ‘Sissy Spacek reaching full maturation – Hyper destructive low end heavy cut ups. Harsh noise from unheard nether-realms.’ -Brandon Hill (Fantastique / Starved Relations) [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Sam Weinberg, Henry Fraser, Tyler Damon – Foment
    Sam Weinberg, Henry Fraser, Tyler Damon – Foment
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    “Foment” represents a first-meeting of New Yorkers saxophonist Sam Weinberg & bassist Henry Fraser with Chicago drummer Tyler Damon. Although the three musicians had not played in [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Angel Olsen – Big Time CD
    Angel Olsen – Big Time CD
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    Fresh grief, like fresh love, has a way of sharpening our vision and bringing on painful clarifications. No matter how temporary we know these states to be, the vulnerability and […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Takeda – Psychedelic Minimalism Vol 1
    Takeda – Psychedelic Minimalism Vol 1
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    Psychedelic Minimalism Vol​.​1 is a collection of previously, and very limited, released material. These 4 long-form tracks were recorded on a Tascam 4-track from the beginning to late 2000’s. [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych