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https://ichikoaoba.bandcamp.com/album/windswept-adan Genre: Ambient Folk Rating: 5/5 This is so beautiful and so good I really want to be careful I get my point across about how beautiful and good this music is. This is the first I’ve heard of her and I cannot wait to hear the rest if her discography and I fully expectContinue reading “Windswept Adan by Ichiko Aoba”

https://pitp.bandcamp.com/album/canticles-of-bliss Genre: Ambient Drone Rating: 4/5 releases June 25, 2021 The Past Inside the Present label ensures a level of quality and this record has earned that seal. Ten years ago this would’ve been a clean 5/5 but the field has become so crowded. With a deep listen it becomes clear this is toward theContinue reading “Canticles of Bliss by Wayne Robert Thomas”

https://20buckspin.bandcamp.com/album/abhorrent-rapture Genre: Death Metal Rating: 4/5 released on bandcamp June 18, 2021 Honestly, there’s no shortage of extremely competent death metal to choose from. In all certainty, I’m going to metal out at least once a month and sometimes I gotta try new stuff. Exploration is in my blood. If there’s two comparable bands andContinue reading “Abhorrent Rapture by Witch Vomit”

https://stillheatrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/all-houses-are-haunted Genre: Soft Experimental Rating: 4/5 released on bandcamp June 17, 2021 Historically, out of all the genres this borrows from, industrial and musique concrete have been my favorite, but that’s more through the course of my entire life not recently and even less so on recent releases. However, it’s the subdued industrial beats thatContinue reading “All Houses Are Haunted by BEACHERS”

https://bloxhamtapes.bandcamp.com/album/i-saw-water Genre: Experimental Ambient Rating: 5/5 released on bandcamp June 18, 2021 Yeah you know ambient music is seriously ready for a makeover and this is a damn good way to go about it. Vagenas makes it weirder but manages to avoid the everyday is Halloween spooky trap of DARK ambient. Actually, there’s nothing wrongContinue reading “I Saw Water by Alex Vagenas”

https://solborg.bandcamp.com/album/tungem-l-iii Genre: Free Improvisational Jazz Rating: 5/5 released on bandcamp June 11, 2021 It’s hard for me to imagine giving anything involving Susana Santos Silva less that a highest possible rating. I couldn’t stand not having her complete discography so while I was unemployed during covid I begged her and she sent me 4 CDsContinue reading “TUNGEMÅL III by Mark Solborg”

Genre: Free Jazz Rating: 5/5 Released: Jan 2021 It has been said that art comes from fermentation. It has been said that in the water of purity we melt like salt. The song titles all pay homage to Rumi. I will quote Anaïs Nin: What I have loved in music is not its austerity butContinue reading “Ivo Perelman – The Purity of Desire (Ivo Perelman – tenor sax Gordon Grdina – oud Hamin Honari – tombak, daf, percussion)”

Genre: Avant-garde jazz Rating: 5/5 Release date: 19.03.2021. Closest relative I can think of is Julius Eastman. Raw solo piano. Dissonant minimalism. Perhaps this is the sound of the victim of a serious crime half-heartedly pleading because she knows no one can hear. The Braxtonesque titles give us no clues. The sound of a dyingContinue reading “Entendre by Nik Bärtsch”

https://cleanfeedrecords.bandcamp.com/album/lockdown Genre: Third Stream Contemporary Rating: 5/5 (see below) released on bandcamp April 19, 2021 Functioning as a democracy instead of a dictatorship served these three well on this outstanding Clean Feed release very generously available for free listening on bandcamp. The musicians lean heavily into the 20th century tradition of Arnold Schoenberg by wayContinue reading “Lockdown by Courvoisier | Rothenberg | Sartorius”

https://debaclerecords.bandcamp.com/album/big-tex-here-we-come Genre: New Age Rating: 5/5 released on bandcamp March 5, 2021 Found this little gem on Bandcamp today. Two musicians who can really play taking some time to really play. Apparently heavily inspired by William Ackerman, the music comes across as very sincere but the song titles feel like they’re poking a little funContinue reading “Big Tex, Here We Come by Andrew Weathers & Hayden Pedig”

Genre: Spiritual Free Jazz Rating: Transcends Ratings – World Treasure 1971 Universal Consciousness is a special and rare work of art that’s impossibly ambitious and ultimately accomplishes everything the artists intended at the highest level. There’s no higher praise than to say it successfully continues the trajectory set by John Coltrane. And it does andContinue reading “Universal Consciousness by Alice Coltrane”

https://jaubi.bandcamp.com/album/nafs-at-peace Genre: Spiritual Nu Jazz Rating: 4/5 released on bandcamp May 28, 2021 It’s cool that some of this was recorded in Lahore and the ethnic flavor works in its favor but I’d so it’s conservative poppy nature, while done with sharp expertise, leaves this as a cut below Ustad Saami. I respect that theseContinue reading “Nafs at Peace by Jaubi”

https://homenormal.bandcamp.com/album/away-from-your-shadow Genre: ambient drone Rating: 5/5 released on bandcamp January 28, 2021 This may not be a pioneering work of art but it’s startling beautiful. One of those that works within the established framework only to somehow find a way to do it better. This is representative of the creative and even emotional maturity ofContinue reading “away from your shadow by anthéne”

https://northernelectronics.bandcamp.com/album/winter-ashes Genre: Melodic Drone Rating: 5/5 released on bandcamp March 19, 2021 Correctly ensorcelled by the Icelandic landscape, this way-up-northism that seems to be the geographical identity of an unnamed sub genre that spiritually possesses black metal, folk music, dark ambient and drone. From down here in the death metal tentacles of the Occupied MuskogeeContinue reading “Winter Ashes by Anthony Linell”

Genre: Free Jazz Rating: 5/5 Two veteran jazz geniuses join forces for, if I got it right, the sixth time. However, this is the first time as a duo. Recently, I’ve been drawn to jazz records with less musicians and not more. I mean, not exclusively, but if I’m deciding between two records I haven’tContinue reading “Daniel Carter, Matthew Shipp – Dark Matrix”

Rating: all three 5/5 and 5/5 as an artist Genre: Jazz Available in full on Spotify & Bandcamp To me the the four most exciting names in the world of jazz of the past five or so years are Mary Halvorson, Susana Santos Silva, Matana Roberts, and Jaimie Branch . All of them play, forContinue reading “Jaimie Branch Fly or Die Series: 1,2,&Live”

https://seikomart.bandcamp.com/album/miyazaki-coastline Genre: Atmospheric Rating: 5/5 It’s not like I’ve listened to everything on Seikomart but it seems the musicians are branching out and either stretching the boundaries to vapor or simply migrating elsewhere. To me, this feels like an ambient vapor hybrid bringing the better features from both genres, at least for this point inContinue reading “Miyazaki Coastline by Daibakaze”

https://phillipwilkerson.bandcamp.com/album/closer-to-silence Genre: Ambient Rating: 3/5 released on bandcamp June 5, 2021 Quality ambient

These are my favorite releases of 2021 thus far:  Proof by BLOOP (Lina Allemano / Mike Smith) Eternal Screw by ONY Lost Dreams (Chopped and Screwed) by Dj Purpberry Waterfall Arcing in the Still of Night by Tuluum Shimmering In Love & Fracture by C. Diab Burning Apricot by Carnivorous Plants Cyberdreaming by VHS SpectreContinue reading “Editors Picks”

https://bandrye.bandcamp.com/album/–4 Genre: Black Metal Rating: 4/5 Vladimir Frith, a Freddy Mercury lookalike, is the one man black metal band Рожь except he wisely invites Olga Volgina to add something I almost always welcome into a heavy metal record: female vocals – plus LOVE the last name girl!!! Fans of Hate Forest should dig this folkyContinue reading “Вечное by Рожь”

https://purpsounds.bandcamp.com/album/stay-trippy-chopped-and-screwed Genre: Screwston Rating: 5/5 released on bandcamp June 1, 2021 Just for the purpose of clarification for the uninitiated: this is a remix of the record Stay Trippy by Juicy J. The style of mixing is called “chopped and screwed”. The originator of the chopped and screwed DJing style was DJ Screw who diedContinue reading “Stay Trippy (Chopped and Screwed) by dj purpberry”

https://johnlutheradams-coldblue.bandcamp.com/album/arctic-dreams Genre: Contemporary Rating: 5/5 released on bandcamp May 28, 2021 If you’ve never heard Adams before I recommend starting with Become Ocean before checking this out. Unfortunately though the Become trilogy isn’t on Bandcamp. The entire trilogy is on Spotify but I think you’re ok with just Ocean or if you just don’t reallyContinue reading “Arctic Dreams by John Luther Adams”

https://jahwobble.bandcamp.com/album/guanyin Genre: Dub Rating: 4/5 released on bandcamp February 5, 2021 Correcting the world’s wrongs is said to be therapeutic. I don’t know about that. A physician assistant was telling me how he adopted stoicism and learned that “giving back” is the key to self healing. I bet a six figure salary is pretty fuckingContinue reading “Guanyin by Jah Wobble & Family”

https://extremenoiseterror.bandcamp.com/album/the-earache-peel-sessions Genre: Punk Rock Rating: 5/5 Tracks 1-8 recorded 10/11/87, broadcast 17/11/87 Tracks 9-14 recorded 01/05/88, broadcast 11/05/88 Tracks 15-22 recorded 06/02/90, broadcast 08/03/90 (Source: Bandcamp page) True blue relentlessly hard hardcore fuck you I’m punk. Mick Harris plays on the 87-88 tracks best that I can figure. If you got evidence to the contraryContinue reading “The Earache Peel Sessions by Extreme Noise Terror”

https://brckhmptn.bandcamp.com/album/roadrunner-new-light-new-machine Genre: Hip Hop Rating: 5/5 released on bandcamp April 9, 2021 Brockhampton are my favorite current hip hop collective. I see them as the fourth major “collective” as I define it (Collective: a hip hop band with at least four members whose names are worth remembering). In chronological order it goes NWA, Wu-Tang Clan,Continue reading “ROADRUNNER: NEW LIGHT, NEW MACHINE by Brockhampton”