Category Archives: Experimental
Dog Plug [Mazen Kerbaj, Maurice Louca & Tony Elieh] ~ Dog Plug كلاب البطّاريّة
Dog Plug feels exactly like its title suggests: a live wire connecting three musicians whose shared history spans decades and still produces sparks. Tony Elieh, Mazen Kerbaj and Maurice Louca approach electroacoustic improvisation as a process of constant recombination, where
Dog Plug [Mazen Kerbaj, Maurice Louca & Tony Elieh] ~ Dog Plug كلاب البطّاريّة
Dog Plug feels exactly like its title suggests: a live wire connecting three musicians whose shared history spans decades and still produces sparks. Tony Elieh, Mazen Kerbaj and Maurice Louca approach electroacoustic improvisation as a process of constant recombination, where
Jonáš Gruska – Juggler / ジャグラ
Jonáš Gruska‘s Juggler / ジャグラ does more than what it says on the tin. Originally assembled from covert recordings made inside an Akihabara pachinko parlour, the album documented a moment of revelation: Gruska discovering that beneath the assaultive barrage of gambling
Jonáš Gruska – Juggler / ジャグラ
Jonáš Gruska‘s Juggler / ジャグラ does more than what it says on the tin. Originally assembled from covert recordings made inside an Akihabara pachinko parlour, the album documented a moment of revelation: Gruska discovering that beneath the assaultive barrage of gambling
Omar Cheikh ~ The Garden
Deeply rooted in the idea of the garden as a place of refuge and quiet transformation, Omar Cheikh’s The Garden unfolds like a series of nocturnal wanderings through an imagined landscape. The title evokes not only Voltaire’s famous injunction to
Omar Cheikh ~ The Garden
Deeply rooted in the idea of the garden as a place of refuge and quiet transformation, Omar Cheikh’s The Garden unfolds like a series of nocturnal wanderings through an imagined landscape. The title evokes not only Voltaire’s famous injunction to
Vittorio Guindani ~ la porta bianca
There is something fitting about Vittorio Guindani finding a home for these recordings in Vilhelm Hammershøi’s The White Door. Before becoming an album, La Porta Bianca existed in a kind of limbo: music without a place, waiting for the image
Vittorio Guindani ~ la porta bianca
There is something fitting about Vittorio Guindani finding a home for these recordings in Vilhelm Hammershøi’s The White Door. Before becoming an album, La Porta Bianca existed in a kind of limbo: music without a place, waiting for the image
Marco Paltrinieri ~ Otto Studi
“It personally feels like the discovery of a new path awaiting exploration,” writes Marco Paltrinieri about Otto Studi (Eight Studies). With this album, the Italian artist appears to abandon any narrative drive: vocals are gone, and any intrusion of fictional
Marco Paltrinieri ~ Otto Studi
“It personally feels like the discovery of a new path awaiting exploration,” writes Marco Paltrinieri about Otto Studi (Eight Studies). With this album, the Italian artist appears to abandon any narrative drive: vocals are gone, and any intrusion of fictional
Machinefabriek ~ Samen
Machinefabriek is no stranger to the compilation format. One of the earliest such efforts, 2007’s two-disc Weleer, collected the best tracks from over 30 CD3″s. At the time, it was considered to be a perfect entry point into the work
Machinefabriek ~ Samen
Machinefabriek is no stranger to the compilation format. One of the earliest such efforts, 2007’s two-disc Weleer, collected the best tracks from over 30 CD3″s. At the time, it was considered to be a perfect entry point into the work
Various Artists ~ Flowers Not Bombs
Six months after Gaza Is the Moral Compass, Beacon Sound returns with its second in a series of vital fundraisers for Palestine. The proceeds will be split among Arab Group for the Protection of Nature, APN’s Revive Gaza Farmland, and
Various Artists ~ Flowers Not Bombs
Six months after Gaza Is the Moral Compass, Beacon Sound returns with its second in a series of vital fundraisers for Palestine. The proceeds will be split among Arab Group for the Protection of Nature, APN’s Revive Gaza Farmland, and
Cherim ~ Ğymaq / VA ~ Shyshagh: Imaginary Circassian Underground
Built entirely from fragments from the Ored Recordings catalogue, Cherim’s Ğymaq reconfigures the label’s archival focus into something spectral and unstable by ways of heritage not preserved, but dissolved, stretched, and made to echo. Working with Circassian vocal traditions, shichepshin
Cherim ~ Ğymaq / VA ~ Shyshagh: Imaginary Circassian Underground
Built entirely from fragments from the Ored Recordings catalogue, Cherim’s Ğymaq reconfigures the label’s archival focus into something spectral and unstable by ways of heritage not preserved, but dissolved, stretched, and made to echo. Working with Circassian vocal traditions, shichepshin
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