Friday Five

  • This week’s favourites: Avenue Azure – Avenue Azure (Ensemble Klang Records) Dilian – Beam Former (Artetetra) Tom Lönnqvist – ENTER (Mille Plateaux) Jack Prest – The Risk of Hyperbole Volume 2 – Object (Art As Catharsis) Alexandra Stréliski – Néo-Romance (XXIM Records/Sony Masterworks) Plus one from the archives: Olivia Louvel – SculptOr (Independent)

  • Five new faves: Evan Lindorff-Ellery – Swollen Air  (Tripticks Tapes) Sandy Ewen/Jason Nazary – A Beaded Gesture (Notice Recordings) Luca Forcucci – Terra (Crónica) Joanna Mattrey – Soulcaster (Notice Recordings) Elif Yalvaç – My Heart of Noise (Möller Records) Plus one from way back: Okkyung Lee – Cheol-Kkot-Sae (Steel.Flower.Bird) (Tzadik)

  • This week’s favourites: Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology – Les Espaces Électroacoustiques III (col legno) Ivann Cruz & Peter Orins – Des pieds et des mains (Circum-Disc) Paul Nataraj – The Night Is Young (Hard Return) Bill Seaman & Stephen Vitiello – The Clear Distance (Room40) Various Artists – Slow Sketch, Vol. 3: Reflections Of The Ambient…

  • Five new faves: Sergio Díaz De Rojas – Muerte en una tarde de verano (oscarson) Ensemble SuperMusique – Musiques Émeraude (Ambiances Magnétiques) Lia Kohl – The Ceiling Reposes (American Dreams) Land’s Air – Land’s Air (Tone List) Time Phase Trio – Time Phase Trio (Infrequent Seams) Plus one from the returns bin: Discussions: Passepartout Duo

  • This week’s favourites: glåsbird – pacifica (Whitelabrecs) Heavy Cloud – aerial (Independent) Lionel Marchetti/Ensemble UN/Le Chant du Moineau – Méandre(s) (Independent) Muellie Messiah & Punk Not Punk – Exq I (100records) These Liminal Days – Science Fictions (Independent) And one from the archives: Anders Brørby – Traumas (Forwind)

  • Five new faves: Kommun – Ephemeralds (fönstret) Katrina Krimsky – 1980 (Unseen Worlds) Langham Research Centre and John Butcher – Six Hands at an Open Door (Persistence of Sound) Reading Music – Volume 1 (Ausculto Fonogram) Karen Vogt – Losing The Sea (Mare Nostrum) Plus one from the archives: Dominique Charpentier – R​é​miniscence (Independent)