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Friday, 31 May
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Welcome return from prickly-sweet Norwegian singer-songwriter, Jenny Hval, proceeding her excellent 2011 album, 'Viscera', also issued thru Rune Grammofon. This time she's deigned to work with super-producer John Parish, who's best known for his legendary work with PJ Harvey and here provides an at times surreal, always detailed, and spellbinding blend of robust pop and free-flowing rock music. It's a perfect match for the provocative novelist and artist's pointed and intelligent lyrics dealing with everything from the tragic Breivik shootings to gender politics and the psychogeography of… Read more
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"Hedvig Mollestad Thomassen is a guitar heroine for our times. She first picked up her mother’s nylon-strung acoustic guitar at the age of ten and as an exploratory teenager she dug deep into her father’s jazz and rock record collection. Then she was given an electric guitar and amplifier as a confirmation present, and never looked back. But there’s nothing pious about her music. Her molten, overdriven guitar sound is forged in the same fiery furnace as Hendrix, Tony Iommi, Jimmy Page, then plunged into a steaming vat of free jazz in the Sonny Sharrock/Fred Frith mould. In tra… Read more
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It makes sense that Mark Ernestus's investigations into the grain and grammar of rhythm have led him to Senegal - where Mbalax, an ecstatic fusion of Western music styles and traditional Senegalese drum music (sabar), has been flourishing since the 1970s. Hard-grooving, hypnotic, fiendishly swung - and with an instrumental palette comprised largely of talking-drums and sequencer-like marimba synths - it's easy to understand why it appeals to both the technical and intuitive sides of the Basic Channel/Rhythm & Sound don's brain, whose burgeoning interest in Africa has al… Read more
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Maudlin beatscapes and angst-ridden electro-pop from Baths on 'Obsidian', the follow-up to 2010's 'Cerulean'. As seems to be entirely commonplace for Anticon artists these days, Will Wiesenfeld seems in thrall to the plaintive chamber-folk of people like Sufjan Stevens and Peter Broderick, working with an aspirational toolbox of strings, guitars and vocal harmonies, favouring hushed, clos-mic'd production, and trying to put his own stamp on the formula with some dusty drum loops, erratic electronic squiggles and stuttering, disruptive edits. Elsewhere, as on 'Miasma Sky', the touchstone seem to be Hot C… Read more
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Chicago-based trumpet player and electronic experimenter Justin Walter makes a lovely debut appearance on Kranky with his rarified first solo album. Sounding uncannily like the results of a secret hook up between Golden Retriever, Arve Henriksen and BoC, on 'Lullabies & Nightmares' Justin employs the Electronic Valve Instrument - a sort of hybrid trumpet and analogue synthesiser created in the '80s - to gorgeous effect, improvising frothy, fizzing loops of languid melody and scorched dissonance overdubbed with blunted drum patter and fractured electronics. It's all miles off Jus… Read more
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**Crooked avant-funk-rock and electronics with weirdly possessed vocals** "Listening to Denseland evokes shades of bygone music's and not: Lou Reed's Berlin period, Joy Division, Einstürzende Neubauten, the extended vocal madness of Roy Hart and Laurie Anderson, the distortions of the early Contortions, reduced Grandmaster Flash and John Carpenter. But Denseland's sound also exists in its own sealed universe - one spanned by sinister timbres of seduction, grooves of foreboding imbued with a sardonic, almost wicked humor. The tracks lure the listener in through an incessant, underlying, loopin… Read more
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VARIOUS / SOUL JAZZ
Country Soul Sisters 3: Women in Country Music 1956-79
Soul Jazz Records
CD // £13.99
Cat. Number: SJRCD267
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*CD edition with bonus remixes* Sam Willis takes a minute out from Walls to further explore a gorgeous personal vision of kosmic disco-tech. A solo endeavour of this sort has been some time coming from Sam who, aside from his Snoretex 12", has always been inseparable from duos. 'Winterval' possibly feels lighter, more expressive because of this, working with wonderfully aerated grooves and melodically layered arrangements which unfold with a dreamy quality. From the top 'Hello Wendy' comes off like an '80s movie dream sequence, all burbling rhythms and pink-hued soft-focus, a mood no… Read more
VARIOUS / DUST TO DIGITAL
Greek Rhapsody: Instrumental Music from Greece 1905-1956
Dust to Digital
2CD / Book // £29.99
Cat. Number: DTD27
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Hardy perennial Kel McKeown aka Kelpe drops his fourth album, also the first full-length on his own recently minted Drut label. It's business as usual really - squelchy, tactile electronica informed by library music, hip-hop, soundtracks, kosmische and beyond - though the Londoner does pursue an even warmer, more analogue-centric sound, and generally comes over as more accomplished, than ever before. Fans will be pleased with the spoils: 'Astrolomy' offers a nice line in suspenseful, cinematic jazz-funk, as if Weather Report had been commissioned to score Blow Out, while 'Beaks Of Eagles… Read more
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ANNE-JAMES CHATON & ANDY MOOR
UNSOUNDS
CD // £12.99
HOME LISTENING / MODERN CLASSICAL / AMBIENT
Cat. Number: 36U
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LEE SCRATCH PERRY & THE ORB
More Tales From The Orbservatory
Cooking Vinyl
CD // £10.99
Cat. Number: COOKCD587
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BOARDS OF CANADA
Tomorrow's Harvest (Standard CD Version)
Warp Records
CD // £8.99
Cat. Number: WARPCD257
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01. Gemini 02. Reach For The Dead 03. White Cyclosa 04. Jacquard Causeway 05. Telepath 06. Cold Earth 07. Transmisiones Ferox 08. Sick Times 09. Collapse 10. Palace Posy 11. Split Your Infinities 12. Uritual 13. Nothing Is Real 14. Sundown 15. New Seeds 16. Come To Dust 17. Semena MertvykhBOARDS OF CANADA
Tomorrow's Harvest (Artcard CD Edition)
Warp Records
CD // £8.99
Cat. Number: WARPCD257X
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**Includes 3 art cards** 01. Gemini 02. Reach For The Dead 03. White Cyclosa 04. Jacquard Causeway 05. Telepath 06. Cold Earth 07. Transmisiones Ferox 08. Sick Times 09. Collapse 10. Palace Posy 11. Split Your Infinities 12. Uritual 13. Nothing Is Real 14. Saundown 15. New Seeds 16. Come To Dust 17. Semena Mertvykh
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Ostgut Ton present their 2nd suite of music scored for ballet - featuring exclusive works commissioned from Henrik Schwarz, Dettmann | Wiedemann (Âme), and DIN aka Marcel Fengler and Phillip Sollmann (Efdemin). In comparison with the label's first Staatsballet excursion - 2007's 'Shut Up And Dance! - this is a more expansive and ambitious affair: each production unit contributes a whole movement in collaboration with a different choreographer. Henrik Schwarz yields a six-song cycle sweeping flamenco-style guitars, pizzicato strings and keys in elegant, effervescent rhythms underlined by plush bass and gi… Read more
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