Comlosana - Plays Your Favorite Romanian Dance Music Vol. 2, Chicago ca. 1963 (Canary Records)
Angelo Repetto - Between Worlds: Interference (Subject to Restrictions Discs)
Zürich-based musician Angelo Repetto returns with his new album Between Worlds: Interference, released on Subject to Restrictions Discs. The record is the result of a unique collaboration with Argentinian visual artist Clara Grabowiecki, extending their immersive live project Between Worlds into a sonic and tangible form. "This album is a continuation of the deep conversations Clara and I had about concepts of perception that led us to question silence, time, transcendence, and the future", says Repetto. "It's not about finding answers, but about opening spaces where sound, image, and emotion can flow freely."
Asher Gamedze - A Semblance: Of Return (Northern Spy Records)
With A Semblance: Of Return, South African drummer, composer, and bandleader Asher Gamedze gathers a close ensemble of longtime collaborators to explore what he calls “practices of assembly” - ways of coming together, making sound, and imagining new and old modes of freedom. Based in the independent music scenes of Cape Town and rooted in Pan-Africanism and Black Consciousness, Of Return extends the political and musical commitments that have defined Gamedze’s work since Dialectic Soul (On The Corner, 2020), while opening a newly collective chapter in his practice, this time on Northern Spy Records.
Black Saturn & The Western Suburbs All Stars - Western Vetas of the Painters Canvas (La Voix Dans Le Désert)
This new album from Black Saturn & The Western Suburbs All Stars offers a modern take on the intersection of traditional Indian sounds and hip-hop music, out on the hip-hop label La Voix Dans Le Désert and available for a pay-what-you-want price.
Brice Kartmann - Totem Flotté (Unjenesaisquoi)
With
Totem Flotté, Brice Kartmann delivers a first solo album of instrumental electronic music, in which the modular synthesizer becomes a true field of exploration and immersion. Sound engineer, musician, sound designer, and composer—particularly for documentary cinema—Brice Kartmann shifts his experience of image and narrative into a purely sonic realm. The album’s nine pieces function like autonomous organisms, each endowed with its own breath, internal tensions, and movement.
Comlosana - Plays Your Favorite Romanian Dance Music Vol. 2, Chicago ca. 1963 (Canary Records)
In July 1927, Columbia Records recorded four performances in Chicago for the Romanian immigrant market, credited to the leadership of pianist and composer Joan Harțegan. On December 2, 1927, a sextet, now credited jointly to “Harțegan and Zmed,” recorded six sides for Victor at 952 N. Michigan Ave. in Chicago. Jump cut over 30 years, and the same two leaders self-released two scarce LPs having significant overlap of repertoire with the '20s recordings, with a band made up of the two middle-aged men, both of whom now used simplified Americanized names, and four teenagers from their community. The band was named Comlosana for the Comloşu Mare region of western Romania near the present-day Serbian border, south of eastern Hungary, where the band members’ families originated. (The name they gave their label was Banat after the larger historical region, including parts of present-day Serbia and Hungary.)
Ebauche - Nine Times (Supple 9)
Nine Times is the fifth album released under the name Ebauche by Alex Leonard. He had the idea in May 2023 to abandon the many machines he had available and focus his attention on a single tool: the compact and unique digital tape machine, the Bastl Thyme.
