" "Who would attempt to combine cunning ethnological forgery, Scottish folk songs, claw-hammer guitar, untutored horn-tootling, elastically relaxed drumming and garage electronic fuckery? Only Greg and Stefan, high on sea, sunshine and mis-judged micro-dosing - that's ...
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OKRAINA#17 | OKRAINA
"After a near decade of solo and collaborative projects, Up in Air is Ben Pritchard's most confident foray into songwriting yet, nestling lopsided experimentation into a bed of lowslung blues and reflective folk. Up in Air is sewn from threads of everyday life: trails ...
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OKRAINA#16 | OKRAINA
"Too often we describe music using classifications; genres like "jazz," "experimental," "avant-garde" are an easy shorthand to relay the rough parameters of the music to another person who may not have heard it. But these words are useful because they're so vague, and ...
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BYTHEBLUESTOFSEAS4 | BY THE BLUEST OF SEAS
"Heard before on a handful of disturbingly beautiful solo albums and in collaborations such as Midget!, Arlt, Chevalrex, Mohamed Lamouri, Mocke (Dominique Dépret's nom de plume) is a subtle and inventive guitarist, who draws melancholic arpeggios, with a beautiful ...
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BYTHEBLUESTOFSEAS3 | BY THE BLUEST OF SEAS
"Since its foundation in 2015, Berlin-based trio SAWT OUT has shaped and refined its profile as a prominent improvisational unit. With their unusual acoustic instrumentation of trumpet and two sets of percussion, the three artists create bewildering sound-worlds rich in ...
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MSLKH26 | AL MASLAKH
"Critics in the early 1970s called Gil Scott-Heron the most important Black voice since Martin Luther King Jr. and described him as a black Bob Dylan. "His poetry is with much muscle, with stiletto humor, with street talk, much of it justifiably angry and accurate," the ...
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MIG02973 | MIG-MUSIC GMBH
"Critics in the early 1970s called Gil Scott-Heron the most important Black voice since Martin Luther King Jr. and described him as a black Bob Dylan. "His poetry is with much muscle, with stiletto humor, with street talk, much of it justifiably angry and accurate," the ...
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MIG02971 | MIG-MUSIC GMBH
"Critics in the early 1970s called Gil Scott-Heron the most important Black voice since Martin Luther King Jr. and described him as a black Bob Dylan. "His poetry is with much muscle, with stiletto humor, with street talk, much of it justifiably angry and accurate," the ...
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MIG029722 | MIG-MUSIC GMBH
"Laurie Spiegel's second full-length album, Unseen Worlds, arrived just over ten years after her debut album. Having realized the pieces found on The Expanding Universe (1980) on an instrument no longer available to her, the GROOVE System at Bell Laboratories, Spiegel ...
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UWCD22 | UNSEEN WORLDS
"Vinyl reissue of this great tribute to the poetry of Rimbaud and Verlaine made by our favorite French sorcerer, who exceptionally abandones his typical imaginary language to reinterpret six small poems in his own way, jumping from one musical genre to the other and ...
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HOL082 | HOLIDAYS RECORDS
"While preparing a new edition of Anton Bruhin works, alga marghen discovered some misterious tapes by Hans Krasi. Fascinated by the raw and brut contents of those sounds, mixing field recordings of insects, sheeps and distant bells with primitive chanting, percussive ...
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PLANA-KALGA023 | ALGA MARGHEN
"Though often compared to Frank Zappa, Moondog, Captain Beefheart, Sun Ra, Jandek and Father Yod, Damiao Ferreira da Cruz, better know as Damiao Experiença, it's a truly unique outsider multi-instrumentalist (without even the remote capability to play any of the many ...
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DEPL108 | PLANETA LAMMA
""Upopo Sanke" means "Let's sing a song" in the Ainu language. Umeko Ando (1932-2004) was one of the best-known artists of the Ainu, an indigenous, long-suppressed community in northern Japan. She sings their traditional songs together with Oki Kano on the Tonkori harp, ...
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PINGIPUNG81 | PINGIPUNG
"Die Existenz von Kulturzeitschriften steht einmal wieder auf dem Prüfstand. Die Klage von Lettre International gegen Sinn und Form - wegen Wettbewerbsvorteil als an einer staatlichen Institution herausgegeben Zeitschrift -, die erstmal dazu führte, dass Sinn und Form ...
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136 | POSITIONEN
Boxset with two tapes and a book (German language and photos), 100 copies ""Ich will mich nicht aufspielen aber, sie verzeihen, meine Position ist die des, wie würden sie es nennen, religiös rituellen Spezialisten, was bedeuten wu¨rde, dass man mir alles glaubt. Das ...
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AATP92 | AUF ABWEGEN
"Radial is the result of a vivid creative merge between Esplendor Geometrico and AtomTM. A transparent diamond formed by a heavy implosion. Its underlying massive mechanics are covered by a crystal surface made to cut reality in half. Just one letter short of "radical", ...
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R-M209 | RASTER-NOTON
""Recorded in 1973 during a series of acid-fuelled all-night jam parties held at producer Dieter Dierks studio near Cologne, 'Cosmic Jokers' was the work of a veritable krautrock supergroup that included Dierks himself, Manuel Gottsching (Ash Ra Tempel), Klaus Schulze ...
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KM580096 | KOSMISCHE KURIERE
