"Schatterau's third album, 'Wir gingen durch leere Stunden' (We went through empty hours), sees the German duo blossoms with beauty and sophistication through a broad creative language. This opus, presented in the form of vivid auditory tableaux vivants, explores the ...
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HITD080 | HANDS IN THE DARK
"Once mainly something that existed in a live setting, the group drifts further into its own orbit with a second collection of songs. What began as a collaboration between two voices now expands with the presence of a third, adding new layers that sometimes verge on ...
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STRLP-115 | STROOM RECORDS
""Four Corners" is a compilation that showcases the various facets of American West Coast minimalist composer Jeff Bruner, with pieces from the 1970s to the 2020s displaying a cohesive set of aesthetic concerns. Bruner has a kinship with the composers Harold Budd and ...
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EM1223LP | EM RECORDS
"Jim O'Rourke and Jos Smolders teamed up again after their first collaboration, Additive Inverse from 2021. Over a period of three years, both artists worked in sessions of a day, each in their own studio. The result is sometimes like a warm cloud of sounds, suddenly ...
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MFR122 | MOVING FURNITURE RECORDS
"On 11 November 2022, the symbolic start of Cologne's carnival season, a memorable concert was recorded at King Georg jazz club: Muriel Grossmann and her quartet played a live set that transformed the club into a musical island. While the carnival hustle and bustle ...
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PHR001 | POWERHOUSE RECORDS
"With The In Between, Berlin-based drummer, composer, and sonic architect Lukas Adeolu Akintaya, performing under the name Adeolu, offers a disarming, slow burning invocation. The record is a tender articulation of compositional care, a process-based unfolding of sound ...
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PHR002 | POWERHOUSE RECORDS
"German saxophonist Luise Volkmann and Brazilian guitarist / vocalist Kiko Dinucci return with intimate, devotional new album Canto de Olho. A sense of movement, a sense of space. Volkmann and Dinucci orbit one another, testing the ground, feeling the edges, dancing, ...
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PHR003 | POWERHOUSE RECORDS
"It is in the aftermath of the "Novaya Scena" album that the music on this LP was created. About a year after the release of the CD in August 1993, Nianio and Taran came to Cologne to work on music for the dance production "Transilvania Smile" by the dance theatre ...
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STRLP-063 | STROOM RECORDS
"Written and recorded between autumn 2024 and summer 2025 in Reading, Berkshire, the music has matured since its last outing, in a way, leaning less into collage and more toward structured composition and melodic depth, yet retains a healthy dose of indeterminacy and ...
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WOE026 | WORLD OF ECHO
"Dewa Alit, master of radical Balinese gamelan, returns to Black Truffle with Baur Bentur. Genetic (2020, BT063) introduced international listeners to the magical sound-world of Alit's Gamelan Salukat, who perform on instruments tuned to a unique scale derived from ...
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BT143 | BLACK TRUFFLE RECORDS
"Take Me, I'm Yours is the first collaboration album between Alan Abrahams and Jan Jelinek. Released through the latter's faitiche, it builds upon multi-layered vocal sketches by the former. The Paris-based artist, primarily known for his work as Portable and Bodycode, ...
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FAIT-42LP | FAITICHE
"Following the jazzy library vibes of 2023's collaborative Dolphin LP with Greg Foat and Moses Boyd, the venetian maestro Gigi Masin returns to the ambience for which he is renowned, with Movement - his first solo full-length since 2020's Calypso, and his Sacred Bones ...
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SBRLP382C | SACRED BONES
"Following the jazzy library vibes of 2023's collaborative Dolphin LP with Greg Foat and Moses Boyd, the venetian maestro Gigi Masin returns to the ambience for which he is renowned, with Movement - his first solo full-length since 2020's Calypso, and his Sacred Bones ...
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SBRLP382 | SACRED BONES
"Following the jazzy library vibes of 2023's collaborative Dolphin LP with Greg Foat and Moses Boyd, the venetian maestro Gigi Masin returns to the ambience for which he is renowned, with Movement - his first solo full-length since 2020's Calypso, and his Sacred Bones ...
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SBRCD382 | SACRED BONES
"Electric guitarist and composer David Torn announces "now i imagine a place not the same," an expansive new double LP out May 29 via Kou Records. Produced by Randall Dunn (Sunn O))), Thurston Moore), the album revisits the raw electricity of Torn's early processing ...
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KOULP5 | KOU RECORDS
