Experimental
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Promising “new ways to present and talk about organized sound, and creative solutions to artistic questions and endeavours,” The smallest functional unit collective has released the second edition of its publication of experimental and graphic music scores, Graphème. The Berlin collective includes Ute Wassermann, Tony Buck, Mazen Kerbaj, Magda Mayas and Racha Gharbieh. Twelve compositions are featured. This second edition…
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The Warsaw-based Mondoj label is celebrating its fifth anniversary with a pair of remastered vinyl releases. Adam Badí Donoval has remastered Antonina Nowacka’s haunting seven-part debut Lamunan, which premiered in 2020. Mondoj has added her Sketches From Oaxaca on cassette. That release originally appeared on Cafe Oto’s Takuroku label. Donoval has also remastered the more…
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Touch marked what would have been Philip Jeck’s 70th birthday last week with the release of two new live recordings. Jeck passed this past winter after a brief illness. Under the title Resistenza, we get a live performance in Torino and another at Liverpool Philharmonic.
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Slovenian multimedia trio Etceteral released a new album on Friday, entitled Rhizome. Its first single is a tribute to meadow sage, “a common plant with healing potential,” says band member Boštjan Simon. “It cured me from an illness I was struggling with for years.” Simon performs saxophone, synthesizer and electronics on the new album. He’s…
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The band credited with inspiring the launch of Cuneiform Records, and not a few experimental music projects, is being celebrated with a retrospective box set featuring 12 CDs, a DVD and book. Fittingly, the Nov. 18 release of The Muffins’ Baker’s Dozen comes to us via Cuneiform. The band had a pair of celebrated runs…
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David Sylvian, Alva Noto, The Cinematic Orchestra and Fennesz are among the artists featured on a double-album collection of Ryuichi Sakamoto reworks. A Tribute to Ryuichi Sakamoto: To the Moon and Back is out on Milan Records Dec. 2. Thundercat’s take on “Thousand Knives” is the first track to drop. The full track list includes…
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