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GROWING Make Us a Mix,
From Sun Ra to Roedelius
As GROWING’s Songs From the Sky Capsule mixtape begins to wind down, a rarity emerges from the vast Roedelius vaults and Joe DeNardo points out a parallel that makes perfect sense. “There’s definitely a kinship at least in terms of a rolling, constantly evolving method,” he says. “Is anything ever really finished?” Diptych by GROWING […]
JQ Reveals His Recipe For
Vegan Rice Bowls and a
Private Agenda Remix
I definitely didn’t invent the concept of a rice bowl or anything, but guests always ask for the recipe, so here’s a version that’ll serve about four people. —JQ Salsa Ingredients 6 big tomatoes (beef tomatoes or similar) 1 garlic clove 2 bird’s eye chilies (or 4 larger chilies) Dash of paprika Juice of two limes 1 bunch coriander […]
Pan Daijing Shares the
Centerpiece of Jade 玉观音
Photo DZHOVANI More than just a mere quarantine record, Jade 玉观音 (PAN, June 4th) finds Pan Daijing exploring the extremes of her own subconscious after years of increasingly unpredictable performances at such venerable art institutions as the Tate Modern, Martin-Gropius-Bau, and the Haus der Kulturen der Welt. As soothing as it is unsettling, the long-awaited […]
Jas Shaw Makes Us An
Experimental Mix In The
Spirit of ‘Sollbruchstelle’
Words + Mix JAS SHAW Thanks for the invite to do a mix. Without regular gigs, my hard drive had become a mess within a mess and the process of tidying and tagging is something that tells me a lot about what I’ve picked up recently. I was initially going to do stuff that’s obviously […]
CRYSTAL Make Us a
Sega Megadrive Mixtape
In case all the Ecco the Dolphin nods in CRYSTAL’s new album (Reflection Overdrive, dropping today on flau) didn’t give the duo’s allegiances away, Ryota Miyake and Sunao Maruyama are major fans of Sega’s Mega Drive system. So much so, in fact, that Miyake was kind enough to share a set of his favorite 16-bit […]
Rainforest Spiritual
Enslavement Recruits
Low Jack For New LP
While it’s not officially Bandcamp Day yet, surprise releases have already started to trickle in largely thanks to our friends overseas. One of the first add-to-cart-able albums we noticed was Flying Fish Ambience, the first Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement record to feature Dominick Fernow (see also: Prurient, Vatican Shadow) right alongside Philippe Hallais (aka Low Jack). […]
Rochelle Jordan
Shares the Stories Behind
Play With the Changes
Photography ANGEL RIVERA Free Association is a recurring feature that reveals the debilitating roadblocks and restorative breakthroughs that went into our favorite new records. Kinda like a DVD commentary track crossed with a confessional booth. This week’s piece zeroes in on the deeply personal album Play With the Changes, the first proper Rochelle Jordan LP […]
Ishmael Ensemble Shares
Latest Visions of Light Single
Photo JAMES KOCH While producer/saxophonist Pete Cunningham is still at the core of Ishmael Ensemble’s idiosyncratic sound these days, the Bristol collective becomes more of a proper band on the first half of this summer’s Visions of Light LP. Due out August 6th through Cunningham’s own Severn Songs imprint, the avant-jazz album taps into the […]