w/ john kazadi & the desh band, oliver mutukudzi, the marxist brothers, the sungura boys
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Rosy Parlane is a musician from Tamaki Makaurau Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand. His work combines piano, guitar, electronics, and field recordings to create music that sits somewhere between composition and environment - less about performance, more about presence. ...
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'Relay' is a freeform assault on all genres with frenetic drumming, intimate synths, peculiar guitars and grooving undertones. A coherent and complete work to be listened to in one go. Some might call it postrock, others artpunk. Some maybe even free-jazz:). Pretty ...
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"Claire Rousay"s music cascades from a well of documented experience, reflections of the past that compose the present. A prolific multi-instrumentalist, producer, and composer, Rousay gracefully crafts boundaryless music. From her frequent and acclaimed collaborations ...
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"SML is the quintet of bassist Anna Butterss, synthesist Jeremiah Chiu, saxophonist Josh Johnson, percussionist Booker Stardrum, and guitarist Gregory Uhlmann. Their second album, How You Been, finds the supergroup of prolific composer/producers pushing ever further ...
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"We at EM Records love to transport our listeners to new worlds, other worlds; "Pantilde", this magical new album from Cornish avant-folk performance artist The Worm, is indeed an ethereal new world: otherworldly, but somehow rooted; an imaginary oral and musical story ...
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"BJ Nilsen's decades of field recording composition work leads the mind to essential associations with the much formorned environment. The sense of presence encouraged by deep listening is perhaps, more now than ever, a gift of essentialism whch unlocks the corridors of ...
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"What the fuck?? What the fucking fuck?? It's the only realistic response to these dark, divisive and dangerous times. How do you react? How do you feel? How do you soundtrack? Immersion is the project of post punk musical architects Colin Newman (Wire) and Malka Spigel ...
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"This exciting new collaboration between Cara Tolmie and Rian Treanor is a highly kinetic and playful endeavour. Body-centric vocal explorations merge with intricate rhythmic systems forming a deliciously disorientating, hypersurreal space of semantic modulations, ...
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"As trans-Atlantic alchemists pulling from a shared dialectic that somehow encompassed both postmodern deconstructionist tendencies and a delightfully subversive sense of poptimism, it's easy to see how David Cunningham and Peter Gordon immediately hit it off upon ...
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"A Place In My Memory Is All I Have To Claim is the new album by Australian atmospheric pop trio Hydroplane, the storied 'offshoot' formed by three quarters of independent pop group, The Cat's Miaow. On this, their first music after two decades plus of radio silence, ...
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