A CLOSER LISTEN weekly #42

New features announced, interview with Andrea Belfi, and latest reviewa

Dear Listeners, are you ready to take A Closer Listen. What did you think of our Fall Music Previews this year? Hats off to Richard for sorting through all that. So many records to look forward to. New Aho Ssan, with contributions from Nico Jaar, Moor Mother, clipping. and more? Yes please. jaimie branch’s posthumous Fly or Die masterpiece? Know I already bought that. The latest from Irreversible Entanglements, newly signed to the legendary Impulse! Records(!)? A new record from Armand Hammer!? Plus new records from Kate Carr, Matana Roberts, Christopher Tignor, CV & Jab, Jlin, KMRU, Moritz von Oswald, Patrick Shiroishi… What an embarrassment of riches. Don’t let anyone tell you that contemporary music is lacking, we’re living in an absolute golden age. Luckily there are folks like us digging through the glut to let you know what’s worth your time. And at the end of the day, we’ve got something for everyone.

Out of the Box

I’ve teased this new feature for a while, and decided that it simply can’t be contained within our standard bi-weekly missives. Out of the Box deserves its own post, so look out for those under separate heading. The first installment it coming very soon, as every two weeks, on the off weeks, I’ll share a post written just for Substack, writing about a seven inch from my collection. First up, Minor Threat’s posthumous three song EP, Salad Days.

In Conversation

Speaking of new features, last night I sent out the first installment of In Conversation, with Lino Capra Vaccina. I’ll use that heading to share unpublished writing and archival interviews, usually just for paid subscribers. So, please, consider throwing me some change. There’ll be a lot more coming, including exclusives mixes and more.

SOUND PROPOSITIONS RETURNS FOR SEASON FOUR

The latest season of our in-house podcast, produced by me, has begun, and honestly it’s the most exciting conversations so far. Lots of great stuff coming up, beginning with:

Episode 31: FREE TIME – with Andrea Belfi

Andrea Belfi discusses his latest album, Eternally Frozen, a canon-based composition for percussion, electronics, and brass ensemble. Inspired by a visit to LA’s Museum of Jurassic Technology, Belfi draws upon the story of Deprong Mori, a mythological bat that could use its powers of echolocation to phase through solid matter, before being captured by an American researcher, “eternally frozen” in lead. Movement, circularity, and stasis are all terms that also describe Belfi’s interests as a composer. We discuss his origins in Italy’s punk scene, his time as drummer of the noisy instrumental rock band Rosolina Mar, opening for Thom Yorke, and the development of his unique approach to solo performance as a drummer.

Listen over on Soundcloud, or even better, subscribe for free over at any of the podplaces (you know, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google, Stitcher, Radio Public, etc, or be like me and download the free RSS Radio app). Just search for “Sound Propositions.”

RECENT REVIEWS

Reviews are at the heart of ACL. Here are (excerpts from) a few of my favorite reviews we posted on the blog in the last few weeks. And we have a lot of old friends in this round up.

Bill Vine ~ Norwich Under the Water
The spire of Dunwich’s All Saints Church, which fell from the cliffs, is sometimes spotted poking from the surface of the North Sea.  Last year, church ruins were unveiled during a drought at Ladybower Reservoir, whose creation drowned the village of Derwent.  And soon, because of climate change, we may see Norwich Under the Water. A church bells tolls the fourth hour as people mill about the Norwich Cathedral cloisters, unaware of the danger.  The bell becomes a drone: an elongated toll, a suspension of time.  Bill Vine‘s hour-long composition runs concurrent with the sound of the community: the bell, the church, the land, the people all face recurrent flooding by 2030.

Giuseppe Ielasi ~ Down On Darkened Meetings
Low key yet lyrical melodies balance on the cusp between accessible and weird, at turns mournful and celebratory. Untitled tracks allow the listener to project whatever they’re feeling onto this music. And despite being informed that all sounds come from electric and acoustic guitars, there remains an ambiguity to the sound sources that makes room for surprise. On Down On Darkened Meetings, Giuseppe Ielasi‘s first solo LP for Oren Ambarchi‘s excellent Black Truffle label, we find the restless Italian experimenter continue his rekindled exploration of the guitar, an instrument he had long since put down in favor of microphones, small sounds, and signal processing. […] Down on Darkened Meetings will stand as the moment when Ielasi fully subsumed the guitar into his wider practice. A jewel in an already sterling discography, we’ll be enjoying this record for a long time, while anxiously awaiting whatever terra incognita Ielasi leads us into next.

Grails ~ Anches En Maat
Grails does not release a lot of music, but every release has been solid, so we’re not complaining.  Anches En Maat is their first album in six years, their first in fifteen years to be recorded together in the studio, and the beginning of their third decade as a band.  That last fact alone is worth celebrating.  More importantly, Grails hasn’t just survived the passage of time, the quintet has remained relevant by changing with the times ~ even if, ironically, those changes involve the incorporation of retro flavors. Grails’ early albums were guitar-heavy post-rock excursions with hints of doomjazz and psychedelica.  Midway through their career, their timbre became more cinematic, while the boundaries between Grails and side project Lilacs & Champagne began to blur.  The group went from channeling Morricone (which they still do) to establishing what one might call a signature sound ~ or at least the signature sound of the modern Grails.  Opening cut “Sad & Illegal” pretty much nails it, with dark synth introducing the drums and guitar.  The strings enter halfway in, altering the entire tone to something one might expect from Air: referencing the past and making it their own.  The Morricone guitar surfaces early in “Viktor’s Night Map,” but doesn’t dominate; it’s more of a marker for fans, a reminder that Grails continues to honor its influences.

Helena Hauff ~ fabric presents Helena Hauff
The once-common DJ-mixed CD has become rare in the streaming age, but some of the best series are still in action.  Fabric Records has been a champion of this format for years, and shows no signs of stopping. Hauff is first and foremost an artist, so it’s important that the set starts with her own “Turn Your Sights Inward,” a modern electro banger with a killer bassline.  Since the set begins at 140 bpm, one already knows that it is going to be filled with club cuts, an invitation to dance and to keep dancing for 77 minutes and 16 seconds, if one can.  (Our suggestion: Gatorade.)  From here she sneaks in the brighter chords of dynArec’s “Sunken Park,” creating a lovely contrast.  The baseline of “Sights” continues throughout, purposely wobbling at the end as the next track emerges.  We should mention that this is a vinyl mix ~ no shortcuts!

Radian ~ Distorted Rooms
Is Distorted Rooms rock or electronic?  Is the music improvised or composed?  On Radian‘s new album, loud sounds become soft and soft sounds become loud; guitar lines are cut free from their moorings; loops and layers intertwine.  Each track becomes one of these Distorted Rooms, where the walls are always moving and the furniture is in flux.  Even the cover image is spliced, a visual reflection of the music. This Vienna trio is interested not only in the ways in which music comes together, but the ways in which it can be taken apart and reassembled.  At times their music approaches glitch and click ‘n’ cut, pointillist and precise.  Every note is exactly where it needs to be; we imagine the members have very neat houses. The percussion as heard may not be live, but the “best pieces” of a live recording dissected and sampled.  In like fashion, some of the percussive sounds come from sources other than drums.  One can hear the process on opener “Cold Suns;” when the fuzzy guitar enters, it creates a contrast in perception.  An unwieldy drum bar emerges at the halfway point, seemingly performing a duet with static.  The result is akin to a microburst.

WaqWaq Kingdom ~ Hot Pot Totto
WaqWaq Kingdom gets waquier and waquier on Hot Pot Totto.  Given their propensity for wordplay, we’re confident they won’t mind the pun.  This still-crazy Japanese “minyo duo” is just as bizarre as ever ~ if this were not apparent from the cover art alone ~ yet their third album also brings a dose of reality, as it is dedicated to the climate crisis.  “Ottotto” is the word for almost falling, but then regaining one’s balance, a positive spin on the situation Planet Earth is in right now; the “pot” refers to the duo’s melting pot of styles, heavily percussive and global, a wild cross between Missy Elliott, Tom Tom Club and The B-52s.  Yes, there are lyrics ~ a rare instance on our site ~ but the music is so wild and experimental that we felt compelled to share it. WaqWaq Kingdom draws from all nations and influences, hand-picking whatever sounds catchy and fun, with a clear preference for colorful percussion.  If we didn’t already know, we’d be hard-pressed to identify their nation of origin.  “Religion Surfer” extends on this theme, beginning with gongs and continuing with bubbles.  The singer muses about returning to bad habits, making them seem fun, though there’s only “one chance, one more,” and Jesus is coming; although if he arrives at the end of the song, he’ll be crashing a Rastafarian party.

UPCOMING RELEASES

(complete list with Bandcamp links here)

This is the most music we’ve ever had on this page, amounting to more upcoming albums that there are days remaining in the year.  Our Fall Music Preview, which will begin on September 4, will contain even more!  We believe we have the most comprehensive music preview on the planet, and so far no one has proven us wrong.  There are already hundreds of instrumental releases announced for September and October alone, and those are just the ones we know about!  While we can’t possibly review everything, we can list everything, and give fans of the genres we cover the opportunity to learn what’s coming soon.

New previews are added to this page daily; we hope you’ll find your next favorite album right here!

TOMO ~ what is jazz? (Gotta Let It Out, 20 September)

TOMO ~ toise/- (Gotta Let It Out, 20 September)

Alessandro Sgobbio ~ Piano Music 2 (22 September)

Ayjay Nils ~ Okay, wait wait wait (Làtension/Schweiger Music, 22 September)

Blurstem ~ Safe Travels, Old Friend (Bigo & Twigetti, 22 September)

BOLT RUIN ~ False Awakening Loops (Infinite Machine, 22 September)

Buildings and Food ~ Infinity Plus One (22 September)

Dai Watts ~ Isolarion (22 September)

Dark Sines ~ The Space Time Paradox (Ceremony of Seasons, 22 September)

D’luna ~ Child of Time and Earth (22 September)

Drawing Virtual Gardens ~ 22:22 (Lost Tribe Sound, 22 September)

Droneroom ~ The Best of My Love (Somewherecold, 22 September)

Eduardo Ella ~ Una Pregunta, Tres Respuestas (577 Records, 22 September)

Emily Wittbrodt ~ Make You Stay (Ana Ott, 22 September)

Federico Mosconi ~ Nocturnal (Dronarivm, 22 September)

Föllakzoid ~ V (Sacred Bones, 22 September)

Helena Hauff ~ fabric presents Helena Hauff  (fabric, 22 September)

Helen Svoboda ~ The Odd River (Earshift Music, 22 September)

Hidden Orchestra ~ To Dream is to Forget (Lone Figures, 22 September)

Jakob Lindhagen ~ Memory Reconstructions (piano and coffee records, 22 September)

la fin des pseudonymes ~ CAVE (Thin Consolidation, 22 September)

Laurel Halo ~ Atlas (Awe, 22 September)

mayforest ~ herbarium (22 September)

Midori Takada/SHHE ~ MSCTY x V&A Dundee (MSCTY_EDN, 22 September)

MrDougDoug ~ SOS Forks A REM II (Hausu Mountain, 22 September)

Mukqs ~ Stonewasher (Hausu Mountain, 22 September)

Nilotpal Das & Bio Contrast ~ Harmonium I [H C-(M) / Joses Salitre’s Glottic Reworks] (22 September)

The Pitch & Julia Reidy ~ Neutral Star (Miasmah, 22 September)

Powders ~ Concede to Circumstance (Them There, 22 September)

Radian ~ Distorted Rooms (Thrill Jockey, 22 September)

Ross Gentry ~ House as a Person (Ceremony of Seasons, 22 September)

Rutger Zuyderfelt ~ Kaleiding (music for a performance by Lily&Janick (22 September)

Simon McCorry ~ I the Storm (See Blue Audio, 22 September)

Sinke Dus ~ Modus Vivendi (Cyclic Law, 22 September)

Spurv ~ Brefjære (Pelagic, 22 September)

Stereo Minus One ~ Everything Is So Beautiful, I Need to Lie Down (Machine Records, 22 September)

WaqWaq Kingdom ~ Hot Pot Totto (Phantom Limb, 22 September)

Weston Olenki / Anna Webber ~ Several (Astral Spirits, 22 September)

zeitkratzer – Reinhold Friedl ~ Scarlatti (Karlrecords, 22 September)

Jessica Ackerley, Yuma Uesaka, Colin Hinton ~ Petting Zoo (Waveform Alphabet, 23 September)

KAU ~ The Cycle Repeats (Sdban, 23 September)

Vinny Golia ~ Even to This Day…Music for Orchestra and Soloists Movement Two: Syncretism: For The Draw…. (23 September)

Nate Wooley ~ Four Experiments (Pleasure of the Text, 26 September)

V/A ~ Lisboa Soa, Sounds Within Sounds (Cronica, 26 September)

Dronal ~ Whilst We Fall (Supple 9, 28 September)

One of Them ~ Excogitation (Artificial Owl, 28 September)

Alex Albrecht ~ Violet Visionary (A Strangely Isolated Place, 29 September)

Alfonsvs ~ Maybe Memories Are Our Only Release (Kokolo, 29 September)

Altinbas ~ Reshape (Fuse, 29 September)

Anna Papij ~ Always Beautiful (29 September)

Brendan Angelides ~ Oxygen (Ancestor, 29 September)

ChiaraOscuro ~ Rancor:Succor (Nefarious Industries, 29 September)

Christopher Tignor ~ The Art of Surrender (Western Vinyl, 29 September)

Curve Ensemble ~ From the Deep (Bigo & Twigetti, 29 September)

CV & Jab ~ Κλίμα (Klima) (Editions Basilic, 29 September)

Dasha Rush ~ Contemplating (raster, 29 September)

dogHn & Badun ~ Talk to the Planets (Love Love, 29 September)

Dorian Wood ~ Excesiva (Dragon’s Eye Recordings, 29 September)

Eric Nachtrab ~ Bastard Ideals (Spiritual Slop, 29 September)

Ellie Wilson ~ Memory Islands (Bigo & Twigetti, 29 September)

Equipment Pointed Ankh ~ Downtown! (Torn Light, 29 September)

Field of Fear ~ Beyond the Reach of Light (Whited Sepulchre, 29 September)

Fobos Hailey ~ Reduction (Tripalium, 29 September)

Garreth Broke ~ Conversations (1631 Recordings, 29 September)

Hará Alonso ~ Notions of Hope (piano and coffee records, 29 September)

Hearsay ~ Glossolalia (Amalgam, 29 September)

Jason Calhoun ~ small circle (Dear Life, 29 September)

Jeremiah Chiu ~ In Electric Time (International Anthem, 29 September)

Jlin ~ Perspective (Planet Mu, 29 September)

Kenneth Jimenez, Michaël Attias, Francisco Mela ~ Caribú (577 Records, 29 September)

Kilometre Club ~ How to Unravel (We Are Busy Bodies, 29 September)

KMRU ~ Dissolution (OFNOT, 29 September)

Lord of the Isles & Ellen Renton ~ My Noise Is Nothing (AD 93, 29 September)

Martina Berther / Philipp Schlotter ~ Matt (Hallow Ground, 29 September)

Matana Roberts ~ Coin Coin Chapter Five: In the Garden … (Constellation, 29 September)

Metro Riders ~ Lost in Reality (Possible Motive, 29 September)

Nick Dunston ~ Skultura (Fun in the Church/Tripticks Tapes, 29 September)

Odalie ~ Puissante Vulnérabilité (Mesh, 29 September)

Oman Breaker ~ Compromat (BITE, 29 September)

Richard Sears ~ Appear to Fade (figureight, 29 September)

Rumpistol ~ Going Inside (Raske Plater, 29 September)

The Sound of Things Falling ~ Sceneries II (29 September)

Trio Ramberget ~ Drone Positions (29 September)

Ulrich Krieger ~ Aphotic II – Abysmal (Room40, 29 September)

Válek / Merta / Tarnovski ~ Metal (Flaming Pines, 29 September)

Joris Rühl ~ Feuilles (Umlaut, 30 September)

Scott Scholz ~ Whip Sigils (No Part of It, 1 October)

Daniel Villarreal ~ Lados B (International Anthem, 3 October)

Heikki Ruokangas ~ Karu (Orbit577, 3 October)

Kate Ellis & Ed Bennett ~ Strange Waves (Ergodos, 3 October)

eleOnora ~ tuuljamuud (Cruel Nature, 4 October)

Natura Est ~ The Folly of Mars (Cyclic Law, 5 October)

Aaron Dooley ~ The International Dissociation Of: (Centrifugal Force, 6 October)

Aho Ssan ~ Rhizomes (Other People, 6 October)

Allison Miller ~ Rivers in Our Veins (Royal Potato Family 6 October)

Antonymes ~ The Gramophone Suite (Les Disques De l’Accalmie, 6 October)

Ben Cosgrove ~ Bearings (6 October)

Brad E. Rose ~ I’m Scared of Dying (Room40, 6 October)

Claire Deak ~ Sotto Voice (Lost Tribe Sound, 6 October)

Daniel Carter et al ~ Electric Telepathy (577 Records, 6 October)

Daniel Villarreal ~ Lados B (International Anthem, 6 October)

David August ~ VĪS (99CHANTS, 6 October)

Dieter Moebius ~ Aspirin (Curious Music, 6 October)

Hania Rani ~ Ghosts (Gondwana, 6 October)

Jessica Pavone ~ Clamor (Out of Your Head, 6 October)

John Ghost ~ Thin Air . Mirror Land (Sdban, 6 October)

John Pope ~ Citrinitas (New Jazz & Improvised Music Recordings, 6 October)

Jordan Martins ~ Fogery Nagles (Astral Spirits,, 6 October)

JP Inc ~ Massage & Spa (Rope Worm, 6 October)

Lavelle ~ Contemporary DJ’s from the Past (Somewherecold, 6 October)

Leo Takami ~ Next Door (Unseen Worlds, 6 October)

Lukid ~ Tilt (Glum, 6 October)

Mario Diaz de Leon ~ Spark and Earth (Denovali, 6 October)

Mary Lattimore ~ Goodbye, Hotel Arkada (Ghostly International, 6 October)

Nathan David ~ Neutral Buoyant (Infrequent Seams, 6 October)

Ocoeur ~ Nouveau Départ (n5MD, 6 October)

Peter Broderick & Ensemble D ~ Give It to the Sky: Arthur Russell’s Tower of Meaning Expanded (Erased Tapes, 6 October)

Rites of Fall ~ Venoms (Leidforschung, 6 October)

Sun Araw / Tanzana ~ AQUA X: Super Coracle / Tanzania Split (Discrepant, 6 October)

Teeth of the Sea ~ Hive (Rocket Recordings, 6 October)

VOCODER ~ V.O.C.O.D.E.R. (Dur et Doux, 6 October)

Tomatsugu Nakamura ~ Antenna (Audiobulb, 7 October)

Voice Actor ~ Fake Sleep (Stroom, 10 October)

Alex Kozobolis ~ The Seasons Are Not Four (13 October)

The Allegorist ~ TEKHENU Retold (Awaken Chronicles, 13 October)

Bridget Kibbey ~ Crossing the Ocean (Pentatone, 13 October)

Caroline Davis ~ Alula: Captivity (Ropeadope, 13 October)

Coen Oscar Polack ~ A Concrete Pasture (Moving Furniture, 13 October)

Everything Falls Apart ~ S/T (Totalism, 13 October)

From the Mouth of the Sun ~ Valley of the Hummingbirds (Lost Tribe Sound, 13 October)

Furtherset ~ The Infinite Hour (~OUS, 13 October)

Islaja ~ Angel Tape (Other Power, 13 October)

Justin Walker ~ Destroyer (Kranky, 13 October)

Labelle ~ Noir Amina (InFine, 13 October)

Lila Tirando a Violeta, Sin Maldita ~ Acella (Hyperdub, 13 October)

Michel Henritzi ~ Flowers of romance (Bruit Direct Disques, 13 October)

Nicole Mitchell & Alexander Hawkins ~ At Earth School (Astral Spirits, 13 October)

Osa7029 ~ Elements of Clarity (13 October)

Suzanne Langile, Andrew Burnes, David Daniell, and Loren Connors ~ Let the Darkness Fall (Recital, 13 October)

Up High Collective ~ Koinonia (San-kofa Rhythms, 13 October)

Venera ~ S/T (Ipecac Recordings, 13 October)

Glåsbird ~ antarctica (Whitelabrecs, 14 October)

Old Amica ~ Fyr (Whitelabrecs, 14 October)

Zane Trow ~ Quire (Room40, 14 October)

Directives ~ Glimmer (Aubjects, 15 October)

fatalism ~ GhOst (Bedouin, 17 October)

Hannya White ~ I call you another name (17 October)

Dasom Baek ~ Mirror City (Métron, 18 October)

Ah! Kosmos & Hainbach ~ Blast of Sirens (FUU, 20 October)

Anna Webber ~ Shimmer Wince (Intakt, 20 October)

Azmari ~ Maelström (Sdban, 20 October)

Bex Burch ~ There Is Only Love and Fear (International Anthem, 20 October)

Black to Comm ~ At Zeenath Parallel Heavens (Thrill Jockey, 20 October)

Emergency Group ~ Venal Twin (Centripetal Force, 20 October)

Emptyset ~ ash (Subtext, 20 October)

Francisco Mela & Jonathan Reisin ~ Earthquake (577 Records, 20 October)

Galya Bisengalieva ~ Polygon (One Little Independent, 20 October)

Hauschka ~ Philanthropy (City Slang, 20 October)

Jason Blake ~ Radiant Dusk (20 October)

Joseph Shabason ~ Welcome to Hell (Western Vinyl, 20 October)

Judgitzu ~ Sator Arepo (Nyege Nyege Tapes, 20 October)

Kasra V ~ Flood the Club (Shaytoon, 20 October)

KMRU ~ Stupor (Other Power, 20 October)

Markus Floats ~ Fourth Album (Constellation, 20 October)

Massimo Pupillo ~ Our Forgotten Ancestors (Glacial Movements, 20 October)

MCS ~ Late Horizon (SFI Recordings, 20 October)

Sylvere ~ EP3 (Monkeytown, 20 October)

Teichmann+Soehne ~ Flows (Altin Village & Mine, 20 October)

Triola ~ Scapegoat (Constructive, 20 October)

Monocot ~ Leave to Cool (Astral Editions, 22 October)

Ian Power & Anne Rainwater ~ Ave Maria: Variations on a Theme by Giacinto Scelsi (Carrier, 24 October)

Jackson Greenberg ~ The Things We Pass Through Our Genes (cmntx, 27 October)

Michael Peter Olsen ~ Narrative of a Nervous System (Hand Drawn Dracula, 27 October)

Pidgins ~ Refrains of the Day, Volume 1 (Lexical, 27 October)

Pierre Bastien & Michel Banabila ~ Baba Soirée (Pingipung, 27 October)

Quicksails ~ Surface (Hausu Mountain, 27 October)

Siavash Amini ~ eremos (American Dreams, 27 October)

Sparkle Division ~ FOXY (Temporary Residence, 27 October)

A Spot on the Hill ~ Patterns (Tenth wave, 27 October)

Thomas Vanz ~ Colors of Invisible (Mesh, 27 October)

Tiger Village ~ The Celebration (Hausu Mountain, 27 October)

Tim Linghaus ~ Me in Your Rear-View Mirror (Bigo & Twigetti, 27 October)

Veryan ~ Reflections in a Wilderness (Werra Foxma, 27 October)

Chrisman ~ Dozage (Hakuna Kulala, 31 October)

Anagrams ~ Blue Voices (Balmat, 3 November)

Anatolian Weapons ~ Earth (Subject to Restrictions Discs, 3 November)

Beatriz Ferreyra ~ UFO Forest + (Room40, 3 November)

Better Corners ~ Continuous Miracles, Vol. 2 (the state51 Conspiracy, 3 November)

CHROMB! ~ Cinq (Dur et Doux, 3 November)

Daniel Carter et al ~ Open Question, Vol. 2 (577 Records, 3 November)

Eugene Carchesio & Adam Betts ~ Circle Drum Music (Room40, 3 November)

James Heather ~ Reworks: Vol2 (Ahead of Our Time, 3 November)

Marta De Pascalis ~ Sky Flesh (light-years, 3 November)

Nightwater ~ All the Dead Do Is Dream (Western Vinyl, 3 November)

PoiL ~ Yoshitsune (Dur et Dox, 3 November)

Prins Emanuel ~ Diagonal Musik II (Music for Dreams, 3 November)

Sick Boss ~ Businessless (3 November)

The Adam Deitch Quartet ~ Roll the Tape (Golden Wolf, 10 November)

Bruce Brubaker ~ Eno Piano (InFine, 10 November)

Cloud Management ~ V.A. (Altin Village & Mine, 10 November)

David Lee Myers & Toshimaru Nokamura ~ Elements (Surface World, 10 November)

Moritz von Oswald ~ Silencio (Tresor, 10 November)

Patrick Shiroishi ~ how will we get back to life again? (American Dreams, 10 November)

Pidgins ~ Refrains of the Day, Vol. 1 (10 November)

Slow Draw ~ The Mystic Crib (10 November)

ZÖJ ~ Fil O Fenjoon (Parenthèses, 15 November)

CoLD SToRAGE ~ wipE’out” – The Zero Gravity Soundtrack (17 November)

Daniel Bachman ~ When the Roses Come Again (Three Lobed Recordings, 17 November)

Joshua Van Tassel ~ The Recently Beautiful (Backward Music, 17 November)

Kate Carr ~ A Field Guide to Phantasmic Birds (Room40, 17 November)

Adam Coney ~ Ashwin & Above (Trestle, 24 November)

Sun Electric ~ Live at Votivkirche Wien (Arjunamusic, 24 November)

ni ~ Fol Naïs (Dur et Doux, 28 November)