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Amirali Shares a Short
Doc on the Making of His
Neo-Classical EP Sokoot

Amirali has unveiled his most ambitious EP yet; now available through the Iranian producer’s own Dark Matters imprint, Sokoot is a windswept, widescreen collaboration with the world class soloists of Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich. Named after the Farsi word for silence, it’s more than just another emotive neo-classical record or cross between cavernous underground clubs and […]

E-Saggila Announces New
Hospital Productions LP

Building on the momentum of last week’s Anima Bulldozer 12”, E-Saggila has lined up her first Hospital Productions LP. Due out November 20th on red and green splattered vinyl — or black if you’re more of a purist — Corporate Cross is a proper front-to-back album that delivers on the promise of previous releases through […]

Olan Monk Unveils
New Love/Dead Video

Photo RENATA MOTTIRONI Olan Monk has shared another piece of the puzzle that is his Love/Dead LP, a collaboration with acclaimed Russian artist Maria Gorodeckaya that gets straight to the heart of Monk’s heavy pop music. Here’s what he had to say about the clip, along with a complete stream of the multi-faceted musician’s bleak […]

Heinali Melds
Generative Music
With the Middle Ages
On Madrigals

Heinali has revealed his second record of the year, a deeply researched detour from last spring’s loose session with saxophonist Michael Balog. Due out November 13th through the stellar ambient / experimental label Injazero Records, Madrigals draws a direct link between the polyphonic melodies of the Renaissance period and the heady, math-driven harmonies of modular […]

Sonja Tofik Announces
Debut Album, Anomi

Sonja Tofik — a longtime member of Stockholm’s dearly missed Drömfakulteten collective — has announced her first proper LP, a haunting collection of electroacoustic, ambient, and drone music that sounds as if it were beamed from the great beyond or another dimension entirely. Which makes sense; Anomi (due out October 30th through Marlena Salonen and […]

Marta De Pascalis
Embraces the
Experimental Side
of Italian Music

Words MARTA DE PASCALIS For most of his life, my grandfather worked as a tailor for RAI (Italy’s national public broadcasting company). When he died, I found a box of mostly sealed vinyl featuring Italian library music, soundtracks and plays, and experimental music from the ’60s and ’70s. That box was a treasure trove for […]