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Soeneido – “Into Other Dimensions” – [Self Release]

aarbor   3/27/2024   A Library, CD

Soeneido is S. Setanni from Oakland. He’s a junglist, his music includes breakbeats, hardcore, UK garage and drum ‘n bass. This is one of his earlier self-released albums. These days his newer recordings are appearing on labels. It’s gritty and wonderful. AArbor

Muva of Earth – “Align With Nature’s Intelligence” – [Brownswood Recordings]

aarbor   3/27/2024   CD, Soul

Muva of Earth is Davina Adeosun-Bright who lives in South East London. This is her debut album which blends neo soul, jazz and Afro futurism. Sirius B shows up on track 5, and drummer Edward Wakili-Hick (Sons of Kemet) collaborated with her on track 3. Davina grew up in a British-Nigerian family which, she says, influences her music. She is the vocalist and is accompanied by upright bass, cello, piano, drums and harp. AArbor

Omit – “InSec” – [Siltbreeze]

cinder   3/25/2024   12-inch, A Library

Recorded in 2013, they had lost the original masters when going through a move, but they’re been found! Omit is an experimental electronics artist from New Zealand, who has released a mighty handful of sounds. InSec takes you through a mind trance of alien xenomorphic clicks, clatters, reverbs and echoes. Starting and ending with quick 3-ish minute tracks, its insides are 2 twenty minute excursions through dark damp hallways of ghostly abandoned metallic space ships, left to drift in the dark void. The xeno has come to inspect and ooze its slippery drool as it hovers down the corridors. It’s perfectly meditational with its rolling, looping, repeating rhythms. Dark, floating ambient drones.

Timelash – “Feral Lands & Forbidden Cities” – [Aguirre]

cinder   3/22/2024   12-inch, A Library

This is some fantastical fantasy shit! This is the second release in their 4-part series. “Timelash’s musical proposal is firmly rooted in retrofuturism, reminding us of exotic and library music artists such as Martin Denny, Egisto Macchi, Bernard Fèvre, and Eric Vann, reaching up to Mark Dwane’s cinematic soundscapes, or Constance Demby’s Novus Magnificat.” It’s LUSH. Full of texture upon texture of primordial sounding gurgles, sparkly intricacies, whimsical voyages. Synthesizers, samplers, flutes, percussion pads were noted upon usage, creating lofty bells, bubbles, melodic passages, safari lands, jungle humidity, imaginative day dreams. The cover photo paints the perfect picture for the sounds. Timelash is Dulgoon & Corum, recorded in Brussels, 2019. 

Chee, SongJa – “Namdo Minyo and Jagpa for the Gayageum Solo” – []

aarbor   3/20/2024   CD, International

SongJa Chee is a master player of the Korean Gayageum [pron. Guy-ah’-gum], a thousand year old 12-string wooden, surfboard-shaped zither. (The newer gayageums have 18 or 25 strings.) Chee is considered a living treasure in Korea. Namdo Minyo are folk songs which are unusual for Gayageum. Usually it is played for spiritual pieces analogous to ragas in Indian music. Chee writes that she was teaching her instrument in Japan and needed some simple songs which would be easy for her students to learn. Here she chose well-loved folk songs. The sound of the gayageum is wonderful! there is no singing (thankfully) AArbor

Grupo Jejeje Feat. Simone Michelle – “Besitos / Tu Sabes (Turbo Edit)” – [OKRA-brand]

aarbor   3/20/2024   7-inch, International

Grupo Jejeje are from San Jose. The group is a collaboration between Turbo Sonidero and Arrabalero. The producers celebrate Mexican cumbia’s innovative uses of technology and obscure sounds from synthy cumbia from Puebla to loop and sample-based kumbia editada from San Luis Potosí. They blend these sounds with their own hip-hop, electronic, and Persian music influences as cosmopolitan second-generation immigrants. Cue it up and dance. AArbor

Sequences – “Agua Viva” – [Elevator Bath]

aarbor   3/20/2024   A Library, CD

Aqua Viva is the newest work of Niels Geybels from Antwerp, Belgium. Based on a 20 minute field recording he captured during his travels, Aqua Viva has 8 “chapters” (tracks) each is a highly evocative short story. The chapters are titled after text found in Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector’s Experimental novel “Aqua Viva” from 1973. The album’s first four pieces are watery and atmospheric sounding. The second four deconstruct the atmospheres of the first half, using the essence of these pieces as the point of departure for four new studies in mysterious ambiance. The sound is dreamlike and exploratory. Lispector advises the listener to listen with your whole body. AArbor

SBTDOH – “Dregs: Bloody Scabs Seeping From Gravel Under the Skin” – [Aberrant Recordings]

Number 6   3/17/2024   A Library, Cassette

imagine being picked up by a giant and shaken to splattered gore while listening to this.  and it would be not unlike being surrounded, embedded within CIA renditioned black site torture chambers, a fully immersed capsule of audio speakers with amplitudes undreamed of, not unlike the equivalent IDF cages built and designed with the same function in Israel and Gaza. not unlike any parallel horror hospital basement in every secret State Security Dept’s clandestine shrine to power and control over its cheap laborious unworthy citizens. imagine that giant’s quick death gesture almost merciful in haste then come back down to earth and bury your burdens under this aural monstrosity for hours and hours. you may wonder how those less fortunate felt when their betters took them in for rehabilitation and special administrative measures 

Luge – “I Love It Here, I Live Here” – [Self Release]

karma   3/15/2024   A Library, CD

We don’t have nearly enough Canadian-Latvian experimental music in our library. Luge is a band from Toronto that pushes the envelope. The songs feature math-rock like time signatures and every key possible. The songs, in both English and Latvian, talk about everything from dating, social media, and whatever is on their minds. This is the kind of amazing quirky music that keeps listeners and reviewers on their toes, and is “Very KFJC.”

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