A CLOSER LISTEN weekly #66
France Jobin podcast, The Starlight Electric mix, and reviews
Dear Listeners, Joseph again. Let’s get one more regular newsletter in before the summer ends and it’s back to school, complete with weeks of Richard’s Fall Previews. Even though we’re still waking up from our little August vacation, we’ve got quite a lot of music for you this week. First up, we have a new episode of the Sound Propositions podcast featuring Montreal minimalist France Jobin discussing the influence of blues and quantum physics, her longrunning audio-visual collaboration with Markus Heckmann, and her new record for Room40. Next, The Starlight Electric, a new Canadian quartet, share a mix of influential tracks in anticipation of their debut record. And I’ve got six mini-reviews to accompany six full reviews pulled from the post-vacation blog. And finally, as always, our Upcoming Releases list is starting to gush with impending fall music. Happy Listening!
Sound Propositions Episode 37: QUANTUM BLUES – with France Jobin [podcast]
France Jobin has been exploring quantum theory for many years now, an interest that has shown up in her compositions, sound installations, and work with VR. But the pandemic finally afforded the Montreal-based minimalist composer time for deeper study with a personal brain trust of physicists she’d assembled over the years. Jobin recently released Infinite Probabilities (Particle 2) on the great Room40 label.We sat down in Montreal to discuss her formative sonic experiences, her origin in a blues band, her interest in physics, and a growing body of audio-visual work with Markus Heckmann.
Sound Propositions should be available wherever you get your podcasts, so please keep an eye out and subscribe (and rate and review, it helps others who might be interested find us). You can support Sound Propositions on Patreon if you are so inclined, or send a one-time donation via PayPal. The first two seasons are also available on Bandcamp. I’m very grateful for any support, which will help ensure future episodes.
France Jobin tells me that she’s “just a medium,” guided by her close listening to spaces, field-recordings, collaborators, and a braintrust of physicists. This of course downplays her own significant achievements, but such entanglements have been a key part of her artistic identity in the 25 years since her solo debut as I8U. France has always set out to learn from those different from herself, whether that comes from people, sounds, spaces, or ideas. This strikes me as fitting considering she is a French-Canadian living in Montreal, Quebec, a thoroughly bilingual city where everything has (at least) two names, where every institution seems to have its double.
Jobin is a sound artist, composer, and curator Her recordings have appeared on venerable labels including LINE, Dragon’s Eye, Mego, and Room40, and she has also released duo recordings with Richard Chartier, Fabio Perletta, and Stephan Matthieu. Her compositions combine field-recording and synthesizers, the latter of which have been particularly shown off in her #synthporn series, following a number of residencies in Australia and Sweden and elsewhere. Her latest album, Infinite Probabilities (Particle 2), was released on Room 40 earlier this summer, and is the latest exploration of her longrunning interest in quantum physics.
The Starlight Electric presents WINTER SUNSHINE [mix]
This mix emerges from a collective music session that took place in winter 2023 in Kingston, Ontario at the Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts. The quartet that assembled to record was coordinated by David Parker who welcomed in three musicians to experiment with: Jonas Bonnetta, Chantal Thompson, and Stefan Christoff. The sessions resulted in The Starlight Electric, a session of heartfelt improvisation that will be released as an album in 2024. In preparations for this project to be out in the world, the group put together this mix for ACL, sharing some of their musical influences.
David Parker writes:
Leading up to the recording session with Stefan, Chantal, and Jonas, I was developing new ideas about composing music as collage, incorporating synth-based backgrounds and field recordings into my songs where normally I would have stuck to guitar, voice, percussion, and a bit of software synth. I was listening to these songs a lot. The guitar playing by Jon Collin and Mike Cooper represent to me unfettered free-ness and willingness to play guitar for a particular soundscape or moment. The Alabaster Deplume track I picked because of the chorus of vocalists. Such beautiful, repetitive, improvised choral singing. And finally, I selected the song by Jeremiah Chiu and Marta Sofia Honer from my favourite album of 2022, my most played album of the year, which has great synths and acoustic instruments blended so well together.
TRACKLIST
song / artist
Oi Toli – Merope
A Gente Acaba (Vento Em Rosa) – Alabaster DePlume
A3 – Jon Collin
All Tomorrow’s Parties – The Feelies
LUCID: but intangible – Mark Hewins, Don Gordon, Carla Diratz
Que En Paz Descanse – Lol Coxhill & Morgan Fisher
Pärlan – Kajsa Lindgren
Anna’s Organ – Jeremiah Chiu and Marta Sofia Honer
Raft 37, Las Balsas – Mike Cooper from Raft
Osoi – FUJI||||||||||TA (excerpt)
In Conversation – Chantal Thompson and Richard Bannard
Mirrors – Stefan Christoff (excerpt)
Mini-Reviews
Short highlights
Belong ~ Realistic IX
The New Orleans duo of Michael Jones and Turk Dietrich aka Belong return to Kranky for their third LP, there first new music since 2011. If you’ve been craving more motorik rhythms with your ambient guitar fuzz, this one’s for you. Belong’s long silences have meant that their reputation isn’t what it should be, but hopefully Realistic IX changes that.
Heems ~ LAFANDAR
This solo record from former Das Racist member Heems (who once claimed to be “the worst rapper on this track, third coolest”), links with fellow Indian-American producer Lapgan for a captivating album full of guest stars. Now with some years behind us, we can clearly state that Das Racist played an important role in shifting NYC hip hop towards its present renaissance, but often get left out of the conversation. This is a Heems record, and he deserves the shine, but he’s successful in part because he’s able to bring together such a talented array of guests, including Saul Williams, Kool Keith, Quelle Chris, Blu, Sonnyjim, Open Mike Eagle, and Fatboi Sharif.
Loidis ~ One Day
Brian Leeds’s best known (and best) music tends to be under his Huerco S. monicker. Whereas his more freeform and slow moving compositions get put out as Pendant, Loidis is reserved for his more uptempo tracks, akin to when Vladislav Delay would trot out Sistol. Very enjoyable.
Messiah Musik ~ Nudnik
For over a decade Baltimore producer Messiah Musik has made a name for himself making tracks for Armand Hammer, Mach-Hommy, Quelle Chris, Cavalier, AKAI SOLO and others. He produced all of billy woods’ Church, Defcee’s Trapdoor and The Golem of Brooklyn Original Soundtrack, and most recently Big Flower’s Save the Bees, which I wrote about two weeks ago. Inspired by the reception to that record, Messiah dropped this unexpected beat tape, Nudnik, his third since this time last year. These bandcamp releases are rough around the edges, with some tracks just stopping suddenly, but that’s what you want from a beat tape. Save the Bees has some unusual beat choices, so maybe that inspired Messiah to include some beats he wouldn’t otherwise. Great stuff.
Raptors ~ Viewers Like You
H/t Justin Christopher Poulin, whose Instagram ‘Hot Takes’ where one of my inspirations for doing these Mini-Reviews, for the recommendation. Self-described as “an album about Raptors, the afterlife, and TV,” this is (self-)conscious (white) nerd rap from Vermont, and sounds like it. The beats feel appropriately throwback but are often quite good. If 26 tracks of that seems like a lot (and I think this is where our Listeners might be interested), Raptors have also released a 5-minute “condensed” version, a beautiful sound collage mashup of the entire album.
SmallPro ~ i had to be a samurai in the past
The first SmallPro beat I heard was “Dettol” off Armand Hammer’s Paraffin, but the Philly producer has been at it for a minute, working with legends like Guilty Simpson and Sean Price, as well as a member of the group Wrecking Crew (with Curly Castro, Zilla Rocca, and others). Mostly recent beats made especially to accompany a screening of Shogun Assassin earlier this summer.
RECENT REVIEWS
Reviews are at the heart of ACL. Here are selections from a few of my favorite reviews we posted on the blog in the last few weeks.
Austyn Wohlers ~ Bodymelt in the Garden of Death
Ever heard of art pop quartet Tomato Flower? If so, you may be shocked by the sound of Austyn Wohlers solo, or the other way around. Wohlers sings, growls and screams her way through the set, which sounds incredibly therapeutic; bandmate Jamison takes lead vocals on single “Destroyer,” written in the aftermath of Wohlers’ breakup with another band member. And it’s not the only bad thing that’s happened to Wohlers recently; her mother had a severe health scare that could have led to her death. Life experiences change people, but less often do they change timbre. Wohlers emerged from her emotional encounters a different artist, eschewing lyrics while embracing drone. Bodymelt in the Garden of Death is a powerful set of layered compositions that operate as a score to trauma. The title refers to a moment in which Wohlers was hugging her mother while surrounded by the glistening flowers of her mom’s garden. The sun was setting, the storm had passed and the metaphors were starting to bloom. These seeming juxtapositions work their way into the music, which swerves from sweltering to cooling and back again.
Lia Kohl ~ Normal Sounds
Many people find solace in the sounds of nature; but what about the ordinary and maudlin sounds of turn signals, checkout counters, refrigerators and the like? Lia Kohl is attracted to such sounds, and places them in musical settings on her latest album. By extension, Normal Sounds becomes an instrumental successor to Talking Heads’ “Nothing But Flowers.” Before listening, take a moment to consider the “human-made, non-musical” sounds that serve as small comforts in the day: the grinding of coffee beans, the sound of a spoon in a bowl, the rush of the shower, the click of the doorknob. We are surrounded by such sounds, yet seldom notice them; as the liner notes declare, “While they’re sometimes intended to be heard, they’re not intended to be listened to.”
Natalia Beylis ~ Lost – For Annie
The discussion around whether to (field) record or not has been an ongoing terrain of dispute between practitioners and academics. There is a certain feeling of disdain by some about pressing record as an act of extracting the best of an experience; and with it also often comes self- extraction and erasure of the “recording I” so that it all remains pure, intact, and accurate. Elsewhere, we find that recording is a way of remembering, keeping alive and of making heard. The “subjective I” is placed within an environment in an effort to make connections, to empathetically understand and to share, communicate, underline. Lost – For Annie is worth experiencing as it encapsulates a hyperlocal and micro-cosmic field in a very open, expansive and personal way. It provides the listener with a unique sense of place through sound and invites us to reciprocate the feelings of concern and wonder about this part of the world but to also be curious, involved and open-minded not only about our own microcosms but the worlds beyond it.
NINA EBA ~ MORPHO
NINA EBA deserves to be an international superstar, and is poised to achieve this dream with her debut album. Talent, hard work and attention to detail have brought her to this point, the seeds of which were planted years ago. …the best tracks for experimental-minded ACL readers are “13” and the wisely-chosen first single “Cocoon.” “13” leads off the set with a processed storm and a tangle of syllables, as if the artist has herself been caught in the storm. The sparse lyrics indirectly reference the pain of the pandemic and the tarot card of Death (13). But when the track shifts into high gear, look out! The closing words, “I could be stronger,” come to fruition, the artist rising to the height of her power. HYPERTEMPO increases the dynamic contrast by starting softly before adding the club-friendly “jump, jump, jump, jump!” Instead of backing out slowly, the loneliness flees. M4tt preserves the early syllabic jungle, but goes for a loping beat, a darker patina. This makes the percussive jump all the starker and more dramatic when it arrives.
Pedro Vian, Merzbow ~ Inside Richard Serra Sculptures
Inside Richard Serra Sculptures, a new album by Pedro Vian and Merzbow, begins with the sound of distant, sonorous droning buried deep underneath layers of crunchy, dirty, dense swirls of feedback. It sounds as though wind is ripping apart the microphones that are capturing its movement. It’s a subterranean, eerily Lynchian soundscape and not exactly what I myself might have imagined as the soundtrack for, as the album’s literal title suggests, Richard Serra’s sculptures. Serra, who passed away earlier this year, was known for massive steel sculptures often installed in public places where their stature competes with the surrounding architecture. Just as often however, Serra’s work consumes the interior space of museums and galleries, looming over visitors and overpowering the other artwork within its shadow. It was within one of these interior spaces, DIA Beacon to be precise, that Vian decided to make a series of field recordings inside Serra’s work.
ummsbiaus ~ Metro Suite No. 3, Op. 7
ummsibiaus‘ career continues to develop at an astonishing rate. Metro Suite No. 3, Op. 7 is the Kyiv composer’s third suite in a year, each one sonically distinct. In the interim, she also published Divonia, the first single from the upcoming album Favna that “celebrates female power through myths of the old Ukrainian goddesses.” While the album showcases vocals and myths, the suite uses field recordings to weave its own contemporary tale. Metro Suite plunges into the heart of the Kyiv metro system, “the biggest and safest shelter in the city.” The ability to escape is crucial in light of constant threats. Street musicians perform as passengers embark and disembark: a microsystem of protected humanity. The comforting bustle is heard in the opening moments: slowing wheels, electronic announcements, a low, soft drone. The trains have their own rhythms, echoed by the artist. In “Zoloti Vorova –> Lucianivska,” a beat develops and disappears, allowing space for the doors to open and close; as the train speeds off, the tempo increases, yielding a sense of accumulated energy. We are acclimating to the sonic atmosphere, a co-mingling of sounds akin to that of foods at an international market. The next track starts slower, allowing travelers to roam the stalls, to hear the hopeful musicians. Arturia Microfreak adds atmospheric synths. Again the tempo increases like a parting train; the closing minute is packed with puff and chuff.
UPCOMING RELEASES
(complete list with Bandcamp links here)
Late summer is different for some people than for others. Some lucky folks are headed out on vacations and still have a few weeks left. Others are already headed back to school, or leaving home for the first time. It’s a bittersweet period that we hope to make better by sharing a wide variety of music. There’s always something new on the horizon; our ACL playlist now stretches all the way to November, and our Fall Music Preview is on the way. We hope you’ll find your next favorite album right here!
Brian Gibson ~ Thrasher (Thrill Jockey, 23 August)
delving ~ All Paths Diverge (Blues Funeral Recordings, 23 August)
Lyndsie Aguirre ~ time is but the drawing of a sword (Hush Hush, 23 August)
The Mercury Impulse ~ Records of Human Behavior (23 August)
Philip Weberndoerfer ~ Tides (Shifting Paradigm, 23 August)
Umberto ~ Black Bile (Thrill Jockey, 23 August)
Victoria Keddie ~ Pshal, Pshaw (raster, 23 August)
Yui Onodera ~ 1982 (Room40, 23 August)
Daniel Vickers & Sergio Mariani_MRN ~ New Dawn (Audiobulb, 24 August)
The New Library Sound ~ Library Music Series 01 / Crime (2 Headed Deer, 28 August)
The New Library Sound ~ Library Music Series o2 / Oceanography (2 Headed Deer, 28 August)
bvdub / Brock Van Wey ~ In Iron Houses (29 August)
Mylan Hoezen ~ Sunkissed (Futura Resistenza, 29 August)
Päfgens ~ Aspect of What (mappa, 29 August)
Barker/Parker/Irabagon ~ Bakunawa (Out of Your Head, 30 August)
C6Fe2RN6 ~ S/T (Astral Spirits, 30 August)
Ellen Reid ~ Big Majestic (New Amsterdam, 30 August)
Franciska ~ Modfase (Warm Winters Ltd., 30 August)
Gonçalo F. Cardoso ~ Exotic Immensity (Discrepant, 30 August)
Jan Berrocal + David French + Vincent Epplay feat. Cossi Fanni Tutti and Jah Wobble ~ Broken Allures (Cold Spring, 30 August)
Lars Bech Pilgaard ~ Folklórica (momeatdad, 30 August)
Lia Kohl ~ Normal Sounds (Moon Glyph, 30 August)
Lisa Pulsatilla & Vivian Li ~ The Unseen Society of Microcreatures (sound as language, 30 August)
Loren Connors & David Grubbs ~ Evening Air (Room40, 30 August)
Markus Guentner ~ Kontrapunkt (A Strangely Isolated Place, 30 August)
Quintelium ~ Dream and Reality (Somewherecold, 30 August)
Roman Nagel ~ Home (Bigo & Twigetti, 30 August)
TAU ~ Chants (Fun in the Church, 30 August)
Yuko Araki ~ Zenjitsutan 前日譚 (Room40, 30 August)
Blear Moon ~ Morphing Planet (Dead Letters Archive, 31 August)
Eventless Plot | Yorgos Dimitriadis ~ Entanglements (INNOVO Editions, 1 September)
Modern Silent Cinema ~ Aphonia (1 September)
Daniel Inzani ~ Selected Works (Hidden Notes, 3 September)
Ontzeiling ~ All These Moments Will Be Lost (esc.rec., 5 September)
amelia courthouse ~ broken things (S P I N S T E R, 6 September)
Ant ~ Collection of Sounds Vol. 1 (Rhymesayers Entertainment, September 6)
Arsenal Mikembe ~ DRUM MACHINE (Nyege Nyege Tapes, 6 September)
Blurstem ~ Silence Spoken (Bigo & Twigetti, 6 September)
Daniel Carter, Leo Genovese, William Parker, Francisco Mela ~ Shine Hear, Vol. 2 (577 Records, 6 September)
Daniel K Karlsson ~ Towards A Music For Large Ensemble (Fönstret, 6 September)
Destro ~ Night of Vengeance (Avantgarde Music, 6 September)
DHÆÜR ~ Supercinema 05 (Supercinema, 6 September)
Ernesto Longobardi + Demetrio Cecchitelli ~ Maloviento (LINE, 6 September)
400 Lonely Things ~ The New Twilight (Cold Spring, 6 September)
Hidden Rivers ~ Always Somewhere Else (Serein, 6 September)
Isak Hedtjärn ~ Kvarpan (fönstret, 6 September)
Francesco Leali ~ Let Us Descend (UNTIL RIOTS, 6 September)
Glacier ~ A Distant, Violent Shudder (Post. Recordings, 6 September)
Heli Hartikainen ~ CHRONOVARIATIONS (6 September)
Henrik Pultz Melbye ~ Drømmene (Wetware, 6 September)
Jeff Snyder ~ Loom (Carrier, 6 September)
Kilometre Club ~ Earnest Tub (Imaginary North, 6 September)
Laurence Pike ~ The Undreamt-Of Centre (Leaf, 6 September)
Lukas de Clerck ~ The Telescopic Aulos of Atlas (Ideological Organ, 6 September)
Luke Sanger ~ Dew Point Harmonics (Lapsus, 6 September)
Mads Emil Nielsen ~ Heartbeats (arbitrary, 6 September)
Masayoshi Fujita ~ Migratory (Erased Tapes, 6 September)
Michael Scott Dawson ~ The Tinnitus Chorus (We Are Busy Bodies, 6 September)
Milio ~ Invisible Lands (Atomnation, 6 September)
Ocoeur ~ Breath (n5MD, 6 September)
Oneironaut ~ Alien Gnosis (Avantgarde Music, 6 September)
Party Dozen ~ Crime in Australia (Temporary Residence Ltd., 6 September)
Purple Decades ~ Fraction of Centuries (Beacon Sound, 6 September)
Solars ~ A Fading Future (Ripcord, 6 September)
Timothy Archambault ~ Onimikìg (Ideologic Organ, 6 September)
Zimoun ~ Dust Resonance (Room40, 6 September)
CZIGO ~ Actant Theory (Machine, 7 September)
Build Buildings ~ Ecotone (LAAPS, 9 September)
Saviet/Houston Duo ~ a clearing (Marginal Frequency, 10 September)
Dextro ~ Respire (12 September)
Ümlaut ~ An Auxiliary View (Audiobulb, 12 September)
Aidan Baker & Dead Neanderthals ~ Cast Down and Hunted (Moving Furniture, 13 September)
Allan Gilbert Balon ~ The Magnesia Suite (Recital, 13 September)
FORM NULL ~ Drone Diaries I (Dead Letters Archive, 13 September)
Jos Smolders ~ Testur 1 (Moving Furniture, 13 September)
Max Jaffe ~ Reduction of Man (Whited Sepulchre, 13 September)
Michael Serian ~ Life at Cliff Bell’s (Shifting Paradigm, 13 September)
Nídia & Valentina ~ Estradas (Latency, 13 September)
Paradise Cinema ~ returning, dream (Gondwana, 13 September)
Sarah Davachi ~ The Head as Form’d in the Crier’s Choir (Late Music, 13 September)
Transatlantic Trance Map ~ Marconi’s Drift (False Walls, 13 September)
Tulpas ~ Atisbo (Astral Spirits, 13 September)
V/A ~ Dekmantel Ten: A Decade of Dekmantel Festival (Dekmantel, 13 September)
We Are Winter’s Blue and Radiant Children ~ “No More Apocalypse Father” (Constellation, 13 September)
Zeno van der Broek, HIIIT, Gagi Petrovic & Machines ~ Relatum (Moving Furniture, 13 September)
harte echtzeit ~ ji kū kan (Call It Anything, 14 September)
Alaskan Tapes ~ Something Ephemeral (Nettwek, 20 September)
Alan Licht ~ Havens (VDSQ, 20 September)
Alex Henry Foster ~ A Measure of Shape and Sounds (20 September)
Anthony Vine ~ Sound Spring (kuyin, 20 September)
Başak Günak ~ Rewilding (Subtext, 20 September)
DEFTR ~ Run Away (npm, 20 September)
DJ Stingray 313 ~ Industry 4.o EP (Tresor, 20 September)
Malcolm Pardon ~ The Abyss (Leaf, 20 September)
more eaze ~ lacuna and parlor (Mondoj, 20 September)
Nico van Wersch ~ Psychose (Naked, 20 September)
Otay.onii ~ True Faith Ain’t Blind (No-Gold, 20 September)
White Poppy ~ Ataraxia (Not Not Fun, 20 September)
Farewell Phoenix ~ The Angels in These Fields (Ceremony of Seasons, 22 September)
Bruce Brubaker ~ Eno Piano 2 (InFiné, 25 September)
Duo Extempore ~ Ordinary Places (26 September)
Black Brunswicker ~ Been Around Here Before (Nettwerk, 27 September)
Hiroshi Ebina ~ Into the Darkness of the Night (Kitchen, 27 September)
Iván Muela ~ Ether (27 September)
Klara Lewis ~ Thankful (Editions Mego, 27 September)
the Man from Atlantis ~ Spirits Align (Ramble, 27 September)
mu tate ~ wanting less (Warm Winters Ltd., 27 September)
Peter Gall ~ Love Avatar (Compost, 27 September)
Sandy Evans Trio ~ The Running Tide (27 September)
Tam Lin ~ Mutant Tangle (27 September)
Telekaster ~ Lontano (Empanada Music, 27 September)
Twin Talk ~ Twin Talk Live (Shifting Paradigm, 27 September)
Gaudi Kosmisches Trio ~ Torpedo Forward (Curious Music, 3 October)
Cape Canaveral ~ Ghost Rips (Machine Records, 4 October)
Guentner | Spieth ~ Overlay Reworks Pt. 2 (by Pole and Abul Mogard) (Affin, 4 October)
mHz ~ Material Prosody (Room40, 4 October)
Leo Genovese ~ Forward (577 Records, 4 October)
Nicholas Maloney & Yama Yuki ~ Live at Parking Lots (Flaming Pines, 4 October)
Nichunimu ~ Calados (577 Records, 4 October)
Nonconnah ~ Nonconnah vs. the Spring of Deception (Absolutely Kosher, 4 October)
Unicorn Ship Explosion ~ There’s a Rhinoceros in the Mega Church (Sound Records, 4 October)
V/A ~ Cybernetics, Or Ghosts? (Subtext, 6 October)
Brad Shepik ~ Human Activity: Dream of the Possible (Shifting Paradigm, 11 October)
B.Visible ~ Life Is My Hobby (Matches Music, 11 October)
Qais Essar ~ Echoes of the Unseen (Worlds Within Worlds, 11 October)
Gianluca Ceccarini, Alessandro Ciccarelli, Tetsuroh Kinishi ~ Yugen (Disasters by Choice, October 14)
Chihei Hatakeyama & Shun Ishiwaka ~ Magnificent Little Dudes, Volume 02 (Gearbox, 18 October)
Marysia Osu ~ harp, beats & dreams (Brownswood Recordings, 18 October)
Oliver Coates ~ throb, shiver, arrow of time (RVNG Intl., 18 October)
Pat Thomas ~ This Is Trick Step (577 Records, 18 October)
SO SNER ~ The Well (TAL, 18 October)
Svaneborg Kardyb ~ Superkilen (Gondwana, 18 October)
Ueno Takashi ~ ARMS (Room40, 18 October)
Black Aleph ~ Apsides (Art As Catharsis/Dunk, 25 October)
Daniela Huerta ~ Soplo (Elevator Bath, 25 October)
Righteous Rooster ~ Fowl Play (Shifting Paradigm, 25 October)
V/A ~ Resistance: Compilation of experimental music from Ukraine (Flaming Pines, 26 October)
Diaries of Destruction ~ DoD II (31 October)
Rich God ~ Unmade (Somewherecold, 31 October)
Dean Drouillard ~ Mirrors and Ghosts (1 November)
Sarah Neufeld, Richard Reed Perry, Rebecca Foon ~ First Sounds (Envision, 1 November)
Rikuko Fujimoto ~ Distant Landscapes (FatCat/130701, 30 November)