Representing three years of recording after-hours at the New York radio station where he worked, this is TD’s stunning debut, originally self-released in 1961, and later issued by Folkways.
‘Oscillators pulse and clash with fragments of incidental tape music, leaving collages of sound as tuneful and memorable as they are otherworldly. A visionary debut that presages the abstract ambience of modern IDM and an essential addition to any collection of early electronic music.’

Four unhinged, starkers dashes through the outernational dancehall by Saam Schlamminger (aka Chronomad) and Burnt Friedman. Ace.

Demdike Stare and Andy Votel.

Walter Maioli from Aktuala and Futuro Antico, and Agostino Nirodh Fortini, lifelong specialist in the application of sound and image to therapy and meditation, starting out with the breath of a stem, slowed down and filtered, in this musical expression of the psychoacoustic qualities of plants — ‘the organic symbiosis, real and mysterious at the same time, between the pharmacological properties of the plant and the sounds it emits… a vibration permeating the whole Universe.’

Bagpiping meets Partch DIY and the singing of Pandit Pran Nath, at the grass roots of Fluxus, in an empty swimming pool. Long, slowly building drones, lightly processed, with snatches of melody. Check it out.

A new imprint from the wonderful Okraina label out of Brussels!
These will be double-10”, in gorgeously designed gatefold sleeves, with full-size, eight-page booklets of photographs.

To start, lovely, unusual duets on five-string banjo and steel pan (also slit drums and gamelan). Flowing and meditative; open-air; enjoyably less arsey about folk, soulfulness and melody than much Improvisation. (When Jaki Liebezeit renounced Free Jazz, he said it had too many rules.) For the label it evokes Laraaji and Bill Orcutt.
Check it out!

Primitive rhythms and offbeat pop by this one-man-band (laptop, guitar, vocals), going since the 1970s, and championed by Animal Collective and Half Japanese.