A CLOSER LISTEN weekly #43
Ukrainian Field Notes, From the Archives, and many Recent Reviews
Listeners! What a week for new releases! Fr. Holy shit! I’ve included eight reviews in our selections this week because there are so many good ones. I bet our album of the year is in this list, can you guess which? In fact, I’ll wager right now that at least four of these records show up in our Top 20, and maybe more in our Top 10 individual genre lists.
Is this going viral? Relatively at least. It’s so weird when an off the cuff comment Xeeted from the airport moves way outside our usual scene of followers. Lotsa bluechecks in the replies. They’re the worst, obviously. Some folks offended by the ‘that’s on you part.’ God forbid everything in life isn’t handed to you and you have to do some work. Christ. But even so, we literally just made seven posts detailing literally HUNDREDS of records. If you can’t be bothered to form your own opinion and make some judgments of your own, even when we’ve done the heavy lifting, then maybe culture just isn’t for you.
But for the most part people agreed. Some 0 follower accounts in the replies were trying to mansplain music to us, as if we haven’t been in the game for decades. Rich has been writing about music since the ‘80s, me since 2000. “Um, actually, music has always been good.” I didn’t say it wasn’t, I said that objectively speaking we’ve seen a massive shift in the distribution of releases clustering in September and October this year. Label folks finally figured out that they don’t want to release too close to end of year and miss any coverage before drowning in the post holiday lull. But now it’s just a complete deluge of releases, so much that even we are feeling overwhelmed. And yet here we are to sort through it all and share our two cents. For free. You’re welcome.
One last turd of wisdom to drop: you aren’t slave to the release hype cycle. This shit is evergreen. Take your time. Slow down. Buy records that came out six months ago, or six years ago. (Or sixty!) We’re in a golden age! I don’t just mean the “content” (a truly cursed discursive innovation, that word). Let me be clear; it’s not just about new music, but about access. About what’s new to you. Enjoy it!
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Ukrainian Field Notes XXVI
Gianmarco Del Re’s Ukrainian Field Notes is back after a summer break.
This month we discuss toxic behaviour and Ukrainian identity in our Resonance FM podcast with Nastia and Vlad Fisun.
Meanwhile, Divuar, aka Salmiac, decries stolen time, Marina, introduces Vertuha for us, Lectromagnetique gets married in times of war, Olha Balandiukh recounts her TV experience and L’art Noir stop playing the game of life and start really living it.
At the same time, Zolaa. volunteers in the Chernihiv region, bijū sends us a postcard from Warsaw, Lenocza returns to Kryvyi Rih, KiRiK flees Kherson, SAWRAS moves to Canada, and NRTN to Berlin, whereas Flashe stays put in Khmelnytskyi, and Max Andruh remains happily in Dnipro.
New releases include albums by Poly Chain, 58918012, Kadaitcha, Igor Yalivec, Louwave & Splinter (UA), Tetyana Haraschuk, Svitovamora and Svitlana Nianio.
In our viewing room, we watch the latest war crime documentary with a score by Alexander Stratonov, before following Anton Slepakov to Irpin and Vlad and Pavlo to the front.
FROM THE ARCHIVES
Our Recent Reviews feature new records from Christopher Tignor and Matana Roberts, two artists we’ve long been fans of, so here are two features of their previous work. We’ve also got lots more over at ACL.
Christopher Tignor recently released his latest album, The Art of Surrender, of which you can find a capsule review below. I recently saw him perform in Montreal, which motivated me to gather some Tignor-related features I contributed to TSB many years ago. I have really vivid memories of listening to Slow Six’s Nor’easter on my fire escape in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood, resulting in the effusive praise of the review linked to below. When that band was on tour supporting their following album circa 2010, they crashed at my apartment in Montreal, and I hitched a ride with them to Boston for the following show. Tignor’s solo records, beginning with 2009’s Core Memory Unwound, saw his audience expand in an era in which “new classical” or “modern composition” (or whatever we were calling that scene without a name at the time) was finding crossover success. I don’t think I’d previously watched an artist we’d cover on TSB being praised on NPR before that. So from the archives, here’s a post compiling some reviews of Slow Six and related groups, including an interview with Tignor.
Matana Roberts’ recently released Chapter 5 of their 12 part series, COIN COIN. I wrote the following essay about Chapter 3 (River Run Thee) back in 2015, for Montreal’s .dpi journal. Here’s a snippet:
COIN COIN is Matana Roberts magnum opus, a projected 12-chapter epic encompassing themes of history, ancestry and memory. River Run Thee is the third (and darkest) chapter, and first solo installment. As with the first two chapters, it was released by Montreal’s Constellation records, and at least another three installments have already been written and performed in some context. Often compared to large jazz ensembles like those of William Parker, Burnt Sugar, or Wadada Leo Smith, jazz is undoubtedly present in Roberts’ aesthetic as a composer and improviser, particularly in the way [they] play with tradition and evoke double consciousness. But ultimately [“jazz”] is inadequate and misleading, as [their] work transcends such labels and the emphasis critics have placed on the “jazz” parts of [their] work detracts from its uniqueness.
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 once again, we have a lot of old friends in this round up. It’s become a theme. But you know we’ve still got out ear to the ground, too.
Aho Ssan ~ Rhizomes
This is the sound of music’s future: collaborative, cross-cultural and genre-fluid. On Rhizomes, Aho Ssan (Niamké Désiré) touches upon six of our seven genre categories (leaving out only field recordings), while sounding wholly original. The set spins like a whirlwind, constantly moving and morphing, and it has no fixed form. The publicly streaming version contains ten tracks, the QR code edition thirteen, including three exclusive and two expanded pieces, plus a sample pack from Aho Ssan and solo works from many of the collaborators. The book extends branches in another direction, introducing its own symbol-based language. The AV show, debuting at Berlin Atonal, promises even more. The artist’s musical rhizome is alive and growing.
Birds in the Brickwork ~ A Strange Peace
A Strange Peace can be seen as an extension of last year’s Recovery. The name Birds in the Brickwork is now capitalized on Bandcamp while remaining lower case on the physical edition, representing a gradual return to the time before. Back then, Ben Holton was recovering from injury while enduring the pandemic, finding meaning in the mundane, which he lovingly documented in a series of photos. The booklet for A Strange Peace continues this exploration, displaying an affection for the marginal and liminal: rippled images in puddles, half-drawn curtains, a patch of weeds. Few others would highlight a collection of leaves near a sealed panel or photograph a building from within the woods looking out. Holton lends dignity to an abandoned glove, a mask stuck in a tree, a pile of soggy newspapers. A traffic cone is shown on its side, and as if apologetic, Holton frames a second standing up, a metaphor for his own journey.
Christopher Tignor ~ The Art of Surrender
The Art of Surrender bears the artist’s experiences in its musical notes. If the percussion seems at times off-kilter and the violin morose; if the electronics bubble in like counterposed thoughts; if the tone ranges from melancholic to resolute, there’s a reason. The album cover displays a woman’s arm in the foreground, in sharp focus; the composer plays in the background, blurred. While the image is a video still, it is also symbolic. Christopher Tignor had to find himself again during its creation, learning The Art of Surrender; and from the sound of it, he has.
From Overseas & zakè ~ Demain, dès l’aube
At 84 minutes, Demain, dès l’aube is a luxurious and unhurried meeting between the two artists, who, as patiently yet surely as the rising sun, proceed through a series of augmented looped arrangements, leisurely exploring subtle variations in timbre and harmony. The duo draw on electric guitar, bass, tape processing, and synthesizer, but the lack of harsh attack means that most of the instruments remain vague, their tones streaked into indistinguishability like the hues of the sky. Each composition seems to fade into the next, purposefully avoiding sudden shifts or dissonance. The results are not quite monochromatic, yet the variations change at almost imperceptible speed, as the sky can contain many colors but shifts only gradually, never with a clear point of delineation.
Hara Alonso ~ Notions of Hope
Alonso, a Stockholm-based pianist, composer and sound artist originally from Spain, has often included electronic treatment in her work (including in Somatic Suspension, which we reviewed in 2021) but this is an album of pure solo piano. The ten sparse tracks are unnamed beyond “notion 1”, “notion 2”, so beyond knowing that each explores one aspect of “hope”, we are left to speculate what precisely inspired each one. There is an intriguing musical commonality between the ten pieces: a melodic fragment is repeated, ostinato-style, generally with a bleak-sounding harmonic language, often rising gradually up the keyboard, while other fragments rotate around them. It is like listening to a kaleidoscope, in that one musical idea is viewed critically from multiple perspectives, until it is fully understood. This metaphor works both on a micro- and macro-scale, i.e. for each track, and for the album as a whole.
Mary Lattimore ~ Goodbye, Hotel Arkada
Goodbye, Hotel Arkada is a wistful album that seldom sounds sad. This may be the byproduct of perspective; perhaps it is the presence of collaborators. The hotel of the title is already in the process of transformation, undergoing a Ship of Theseus-like renovation. Mary Lattimore had one last chance to cherish the silver ladders and painted halls of the Croatian retreat; looking back, she reflected upon the experience. The harp is well suited for such musings: an ancient instrument that is associated with the afterlife, and as such has a Janus-like tone. Ephemeral encounters are bittersweet. Their impermanence procures for them a painful beauty that yearns for grace. “And Then He Wrapped His Wings Around Me” is a perfect vessel for the feeling attached to memory. Surprisingly, and yet pleasingly, the title refers to a hug from Big Bird, described beautifully in the liner notes as “a canary yellow embrace.” Meg Baird’s wordless, cooing voice is the personification of comfort.
Matana Roberts ~ Coin Coin Chapter Five: In the Garden…
As bold as Roberts’ previous installments were, the latest entry is even bolder. While one would never suggest that it is easy to talk about racism, sexism, or prejudice against the LGBTQIA+ community, it is even harder to broach the subject of abortion. In the four short years since Chapter Four was released, the U.S. has passed a shocking number of anti-abortion laws, restoring the sociopolitical climate experienced by Roberts’ ancestor: very few options, all of them risky, and even fewer advocates. The religious and political right has been extremely invested in ensuring that babies are born, but much less interested in birth control, financial support for mothers in poverty, strengthened anti-abuse laws, or even adoption.
Rumpistol ~ Going Inside
Remember, be here. Now trust. Let go. Be open. The way out is in. Surrender to love. If this sounds like therapy, it is. These are the titles of Going Inside, returned to their original sentences. Copenhagen’s Jens Berents Christiansen (Rumpistol) has been producing an ambitious trilogy over the past few years, and this is the concluding and most fully realized installment. While many artists, especially those in the ambient realm, intend for their music to be restive and calm, Rumpistol goes even further. His music is specifically composed for people suffering from grief, anxiety, stress and depression, which may be any of us at any time. The thunderstorm that surfaces in the opening piece is a symbol of mental and emotional clouds; in “Now,” drying drops fall from the tin roofs, and over the course of the set, the sun will return.
UPCOMING RELEASES
(complete list with Bandcamp links here)
The autumn cavalcade continues in October, with over 300 instrumental albums already announced, an incredible ten releases a day ~ and these are only the ones we know about! There are two ways to look at the biggest fall slate we’ve ever seen. One is to feel paralyzed by the possibilities. The other is to rejoice that there is so much to choose from. We’re of the latter mind. New previews are added to this page daily; we hope you’ll find your next favorite album right here!
Heikki Ruokangas ~ Karu (Orbit577, 3 October)
Kate Ellis & Ed Bennett ~ Strange Waves (Ergodos, 3 October)
Mike Honcho ~ Dream/Blink/Shuttle (3 October)
Paul Taylor ~ Interludes (New Jazz & Improvised Music Recordings, 3 October)
eleOnora ~ tuuljamuud (Cruel Nature, 4 October)
Frédéric Alarie, Nicolas Bernier ~ Contrebasse et formes d’ondes (Label Formes-Ondes, 5 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 Davis ~ Neutral Buoyant (Infrequent Seams, 6 October)
Ocoeur ~ Nouveau Départ (n5MD, 6 October)
Only Now ~ Fate / Will (Kush Arora, 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)
Ryu Hankil, Michael Speers ~ PR-04 (Party Perfect!!!, 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)
William St Hugh ~ High Upon the Serpent Mound (6 October)
Tomatsugu Nakamura ~ Antenna (Audiobulb, 7 October)
Voice Actor ~ Fake Sleep (Stroom, 10 October)
Akira Sakata & Entasis ~ Live in Europe 2022 (trost, 13 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)
Hang Ruin & Nick Turner ~ Flowers Bloom on a Withered Tree (Polar Seas, 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)
Omthalopticon ~ Bespoke (Bezirk Tapes, 13 October)
Osa7029 ~ Elements of Clarity (13 October)
Pjusk & Arovane ~ Svev (Polar Seas, 13 October)
Quinsin Nachoff ~ Stars and Constellations (Adyhâropa, 13 October)
Suzanne Langile, Andrew Burnes, David Daniell, and Loren Connors ~ Let the Darkness Fall (Recital, 13 October)
Tulpa Twin & Precenphix ~ Sundowning (Not Yet Remembered, 13 October)
Up High Collective ~ Koinonia (San-kofa Rhythms, 13 October)
Venera ~ S/T (Ipecac Recordings, 13 October)
Christof Migone ~ Wet Water (Let’s Dance) (Futura Resistenza, 14 October)
Glåsbird ~ antarctica (Whitelabrecs, 14 October)
Mikael Lind & Johanna Sjunnesson ~ Wave Cycles (Whitelabrecs, 14 October)
Old Amica ~ Fyr (Whitelabrecs, 14 October)
Zane Trow ~ Quire (Room40, 14 October)
Directives ~ Glimmer (Aubjects, 15 October)
V/A ~ 60 Seconds Each (Corvo, 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)
The Bridge ~ Beyond the Margins (trost, 20 October)
Emergency Group ~ Venal Twin (Centripetal Force, 20 October)
Emptyset ~ ash (Subtext, 20 October)
Erlend Apneseth Trio ~ Collage (Hubro, 20 October)
Francisco Mela & Jonathan Reisin ~ Earthquake (577 Records, 20 October)
Galya Bisengalieva ~ Polygon (One Little Independent, 20 October)
Genís Bagés ~ MENTAL (Protomaterial, 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)
Lipsticism ~ Elapsed Kiss (Phantom Limb, 20 October)
Markus Floats ~ Fourth Album (Constellation, 20 October)
Massimo Pupillo ~ Our Forgotten Ancestors (Glacial Movements, 20 October)
Maxime Dangles ~ Les Délivrés – Remixes (Lifeguards, 20 October)
MCS ~ Late Horizon (SFI Recordings, 20 October)
Michael Moore / John Pope / Johnny Hunter ~ Something Happened (New Jazz and Improvised Music Recordings, 20 October)
Sylvere ~ EP3 (Monkeytown, 20 October)
Teichmann+Soehne ~ Flows (Altin Village & Mine, 20 October)
Triola ~ Scapegoat (Constructive, 20 October)
VLMV ~ Flora & Fauna (Reworks) (Bigo & Twigetti, 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)
The Angelica Sanchez Nonet ~ Nighttime Creatures (Pyroclastic, 27 October)
Beck Hunters with Laura Cole and John Pope ~ From Wolves to Water (New Jazz and Improvised Music, 27 October)
Jackson Greenberg ~ The Things We Pass Through Our Genes (cmntx, 27 October)
Kin Leonn ~ mirror in the gleam (Kitchen, 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)
Rakhi Singh ~ Purnima (Cantaloupe Music, 27 October)
Secret Pyramid ~ A Vanishing Touch (Ba Da Bing, 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)
Jürg Frey ~ Les Signes Passagers (Elsewhere, 1 November)
Marc Kellaway ~ Nocturnal Machines (The Cat Box Corp., 1 November)
M.Takura ~ Live at 3XR (Edelfaul, 1 November)
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)
Bios Contrast & Nilotpal Das ~ Black Box EP (3 November)
Christine Ott ~ Eclats (Piano Works) (Gizeh, 3 November)
CHROMB! ~ Cinq (Dur et Doux, 3 November)
Daniel Carter et al ~ Open Question, Vol. 2 (577 Records, 3 November)
Euan Dalgarno ~ A Short Dream About Jupiter (Not Yet Remembered, 3 November)
Eugene Carchesio & Adam Betts ~ Circle Drum Music (Room40, 3 November)
James Heather ~ Reworks: Vol2 (Ahead of Our Time, 3 November)
Leonardo Barbadoro ~ Musica Automata (Helical, 3 November)
Marta De Pascalis ~ Sky Flesh (light-years, 3 November)
Matmos ~ Return to Archive (Smithsonian Folkways, 3 November)
Michael Pisaro-Liu ~ A room outdoors (Elsewhere, 3 November)
Nicole Rampersaud ~ Saudade (Ansible Editions, 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)
Sign Libra ~ Hidden Beauty (RVNG Intl., 3 November)
Skyphone ~ Oscilla (Lost Tribe Sound, 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)
Lau Nau ~ Aphrilis (Fonal/Beacon Sound, 10 November)
Moritz von Oswald ~ Silencio (Tresor, 10 November)
Patrick Shiroishi ~ I was too young to hear silence (American Dreams, 10 November)
Rich Hinman ~ Memorial (Colorfield, 10 November)
Sébastien Guérive ~ Obscure Clarity (Atypeek Music / The Orchard, 10 November)
Slow Draw ~ The Mystic Crib (10 November)
Swartz et ~ Leviathan II (10 November)
ZÖJ ~ Fil O Fenjoon (Parenthèses, 15 November)
Anenon ~ Moons Melt Milk Light (Tonal Union, 17 November)
Arrowounds ~ The Honeycomb Labyrinth (Lost Tribe Sound, 17 November)
Cécile Seraud ~ XAOS (17 November)
CoLD SToRAGE ~ wipE’out” – The Zero Gravity Soundtrack (17 November)
Daniel Bachman ~ When the Roses Come Again (Three Lobed Recordings, 17 November)
Eddie Prevost et al ~ The Secret Handshake with Danger, Vol. 2 (577 Records, 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)
Hand to Earth ~ Mokuy (Room40, 24 November)
Nicolas Bernier ~ Structures et formes d’ondes (Label Formes-Ondes, 24 November)
Sun Electric ~ Live at Votivkirche Wien (Arjunamusic, 24 November)
ni ~ Fol Naïs (Dur et Doux, 28 November)
Ghost Marrow ~ earth + death (The Garrote, 1 December)
ni ~ Fol Naïs (Dur et Doux, 1 December)