drone
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https://soundcloud.com/lastlizard/dickies-theme Last month, Alex Zhang Hungtai announced the laying to rest of his long-running and acclaimed no-wave singer-songwriter alias Dirty Beaches. The recently released Stateless was packed with gorgeous drones and was thankfully an elegant end for the project. There was a silver lining to this
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Wilting Sun by Wilting Sun Some strange and relaxing drone and experimental music on this new Wilting Sun album here. While Wilting Sun is careful not to step into anything too accessible, there’s quite a bit of variety on the six tracks here. Some tracks, like the intro here,
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https://soundcloud.com/vladislavdelay/visa-medley This week Finnish experimental electronica extraordinaire Sasu Ripatti (a.k.a. Vladislav Delay) dropped a new full-length album called Visa. On this new project, you will not find the rich dub influence of previous two LPs Vantaa and Kuopio; rather, Delay appears to be attempting
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Kijinoise by Kijinoise Here’s something that caught my ears while wading through Bandcamp earlier today. Kijinoise is a Chinese musician who has been uploading projects quite prolifically since late last month, using solely a guitar to deliver a fuzzy fusion of drone, noise, progressive rock, doom, and free improvisational
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Festival Of The Dead by CUT HANDS As is the case with most African rhythmic music, it usually serves some sort of spiritual purpose, the ritualistic quality of many different beats and melodies designed to inspire, enlighten and heal–such as the one-two rhythm of the Rastafarians, mimicking the heartbeat,
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https://soundcloud.com/rune-grammofon/supersilent-121 On its 12th album, Norway’s eminent free improvisational outfit Supersilent is still managing to turn out some pretty evocative and extraordinary music. Having dabbled in avant-garde jazz, EAI, noise, and experimental rock throughout its career, the trio now finds itself in a decidedly dark
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https://soundcloud.com/dancing-wayang-records/alps-extract This one’s a doozy! Percussive madmen Oren Ambarchi and Eli Keszler have teamed up for a compulsive cacophony of drums and guitar called Alps. Comprised of two sprawling and free-form pieces, the collaboration is a thick amalgam of free improvisation, drone, and noise rock
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Wir Essen Seelen In Der Nacht by Gnaw Their Tongues On November 1, Dutch black metal outfit Gnaw Their Tongues will put out a new full-length titled Night of Consecration. In the meantime, they’ve thrown this EP of four experimental pieces up on their Bandcamp. It’s a really
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https://soundcloud.com/parquet-courts/fell-into-the-wrong-crowd Can’t say I was expecting this: an 11-minute collaborative live recording from PC Worship and the New York post-punks over at Parquet Courts. Isn’t it “Parkay Quarts” now? Who knows? I certainly don’t know if the song at all works, especially with
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While Sunn o))) and Scott Walker make the effort to accommodate one another on this new collaborative album, the chemistry isn’t as explosive as I had hoped.
