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topu iyo - quiet scenes from tokyo ( Faitiche ) Isik Kural - Motorcycles and Cherry Wind ( RVNG Intl ) Kali Malone - Burning Song ( Ideologic Organ ) Zerolex - Lignes ( Les Disques du Crochet ) Steven Hess + Rutger Zuydervelt - Re:construct ( Room40 ) Ciaran Morahan - Music for and inspired by CHORA ( Erased Tapes ) Aries Mond - Lines ( Whitelabrecs ) Goldscammer - Mayday Royale ( MORC Tapes )   T...

R-010 & Venerandi - Phenomena ( Lapsus ) Andert Tysma - Parallels ( Apollo Records ) Kenji Kihara - Quiet Peninsula ( Dewtone ) koeosaeme - Makuhari ( Edições CN ) aus - mere meer ( Squama ) Sander De Keere - The Manual Shop ( Phantom Limb )   Track Listing   R-010 & Venerandi - Ôba, Ôba [0:00] Andert Tysma - Simeon 5 [4:49] Kenji Kihara - Where Day Ends [11:34] koeosaeme - 35°38'49.2"N 14...

Having a pretty exhausted stretch this week for reasons mostly good, but whatever the reason it felt like a time to dig out a "vintage" episode from the early 00s. As is the case with these not track titles or times on offer, but I hope you'll enjoy the extra half our as a bonus. Thanks! -- Mitchell Akiyama - Small Explosions That Are Yours to Keep (Sub Rosa) AGF / Delay - Explode (AGF) Labradford...

Lamin Fofana - Corps Perdu ( Shelter Press ) Thme - Overleaf ( Laaps ) Basma + Temir Alcy - NAD (ناض) ( Stroom.tv ) The Social Lover - Vertical Vignettes ( Kit Records ) Giovanni Lami - Fantarombo ( Discrepant ) Posuposu Otani - ShuHaRi ( 33-33 ) Charlie May - Trusted Farms ( A Strangely Isolated Place )   Track Listing   Lamin Fofana - Infinite Regress Into Futures Past [0:00] Thme - Raw Umber [3...

There has already been some love for Liz Harris over the last few weeks. A track was featured in the Type Records profile plus a new track from her occasional jangle indie band Helen's brand new album. But with kranky soon to release an album of her soundtrack work it felt like time for a deeper dive. Enjoy. -- Grouper - Grid of Points ( kranky ) Grouper - The Man Who Died In His Boat ( kranky ) R...

Blue Chemise - Mothers of All ( Students of Decay ) Spectra Ciera - Skyscrapers Through Time ( Infraction ) Daniel Bachman - The Witness Tree ( Bandcamp ) Helen - Linda's Head ( kranky ) civic hall - the dead bell ( Lost Tribe Sound ) Fred Thomas - Coastal Starlight Demos ( Bandcamp ) iiisa - tanto te he querido ( Leaving Records ) Bluhm - signals in the static ( Handstitched ) Ondness - Sol City...

Settima Tacca - A Cup, a Horse, and Signs that Point at Wells ( Stroom.tv ) Art Feynman - Orphans ( Western Vinyl ) blochemy - elyth ( Whitelabrecs ) Actress - Radical Frame ( Ninja Tune ) Jay Chakravorty - Blood Songs ( bigo & twigetti ) diciatz - Musique Domestique ( Aguirre ) Tomasz Bednarczyk - stories ( Somewhere Nowhere )   Track Listing   Settima Tacca - YAAYAM [0:00] Art Feynman - Soft...

Tara Cunningham - Warm Ground ( Odda Recordings ) Masayoshi Fujita - Forest of Tranquility ( Erased Tapes ) Le Motel - Pozo de Agua ( Constellation Tatsu ) Støvfigur - Støvfigur ( 12k ) Ex:Re - Save As ( 4AD ) Werner Dafeldecker + Eliad Wagner - Fray Field ( Room40 ) Steve Gunn - Sundowner ( Three Lobed )   Track Listing   Tara Cunningham - Following a Thought [0:00] Masayoshi Fujita - Portal to t...

This week we're putting the spotlight on Across the Horizon. Northern Spy Records and Bob Holmes, who is a member of SUSS and host of the Ambient Country Podcast, created the Across the Horizon series with the goal of emulating the kind of discovery that happens when artists sit down to chat about their influences. At the very earliest days of Surgery and as my taste was developing towards a more...

This week it's just a mixtape, pulling tracks from albums that are in my "next to the stereo until I finally alphabetize them into the collection" pile. Enjoy. -- Infinite Light Ltd. - Infinite Light Ltd. ( Denovali ) Flying Saucer Attack - Distance ( VHF ) Jesu - Terminus ( Avalanche ) Puma Blue - antichamber ( Blue Flowers Music ) HTRK - Work (Work, Work) ( Ghostly Int'l ) Bonnie "Prince" Billy...

With the upcoming release of the new, posthumous collaboration between Ryuichi Sakamoto and Alva Noto, it seem appropriate to look back on their long and rewarding crossing of paths. The music they offered remains at the top of my all-time favourite works. Enjoy -- Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto - Insen (Noton) Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto - Summvs (Noton) Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto - Vrioon (Noto...

You probably have noticed we've been playing pretty loosely with show curation this last while. Rather than rely on "vintage" episodes to fill in for the lack of time needed to compile shows of all new music, I've been just digging into the record collection at home and making mixes both formal and informal in their structure. This week I pulled down the little crate of all the Type Records promos...

Telepathic Band - Telepathic Mysteries Vol. 1 ( 577 Records ) Félicia Atkinson & Christina Vantzou - Reflections Vol. 3: Water Poems ( RVNG Intl ) Tomasz Bednarczyk - Painting Sky Together ( Room40 ) Motion Sickness Of Time Travel - Seeping Through The Veil Of The Unconscious ( Digitalis ) Eluvium - Wisdom For Debris ( Not on Label ) Willamette - Diminished Composition ( Scissor Tail ) Movieto...

We're in the throes of the hottest part of the Summer, now. Fortunately this part of the world isn't as actually on fire as some places, but the radio brings that news every morning. Seemed like an idea to put together an episode that fit that frame. Enjoy. -- Viul - Secret Recess ( Dauw ) Mark Templeton - Gentle Heart ( Graphical Recordings ) Konntinent - Degrees, Integers ( Symbolic Interaction...

Elizabeth Still - Going for Home ( Wrong Speed Records ) Heather Woods Broderick - Domes ( Dauw ) Hana Stretton - tiarn ( PW Elverum and Sun ) Sonja Tofik - Anomi ( Bandcamp ) Grouper - Ruins ( kranky ) Ekin Fil - Ghosts Inside ( Helen Scarsdale ) Sea Oleena - Weaving a Basket ( Bandcamp )   Track Listing   Elizabeth Still - Nought [0:00] Heather Woods Broderick - Daylighting [2:29] Hana Stretton...

Alex Van Gils + Carrie Frey - Lesser Arcana ( Long Echo Records ) Sal Sal - Love Spirals Horror ( Bandcamp ) BCMC - Stash ( Drag City ) Space Afrika - Quiet Storm ( Dais ) M. Geddes Gengras - Guest List ( Hausu Mountain ) Michael Cloud Duguay - Kingdom Come, Kingdom Go ( Watch That Ends the Night )   Track Listing   Alex Val Gils + Carrie Frey - Best Western [0:00] Sal Sal - Shade Solace [4:41] BC...

This week's episode is a subtle break in the standard formats. Rather than either a spotlight or a new music episode I'm calling this the "algorithm experiment." It features artists that, from what I gather, have not been heard on Surgery before and came up as suggestions from one of the evil services that we often find ourselves uncomfortably tethered to. Enjoy? Enjoy. -- Phil France - Circle ( G...

Simon Goff - Interior Realms - vol. I ( Sonic Pieces ) Klara Lewis - Opening ( Editions Mego ) Carmen Villain - Memoria ( Smalltown Supersound ) Tomoyoshi Date + Stijn Hüwels - 廊下 / Tatetmono ( Laaps ) Windy & Carl with Optigan Conservatory - Windy & Carl Meet Optigan Conservatory ( kranky ) Tokyo Bedroom Orchestra - Tsuioku / 追憶 ( Kitchen. Label )   Track Listing   Simon Goff - Dream...

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...