Skyminds - Echoes On The Shore (Inner Islands)
Skyminds is the collaborative musical duo of Michael Henning (Selaroda, DJ Megasoup) and Sean Conrad (Channelers, Ashan), now based in Berkeley, CA and Seattle, WA respectively.
Echoes On The Shore is their fourth album.
V.A. - soFa - Elsewhere CC (Les Disques Bongo Joe)
The ninth edition in the Elsewhere series is a real digger’s paradise of tropical gems, from Trinidad to Brazil, Poland, Dominica, and beyond. The compilation is an eclectic mix of outernational, tropical-wave, Calypso, multi-rhythmic percussive beats, lo-fi disco jams, and other such styles that lie somewhere in that magical in-between zone, compiled by Brussels-based DJ, tastemaker and producer soFa.
Sote - Sound System Persepolis (Diagonal Records)
"Intended to be performed live, on muscular and multi-channel soundsystems whether gallery or club, this computer music is not only meant to be heard but felt by the listener: its brutalist vibrational polyrhythms make it impossible to stand still, its directive to move standing in contrast with the more academically rooted computer music and sound art that has explored the same sound synthesis techniques used on the album." Diagonal
Sprung Aus Den Wolken - 1981 – West-Berlin (Bureau B)
The Berlin project Sprung Aus Den Wolken was part of the "Geniale Dilletanten" movement in the early 1980s, along with Einstürzende Neubauten and Mechanik Destrüktiw Komandöh. The band first released an EP on ZickZack in 1981, followed by further releases on the band's own record label Faux Pas in 1982 and 1983, then on the French outlet Les Disques Du Soleil Et De L'Acier until 1991. The track Pas Attendre was part of the soundtrack of Wim Wender's movie Der Himmel Über Berlin and thus became an underground hit.
The Surface Mutants - The Total Institution (Klanggalerie)
The Surface Mutants were a Sheffield band active between 1979 and 1982. Over these four years, they released only two EPs during their existence:
You Take Me Somewhere Strange on Rock Steady Records, engineered by Cabaret Voltaire in their Western Works Studio, and
Anaesthetic on Clönic Records, recorded at Cargo Studios. Their sound will appeal to everyone who is into the music of Sheffield during that time: Hula, Cabaret Voltaire, Chakk, Clock DVA or They Must Be Russians.
Thuluth [Magda Mayas, Ute Wassermann & Raed Yassin] - One Third Of The Sun (Al Maslakh Records)
Thuluth (arabic for one third) is a Berlin-based acoustic ensemble featuring Magda Mayas on piano and objects, Ute Wassermann on voice and objects, and Raed Yassin on double bass and objects. The members of the group have collaborated in different contexts for many years prior to their first trio performance, which took place at Irtijal Festival in Beirut in 2016. During this initial performance, they immediately felt that they would continue to work together, due to a deep sonic trust and longstanding personal friendships, allowing them to explore their music intuitively.
Trigger Object - Ghost Bros (SIGE Records)
Trigger Object is the new moniker adopted by Veronica 'Vern' Avola, and their latest release is a set of metaphysical sonic oddities inspired by the artist's love of ghost hunting reality TV shows. On
Ghost Bros OST Avola relishes taking things to playful, noisy extremes with acrid atmospherics, creepy unidentifiable clangs and clunks, and oodles of goopy, pungent distortion.
Victoria Hazan - All My Hopes, All in Vain: Early 1940s Judeo-Spanish Songs in New York (Canary Records)
Hazan was born into a family of cantors. She moved to Izmir around 1915 and to New York City around 1920. She married Israel Hazan ca. 1925. Sometime after Israel's death ca. 1936, she married Joe Rosa. She was the President of the United Sisterhood Benevolent Society (in the Bronx?). She concertized at her synagogue, singing and playing the 'oud. She sang in Turkish, Greek, Ladino, Armenian, French and Hebrew. The liner notes to Todas Mis Esperansas relate that she initially declined when fans requested she record, saying her husband "made a good living." Eventually she relented and with her husband's consent, entered the recording studio. She produced commercial recordings in Turkish, Greek and Ladino in the early 1940s for the Kaliphon and Metropolitan label.
Youmni Rabii - Marrakesh Express (MLP Productions)
New release on the MLP Music platform from the Moroccan artist Youmni Rabii.
