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Mayerling - Finis Terrae ( Hands in the Dark ) Nonturn - Repeating Town ( Audiobulb ) Roy Montgomery + Martha Skye Murphy - Nebular ( AD93 ) Lynn Wright - Before the Sinking Plains ( Miasmah ) Danny Clay - A Moment Beyond ( IIKKI )   Track Listing   Mayerling - She Builds Myths [0:00] Nonturn - Atonement [5:58] Roy Montgomery + Martha Sky Murphy - Cloudburst [10:33] Lynn Wright - El Cabanyal [17:4...

You could say Mike Cooper is the Jimmy Buffet of ambient abstract blues. The UK guitarist's first releases date back to the late 1960s, and now in his 80s he shows no signs of slowing down. With an abiding love island music and a continuing curiosity towards the more sound forward aspects of recording, I've concentrated on the last decade or so of his output for this last June spotlight. Enjoy. --...

This week's spotlight provided an overabundance of choices. Artist and Room40 label boss Lawrence English has a grand back catalogue of work as a sound artist and curator, but to help winnow things a little I concentrated on tracks from across the years that have some watery attachment. Felt right. You can also have a quick read of an interview and label profile I did a while back on the Indie Dep...

To fill out the rest of June, while I recover from surgery, ironically, it is time for a triptych of veteran spotlights. First up is the youngest (I think) of the trio: Saxophonist and composer Colin Stetson. Always busy, Stetson's most recent work has included a collaborative album with Greg Fox and Trevor Dunn as well and the soundtrack to the Netflix series Something Very Bad is Going to Happen...

There's an argument for Summer starting right as June appears, though it's also locally the time where the temperature swings about 30 degrees from day to night to day. In that frame of mind I thought I'd dig into the digital catalog for a clutch of appropriately moody "summer" songs. Enjoy. -- Six Organs of Admittance - Time Is Glass ( Drag City ) Strom Noir - Urban Blues ( Zoharum ) Milieu - Col...

Aho Ssan - The Sun Turned Black ( Subtext Records ) One Leg One Eye - Crone ( AD93 ) Boduf Songs - Selected Instrumental Works ( Bluesanct ) I'A'V - Volatile Poem ( Discrepant ) Arctic Diva - Circled Green ( Scorpio Red ) Gaspard Claus - Cells ( InFiné )   Track Listing   Aho Ssan - 100 Suns Pt. II [0:00] One Leg One Eye - What I Shall Follow I Shall Hunt [7:16] Boduf Songs - Das Liebetodesdrang P...

As is our usual way, milestone episodes are spotlight episodes. For 400 the spotlight falls on Matt Christensen. A steady presence within the confines of Surgery with both his solo work and as part of Zelienople, he has been especially prolific of late, so we've been listening and marvelling and in a sharing mood. So enjoy! -- Zelienople - Show Us The Fire ( Immune Recordings /2015) Zelienople - H...

If you're listening to this on the day it drops I am currently on the fourth and last day of getting my mind blown at the 42nd edition of the Festival international de musique actuelle de Victoriaville . This episode features a taste of the artists I'll have or will be seeing at the festival this year. Enjoy. -- Darius Jones - Legend of e'Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye) ( Aum Fidelity ) Beast - Cetus...

Kreng - Wormhole ( Miasmah ) Lawrence English - The Rest is My Ghost ( Room40 ) Neuro... No Neuro - MemLoss ( Audiobulb ) Federico Durand - La Manzana Mágica ( 12k ) Kassel Jaeger - Sub Re ( Shelter Press ) Sulk Rooms - Songs of the Soil ( Quiet Details ) dav - cosas simples ( éter )   Track Listing   Kreng - Marilyn's Milk [0:00] Lawrence English - Sodium Vapour Halo (alone) [3:59] Neuro... No Ne...

Yana Pavlova + Pavel Milyakov - Thrill ( Psy X ) Kevin Richard Martin - Blue Loops ( Bandcamp ) Arovane & Taylor Deupree - Enth ( Laaps ) michael scott dawson & anthéne - broadcast colours ( Home Normal ) Noveller - I Am the Weather ( Experimentia ) Six Organs of Admittance - Six Organs of Admittance featuring The Six Organs Olive Choir ( Island House Recordings ) Calibre - Tricklemore Se...

Cate Kennan - Shadows ( kranky ) F.S. Blumm - Wellen Formen ( Bureau B ) Lasus - Conjure ( Phantom Limb ) inrain - Rise ( Music from Memory ) Euan Dalgarno - Cliff Workshop ( Bytes ) Emily A. Sprague - Double Moon ( RVNG Intl ) Daniël Jolan - Sublime Lenteur ( Lost Tribe Sound )   Track Listing   Cate Kennan - Devil's Hour [0:00] F.S. Blumm - While Leaving [2:53] Lasus - Groundwork [6:02] inrain -...

A crazy week of prep and rolling out for Record Store Day have made assembling a new episode nigh impossible!! Nigh, I tell you! Instead please enjoy this classic episode from the dark recesses of early years. Yes there is a typo in the graphic! No, there are no track timings! But it is presented with much love. Eagle eyed folk will notice that the last time we put up a "vintage" episode was back...

Love is Yes - Ghost and More Ghosts ( Kit Records ) Phloe - Les Idées ( Seil Records ) Aspetuck - Immersion ( A Strangely Isolated Place ) Ital Tek - Mind Abandon ( Planet Mu ) Phantom Horse - Primal Forms ( Umor Rex )   Track Listing   Love is Yes - Ghost Thirteen [0:00] Phloe - Le Départ [3:17] Aspetuck - Hit Me With Your Pet Shark [10:42] Ital Tek - The Ice is Thin [18:29] Phantom Horse - Umbra...

It wasn't a particularly hard winter, but there've been these little aftershocks of ice and snow over the last couple of weeks... so wasn't feeling quite Spring just yet. Additionally the mighty Sunn O))) just released a brand new record this past Friday... their first for Sub Pop. It felt right to shove Winter out of the way with a mighty drone. Enjoy. -- Sunn O))) - Black One (Southern Lord/2005...

Iztok Koren + Raphael Rogiński - Nocturnal Consolations ( Instant Classic ) Werner Dafeldecker + Lawrence English - Fathom Tides ( Hallow Ground ) Ard Bit - Juxtaposed ( Dronarivm ) Leila Bordreuil + Kali Malone - Intersecting Planes ( Ideologic Organ ) Tujiko Noriko - PON ( Editions Mego ) Tegh + Adel Poursamadi - Bayal بیل ( Injazero Records )   Track Listing   Iztok Koren + Raphael Rogiński - T...

Andreas Tschopp - What if We Align Our Breath ( Kit Records ) Uchida Sound Labo & Friends - A strange lullaby... ( Lontano Series ) Laur Pihel - no na me ( Schole ) Vargkvint - Jorden kallar ( Piano and Coffee ) Harlan Silverman - Music for Stillness ( Mississippi Records ) Deaf Center - Through Time ( Sound Pieces ) Eluvium - Virga III ( Temporary Residence )   Track Listing   Andreas Tschopp...

Alan & Jan - Take me, I'm yours ( Faitiche ) Rosneau & Sanborn - Two ( Psychic Hotline ) The MerKaBa Brotherhood - The MerKaBa Brotherhood ( Mississippi ) Sylvain Chauveau - The Complexity of the Simple ( FatCat ) Big Brave - in grief or in hope ( Thrill Jockey ) Unknown Mobile - Field Work ( pacificrhythm )   Track Listing   Alan & Jan - Déjà Vu [0:00] Rosneau & Sanborn - Harm [4:...

Alexander Eldefors - Vivel ( Laaps ) Cleared - Lustres ( Room40 ) Matthew Geary - Owl's Lament ( Scissor Tail Editions ) Ben Vida - Oblivion Seekers ( Shelter Press )   Track Listing   Alexander Eldefors - Morning Run [0:00] Cleared - Shore [4:55] Matthew Geary - In the Fell Clutch of Circumstance [14:12] Ben Vida - New Distortion Properties [24:47] -- Support the artists! Click on label links to...

Caterina Barbieri + Bendik Giske - At Source ( light-years ) Yui Onodera + Arovane - Stillform ( Affin ) Jasmine Myra - Where Light Settles ( Gondwana ) Entidad Animada - Pequeño clima doméstico ( Umor Rex ) Foote/Dickow - High Cube ( Geographic North ) Anenon - Dream Temperature ( Tonal Union )   Track Listing   Caterina Barbieri + Bendik Giske - Intuition, Nimbus [0:00] Yui Onodera + Arovane - F...

Ben Vince - Street Druid ( AD 93 ) Thomas Stone - The Shunned Path ( Cloudchamber Recordings ) Andreas Voelk + Scott Monteith - And All The Clocks Ran Dry ( Room40 ) Ana Roxanne - Poem 1 ( kranky ) The Lonely Bell - Time Lost ( Oscarson ) Slow Dancing Society + City of Dawn - The Dream Season ( Past Inside the Present )   Track Listing   Ben Vince - Sentient Kicks [0:00] Thomas Stone - The Shunned...