rolling careerist hacks, awkward pandering, transparently manipulative thread 2022

A few things from Epic Games Friday:

This split tape from Sullow/The Silver Field is really cool, Sullow is psychedelic banjo Henry Flynt hillbilly vibes with some wild improv drumming, The Silver Field reminds me a bit of Current 93 but more chill and not as annoying, really sick tbh, been listening to it non-stop.
https://betwixtbetweentapes.bandcamp.com/album/betwixt-between-8

I mean, you could call this jazz, but it's so fucking weird, Mike Cooper still has it
https://mikecooper.bandcamp.com/album/oceans-of-milk-and-treacle

Sublimity defined with Wadada Leo Smith, Henry Kaiser, Alex Varty
https://577records.bandcamp.com/album/pacifica-koral-reef

Yeah, I really wanna hear that Smith/Kaiser/Varty joint in full

Yeh love that Mike Cooper record, will check the other two

Came out last year, can't remember where it caught my eye, but this is pretty sinister, liminal electronic noise

https://heavycloud.bandcamp.com/album/a-o-a

This record is really something else.

https://matchess.bandcamp.com/album/sonescent

It reads like hyperbole, but it is doing a lot of interesting work psychoacoustically— hi-pitched sine waves will emerge from nostalgic folk-pop into muffled fiddling...Like how Basic Channel was doing "a basement techno club from several blocks away," this is like "someone fiddling with synthesis while a band practices next door and also the dumpster is being unloaded outside the window." Really neat.

it's a wonderful record, love the outtro

some recent stuff i've enjoyed

https://bogdanraczynski.bandcamp.com/album/addle
"Marking a change from the high-octane jungle tekno braindance for which he is most commonly known, here we find the Polish American musician in a more melodic and zen-like place of peace, which is ergonomic and decluttered, whilst also bittersweet and tinged with melancholy."

https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/recordings-from-the-land-islands
interesting story behind this on the page, the final track is absolutely stunning

https://gerryfranke.bandcamp.com/album/found-myself-or-just-i-m-dead
Gerry Franke - Found Myself or Just I’m Dead

https://adelamede.bandcamp.com/album/szabads-g-3
"Szabadság is a navigation. This debut by Adela Mede, recorded in her family home on the Slovakian border with Hungary, searches through the personal, familial, cultural, folkloric and geographic of her past and present."

Some friends have been recording very strange duets under the name Glovenathans. I like this new one, seems to be mostly guitar duets or guitar w/ synth.

https://smilingmind.bandcamp.com/album/nights-on-broadway

very much enjoying this

fell in love with this record over the week

https://duncanmarquiss.bandcamp.com/album/wires-turned-sideways-in-time

"Experimental electronic guitar manipulations intertwine with wandering acoustic ambience. One foot in 1970s Germany and the other in the woods, rivers and mountains of northeast Scotland."

only a couple of tracks on the bandcamp but the whole album is on spotify

Rough-hewn and exhilarating, EL Khat's second album "Albat Alawi Op.99" is a deep dive into leader Eyal el Wahab's Yemenite roots and their inspired re-imaginings. A careening orchestra of percussion, horns, strings, electricity and el Wahab's own DIY instruments. Mesmerizing retro-futurist sounds.

https://elkhat-music.bandcamp.com/album/albat-alawi-op-99

couple of comps i've been enjoying

https://buhrecords.bandcamp.com/album/mensajes-del-agua-nuevos-sonidos-desde-per-vol-1
"This compilation presents a selection of young Peruvian artists who have in common a taste for electronic and electroacoustic sounds. It offers a panoramic view of the new directions in electronic and experimental music made in Peru."

https://vampisoul.bandcamp.com/album/viento-sur
nice little review up on https://daily.bandcamp.com/album-of-the-day/various-artists-viento-sur-review

really liking viento sur, thanks for that

fell in love with this record over the week

https://duncanmarquiss.bandcamp.com/album/wires-turned-sideways-in-time

yeah this record is fantastic

Ann Eysermans – For Trainspotters Only
https://cortizona.bandcamp.com/album/for-trainspotters-only

gimmicky narrative ✔️
transparently manipulative ✔️

"Prelude For Four Diesel Locomotives And Harp" is so sick, especially on headphones

reminder that Daniel Menche is still releasing stuff and it rules:

https://danielmenche.bandcamp.com/album/charred

agreed, had a good walk to this today

Enjoying Éliane Radigue's Occam XXV as a Bandcamp WAV. Wishing I jumped before the CD sold out

Two releases bunged together in recent Wire review section because they're both on Constellation and both quite 'disintegration of popsong' but also both are completely addictive and great:

Eric Chenaux: https://ericchenaux.bandcamp.com/album/say-laura

Kee Avil: https://keeavil.bandcamp.com/album/crease

Chenaux sounds great, thanks! Doesn't make sense to me why it was paired with the other, but oh well.

(If you like the Chenaux, you might like the Maria Elena Silva record from last year, 'Eros')

Very much into most of the tracks on this, will slowly investigate the individual artists:

https://www.touchtheplants.com/products/sound-wonders-lp
"Sound Wonders: A Series of Epics is the second compilation from Touchtheplants, the imprint and multidisciplinary creative environment founded by Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith and Sean Hellfritsch (aka Cool Maritime)"

This record is absolutely insane
https://tophgateshead.bandcamp.com/album/the-rising-cost-of-free-jazz

^ great stuff

Yeah, that Kenosist thing is great; I just filed a review for The Wire.

Jim O'Rourke, Eiko Ishibashi & Joe Talia
https://joetalia.bandcamp.com/album/patrick

😎

https://superpang.bandcamp.com/album/disque-fragile-1-2

www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtPbjiBnV0c&t=9895s

this record is wonderful from a couple of british composers:

https://www.juno.co.uk/products/robert-ames-ben-corrigan-carbs/867157-01/

This is some weird neo-folk tribal percussion stuff, extremely for the heads. https://begayer.bandcamp.com/

Seriously, you guys :O

https://lauracocks.bandcamp.com/album/field-anatomies

sounding great, thanks

been listening to the stuff from this thread for the last week or so... cool

i bought the tape of this one, nice lowkey release: https://tssstapes.bandcamp.com/album/nido

i got really into this chinese label earlier this year (dunno if i read about them on ilx or elsewhere), but this new release from them sounds great to me: https://zoominnight.bandcamp.com/album/killed-as-time and i also really like the albums of beatles covers by mai mai also on their bandcamp

take it easy

great stuff ^

People had a lot of dunking to do on that famous Tone Glow article but there really is a whole metric shitton of ambient music out there right now

Seriously, you guys :O

https://lauracocks.bandcamp.com/album/field-anatomies🕸

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https://room40.bandcamp.com/album/guitar-studies-i-iii

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https://lionelmarchetti.bandcamp.com/album/symphonie-2022-improvised-electronic-music-live-studio

Fievel is Glauque opening for Stereolab this fall, y’all

New Monuments – Language Is The Skin
https://tornlight.bandcamp.com/album/language-is-the-skin

v nice

That made me wince, and I like skronky stuff at times.

New Ashley Paul doubles down on the best bits (wobbly drunk clarinet) of 2020's Ray; is tremulous and gorgeous and miraculously avoids overt preciousness:

https://ashleypaul.bandcamp.com/album/i-am-fog

Been meaning to check out that New Monuments record. Also thanks for the tip about new Ashley Paul, technopolis.

Currently listening to Lila Bazooka - Arashiyama, which I think people here might enjoy.
https://ayler-records.bandcamp.com/album/arashiyama

Ambient/EA guitar stuff. I like it more than other Oppedisano I've heard, maybe bc he leans more into the lyrical lead guitar:
https://marcooppedisano.bandcamp.com/album/evening-sky

68yo raspy French contralto chanteuse singing in English, French and Italian over improvised dissonant jazz/rock music that at times recalls the Birthday Party, at other times Van der Graaf Generator.

https://discusmusic.bandcamp.com/album/the-scale-124cd-2021

I don't know if I really get this thread's remit, but the new Rachika Nayar is impressive. I like it a lot more than her previous album. The way it bursts into ravey technicolor at times never fails to delight (though it might be alienating if all you want is Grouper-y banks of melancholic guitar fog), and in general this sounds like a big step up in ambition and achievement to me

yeh really enjoying it

it's kinda just 'post-rock except cool' but i like that. definitely more ambitious than her previous work

I did get the urge to listen to Seefeel after that final remix track, so you're onto something there. But does that imply post-rock isn't already cool? :(

Satisying noise/drone on solo cello with effects. Clears up about halfway through and some melodic themes emerge. https://markmolnar.bandcamp.com/album/mark-molnar-saturns-son