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Dizzy rhythms, slippery transitions, sincerity and playfulness. The Oakland-based composer and performer discusses three important albums.
Michelle's picks:
Zeena Parkins – Zeena Parkins and The Adorables
Duke Ellington – The Best Of Duke Ellington And His Famous Orchestra
Caetano Veloso – TransaMichelle's new record, Late Morning, is out now on AKP Recordings. Check it out on Bandcamp. Her website is here and she's also on Instagram.
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Obstetric ambient, sullen atmospheres, episodic engulfment. The classical ambient composer discusses three important albums.
Adam's picks:
Environments (Irv Teibel) – Environments 2
Talk Talk – Spirit Of Eden
Main – HzAdam's new album, Eleven Fugues For Sodium Pentothal, is out now on Kranky. Check it out on his Bandcamp. Adam's website is here.
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Train breakdown Feldman epiphanies, radical flatness in the primeval forest, the Gary Numan barracks theft. The New York-based composer discusses three important albums.
Kenneth's picks:
Gary Numan – The Pleasure Principle
Morton Feldman (Kronos Quartet with Aki Takahashi) – Piano And String Quartet
Glenn Gould – Bach: The Goldberg Variations (1955)Kenneth's new album, Three Cellos, is the first instalment in Greyfade's FOLIO series: a hardcover book and a high resolution download. Check it out here or over on Bandcamp. Kenneth's website is over here.
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Aggressive pianos, bursting arpeggios, music for the cool kids. The Australian composer and producer discusses three important albums.
Madeleine's picks:
Philip Glass – Glassworks
Dirty Three – Whatever You Love, You Are
Tim Hecker – VirginsMadeleine's new album, Bodies, is out now on Room40. Check it out on her Bandcamp. Her website is here and she's also Instagram.
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Black metal for midwest drives, post-apocalyptic collage, ragas for John. The Manchester, UK-based ambient folk artist discusses three important albums.
Ethan's picks:
Wolves In The Throne Room – Two Hunters
Godspeed You! Black Emperor – F# A# ∞
Pelt – AyahuascaThe new Black Brunswicker EP, A Moment Of Clarity, is out April 26th on Nettwerk. You can hear several tracks over on the Black Brunswicker bandcamp, and also see a couple of official videos over on Youtube. Ethan is also on Instagram.
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Cathartic tragedies, dog-eating opera, guitar improviser spirit animals. The vocalist, lyricist and composer from 9T Antiope discusses three important albums.
Sara and Nima's picks:
Scott Walker & Sunn O))) – Soused
Ben Frost – The Wasp Factory
Sidsel Endresen & Stian Westerhus – BonitaThe new 9T Antiope album, Horror Vacui, is out 12th April on American Dreams. Check it out here. 9T Antiope is on Twitter. Sara is on Twitter and Instagram.
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Voice drips like milk, rays of soprano sunlight, filthy metal bass face. Producer, vocalist and DJ Felicia Chen discusses three important albums.
Felicia's picks:
Arvo Pärt – Te Deum
Portishead – Dummy
Goth-Trad – PsionicsThe collaborative record between Dis Fig and The Body is out now via Thrill Jockey. Check it out here. Dis Fig is on Instagram and Soundcloud.
The Body and Dis Fig will debut the collaboration at this year's Supersonic Festival in Birmingham UK, which runs 30th August – 1st September. More info here.
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Driving in fury, letting the endings be real, slow and lonely. The free improvisation percussionist discusses three important albums.
Mark's picks:
Don Cherry, Dewey Redman, Charlie Haden, Ed Blackwell – Old And New Dreams (1979)
Evan Parker – Monoceros
Rebecca Saunders – Fury IIAs always, Mark has a bunch of upcoming live dates. These include Evan Parker's 80th birthday residency at Cafe Oto, for which Mark has prepared a four-part percussion group. Mark's website is here.
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Caught by howling, three people at the 2pm concert, vivid colour changes. The Berlin-based singer and artist discusses three important albums.
Rosa's picks:
Julia Shortreed – Violet Sun
Low – Double Negative
Tear Garden – To Be An Angel Blind, The Cripple Soul DivideRosa's new album Interior is out 23rd February on KLANGBAD. Check out her music on Bandcamp. Rosa's website is here. She's also on Instagram.
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Post-apocalyptic industrial environments, pseudo-music, twisted proto-typicalities. The sound artist and experimental musician discusses three important albums.
Francisco's picks:
David Lynch + Alan Splet – Eraserhead (OST)
Mnemonists – Horde
Meshuggah – ChaosphereFrancisco's work is available on Bandcamp, including the recent Conveyor Belts [USA]. His website is here.
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The dirt aesthetic, non-relinquishable frequencies, opening up that filter. The London-based sound artist and "mutant dancehall" practitioner discusses three important albums.
Aniruddha's picks:
Miles Davies – Dark Magus
Robert Hood – Minimal Nation
Hallucinator – LandlockedCheck out Dhangsha's music on Bandcamp here. His Hard Return EP "Aberrant" is over here. Dhangsha plays London's Cafe Oto on 24th January, and Electric Spring festival in Huddersfield on 17th February.
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Slowing everything down, emotionally devastating lines, the snare on Faucet. The Portland-based producer discusses three important albums.
hyacinth.'s picks:
DJ Screw – Bigtyme Vol II All Screwed Up
Earl Sweatshirt – I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside
MIKE – War In My PenCheck out hyacinth.'s music over on the peradam tapes. label. They're on Twitter – @hyacinthindecay.
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Mellow ingenuity, drowned in reverb, London at its most gloomy and miserable. London-based multidisciplinary artist Sam Ashton discusses three important albums.
Sam's picks:
Explosions In The Sky – The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place
Grouper – Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill
Burial – S/TYou can check out Sam's music over at the Fortresses Bandcamp or over at Dragon's Eye Recordings. He's also on Instagram.
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Weird symphony, no crazy vibrato, Terry Riley on the discman. The violist and composer discusses three important albums.
Jessica's picks:
Beethoven - André Cluytens, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra – Symphony No. 9
John Cage, Arditti String Quartet – String Quartet In Four Parts
Terry Riley – You're NogoodJessica's new album Clamor is out now via Out Of Your Head Records. Her website is here.
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High-altitude Bryars, trash on the walls, desperate shamans. The Los Angeles-based multidisciplinary artist discusses three important albums.
Dorian's picks:
Gavin Bryars – The Sinking Of The Titanic / Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet
Nearly God – S/T
George Michael – Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1Dorian's new album, Excesiva, is out now on Dragon's Eye Recordings. Check it out on Bandcamp. Dorian's website is here.
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Emotional rollercoasters, impossible Neo Tokyo, perfect snares. The London-based Swedish producer/sound designer discusses three important albums.
Julia's picks:
Esbjörn Svensson Trio – Leucocyte
Akira Yamaoka – Silent Hill 2 OST
Pinecone Moonshine (label) – [PCMS 2020.1] Vector SpaceThe new aircode album, titled Surface Tension, is out now via Gin&Platonic. Check it out on Bandcamp. Aircode is on Bandcamp and Instagram.
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Architectural sound, understandings of freedom, and how do we end? The composer, improviser and performer discusses three important albums.
Lucie's picks:
Iannis Xenakis – La Légende d'Eer
Pauline Oliveros – The Tuning Meditation
Christian Wolff – Changing The SystemLucie's recent solo album, Cave Acoustics, is out now via the labels mappa and Skupina. Lucie's website is here. Follow them on Instagram.
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Light in the ocean depths, doors to other worlds, respiratory cycling. The Tehran-based composer discusses three important albums.
Ava's picks:
William Basinski – Watermusic
Radiohead – In Rainbows
Harold Budd / Akira Rabelais – As Long As I Can Hold My Breath (By Night)Ava's new album Ginestra is out now on Flaming Pines. Check it out here. She's also on Instagram and X.
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(Almost) falling into the water, post-dumb-house-party-bike-rides, wildness and mastery. The musician and member of Xiu Xiu discusses three important albums.
Hyunhye's picks:
Chris Watson – El Tren Fantasma
PJ Harvey – To Bring You My Love
Cecil Taylor – Solo (1973)Hyunhye's new album, Eel, is out now on Room40. Check out her website and Instagram.
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The science of baffling unpredictability, nuclear plants leaking beauty, the moments before the apocalypse. The São Paulo-based artist discusses three important albums.
Claudio's picks:
KRAAN – Flyday
Hatfield And The North – The Rotters' Club
Guruh Gipsy – Guruh GipsyThe new Babe, Terror album is titled Teghnojoyg and it's out now. Check it out on the Babe, Terror Bandcamp. Head over to the Babe, Terror Youtube to see videos for each track on the new record. Check out the Babe, Terror Tumblr and also the Patreon.
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