#Upcoming #DonCherry delves into Turkish rhythms with Turkish drummer #OkayTemiz and South African bassist #JohnnyDyani at #ORTF studios in Paris, 1971. The LP has been remastered from the original tapes and licensed from #BYGRecords, France. Available via #CazPlak, October 6th. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nqirVqydKuDLbWK9pnkvQtto0mz7jf-Eg

#Upcoming Originally released in 1986, “Surround” was recorded by #HiroshiYoshimura as a commission by home builder Misawa Homes, intended to function as an “amenity” designed to enhance the company’s newly built living spaces. He described it as, “music that’s as close to air itself… transforming it into a comfortable space.” Available via Temporal Drift, October 6th. https://hiroshi-yoshimura.bandcamp.com/album/surround

#Upcoming “My Brutal Life” delves into #TheBlackDog’s fixation with Symmetry, Synchronisation, and Repetition through the aesthetic and human facets of brutalism. Available via #DustScience, October 13th. https://theblackdog.bandcamp.com/album/my-brutal-life

#Upcoming Recorded in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico during the hottest month in history at the time, “Pianovoz Electroacústica” are piano and vocal improvisations by #Peretsky aka Max Alper. The album is about coming to grips with austerity in the 21st century and the illusion of democratization from technological innovations most in the Global North take for granted. Available via #DeathbombArc, October 6th. https://deathbombarc.bandcamp.com/album/pianovoz-electroac-stica

#Upcoming “Ash” is a new collection of sound experiments developed by #Emptyset over the last three years. The release marks a return for the collaborative duo of James Ginzburg and Paul Purgas, bringing them back to Bristol where the project first began. Available via #SubtextRecordings, October 20th. https://emptyset1.bandcamp.com/album/ash

#Upcoming #BandcampFriday Confrontational, unhinged, and unabashedly queer, “Music from Hell” is an unholy grail for fans of the strangest underbellies of post-punk, minimal synth, and early industrial music. #NervousGender (de)formed in LA in 1978 at the hands of Phranc, Gerardo Velaquez, Edward Stapleton, and Michael Ochoa. Available via #DarkEntries, October 31st. https://nervous-gender.bandcamp.com/album/music-from-hell

#Upcoming #BandcampFriday A companion to #MarcMasters' book "High Bias: A Distorted History of the Cassette Tape," featuring 12 tracks from 12 current tape labels discussed in the book's final chapter. All proceeds from this tape will go to Philip Klinger's project to restore and release the archives of the great underground tape artist #Minóy. Available October 3rd. https://highbiasbook.bandcamp.com/album/high-bias-music-from-the-book

#Upcoming “Wishah” وِشاح (veil) is a composition in five stages, written by #YoumnaSaba between 2021 and 2022, for voice, oud, and electronics. She uses a special-made digital extension for the oud, enhancing its sonic range and amplifying subtle, often overlooked sounds. Available via @touch, October 6th. https://touch333.bandcamp.com/album/wishah

#Upcoming At the start of the 1990s as the Rave scene exploded it was such a new thing for so many people that they often didn’t know what the music was, nor did they have the vocabulary to describe it. “Raise Your Hands If You Understand” is a snapshot of that heady time. Any funds raised will be donated to Glasgow North West Foodbank. Available via #OptimoMusic, September 1st. https://optimomusic.bandcamp.com/album/raise-your-hands-if-you-understand-free-pay-what-you-want

#Upcoming #RainforestSpiritualEnslavement surprise album grown in the shade of a glacier. “Killer Whale Atmospheres” is a future-memory affair of sub bass propulsive drones, rhythms, chords, and dorsal scars building to a forbidding sense of cold echolocations yet to come through the violent procession of darkening rains. Available via #HospitalProductions, September 1st. https://rainforestspiritualenslavement.bandcamp.com/album/killer-whale-atmospheres

#Upcoming Looks like #EllenArkbro’s 2021 album “Sounds While Waiting” will be pressed on wax. She is known for playing sustained, harmonic chords on organs in large, resonant spaces. Available via #SuperiorViaduct, October 13th. https://www.superiorviaduct.com/products/ellen-arkbro-sounds-while-waiting-lp

#Upcoming Working with #StephenSpencer (saxophone), #ZaneTrow’s work has taken the most cajoling towards their intended form… Dust in the breeze of a sonic moment… Others are a textual gesture toward peculiar notions of sound as memory and evocation. Available via @room40, October 14th. https://room40.bandcamp.com/album/quire

#Upcoming #PaleSaints’ 1992 album “In Ribbons” is finally getting the 30th Anniversary celebration it deserves! The first disc features the UK version of the original LP, with the second being a bonus disc of never before heard demos. Available via #4AD, October 6th. https://palesaints.bandcamp.com/album/in-ribbons-30th-anniversary-reissue

#Upcoming Ideas about exploratory behavior as concepts of Neuro Music and Transcultural Music, have been the basis for many of #GeneColeman’s works over the last 20 years. “Exploratorium” is an album of some of those works and a space of exploration. Indeed, all the works on this album are examples of Neuro Music, which is the fundamental connection point across these compositions. Available via #FalseWalls, November 10th. https://falsewalls1.bandcamp.com/album/exploratorium

#Upcoming Founded in 1997 by Cyril Secq and Yvan Ros as a guitar/drums duo, #Astrïd’s instrumental and expansive music has been inspired by improvised music, folk, post-rock, and jazz, as well as by classical and contemporary composers. On “Always Digging the Same Hole”, each of the 5 pieces patiently and delicately charts its course through different dynamics and moods. Available via #FalseWalls, November 10th. https://falsewalls1.bandcamp.com/album/always-digging-the-same-hole

#Upcoming New #JohnDwyer project is an experiment in symphonic improvisation paired with synthesizer-scapes. Strings, reeds, synths, and hand percussion all blend sweetly into an odd landscape with different singers: YoshimiO (Boredoms), Albert Wolski (EXEK), Gracie Jackson (GracieHorse), Ciriza (Artist Extraordinaire), Kyp Malone (TVOTR), Brigid Dawson (Thee Oh Sees), AZITA (Scissor Girls). Available via his Bandcamp, October 13th. https://johndwyer.bandcamp.com/album/ritual-habit-ceremony

#Upcoming A thrilling immersion into FM synthesis and a puzzle of MIDI data, the Los Angeles based multi-instrumentalist #GreggKowalsky returns with “Eso Es”, his first new recording since 2017. Representing a significant creative leap, the album unfolds as a hypnotic journey into his inner world, laced with a depth of emotiveness and vulnerability. Available via #MexicanSummer, October 27th. https://greggkowalsky.bandcamp.com/album/eso-es

#Upcoming #TheBirthdayParty USA and Canada screenings listed here: https://www.birthdaypartymovie.com/

#Upcoming Directed by Ian White, “Mutiny in Heaven” is the story of #TheBirthdayParty’s ascent, apex, and inevitable collapse. A thrilling tale of epic struggle, artistic, genius, and total dysfunctionality. Told in the group’s own words, this documentary brings the band’s story to the screen for the first time. Australian cinema release in October/November, 2023. US cinema release dates to be announced soon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhmSg9zUgFo

#Upcoming #BandcampFriday London-based #OttoWillberg’s previous solo efforts have ranged from extended technique double bass to explorations of the acoustics of a 19th century artillery fort. But nothing he has committed to wax so far prepares a listener for “The Leisure Principle”, six unashamedly melodic improvisational workouts created almost entirely with heavily filtered bass harmonica and electric bass. Available via #BlackTruffle, September 1st. https://blacktruffle.bandcamp.com/album/the-leisure-principle