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dustedmagazine · 10 months

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Dusted Mid-Year 2023, Part One

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It’s halfway through another year, and while that doesn’t seem possible, the trail of good-to-excellent releases argues otherwise. We celebrate as always by picking our favorites and then forcing them on unsuspecting colleagues. The Dusted Mid-Year Swap is almost entirely random, with assignments picked from a bowl and limited options for getting out of them. It’s also one of our most popular features, both internally and among our readers.

Although we don’t pursue consensus — and in fact, quite the opposite, we value the diversity of taste and opinion among our writers — some years we have a clear winner. Out of deference to our most dominant mid-year artist ever, we call them “this year’s Heron Oblivion.” In 2023, that’s especially appropriate since the artist that won the mid-year is also in Heron Oblivion. That’s Meg Baird, whose Furling captured the affection of a broad spectrum of writers. Yo La Tengo was the closest behind, with punkish The Drin and drone-experimental Natural Information Society also in the hunt.

But while we agree sometimes, at others we don’t, and you’ll notice that a good sprinkling of writers were not entirely on board with their assignments. That’s okay. It’s good for us to hear stuff we don’t like, too. It’s part of a balanced musical diet.

We begin with the first half of the alphabet with artists from Algiers to James Ilgenfritz represented. Check back tomorrow for the second half and the next day for our writers’ lists.

Algiers — Shook (Matador)

Shook by Algiers

Who nominated it? Andrew Forell

Did we review it? Yes, Andrew wrote, “Switching organically between punk, gospel, soul, hip hop, jazz and afro-futurism, Algiers speaks directly to a world under siege.”

Jennifer Kelly’s take:

On this tour de force, Algiers doesn’t so much blend African American musical styles as find the sinews and tendons and veins that connect them. “Everybody Shatter” alone morphs from minimalist techno beat to menacing rock to old-school hip hop shout-crossing call and response, and that’s just the opening salvo. The guests run the gamut from current hip hop phenom Billy Woods to DC punk mainstay Mark Cisneros to free-jazz sax experimenter Patrick Shiroishi, with a startlingly moving bit of poetry at the end from Glory Fires front man Lee Bains. “Comment #2” records an unnamed young woman wondering why the discourse about black America focuses so much on suffering, rather than the hope and joy and resilience that her community also manifests. Shook soaks up all elements of that multi-faceted experience, with fierce joy, unrelenting honesty and surges of pure musical exhilaration. Powerful stuff.

Arrowounds — In the Octopus Pond (Lost Tribe Sound)

In The Octopus Pond by ARROWOUNDS

Who nominated it? Tim Clarke

Did we review it? Yes, Tim wrote, “The sounds and how they’re treated go a long way towards mustering a unique, shadowy atmosphere, which is sustained throughout the album’s 45 minutes.”

Christian Carey’s take:

Ambient’s revival has lasted longer than its initial incarnations and cast a wider net as to the music it encompasses. Releases like In the Octopus Pond by Arrowounds (Ryan Chamberlain) demonstrate why this can be all to the good. An example is the use of a repeated post-rock riff, sustained synth lines, and samples of water in “Spectral Colours of Science,” a standout. In another melange,“Phosphene Silver Abyss” pits a loping bass riff against glissando-filled distorted electric guitar and subdued keyboards. An engaging listen throughout.

Meg Baird — Furling (Drag City)

Furling by Meg Baird

Who picked it? Jennifer Kelly

Did we review it? Yes, Tim Clarke wrote, “Welcome to one of the first great records of the young year.”

Jason Bivins’ take:

I’ve actually been living with and loving this record for many months now. Baird’s got an extraordinary voice and a real knack for both songwriting and arranging. There’s a compelling argument to be made that Furling is her strongest recording. From the outset, it’s clear that this is music that is intimate and reflective and admirably uncluttered. Chords or arpeggios shine through without excess, with gentle strumming and a light touch on the snare making a nice slide for Baird’s angelic voice to glide down. Often she layers her voice, harmonizing way up there over gentle guitar, but she also sinks right in between the chords here and there. Some tracks, like “Star Hill Song,” dial into conventional song-form more than others, but there’s always a gorgeous blend of the earthy and the ethereal. Star-skirling guitars glide atop a tasty pulse, or spare piano grounding textural clouds, always focused on Baird’s somewhat breathy voice and distinctive vibrato. In all my listening, I don’t even focus too much on the lyrics, which only float up for me on occasion. I just allow myself to be hypnotized by the unpretentious beauty of this music.

Big Blood — First Aid Kit (Ba Da Bing/Feeding Tube Records)

First Aid Kit by Big Blood

Who picked it? Bryon Hayes

Did we review it? Yes, Bill Meyer said, “Their production has a steam-pressed quality, as though the background instrumental sounds had all been ironed onto the tape. Voices and drums, however, jump out of the mix, which suits the songs’ sturdy hooks.”

Ray Garraty’s take:

The opening track “In My Head” might fool you that this is a modern take on rockabilly and 1990s indie pop, something that is not easy to stomach in large quantities. But things change drastically after that, with “Haunted”, possibly the best track on the whole CD. A bit of Sparks, a bit of Kate Bush, a bit of your favorite bedroom pop band, Big Blood is a mix of all that but with a twist. First Aid Kit sounds lo-fi enough not to be too grandiose and tiring and clean enough not to fall into the category of bedroom rumblings made for a few friends. The choruses are haunting you, indeed, and stick in mind for days. It closes with a track called “Weird Road Pt. 1,” and it is a weird road for sure. Weird and just great.

BIG|BRAVE — nature morte (Thrill Jockey)

nature morte by BIG|BRAVE

Who picked it? Jonathan Shaw

Did we review it? Yes, Jonathan said, “The title of nature morte might reference death, but this music is frightfully, joyfully and overwhelmingly alive.”

Bryon Hayes’ take:

There’s heavy music that attempts to pulverize your grey matter into oblivion, and then there’s nature morte. This is music that gets under your skin with its dual guitar wall of noise and its sludgy rhythms. What’s really arresting is the intensity of Robin Wattie’s vocals, and how she transitions from a measured attack into all-out screaming almost instantaneously. I don’t usually thirst for music on the heavier end of the spectrum, but I found myself strangely attracted to this record. Images of EMA covering Nirvana’s “Endless, Nameless” kept swirling through my head as I digested the record for the first time. The maelstrom conjured by the two guitars, the pounding of the drums, and Wattie’s almost pleading vocals coalesce into a near-crystalline molasses that somehow manages to flow with enough sweetness to appeal to all manner of listener. Even if you tend to enjoy softer sounds, you should give this album a spin.

Cellow — Ghetto Takeover (Jugg$treet)

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Who picked it? Ray Garraty

Did we review it? No

Jason Bivins’ take:

An EP should be concise, a marker of method and style on the journey to completing a larger project. Or, it should whet the appetite by introducing a new voice, the promise of distinction. Cellow’s six-song, eighteen-minute slice from earlier this year is, by contrast, somehow meandering. On the final track, he proposes: “Let’s do a tape in a fucking night.” Which, apparently, is actually how this project came together. And oof, does it sound it. The production is dated and drab, the beats pedestrian, and the rhymes predictably grandiose and misanthropic in equal measure. For example, he boasts, “that’s a 2012 Benz, not a spaceship” and “I just got $200 for an 8th of Splenda.” He fat-shames women, disses Obama and otherwise romps over his “clown-ass” competitors. If only he were actually compelling as a verbal stylist. But no: after yet another “Strange Fruit” sample on “Ain’t Come to Play,” he fumbles the attempted double-time spitting. It’s embarrassingly undercooked and awkward, especially the two tracks without Rio Da Yung OG.

Elkhorn — On the Whole Universe in All Directions (Centripetal Force)

On The Whole Universe In All Directions by Elkhorn

Who nominated it? Bill Meyer

Did we review it? No.

Christian Carey’s take:

For their latest recording, On the Whole Universe in All Directions, Elkhorn (acoustic 12-string guitarist Jesse Shephard and electric guitarist/percussionist Drew Gardner) explore each principal direction of the compass (North-South-East-West) on four tracks. The vibraphone is a new addition, and the textures created by vibes and 12-string in combination on “North” and “South” are mesmerizing. Splash cymbals and alternate scales provide a (perhaps inevitable) exoticism to “East.” Correspondingly, “West” shares minimal folk inflections and a winsome melody. Elkhorn has executed a successful transformation.

Robert Forster — The Candle and the Flame (Tapete)

The Candle And The Flame by Robert Forster

Who picked it? Jennifer Kelly

Did we review it? Yes. Andrew Forell wrote, “Forster’s observational directness and simple language are always in service to the deep feeling in his songs and few better imbue the quotidian joys of domestic life and the power of memory with such poetry.”

Patrick Masterson’s take:

Not being much of an ardent Go-Betweens fan, I went into The Candle and the Flame with little expectation beyond the notion that Forster would be chronicling the relationship with his wife, who was diagnosed with and got treated for ovarian cancer around the three years these songs were conceived. What I can’t help but admire is how he throws you akimbo right away with “She’s a Fighter,” which attacks the illness directly and immediately (with the help of the whole family, even!) in a rollicking folk-punk style. Duly done and dusted, Forster turns his attention to the deeper reserves of their personal history, reminiscing about meetings in Germany and walking to school in the ‘60s and the general weathering of life in a more relaxed, fittingly contemplative manner. You can tell without knowing anymore than I did that he’s been doing this long enough that songwriting comes naturally to him by now no matter the topic — an artist with an innate gift honed over decades that shines best at its most unvarnished.

Asher Gamedze — Turbulence and Pulse (International Anthem/Mushroom Hour Half Hour)

Turbulence and Pulse by Asher Gamedze

Who picked it? Andrew Forell

Did we review it? Nope

Ian Mathers’ take:

This is a very good record that I feel like I got a few mistaken impressions of! The blurb on the Bandcamp page talks a lot about percussion in a way that made me think this was going to be more beat-centric, and then the opening almost-title track “Turbulence’s Pulse” does go in that direction, combined with a speech about the intersection of rhythms, history and politics. It kind of rules, and then the record pivots on “Wynter Time” to what sounds to my (admittedly not-super-genre-savvy) ears like a pretty straightforward jazz track. Not that Gamedze’s drumming isn’t vital to those proceedings, and it continues to be impressive throughout, but we get a lot more of that latter mode over these 80 minutes (including 20 minutes of live versions of tracks from this album, which may be catnip to real heads but to relative novice me don’t stand out enough to want both). But neither “it’s a bit long for me” or “it’s not exactly what I expected” are big complaints, and they’re more than outweighed by the quality of Gamedze’s playing and the rest of the ensemble, especially Robin Fassie on trumpet and Buddy Wells on tenor saxophone, who wound up drawing a lot of my focus. When things get moving on “Locomotion” and “Out Stepped Zim” the results are great, even if I could also love a record more directly in line with “Turbulence’s Pulse.”

Jana Horn — The Window Is the Dream (No Quarter)

The Window Is The Dream by Jana Horn

Who recommended it? Tim Clarke

Did we review it? Yes; Tim wrote, “Horn weaves in an undeniable magic. Much like the soap bubble on the album’s cover, hold this music up to the light and it refracts a surprising array of beautiful colors.”

Jonathan Shaw’s take: The variety of wispy, delicate, singer-songwriter music that Jana Horn makes generally puts me to sleep—a fact for which I am grateful, since prolonged exposure to qualities like “wispy” and “delicate” isn’t a happy event for me. And to be sure, Horn’s mannered, near-expressionless alto—full of little gulps and breathy intonations that are simultaneously arch and bloodless—is mildly irritating. But setting those subjective responses aside, there are things to admire on The Window Is the Dream. Horn has a distinct compositional sensibility, which is affecting in direct proportion to its spareness. See the music of “Old Friend,” which skitters and halts, but maintains its sense of grace and composure. The arrangement builds some momentum, and when Horn cuts it all off, with peremptory force, it’s satisfying. Throughout the record, Horn demonstrates that musical sense for timing and mood; see especially the overlay of dissonances that emerges after the careful combinations and constructions of the opening three minutes of “In Between.” But for this listener, Horn’s singing cancels those urgencies and complexities. I get it: the contrast between her prettily blank vocals and the music’s by-turns dreamy and antsy textures will please some. But these precise, calculated gestures don’t make any magic for me.

James Ilgenfritz—#entrainments (Infrequent Seams)

#entrainments by James Ilgenfritz

Who nominated it? Christian Carey

Did we review it? No

Bill Meyer’s take:

Here’s a record that’s well within my wheelhouse, but which I had skipped over on account of there being a lot of music out there. It turns out that #entrainments deeply rewards investigation. It succeeds at being an engaging listen as well as formally creative. Bassist/composer James Ilgenfritz hasn’t just crafted some appealing melodies, he has made them part of a system of meta-responses that can be restructured on the fly. His combo, which includes drummer Gerry Hemingway, alto saxophonist Angelica Niescier and cellist Nathan Bontrager, is tuned into the multiple levels at which this music needs to work, and sounds equally persuasive realizing the cut-and-thrust of “#frontmatter,” which reminds me in a good way of old Henry Threadgill records, and the chamber combo with dissenting drums treatment of “#squarequotes.” A comprehensive review of this album would delve deep into its backstory of health travails and compositional strategizing, but since we’re keeping it brief, suffice to say that if you like your jazz sturdy, nuanced, and inclusive, #entrainments will deliver the goods, and follow them up with a bounty of bonuses.

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occultamusica · 6 months

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Arrowounds - Maps To Where The Poison Grows (in The Rise and Fall of the Melting World, 2021)

#occult music #Arrowounds #electronic music #dark ambient #2021 #b

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gacougnol · 1 year

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Split from Arrowounds / Chelidon Frame

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13melekradyo · 4 months

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16 Aralık 2023 tarihli program kaydı.

Güncel drone/ambient kayıtlardan bir seçki // A selection of recent drone/ambient recordings. Download.

01 – Seabuckthorn – Comes To Light 02 – The Inward Circles – Our Light In Ashes 03 – Mayforest – Biodegradable 04 – Arrowounds – Portasar 05 – Corrado Maria De Santis – Opening A Void 06 – Abul Mogard – Nearly Invisible 07 – Ibukun Sunday – An Endless Cycle 08 – James Bernard & anthéne ft. Marine Eyes – Trembling House 09 – Chris Abrahams & Oren Ambarchi & Robbie Avenaim – Placelessness (excerpt) 10 – Ki Oni – Reincarnation At The End Of The World (excerpt)

#drone #ambient #yeni #new

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histaminetapes · 4 years

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joyfulunion · 5 years

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Arrowounds - Book of Endangered Species

Arrowounds’ latest album ‘Book of Endangered Species’ is out now on Histamine Tapes.

Purchase Cassette: Arrowounds - Book of Endangered Species

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postambientlux · 3 years

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BEST AMBIENT OF 2020

the 100 BEST AMBIENT ALBUMS of 2020 curated by @holsgr

#100 : Tomas Jirku • Touching The Sublime (Silent Season)

#99 : Drew McDowall • Agalma (Dais Records)

#98 : Euglossine • Blue Marble Agony (Genot Centre)

#97 : Domenique Dumont • People on Sunday (The Leaf Label)

#96 : John-Robin Bold • Demonstrations (Quanta Records)

#95 : This Valley Of Old Mountains • This Valley Of Old Mountains (12k)

#94 : zakè • Orchestral Studies Collectanea (Past Inside the Present)

#93 : Monoiz • Collider (Detroit Underground)

#92 : S.hel • Disconnect (Whitelabrecs)

#91 : Glåsbird • Norskfjǫrðr (Whitelabrecs)

#90 : Botany • End the Summertime F(or)ever (Western Vinyl)

#89 : Jeannine Schulz • Ground . The Gentle (Stereoscenic Records)

#88 : Sophia Loizou • Untold (Houndstooth)

#87 : William Basinski • Lamentations (Temporary Residence Limited)

#86 : KMRU • Opaquer (Dagoretti Records)

#85 : ARROWOUNDS • The Loneliness of the Deep Sea River (Lost Tribe Sound)

#84 : Lingua Lustra • Omni (Exosphere)

#83 : Slow Dancing Society • The Disappearing Collective Vol. I (Past Inside the Present)

#82 : Christopher Bissonnette • Wayfinding (12k)

#81 : Tomotsugu Nakamura • Literature (Laaps)

#80 : Yui Onodera • Ray (Serein)

#79 : Gyða Valtýsdottir • Epicycle II (Sono Luminus)

#78 : Ned Milligan & John Atkinson • Call Me When You Can (Facture)

#77 : Jonathan Fitoussi • Plein Soleil (Transversales Disques)

#76 : Joda Clément • The last place they thought of (Glistening Examples)

#75 : Zoltan Fecso • Daylight In An Empty Room (Whitelabrecs)

#74 : Aukai • Game Trails (Aukai Music)

#73 : Ricardo Donoso • Content (Denovali)

#72 : Fossil Haunting Collective • Vacancy (Ambientologist)

#71 : Stefan Węgłowski • What Is Hidden (Silesian Museum)

#70 : Akira Uchida • Sasanami (IIKKI)

#69 : Minimal Drone GRL • Ancestral Origins (Bricolage)

#68 : An Moku & Joel Gilardini • Maya Deren (Bullflat3.8)

#67 : BLOMMA • BLOMMA (Moderna Records)

#66 : J. Wiltshire • Resa (Musar Recordings)

#65 : Alva Noto • Xerrox Vol. 4 (NOTON)

#64 : Ian Wellman • The House That Ate Itself (Room40)

#63 : Sparkle Division • Feel Embraced (Temporary Residence Limited)

#62 : Echium • Disruptions of Form (Sferic)

#61 : Warmth • Life (Archives)

#60 : Mary Lattimore • Silver Ladders (Ghostly International)

#59 : Degoya • Fragmenta (Liburia Records)

#58 : Ben Lukas Boysen • Mirage (Erased Tapes)

#57 : Dronny Darko & ProtoU • Metta (Chryo Chamber)

#56 : Valance Drakes • Freedom Is Its Own Kind Of Salary (Laaps)

#55 : Mathieu Karsenti • Bygones (Slowcraft Records)

#54 : Pawel Pruski • Between (KrysaliSound)

#53 : Guy Andrews • Permanence (Houndstooth)

#52 : Matt Christensen • Mo Pussyfooting (Self-released)

#51 : Still Harbours • Armature (Lontano Series)

#50 : Jogging House • Companion (dauw)

#49 : David Cordero • Honne (本音) (Dronarivm)

#48 : Rafael Anton Irisarri • Peripeteia (Dais Records)

#47 : T.R. Jordan • Just For You (Past Inside the Present)

#46 : Margins • I Tired For Hours (Facture)

#45 : Shuta Hiraki • Voicing In Oblivion (Rottenman Editions)

#44 : Private Mountain • Stratumi (СТРАТУМИ) (Élan Vital)

#43 : Ocoeur • Everything (n5md)

#42 : René Aquarius • Universe (Moving Furniture Records)

#41 : Ezra Feinberg • Recumbent Speech (Related States)

#40 : Murials • Stems (Infinito Audio)

#39 : Snowdrops • Volutes (Injazero Records)

#38 : Wanderwelle • A State of Decrepitude (A Strangely Isolated Place)

#37 : Niklas Paschburg • Svalbard (7K!)

#36 : Phil Struck • Schleswig-Holstein Aufnahmen (Séance Centre)

#35 : Robot Koch • The Next Billion Years (Modern Recordings)

#34 : Max Ananyev • Midday (Whitelabrecs)

#33 : Loke Rahbek & Frederik Valentin • Elephant (Posh Isolation)

#32 : Ezra Feinberg & John Kolodij • Ezra Feinberg & John Kolodij (Whited Sepulchre Records)

#31 : Art Crime • Thightening Knots (Radio Sygma)

#30 : Andrew Tasselmyer • Associative Mechanisms (Self-released)

#29 : Ecovillage • Arrived (Dronarivm)

#28 : Jacaszek • Music For Film (Ghostly International)

#27 : Ital Tek • Outland (Planet Mu)

#26 : Christine Ott • Chimères (Pour Ondes Martenot) (Nahal Recordings)

#25 : Radosław Kurzeja • Ogród Botaniczny w Palermo (Nasze Nagrania)

#24 : Jan Wagner • Kapitel (Quiet Love Records)

#23 : Niksen • Invisible City (Touch)

#22 : Toàn • Volta No Vento (IIKKI)

#21 : Gidge • New Light (Atomnation)

#20 : Andrew Lang • Momentary Senses (Rusted Tone Recordings)

#19 : Snorri Hallgrímsson • Chasing The Present (Moderna Records)

#18 : Endless Melancholy • A Perception of Everything (Sound In Silence)

#17 : From Overseas • Home (Past Inside the Present)

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#15 : Tropic of Coldness • Human Kindness (Whitelabrecs)

#14 : Thisquietarmy • Kesselhaus (Thisquietarmy Records)

#13 : Mark De Clive-Lowe, Andrea Lombardini & Tommaso Cappellato • Dreamweavers (Mother Tongue Records)

#12 : Patricia Wolf • Lament (Fallen Moon Recordings)

#11 : Corrado María De Santis • A Dark Mist (Bullflat3.8)

#10 : William Ryan Fritch • The Letdown (Lost Tribe Sound)

#9 : Ellen Fullman & Theresa Wong • Harbors (Room40)

#8 : A Home For Ghosts • Hireath (Rusted Tone Recordings)

#7 : David Cordero & Miguel Otero • Salinas (Archives)

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#2 : Havenaire • Movement (Polar Seas)

#1 : Aho Ssan • Simulacrum (Subtext)

the 50 GREATEST EP's of 2020 curated by @holsgr

#50 : Aeoi • Ioeth (TAR)

#49 : Distant Animals • Everyday Violence (Engram Recordings)

#48 : Kyle Bobby Dunn • They Have Always Been Within (Self-released)

#47 : kj • Grace (Self-released)

#46 : John Wall • M - [ B ] (Self-released)

#45 : 0comeups • Creek Don't Rise (Slagwerk)

#44 : Sarah Haras • Storm (Self-released)

#43 : Nexcyia • Crawl (Alien Jams)

#42 : Darren Harper • Summer Loops (Self-released)

#41 : Michel Banabila, Stijn Hüwels & Cok Van Vuuren • One Moment In Time (Tapu Records)

#40 : Glia • QIBE (Self-released)

#39 : Thys & Amon Tobin • Ghostcards (Nomark)

#38 : etller • Dysmal (TAR)

#37 : IHHH • The Magical Ratio (ZABRA)

#36 : Iskra Strings & Pablo Nouvelle • Manor House (1631 Recordings)

#35 : Francis M. Gri • Roots (The Slow Music Movement)

#34 : Filalete • The Weekend Was Modern (Perfect Aesthetics)

#33 : Ital Tek • Seraph (Just Isn't Music)

#32 : Perila & Ulla • Transparent Waters of Deep Blue (Self-released)

#31 : Lorn & Dolor • Zero Bounce (Wednesday Sound)

#30 : Andrew Tasselmyer & Anthéne • Distant (Hibernate)

#29 : Max Cooper • Earth (Mesh)

#28 : r beny • The Dashboard Cast a Spectral Glow (Past Inside the Present)

#27 : Jordane Tumarinson • Printemps (1631 Recordings)

#26 : John Bence • Love (Thrill Jockey)

#25 : Black Brunswicker • Tall Trees (Stereoscenic)

#24 : Digital Selves • <?/?body> <?!?-?- language -?-?> (Self-released)

#23 : Ilyas Ahmed & Jefre Cantu-Ledesma • Torch Songs (Self-released)

#22 : Mathieu Karsenti • Downstream Blue (Slowcraft Records)

#21 : Taylor Deupree • Canoe (Longform Editions)

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#19 : Symbol • Lifted (Mystery Circles)

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#8 : Bby Eco • Gen (Slagwerk)

#7 : Lucy Gooch • Rushing (Past Inside the Present)

#6 : Slow Meadow • By The Ash Tree (Self-releaed)

#5 : Nick Malkin • A Thing in Middle Distance (Self-released)

#4 : ᕦ(ò_óˇ)ᕤ • W.S. (Self-released)

#3 : Lensk • Unseen, Uncertain, Whole (TAR)

#2 : Glass • L.U.C.A (Santé Records)

#1 : Snorri Hallgrímsson • Landbrot I (Moderna Records)

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Teruyuki Kurihara - Echoes CatalogIII

Koji Itoyama - I Know

Marc Ertel - [Overtures]

Claire Deak & Tony Dupé - The Old Capital

Ben Frost - Dark: Cycle 3 (Music from the Netflix Original Series)

V/A (Touchtheplants) - Breathing Instruments

Bentley - Ford Pliner

Ólafur Arnalds - some kind of peace

Christina Giannone, zakè & Tyresta - Vision Transmissions

Simon Posford - Flux & Contemplation: Portrait of an Artist in Isolation

Pun Collins - Dying Together

Ishmael Cormack - The Sunday Project

Daniel Herskedal - Call For Winter

Shinpal - Momentary Disappeared Memory

Lionel Marchetti - Planktos

Tim Koch - Scordatura

Julianna Barwick - Healing Is A Miracle

Baldruin - Die halluzinierte Welt

Nick Storring - My Magic Dreams Have Lost Their Spell

ABADIR - Liminal

Attilio Novellino - Strangar

Fire-Toolz - Rainbow Bridge

Noise Trees - Paper Songs

Maze & Lindholm - A River Flowing Home to the Sea

Thet Liturgiske Owäsendet - Det Var Folk Dar Ute. Dom Ar Borta Nu.

Jeremy Bible - Human Savagery

Paul Schütze - Without Thought

Rutger Zuydervelt & Bill Seaman - Movements of Dust

Saåad - Elijah

Frans De Waard & Miguel A. García - Interior Sounding

HOOR-PAAR-KRAAT - The Place of The Crossing

TIBSLC - A Shell-like Object

Pina - Buit

Michel Banabila - All Connected

Resilience -Forgotten World

Madeleine Cocolas - Ithaca

Ludovico Einaudi - 12 Songs From Home

Jo David Meyer Lysne & Mats Eilertsen - Kroksjø

John Wall - SC Editions 2

Deathbed Convert - Debris of Echoes

Hirotaka Shirotsubaki - Still Life

FFT - Total Self-Fufilment

...From The Benthic Zone - Fjord Genus

Henrik Meierkord - Refuge

Hirotaka Shirotsubaki - slowdance,lowtide

Ancient Loops - An Abandoned City

Nils Frahm - Empty

JC Leisure - Mutations For

Corey Fuller - Sanctuary

Sam Gendel - Satin Doll

Jan Bang & Eivind Aarset - Snow Catches on Her Eyelashes

36 & zakè - Stasis Sounds For Long?-?Distance Space Travel

Aria Rostami & Daniel Blomquist - Sketch for Winter VIII: Floating Tone

Jóhann Jóhannsson & Yair Elazar Glotman - Last And First Men

Sary Moussa - Imbalance

Martina Bertoni - All the Ghosts Are Gone

The Alvaret Ensemble - ea

Nyx Nótt - Aux Pieds de la Nuit

Simone Gatto - Harmonic Resonance System 432 Hz

Oliver Coates - skins n slime

Klara Lewis - Ingrid

Ben Bondy & exael - Aphelion Lash

Halftribe - Archipelago

Jocelyn Reyes - Overland: Biomes

Anna von Hausswolff - All Thoughts Fly

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thestillnessandthedancing · 4 years

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May 27th 2020

So this Saturday is considered in our circle to be a pretty sacred holiday… and that is good ole DRONE DAY! The last Saturday in May is reserved as a day to celebrate and an invitation to be mesmerized by sonic inquiries into the most sustained of notes, the slowly evolving, unhurried wisdom of the long form sound excursions. I confess to be less of an expert and more a casual observer, that ever so often gets pulled along by it’s forceful tide. So here’s a few selections that dabble in those realms and maybe help you get your feet wet and invite you to wade a little deeper. Thanks always!

-hour1- Arrowounds - Sunken Phantoms (Single Version) (from.. The Loneliness of the Deep Sea Diver - 2020 - Lost Tribe Sound) Secret Pyramid - A Dream on Third (from.. Two Shadows Collide - 2017) Hotel Neon - Tortured Shapes (2020) Dino Spiluttini - No Mercy Shown (from.. Ceremony - ACR - 2018) Skin - so long take care (from.. Grown Tired - 2019 - Aught/Void) clearing - 2.2 (from.. Spaces/Balance - Lillerne Tapes - 2019) Caleb R.K. Williams - Music for Barren Days #6 (from.. Music For Barren Days - 2020 - The Eagle Stone Collective)

-hour2- vierzig skizzen - From Windows (from.. Forgetting - 2020) Strange Mountain II - Meditation (from.. Phantoms of Youth - 2019 - Illuminated Paths) OA AYE - Le charbon sous les ongles (from.. Les pierres noires du fonds de nos estomacs - 2018) J Ryan Halpenny - On Getting Out in Front of It (from.. Almost, Music - 2019) Anne Sulikowski (Building castles out of matchsticks.) - Isolation Drone (from.. Bedroom Drones - 2020) Animated Blood (Nonconnah) - Former Neighborhood (from.. Weeping Gold - 2019) Le Berger - Our Responsibility to Deal More Kindly and Compassionately With One Another (from.. dat pale blue dot tho III - 2020)

Archives should be listenable at: https://www.cfru.ca/?s=The%20Stillness%20%26%23038%3B%20The%20Dancing&posttype_search=mcm_recording

Check out droneday.org for more information on various performances happening around the globe! It's not too late to join in!

Cover photo from J Ryan Halpenny's Almost, Music

#cfru #drone day #ambient #experimental music #community radio

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dustedmagazine · 4 months

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Tim Clarke’s 2023: Ears on the Prize

1. Rozi Plain — Prize (Memphis Industries)

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Even though it was released way back in January, Prize is such an understated album that it nearly slipped under my radar completely. It popped up on some mid-year lists, including that of Dusted’s Margaret Welsh. The initial hook for me is that Rozi Leyden plays bass in This is the Kit (see my #3), but I had no idea she wrote and released her own music. From initial listens I was utterly beguiled, the economy of the songwriting and the richly colorful arrangements drawing me into obsessive repeat listens. Prize is a supremely absorbing and gently uplifting album, and one that I’ve played and enjoyed more than any other this year. Its beauty and clarity gradually reveal subtle, intoxicating depths.

2. Jana Horn — The Window is the Dream (No Quarter)

If Prize dominated my listening in the second half of 2023, it was The Window is the Dream that took pride of place in the first half — and it was one of my picks in the Mid-Year Exchange. They’re similarly oblique and alluring albums, but Horn’s record is shot through with a shadowy disquiet that seems to evoke a love gone sour. The chemistry among Horn’s band, especially the standout turn from electric guitarist Jonathan Horne, is truly something to behold, and elevates this superficially simple album into another realm entirely.

3. This is the Kit — Careful of Your Keepers (Rough Trade)

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Rozi Leyden has played a key role in not one but two of my favorite albums of the year. The second is This is the Kit’s Careful of Your Keepers, notably produced by Super Furry Animals’ Gruff Rhys. Rhys shepherded the long-standing indie-folk band to create their best album to date, on which Kate Stables’ intimate songwriting is given a fresh, expansive dimension.

4. Wilco — Cousin (dBpm)

It was producer Cate Le Bon’s involvement in Wilco’s latest that piqued my interest, but thankfully Jeff Tweedy and co. have also brought their A-game on this one. Supposedly conceived pre-pandemic and then shelved, Cousin is a gloriously deep and emotionally engaging album from a band who have always seemed, to me, on the verge of creating something great, but never quite get over the line. With Le Bon’s help, Cousin takes a confident step beyond.

5. Pile — All Fiction (Exploding in Sound)

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It’s taken for granted that Pile can dole out cathartic, noisy guitar records, but All Fiction feels different. Rick Maguire, Alex Molini and Kris Kuss maintain the electric dynamic they’ve always possessed, but shift their focus onto making the music between the crescendos more immersive and textural. It works brilliantly.

6. Meg Baird — Furling (Drag City)

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Furling was released so early in the year, and so much great music has been released since, that it’s easy to forget just how good it is. As noted in my Dusted review, “Baird’s voice is an instrument of rare beauty, simultaneously assured and elusive, like a soft-focus Sandy Denny wandering in a fever dream.” When you situate such a voice within some of Baird’s best songs to date and embellish them with sensitive playing by her partner, Charlie Saufley, you’ve got a record of enduring beauty.

7. Devendra Banhart — Flying Wig (Mexican Summer)

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Flying Wig is the second album on this list to be produced by Cate Le Bon. Here, Le Bon’s aesthetic is writ large, from the melancholy drift of the synth arrangements to the heavily modulated saxophone parts. Through it all Banhart sounds acutely lonely, while also luxuriating in the beauty of his musical backing. It’s a heady vibe, that’s for sure.

8. King Krule — Space Heavy (XL)

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There are few musicians who simultaneously come across as hopelessly spaced out and gutturally pissed off at the same time. Archy Marshall is one of them, and his latest album drifts even further into dislocation and bewilderment than 2020’s stellar Man Alive!

9. Arrowounds — In the Octopus Pond (Lost Tribe Sound)

No other album released this year has quite sounded like Arrowounds’ In the Octopus Pond. It’s a singular and immersive blend of ambient and post-rock that evokes exemplary reference points such as Bark Psychosis, Dif Juz, and The World On Higher Downs. And if you enjoy this, Ryan Chamberlain has released another three albums this year, each venturing in a different direction.

10. Cory Hanson — Western Cum (Drag City)

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Wand’s Cory Hanson put out his excellent second album, Pale Horse Rider, in 2021. It features a little six-string extroversion here and there, but doesn’t quite prepare the listener for album number three. Western Cum is Hanson in full guitar-hero mode; his playing is absolutely blistering. Though nothing on the album quite surpasses early single “Housefly” for sheer wind-in-your-hair thrills, Western Cum is a supremely enjoyable rock record, built to be played loud.

Also excellent (in alphabetical order):

Activity — Spirit in the Room (Western Vinyl)

Daniel Bachman — When the Roses Come Again (Three Lobed)

BCMC — Foreign Smokes (Drag City)

Califone — Villagers (Jealous Butcher)

James Ellis Ford — The Hum (Warp)

PJ Harvey — I Inside the Old Year Dying (Partisan)

Tim Hecker — No Highs (Kranky)

Blake Mills — Jelly Road (New Deal / Verve Forecast)

The Necks — Travel (Northern Spy / Fish of Milk)

Andy Shauf — Norm (Anti-)

#dusted magazine #yearend 2023 #tim clarke #rozi plain #jana horn #this is the kit #wilco #pile #meg baird #devendra banhart #king krule #arrowounds #cory hanson

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