Borusiade - Fortunate Isolation (Dark Entries)
Ak'chamel, The Giver Of Illness - The Totemist (Akuphone)
Somewhere in far West Texas – ”a place where the dead outnumber the living” – the band
Ak'chamel, The Giver Of Illness are fourth world post-colonial cultural cannibalists circumcising the foreskin of enlightenment. Throughout years they have designed a unique sound evoking a sort of haunting, deep psychedelic folk music. Their new album,
The Totemist, out on the French imprint Akuphone, is a fascinating journey through funeral folk, mystic, psychedelic rock, and so on, and so forth.
Alper Maral + Mert Topel - Control Voltage Project (Müstesna Records)
Control Voltage Project is a long running project of Alper Maral and Mert Topel; Alper Maral is one of the most significant sound discoverers around Turkey through auditory and academical researches he has made about experimental electronic music. Mert Topel is a versatile musician, one of the most important keyboardist for many artists in popular music in Turkey.
Borusiade - Fortunate Isolation (Dark Entries)
Fortunate Isolation is the sophomore album from Borusiade, Romanian born and Berlin based DJ and music producer. The new album comprises eight songs that capture a bystander witnessing the world as it undergoes drastic changes. We have disconnected ourselves from ecology, humanity, preservation, care for what surrounds us, for what is still alive.
CAO - Flesh Luminescence (Club Chai)
CAO is the solo project of Constanza Bizraelli, a Peruvian electronic music composer and producer, currently based in Amsterdam. The record is inspired by the dynamics of migration and the subsequent metamorphoses this process entails. These ideas are evoked through the creation of sonic spaces, raising the phantasmagoria of native through narratives of belonging, the debris of what is deemed to be “natural”, and the ritual/ shamanic consecration of places. These operations allow the discovery of a neo-nature.
Dinastia Torres - Los Duendes de la Marimba (Palenque Records)
The Torres Dinasty is a family of traditional musicians from Guapi, Cauca, in the pacific coast of Colombia. Pacho and Genaro Torres are two legendary musicians, they build marimbas and traditional instruments in their home near the river. This album was recorded in their legendary house, the temple of marimba, and feature their best songs. This is mystical Currulao music from deep into the jungle of the pacific coast of Colombia. Torres ancestors came from Africa, from countries or territories like Camerun, Mali, Senegal, Nigeria and Ghana among others.
Doltz - Yūgen (Annuled Music)
Spanish imprint Annuled Music return with a new release.
Yūgen is Doltz’s first album under this persona. Inspired by the sea, mountains, plants, animals, old towns and landscapes that change over time,
Yūgen collects 9 atmospheric and ambient techno tracks, reflecting on yūgen, an important concept in traditional Japanese aesthetics.
