a-Musik Newsletter #15 2025 October 7th
new releases and second hand goodies


1st section - new items
2nd section - second hand new entries
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"Antwerp-based composer and synth virtuoso Miaux presents her new album, 'Never Coming Back' on VIERNULVIER Records. The record is rooted in the recent film score she composed for the surreal and haunted cult movie 'Carnival of Souls' (1962). Directed by American ...
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VIERNULVIER005 | VIERNULVIER RECORDS

"With Dragon's Return, Australian composer and multi-instrumentalist Oren Ambarchi and Norwegian guitarist Fredrik Rasten present a new, meditative score to Eduard Grecner's eponymous 1967 Slovak cult film - a stark, black-and-white parable. The album captures a unique ...
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VIERNULVIER011 | VIERNULVIER RECORDS

"Our favorite six-string shaman is waving that axe around again! Sir Richard Bishop wrenches forth fresh damnable truth and beauty from a musical kamikaze run through histories both known and unknown. Turning a gimlet eye to the American Primitive guitar style, Sir Rick ...
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DC956CD | DRAG CITY

"Opalescence is an album from the most unusual trio of Norbert Rodenkirchen, Robbie Lee, and James Ilgenfritz. The setting for the initial sessions: hushed microtones bouncing off the reverberant marble walls while a blizzard raged outside. Their backgrounds: an ...
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TH-012 | TELEGRAPH HARP

Unavailable for almost 30 years in its own right, this collection from the Cold Spring archive has been repackaged and remastered with new art. This classic album exists as a document of the soundtrack work PSYCHIC TV created for the many films and videos of Derek ...
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CSR351CD | COLD SPRING

"This one was mostly a group effort focused on a dark ambient atmospheric environment and experimental minimalism that crawls under your skin. Mark & Thymme's heavy synth is omnipresent, Mitch & Chris scraping every piece of scrap metal they could find, Jim's extended ...
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AATP100 | AUF ABWEGEN

"This piece is the newest element in the ongoing Garden Of Instruments project which began in 1997 with Second Site. Since then the project has expanded to include sound, writings, video, virtual photography, printmaking, light-boxes, installations and lenticulars. ...
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AATP104 | AUF ABWEGEN

Matthias Kaiser, präparierte und amplifizierte Violine / Thilo Schölpen, Feedback Aerophonium / Kai Winter, Altsaxophon "Die vierte Kränkung spielen mit der sicheren Gewissheit, dass jede KI vor ihren direkten, harschen und doch ausgeklügelten Klanggebilden ...
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none | NOT ON LABEL

release date Oct 10th - please pre-order "On Disquiet, The Necks stretch their immersive, shape-shifting sound across three discs and more than three hours of labyrinthine, patient intensity. This is their twentieth studio recording and it marks the 39th year of the ...
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NSCD174 | NORTHERN SPY

"Teresa Rotschopf, a musician and composer from Vienna, presents her second solo album, »Currents and Orders« - a radical, delicate, yet grandiose sonic journey between experimental pop, new music, and improvised composition. »Currents and Orders« was recorded in an ...
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MH2 | MARTIN HOSSBACH

"Black Truffle is pleased to announce Melopea, presenting two new pieces highlighting the incredible voice of Amelia Cuni (1958-2024), the great Italian singer, based in Berlin in later life, whose mastery of the classical Indian dhrupad developed in parallel with a ...
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BT134 | BLACK TRUFFLE RECORDS

"The seven pieces of Christer Bothén Donso n'goni offer up a stunning showcase of Bothén's work on this remarkable instrument, heard entirely unaccompanied, except for the final piece where he is joined on a second Donso n'goni by his student and collaborator, the ...
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BT133 | BLACK TRUFFLE RECORDS

feat. Wim Wenders, Ulrike Ottinger, Klaus Maeck, Gakuryu Ishii, Lothar Lambert, Andreas Dorau, Brezel Göring (Stereo Total), Claudia Skoda, Eleni Poulou (The Fall, Organza Ray), hackedepicciotto, Jim E. Brown, Max Bauer (Isolation Berlin), Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, ...
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ISSUE5 | RISIKO MAGAZINE

"'Acclaimed Belgian duo Poor Isa-comprising banjoists Ruben Machtelinckx and Frederik Leroux-returns with their third album, marking a significant evolution in their musical journey. Departing from their established duo format, this release introduces collaborations ...
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ASPEN023 | ASPEN EDITIES

"'Belgian guitarist Ruben Machtelinckx lives in a world of sound. He interacts with his fellow musicians, deploying the most refined, delicate sort of interplay, as if collectively painting clouds for the ears. Diffuse harmonies, grainy textures, and rhythms that drift ...
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ASPEN019 | ASPEN EDITIES

"'Recorded at the legendary Atlantis Studio in Stockholm, Words Were Coming Out Our Ears captures a unique musical encounter in the moment. Pianist Johan Graden, bassists Vilhelm Bromander and Pär Ola Landin, and drummer Nils Agnas entered the studio without a fixed ...
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ASPEN022 | ASPEN EDITIES

"'L'album vert' is a compilation of asynchronous steps for an imaginary dance floor. A strange but amusing place were eyes listen in and ears peek around. Glass breaks, someone stumbles, something always happens. The dancers inevitably hop to moments of tension of which ...
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ASPEN020 | ASPEN EDITIES