stara rzeka, innercity ensemble, polish underground

One Eye Sees Red by Lonker See is pretty great: https://instantclassic.bandcamp.com/track/lillian-gish

Keep coming back to the Zimpel/Ziolek and Alameda Duo records from last year. Both essential.

I thought the Merkabah album had kind of gone under the radar but it's at No.67 for 2017 on RYM. That's quite high isn't it. Brutal prog metal type stuff does seem to be especially popular on that site for some reason.

Not that that's exactly how I'd describe it but I can see how it would fit with that sort of thing.

Alameda 5:

https://instantclassic.bandcamp.com/album/eurodrome

excellent stuff

Instant Classic have free worldwide shipping until the end of May. Just rubbing my eyes at the fact that I got the Alameda Duo vinyl for less than £10 delivered.

Tell a lie, it was the Zimpel/Ziolek vinyl. The Alameda Duo CD was £5. Madness.

Not sure if it's the right place to post it since the thread's mostly about stuff on Instant Classic, but there's a great new jazz album by EABS called Slavic Spirits, out today on Astigmatic Records.

Inspired by deliberations of many musicians, but also historians, journalists, writers, and even psychotherapists, new compositions began to appear rapidly, pouring out of the band’s spirit and imagination. The material is also an attempt to radically break out of the status quo of national mythology which currently steers the collective imagination of the Polish society. The musicians turned to Slavic mythology and Polish demonology, while pondering upon the contemporary spiritual condition of Poles. The enigmatic “Slavic melancholy” remains the main inspiration for the following album, as the band tried to extract it from their own DNA. Slavic Spirits is an an endeavour to get in touch with the world of a long- and brutally lost culture which, due to lack of sources, will never be thoroughly explored. A piece called “The Darkness” is a metaphor of this obscurity and the blank page in the history of our ancestors. What follows is a trip to the woods and fields where we face two demons ruling those realms, namely “Woodland Spirit” and “The Noon Witch”. In the end, we climb a marshy and foggy holy mountain (“Ślęża”) to eventually practice ritual “Sun Worship”.

(They also released a fantastic Krzysztof Komeda-inspired record two years ago.)

https://eabs.bandcamp.com/album/slavic-spirits

Wacław Zimpel's new solo album Massive Oscillations is out now. Apparently it's the first of his three releases scheduled for 2020, the next two being collaborative efforts with James Holden and Shackleton.

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https://waclawzimpel.bandcamp.com/album/massive-oscillations
https://open.spotify.com/album/3IHDVB9clTxVKdaZ7K7Rj0?si=tddRQKT5RuaN_zrKYMEsJA

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Wacław Zimpel: Bass Clarinet, Alto Clarinet, Electronics, Prepared Upright Piano, Yuri Landman guitar object
Wojciech Traczyk: Double Bass (Track 04) Holly Hock: Vocals (Track 04)

Recorded, Produced by Wacław Zimpel
Mixing by James Holden at Sacred Walls London
Mastering by Brandenburg Mastering
Liner notes by Laurens Otto
Design by Łukasz Paluch

This is brilliant (how could an album called Massive Oscillations not be brilliant?). I love pretty much anything Zimpel touches.

La lechera I think this new Lonker See is a cool album you might like

https://lonkersee.bandcamp.com/album/hamza

Wintry psych-folk alternating with heavy krautrock

Zimpel's newest sounded pretty great on first listen, minimalist but complex (also fwiw it's only a quid for the digital): https://waclawzimpel.bandcamp.com/album/train-spotter

very nice, my fave thing I've heard from these folks in a while, thanks!

on track 3 now and it just keeps getting better!

my pleasure! I only heard of him thanks to this thread

same!