Lulenga - Digital Indigenous 08: Aliyuyo Uyoo (Digital Indigenous)
Bonnie Lulenga, born in 1977, is a musician and instrument maker from Kising'a village in Kilolo District, Iringa Region, Tanzania. He belongs to the Lulenga clan, a Hehe clan primarily located in the South-Eastern part of Iringa Region. Kising'a village lies on the slopes of the Udzungwa Mountains. Bonnie who works primarily as a farmer in Kising'a joined the Fahari Yetu artisan business development programme in 2015 and began performing regularly at Iringa Boma – Regional Museum and Cultural Centre in 2016. Bonnie's musical repertoire includes traditional Hehe songs, which he performs using self-manufactured instruments made from local materials. These instruments include drums, whistles, cowbells, bass strings, and mortars. Traditionally, Hehe music consists of singing and dancing accompanied by drums, whistles, and ankle bells. Bonnie has developed a repertoire based on six different styles, which he plays on his various handmade instruments.
Melos Kalpa - Melos Kalpa (Hands In The Dark)
Melos Kalpa formed in 2019 around the vision of Tom Relleen; a quintet of musicians employing unconventional instruments and strategies to make music that exists somewhere at the intersection of improvisation, minimalism and sublimated reverie. Musicians Agathe Max (Abstract Concrete, Papivores, These Towns), Jem Doulton (Thurston Moore Group, Too Many Things), David John Morris (Red River Dialect) and Tom Relleen (Tomaga) perform via the conduit of producer Marta Salogni’s intricate tape preparations, which create rich textures, delays and distortions of their unique instrumental palette (marimba, vibraphone, violin, guitar, mandolin, Buchla Music Easel and more).
Nocturnal Emissions - Invocation of the Beast Gods (No Holiday)
Nocturnal Emissions is Nigel Ayers's sound art project that has released numerous records and CDs in music styles ranging from electro-acoustic, musique concrète, hybridised beats, sound collage, post-industrial music, ambient and noise music.
Pat Thomas and Tim Hill - Under a fig tree (Brazen Head Recordings)
Any profits from the album will be donated to the Red Cross appeal for Gaza.
Rhodri Davies – Live Wound Response [Out.Fest 2013]
“The choice of harp is very limiting – I’ve only got 20 strings, instead of 47 which I’d have on my big harp, and the notes don’t have any key changing possibilities. So that limits me, and of course each time I’m playing really quite aggressively on the strings, a couple of strings break, so eventually it becomes more and more of a challenge to make music. So I’m struggling – in a good way – to make music out of limited means, and then also the rhythms I get into, I don’t stay there too long and the challenge is to move it somewhere else without the whole thing capsizing. Struggle may not be the right word… I’m not trying to play the harp beautifully, necessarily, which the harp does easily, but to create something else.” Rhodri Davies
Surya Botofasina - Ashram Sun (Spiritmuse Records)
Ashram Sun is a transcendent journey toward the inner source of Surya Botofasina’s musical being. Returning to the places and spaces of his spiritual and musical upbringing, the keyboardist and vocalist’s second LP for Spiritmuse after 2022’s acclaimed Everyone’s Children delivers an inspiring meditation on the works and message of his mentor, Swamini Turiyasangitananda, better known as Alice Coltrane, and takes us back to his grounding in the Sai Anantam Ashram – a Vedic ashram built and founded by Coltrane in Santa Monica, California, in 1983. By this time, the spiritual jazz colossus had already taken the name Turiyasangitananda, dedicating Her remaining decades living, teaching, and seeking spiritual enlightenment through prayer, meditation and music. Ashram Sun rises in the light of Her spirit.
Talibam!, Duy Luong / Fabian Neubauer - 40 RPM (self-released)
This short release recorded in 2021 in Moers, Germany, comprises Talibam!’s Matt Mottel on synth and Kevin Shea on drums, alongside Duy Luong on electric bass and Fabian Neubauer on organ.
The Attic - Rodrigo Amado / Goncalo Almeida / Onno Govaert / Eve Risser - La Grande Crue (NoBusiness Records)
Joining Attic Trio, pianist Eve Risser collaborates now with Rodrigo Amado on tenor, Goncalo Almeida on bass, and Onno Govaert on drums, contributing an additional dimension to their elaborate soundscape.
The Necks - Bleed (Northern Spy Records)
Australian minimalist-jazz trio The Necks' new studio album, Bleed explores a sublime language of stillness. With a single, 42-minute composition, The Necks masterfully express the unspeakable beauty of decay and space in yet another totally distinct entry in a vast and stunning body of work.
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