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ALBUM REVIEW: Bolomite Jr. – ‘Cold Feet’: classical meets experimental in tectonic layering

BEN CALHOUN has been quietly working away for a while now, leading a double life as a construction worker-cum-experimental musician having begun using Digital Audio Workstations as a creative tool way…

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TRACK: Endlings – ‘Fragil’: raw evocation from John Dieterich and Raven Chacon

ENDLINGS is the collaborative project of John Dieterich, guitarist with the ever bizarre, angular, captivating Deerhoof, and Navajo Nation ambient and field recordings voyager Raven Chacon. They’ve worked together once…

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TRACK: The Notwist feat. Juana Molina – ‘Al Sur’: returning with exploratory pop chops intact

SEVEN years is too long, to paraphrase the northern soul classic; yep. that’s how long it’s been since we’ve heard from Bavaria’s always delightfully off-kilter The Notwist. Since they dropped…

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TRACK: Rutger Hoedemaekers – ‘Not For That Hour, Nor For That Place’: modern composition with electronica glimmer

RUTGER HOEDEMAEKERS is the most recent addition to 130701’s almost obscenely strong and talented stable of artists working at the forefront of modern composition. You may not yet have come…

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ALBUM REVIEW: Yvette Janine Jackson – ‘Freedom’: two suites of free expression of the Black experience

If real, unafraid, powerful sonic architecture, dialogue and expression is your thing - and in terms of consciousness, maybe it should be - then this record is essential. But enter steeled and go carefully, friend

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PREMIERE: bolomite jr. – ‘Ants’: hallucinatory soundscapery from Philly

BEN CALHOUN is, by day, a carpenter in the construction industry, keeping body and soul together with a craftsman’s skill; the better to set up him up for when he…

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SEE: The animated video for Samuel Sharp’s ‘Dawn Rises’; the English dawn captured in solo sax

HE’S QUITE the scion of British solo saxophone, is Samuel Sharp; not, perhaps, on the face of it, an easy thing to comprehend, but what he’s offering over what’s now…

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ALBUM REVIEW: Jon Mueller – ‘Family Secret’: an immersive drone palimpsest

Family Secret is a journey of deep interiority: it's implicit that it be served fresh, after dark, suitably lit with no distractions. Clever, eerie and beautiful, it's an album that will continue to reward you

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TRACK: Rachika Nayar – ‘The Trembling Of Glass’: an exciting voice in experimental guitar

HAILING from the borough of Brooklyn, ambient composer Rachika Nayar has left her previous nominative chrysalis as Rachika S behind to spread her wings as a potent ambient guitar sound…

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SEE: Jon Mueller – ‘Welcome’: glorious drone textures from Wisconsin

WISCONSIN musician? Sound artist? Explorer? Curator? – all of these things, Jon Mueller is always seeking new confluences of thought and sound. He may be best known to you as part of…

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