Glenn Branca: “Symphony No. 13 (Hallucination City) For 100 Guitars” (Atavistic 2016)This recording is of a 2008 performance in Italy, and it’s a beautiful racket. R.I.P. Glenn Branca. (Source:...
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Nurse With Wound: “A New Dress” (A Bead To A Small Mouth, Barooni 1989)One of Steven Stapleton’s eerier works, featuring a long monologue that sounds like the recalling of a confusing dream (or a...
Z’ev: “1″ (Headphone Musics 1-6, Touch 2004)Stefan Joel Weisser a.k.a. Z’ev died this year at the age of 66. His vast career as a percussionist, sculptor, and performance artist has always inspired...
Black Cube Marriage: “Fractal Signal Clone” (Astral Cube, El Paraiso 2017)Dense avant-jazz abounds on Black Cube Marriage’s new album Astral Cube, available on El Paraiso. The 11-person ensemble is...
Steve Reich: “Drumming” (performed by the Portland Percussion Group)The Portland Percussion Group recorded this great performance of Steve Reich, and the visuals add a whole layer to the experience....
Beatrice Dillon: Face A/B (Where to Now?) This three-track EP from Beatrice Dillon is fascinating to me. It has all of the tropes of minimal techno with a dash of house, but equally it...
Die Form: “Dog Handler” (Archives & Doküments, Normal 1988)Die Form always seemed like the unsung heroes of innovative and unusual experimental music. At times they veered into almost...
Koenraad Ecker: Sleepwalkers in a Cold Circus (Line)Koenraad Ecker’s 2nd album is a fascinating headlong dive into experimental sound and amplified acoustics. Its linear sounds and...
Frank Bretschneider: Sinn + Form (Raster-Noton)Frank Bretschneider flexes his modular synthesis muscle with this special collection of eight tracks recorded on location at EMS in Stockholm...
Ivan Wyschnegradsky: “Prelude No. 5″ (24 Preludes in Quarter-Tones, 1934)I was completely unfamiliar with the works of Wyschnegradsky until morimur turned me onto this piece in particular. It’s a...
zumzeig: David Tudor and John Cage in Japan, 1962
rudyscuriocabinet: Else Marie Pade - Faust (1962) Gorgeous experimental music, pre-dating ambient and drone by at least a decade or two. Else Marie’s work needs a complete re-appraisal. It’s truly...
Maurizio Bianchi: “The Plain Truth” (The Plain Truth, 1983) Maurizio Bianchi’s career has been full of twists and turns, but it’s his initial series of transmissions from the...
Ensemble Skalectrik: “Wrekfree” (Trainwrekz, Editions Mego 2013) Nick Edwards a.k.a. Ekoplekz in one of his weirder projects, repurposing old sound effects and easy listening records...
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