Claire Rousay - The Bloody Lady (Viernulvier Records)
Electroacoustic composer Claire Rousay (US) presents her new album,
The Bloody Lady, featuring the reimagined score she wrote for Viktor Kubal's 1980 eponymous animated film. Kubal (1923-1997), a pioneering Slovak animator, is considered one of the most influential animation filmmakers of the 20th century.
Dan Blacksberg - The Psychic/Body Sound System (Relative Pitch Records)
Dan Blacksberg’s Psychic/Body Sound System takes a gutsy leap into a set of otherworldly sub-bass drones, fiery free jazz declamations, and melancholic sonic stories. This fully improvised album, recorded live with no effects or overdubs shows Blacksberg wielding his trombone like a seer across varied sonic environments, real and imagined. Woven together by poetic fictionalizations by Alex Smith and stunning artwork by James Dillenbeck, Psychic/Body Sound System is a trombone-driven reverie for the heart and the imagination.
Johnny Coley - Mister Sweet Whisper (Mississippi Records)
On his Mississippi Records debut, Coley takes a completely improvised and semi-hallucinatory journey down decrepit southern trucking routes, gaslit Victorian alleys, past “a small frame house / transparent with fire,” and by women arguing on the cobblestones outside a dark club in Rome (“you could only see their lips”). It’s a world of flesh vehicles, supernatural waiters, and a poet trying to hitch a ride from a Chattanooga Dunkin’ at 2 am, headed south.
Juarta Putra with Arrington de Dionyso - Unheard Indonesia vol. 17 REAK (self-released)
Reak is a very popular style of West Javanese trance music, related to the Jathilan or "Kuda Lumping" horse trance dances found in other regions of Java, but with a very distinct Sundanese flair. You don't usually encounter any gongs in Reak, rather the large bedug bass drum is the central instrument surrounded by a multitude of other drums of varying sizes called dogdog beating out a multivalent hypnotic train of throbbing polyrhythms that will speed up or slow down at crucial moments during the ceremony. The drums are accompanied by the piercing snake charmer's wail of the double-reeded tarompet, almost always driven through a primitive amplifier cone powered by a car battery. In these recordings Juarta Putra is also joined by American avant-garde artist Arrington de Dionyso on the bass clarinet!
KABAAL - World Why Web (moli del tro records)
World Why Web is KABAAL aka Jakob Warmenbol’s first solo album. Warmenbol is a Belgian drummer from Antwerp, living between Marseille and Brussels. After starting out as a jazz drummer, his sound evolved to heavier and darker tones, drawing influences from a variety of African traditional and contemporary musics and experimental noise rock bands like Deerhoof, Gorge Trio, NAH, Death Grips, while always keeping improvisation and free spirited music as a key figure.
Klaus Wiese - Sabiha Sabiya (Black Sweat Records)
On the same path as Baraka, Klaus Wiese (Popol Vuh) continues his intimate spiritual journey into healing and cosmic drone music. Like its predecessor, this work originally appeared on tape for Aquamarin Verlag (1982).
Los Panteros - 24 Ribs ٢٤ ضُلع (Archipel Editions)
Los Panteros is the offspring of composer/bassist Tony Elieh and songwriter/vocalist Aya Metwalli. It was born within the framework of Irtijal music festival where the duet was commissioned to play an improv that was filmed and shown during Irtijal festival, Berlin edition in 2020.
