Grykë Pyje - Crepuscular Elixirs (Artetetra)
The German/Finnish duo Grykë Pyje (forest ravine in Albanian) comprising Jani Hirvonen (Uton) and Johannes Schebler (Baldruin) present a new album out on Artetetra, bringing to light a new sonic wizardry. On their fourth album
Crepuscular Elixirs, Grykë Pyje spins further adrift from its previous works, trying to increase the level of intricacy.
In Search of Revolutionary Voices: Mexican Wax Cylinder Recordings, 1900-1910 (Death Is Not the End)
A collection of Mexican recordings dating from approximately 1900 to 1910. Corridos, zarzuelas, poetry, popular songs, police bands, solo harps & guitars, all taken from wax cylinders issued from the beginning of the 20th century through to roughly the start of the Mexican revolution.
Jerzy Maczynski - DO 555ps (Vibrasjon)
Saxophonist, composer and producer Jerzy Mączyński fuses utopian electronics and organic improvisation on sci-fi jazz odyssey,
DO 555PS. Conceived as a sonic manifesto for an imagined planet - a tabula rasa for humanity to start afresh, live in harmony with nature and build a more idyllic society -
DO 555PS is Polish saxophonist, producer and composer Jerzy Mączyński’s most ambitious project to date.
Jugodefatuo - Bijù Bazar (Sucata Tapes / Discrepant)
"A Principino whose body dissolves and recomposes perpetually, leads us inside an ancestral tunnel, layered like a bazaar, for just 21 minutes. At the stroke of the 18th minute the light goes off and comes on intermittently marked by the rhythm of Bingo Bongo."
Kronos Quartet & Mary Kouyoumdjian - Witness (Phenotypic Recordings)
A gorgeously compelling and shattering portrait album of Pulitzer Prize-nominated Armenian-American composer/documentarian Mary Kouyoumdjian, combining testimonies of the composer's family, friends, and community impacted by the Lebanese Civil War and Armenian Genocide, alongside the exquisite harmonies and disharmonies masterfully delivered by the Kronos Quartet.
V.A. - Let everyone hear my crying: Field Recordings from Colonial Mali, Cameroon & Nigeria, March-August 1934 (Canary Records)
"Let everyone hear my crying. My name is Likememosiye. I cannot get tired of crying about my sad condition. I am calling out my little brother" - track 8 lyrics from field notes of Laura Boulton recordist. A lecturer on anthropology at the University of Chicago, Laura Boulten said in the 30s that "for the last 250 years our European musicians have been experimenting in the field of melody, but we never have more than scratched the surface in the field of rhythm. Maybe just as certain forms of our present music such as the symphony and sonata evolved from the court dance, our future music may have African dances for its ancestor."
