15 Battles - Mirrored (Warp Records) : Everybody’s been talking about “Mirrored” this year, and they kind of deserve it for getting their oddtimed dissonant music to find strange acclaim from mainstream circles as well as mathheads.
14 Deejay OM - Reheated Naan and Curry (Galapagos4) : A fine hybrid of Indian samples mixed with beats. [...]

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Cuneiform never fails to impress us with a steady supply of brilliant albums. Here’s a new album, by the band that I still haven’t been able to pronounce correctly : Ahleuchatistas. The North Carolina power trio belongs to the increasing number of brilliant progressive math rock albums that I’ve been listening to this year, full [...]

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After some protests for not updating undomondo, here’s a quick playlist selected from what I’ve been listening to recently. Electronica artist Odd Nosdam aka David Madson, who recently released a new album called “Level Live Wires” on Anticon. Lovely guitar folk from Turner Cody, experimental electronics meet with ambience & trumpet by Australian Roam the [...]

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Been listening to Mill Pond’s Luke Temple with his second full length called “Snowbeast” for some time and Brooklyn based guitar/banjoist & songwriter straight away charmed me with his frail falsetto voice and exceptionally versatile songwriting I should say. Temple’s indie pop/folk has many elements of psychedelia and prog which moves “Snowbeast” apart from all [...]

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Fellow Turkish guitarist and composer Erdem Helvacioglu has released a full length on the prestigious contemporary music label New Albion. His 2003 release “A Walk through the Bazaar” on Locust Music was part of the Met Life Series which focuses on field recordings & soundscapes. One of the [...]

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Marc Ribot by Pennello
Here’s the second post I’ve backed up before I went on vacation, 2 great songs from 2 guitar giants. First Marc Ribot going wild with Yezriel, a bluesy song off his new album on Tzadik with a powerful riff on the wonderful Book of Angels series which previously saw the Jamie Saft [...]

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After a two year silence Australian singer-songwriter Xavier Rudd has issued a new album called “White Moth” on Salt-X Records, his 4th. 1978 born multi-instrumentalist is known for his easy going beach/surf sound that’d be very suitable for the hipster and eco-concious multiculturalists from say Canada & Australia and Roots folk festivals. No [...]

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Here’s an album that I’m sure some of you already know. The Jewish American guitarist Marc Ribot, an important figure from downtown NYC and the John Zorn inner circle, and guitar player for rock giants like Tom Waits and Elvis Costello, was the leader of the successful but now defunct latino band “The [...]

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Second release of NY experimental duo Christmas Decorations on Community Library is similar in vein to the guitar processing artists like C. Fennesz or Jim O’ Rourke, but imo with more playfulness and vibrant compositions.
On Communal Rust there’s layers of granular processing, glitches, bitcrush and repetition like the other “experimental guitar” artists, but the [...]

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I mentioned the Finnish folk/nujazz band Korpi Ensemble on yesterday’s radioshow review, yet just to show you how much I love this song, I featured it once again, so make sure you listen to it. Vocalist Johanna Iivanainen’s singing is very emotional, but of the inspirational and lively kind rather than the melancholic. I’m sure [...]

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