Alexander Tucker + Keith Collins - Fifth Continent (Subtext Recordings)
Ahl Nana - L'Orchestre National Mauritanien (Radio Martiko)
This album contains the first recordings of modern music from the Sahara and mark the birth of the genre that is known in the West as ‘Desert Blues’ or ‘Desert Rock’. Ahl Nana changed the folk music of the Sahara to modern, cosmopolitan music by using Western instruments like the electric guitar. They paved the way for artists like Ali Farka Touré, Tinariwen, Mdou Moctar or Bombino. Although the group is still active today, they only recorded 2 LPs and a handful of singles. All these recordings took place in 1971 at the Boussiphone studios in Casablanca.
Alexander Tucker + Keith Collins - Fifth Continent (Subtext Recordings)
Alexander Tucker has announced details of a new album, Fifth Continent, a posthumous collaboration with Keith Collins (1966-2018). The album, which pays homage to Keith Collins, his partner and collaborator Derek Jarman (1942-1994), and the Kentish headland, Dungeness – comes out on Subtext Recordings. An accompanying anthology,
Fifth Quarter, comes along with the album. The book collates new and archive work by artists, photographers and writers reflecting on Collins, Jarman, one of England’s most unique landscapes, Dungeness and Prospect Cottage, their former home and sanctuary.
Anthony Pateras - Two Solos (Futura Resistenza)
Futura Resistenza presents the latest release from the prolific, restlessly creative composer-performer Anthony Pateras, two side-long pieces – one performed by Callum G'Froerer on double-bell trumpet, the other sung by Clara La Licata – in which soloists are accompanied by numerous pre-recorded tracks of their own instrument or voice, creating acoustic halls of mirrors where the distinction between live performer and recorded accompaniment becomes difficult to perceive.
Antonio Murga - Fantasmagorías y Ultratumbas (Gruppo Ungido)
Eight hateful stories by H. P. Lovecraft, ghostly fables by Étienne Gaspard-Robert, "Robertson", Stephen King's bloody stories from the depths of E. A. Poe's crypt. "A strange family, impure and gloomy east of hell." Grim sounds of relentless terror and a chilling catalogue of abominable and infamous creatures emerging from a ruthless and evil place called the underworld, crowded with mummies, zombies, vampires, werewolves and an endless number of corpses, spirits, specters and souls in pain.
Avola - Psykor (Sige Records)
Psykor is Avola’s most ambitious project to date: a collection of recordings created in the ongoing aftermath of a lingering global pandemic. The cavernous void at its center is a two-month trip Veronica Avola took to her birthplace of Rapallo, Italy in the spring of 2021 in order to help her mother sort through the belongings of her grandmother, who passed away from COVID the previous fall.
Bulbul - Silence! (Rock Is Hell)
Bulbul is considered an unconventional rock band with a penchant for the eccentric and a lust for experimentation. High energy and subtle craziness characterize their live performances - as well as their work in general.
Cheb Hasni & Cheb Abdelhak - Nsiti Hbibek (mlp-music)
Born in 1968, Hasni Chakroun aka Cheb Hasni, is one of the greatest figures of Algerian popular music. Precursor of the sentimental Raï, he was the voice of a youth disillusioned by the black decade. Assassinated on September 29, 1994, in Oran, he leaves behind him a huge legacy of several hundred songs.
