Phantasmagorically evocative, ambient electronica from Dublin. Happy-clappy, poignant, spooked reveries braided with expert dubwise techno. Free-spirited and playful, fresh and immersive. Lovely stuff, warmly recommended.

The first volume in a two-part collection of pirate radio adverts & idents, assembled from home recordings of London stations made between 1984 & 1993.

Storming mixtape, stuffed with scorchers, funk to boogie to testifying and congregational. Great, great soul music, however you take it; killingly blended.
Originally released as fifty CDRs in 2010, and still fresh.

The soundtrack to the French TV series adapting Henri de Monfreid’s account of his travels in the Middle East. The music for the first series in 1967 features various flutes and marine conches; for underwater settings a celesta or a crystal xylophone. For the later 1975 series, de Roubaix composed a new music score, mixing old and new sounds, his EMS VCS3 synthesizer subtly mixed with acoustic instruments.

‘Cosmic out-rock that will take you on a journey through inner space, featuring members of King Champion Sounds, Bo Ningen, Bhajan Bhoy, and Ivan The Tolerable, taking inspiration from a wide variety of styles and genres — kosmische musik, electronic experimentation, modern classical, pastoral guitar soli, and more. For specific reference points you could do worse than Amon Düül, Popol Vuh, John Martyn, Aerial M, Thirteenth Floor Elevators, Haruomi Hosoni, The Incredible String Band… But UC has created and settled into a musical space all of their own.’

Transportingly sublime, dazzlingly virtuosic Carnatic chanting in Sanskrit about female divinity, accompanied by mridangam drums, bells and tambura drone. Beautifully recorded, in Chennai. The chorus singing is the coup de grace.
Ravishing, restorative music; hotly recommended.