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Rafael Anton Irisarri – A Fragile Geography (2015)
A Fragile Geography’s cover artwork sums it up entirely: a faded, scratched and blurry black & white photograph of a distant manor house shrouded by trees and obscured by what looks like rain or...
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The Explosion – The Explosion (2015)
In May 2014, Chateau Flight released Terry Riley Covers, a two-track 12” that saw them deliver fresh interpretations of two works by the great American minimalist, with the assistance of new wave...
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Jack Latham – Lux Laze EP (2015)
Lux Laze is Jam City’s soundtrack to Daniel Swan’s retro-dystopian sci-fi short of the same name, originally issued in a limited run in 2010. Classical Curves, which was at that point barely a glint in...
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Olivia Block – Aberration of Light (2015)
The genesis of Aberration of Light is a response to one of the grander sensory-cultural experiences accessible in the 20th and 21th centuries, but it has been released on two of the humbler audio...
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Cured Pink – As a Four Piece Band (2015)
No Wave is a funny thing: kinda nebulous, it can come in many guises, but it’s still instantly recognisable. It takes a lot of styles, all of which have to be dragged through the dust until they’re...
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Byron Westbrook – Precipice (2015)
Since accepting responsibility for the technical end of Phill Niblock’s Experimental Intermedia Foundation in 2005, Byron Westbrook has been creating interactive performances and sound installations...
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Erdbeerschnitzel – The Attendants (2015)
Tim Keiling’s productions under the name Erdbeerschnitzel have always taken an offbeat approach to house music, slicing up samples in a rapid-fire manner similar to Akufen, but also emphasizing heavy...
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Damon Eliza Palermo – Clouds of David (2015)
It can be a gamble when a dance music producer makes an ambient record: sometimes they take to it naturally, and other times the results are aimless and drifting. Magic Touch, real name Damon Eliza...
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Ah! Kosmos – Bastards (2015)
Bastards might be the full-length debut by Istanbul-based producer and instrumentalist Basak Günak under the Ah! Kosmos name, but she’s no inexperienced neophyte. Two years ago she issued the Flesh EP,...
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Rrose – Having Never Written a Note for Percussion (2015)
When the American composer James Tenney wrote the score for Having Never Written a Note for Percussion, he did so on the back of a postcard. The directions are almost too simple: an extended roll is...
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Vito Ricci – I Was Crossing a Bridge (2015)
Vito Ricci has composed some 80-odd pieces over the last 36 years: among them are string partitas written for Kronos Quartet; harmolodic studies inspired by his former teacher Ornette Coleman; a work...
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Council of Nine – Diagnosis (2015)
On Cryo Chamber’s artist page for Council of Nine, we’re told Redwood Valley, California resident Maximillian Olivier creates material that “conjure[s] visions of a Lovecraftian deep space and its...
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Netherworld – Zastrugi (2015)
Certainly the first thing one notices about this first release in Glacial Movements’ so-called ‘Iceberg Series’ is the packaging design by Rutger Zuydervelt (aka Machinefabriek): no expense has been...
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How to Cure Our Soul – Saigon (2015)
While the title of How to Cure Our Soul’s second official release calls to mind images, many horrific, of the Vietnam war, it’s unclear whether that’s what audio-visual duo Marco Marzuoli and...
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Wordclock – Self Destruction Themes (2015)
Pedro Pimentel’s second Wordclock album aligns with Cryo Chamber’s dark ambient aesthetic but in rather circuitous and unconventional manner: in place of horrific nightscapes, the settings on Self...
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Fossil Aerosol Mining Project – The Day 1982 Contaminated 1971 (2015)
With The Day 1982 Contaminated 1971, Fossil Aerosol returns to the damaged media and decomposing mediums of the late 20th century. The basic tracks were recorded in 2010, and were remixed and...
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The Eccentronic Research Council – Johnny Rocket, Narcissist & Music...
What’s in a name? In the case of this brilliantly weird concept record upholding the increasingly rare tradition in British pop of surrealism and provocation, nearly everything but the kitchen sink....
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sleepland – for Silentseeing (2015)
In certain respects, Kengo Yonemura’s second physical sleepland release is retiring in nature and restrained in approach. There’s the lower-case moniker for one, plus the fact that for Silentseeing...
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IX Tab – R.O.C. (2015)
Where IX Tab’s earlier Spindle and the Bregnut Tree was lusciously and admirably in thrall to the heroically named Saxon Roach’s observance of all things Coilish and tentacular, on R.O.C. he takes what...
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André Stordeur – Complete Analog and Digital Electronic Music 1978-2000 (2015)
Another installment in Sub Rosa’s Early Electronic series: the complete works, for the most part previously unreleased, by a key composer of Belgian electronic music. André Stordeur‘s musical career...
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