As part of Whited Sepulchre’s 4 x LP release in June, Cincinnati experimental electronic artist Andrew Elaban brings his wide-screen conduction of chance connections and orchestrated unfolding of [...]
E-Saggila is an enigmatic cult producer in electronics, constructing soaring calm from dynamic turbulence as the era of domesticated destruction and creation arrives. Conceived by Iraqi-born, [...]
“An intimate and vulnerable emotional portrait that shows her grappling with a period of personal tumult, ‘Whole New Mess’ presents Angel Olsen working through her open wounds [...]
Bedroom music” as a genre is perhaps questionable, and yet when first hearing the cassette that these songs were originally released on, this was the thought that I was fixated […]
Weak Left Input” LP (GGGR-070, September 2014): Two improvised and unedited pieces focusing on meandering / overlapping electronics, guitar and tape noise. Over an hour of material ranging [...]
While it’s relatively easy to refer to Sandy Ewen’s use of guitar as unconventional or abstract, the true nature of her work is much more exploratory in nature. The instrument […]
Texas bluesman Samuel “Lightnin’” Hopkins’ musical career was reignited by this 1959 release. With the aid of a little gin and a borrowed acoustic guitar, musicologist Sam Charters recorded [...]
The Animals back the legendary bluesman on this early live set. Label: Charly Records – LP 10027 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue Country: Portugal Released: 1985 VG+/VG+
Collects some of Hopkins’ best tracks from 1952-1953 Label: Blues Classics – BC 30 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation Country: US Released: 1984 VG+/VG. spine cracked open 3″ with some [...]
“Original recordings from the collections of Joe Bussard, Dani Gugolz, Hans Maitner, Johnny Path and Victor Pearlin A1 to A4 recorded in Houston, Texas in 1948 A5 to A8 recorded […]
Side A and “Long Lastin’ Lovin'” recorded in Chicago between February and March 1928 other songs recorded in Chicago between June and August 1928 Label: Monk – mk340 Format: [...]