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  • Jason Crumer – Services Rendered 3xLP
    Jason Crumer – Services Rendered 3xLP
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    “Services Rendered” is an epic multipart audio journey … Filled with Crumer’s usual masterful composition .. Utilizing Harsh noise sounds , ambient pieces , field recordings and beyond to [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Crazy Doberman – — / Haunted, Non / Haunted – 2nd pressing
    Crazy Doberman – — / Haunted, Non / Haunted – 2nd pressing
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    The Doberman crew has been relentlessly touring the U.S. for years now, existing as a traveling band of frequent collaborators and changing lineups, consisting of often radically different [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Experimental / Noise, Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • VA – Oz Echoes: DIY Cassettes and Archives 1980-1989
    VA – Oz Echoes: DIY Cassettes and Archives 1980-1989
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    Oz Echoes peels away another layer of Australia’s ’80s DIY hive mind. The Oz Waves (EFFICIENT 004LP, 2017) successor exposes a deeper circuit of micro-run cassettes, community radio [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Cinema – S/T
    Cinema – S/T
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    First time vinyl reissue. 1985 was one of the most important years in Brazil’s recent history, when the country was freed from more than 20 years of military dictatorship. The […]

    GENRE: International
  • Strong Love: Songs Of Gay Liberation 1972-81 (Baby Pink Vinyl)
    Strong Love: Songs Of Gay Liberation 1972-81 (Baby Pink Vinyl)
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    From the label: “Originally released on CD in 2012, Chapter’s landmark compilation of 70s gay musical pioneers gets a vinyl release for the first time ever – and on pink […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • King Bullard Version: Songs Of The BOS Label
    King Bullard Version: Songs Of The BOS Label
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    On Cleveland’s late ‘60s gospel scene, the BOS label was the refined, professional ying to Boddie’s lo-fi yang, galloping to the fore bearing a torch for Curtis Mayfield’s robe-wearing roots. [...]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Sarah Louise – Earth Bow
    Sarah Louise – Earth Bow
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    At first glance, Sarah Louise might seem an unlikely candidate to credit technology as inspiration for her new album, Earth Bow. After all, she has lived in rural Appalachia for […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Enhet F?r Fri Musik _? ?mhet & Skilsm?ssa LP
    Enhet F?r Fri Musik _? ?mhet & Skilsm?ssa LP
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    New Enhet För Fri Musk album, recorded in Gothenburg and Malmö 2020 by Hugo Randulv, Sofie Herner, Gustaf Dicksson, Matthias Andersson and Dan Johansson. A concept album on relationships, family [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Folk / Country
  • Pierce With Arrow – Shatter
    Pierce With Arrow – Shatter
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    The collaborative debut of American minimal techno producer Troy Pierce and Colombian audiovisual artist Natalia Escobar aka Poison Arrow was conceived in reverse: first they created a collection [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth, Techno / House / Electronic
  • Marching Church – This World Is Not Enough
    Marching Church – This World Is Not Enough
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    Since 2010, Elias Bender Rønnenfelt (Iceage, Vår) has used the Marching Church moniker to a variety of musical ends, both live and recorded. However, the project as it exists on […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • Areski – Brigitte Fontaine _? Th??tre Musical
    Areski – Brigitte Fontaine _? Th??tre Musical
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    Monster Mélodies presents Concert Théâtral, an unpublished public recording by Brigitte Fontaine and Areski Belkacem dating from 1973. Areski Belkacem and Brigitte Fontaine, major artists of the [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Gaznevada ‎– Sick Soundtrack
    Gaznevada ‎– Sick Soundtrack
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    Sick Soundtrack by Gaznevada, originally released in 1980. “The five Gaznevada band components hit hard with a sound mixing new wave inspirations along with splinters of Talking Heads, Pere [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • Gene Russell – New Direction
    Gene Russell – New Direction
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    The first album released by the most sought-after label, bar none, among jazz collectors! And since keyboardist Gene Russell was at the artistic helm of Black Jazz, it was only […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Dima Pantyushin & Sasha Lipsky – Peshekhod
    Dima Pantyushin & Sasha Lipsky – Peshekhod
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    Peshekhod, the debut album from Dima Pantyushin & Sasha Lipsky, oscillates through an immaculate synth-pop ecosystem in which every shift feels both accurate in it’s absurdity and [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Ian William Craig & Daniel Lentz – FRKWYS Vol 16: In a Word
    Ian William Craig & Daniel Lentz – FRKWYS Vol 16: In a Word
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    In a Word, the sixteenth installment of the intergenerational collaboration series FRKWYS, brings together postminimalist composer Daniel Lentz with vocalist and sound artist Ian William Craig [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Stella Research Committee – A Proposed ….
    Stella Research Committee – A Proposed ….
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    DEDICATED TO BROOD DRIVES DOWN US-52. “A first run through A Proposed Method for Determining Sanding Fitness by the Cincinnati / Columbus based no-wave / noise-rock trio Stella Research [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • Kelly Moran / Prurient – Chain Reaction At Dusk
    Kelly Moran / Prurient – Chain Reaction At Dusk
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    Originally initiated for the Merzbow, Kelly Moran, Prurient USA tour (representing three generations of heavy electronics), this archival recording is finally released as Chain Reaction At Dusk. [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Einsturzende Neubauten – Alles In Allem
    Einsturzende Neubauten – Alles In Allem
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    After more than 12 years, Einstürzende Neubauten‘s long-awaited new studio album Alles In Allem is finally going to be released. The album marks the quintessence of the band’s output, [...]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Delroy Wilson – Worth Your Weight In Gold
    Delroy Wilson – Worth Your Weight In Gold
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    Radiation Roots present a reissue of Delroy Wilson‘s Worth Your Weight In Gold, originally released in 1984. Delroy Wilson, one of Jamaica’s best loved vocalists, got his start with [...]

    GENRE: Reggae / Dub
  • Bizarre Uproar _? Himosta Rottiin – 017 Live Activities
    Bizarre Uproar _? Himosta Rottiin – 017 Live Activities
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    Documenting two Bizarre Uproar live shows from 2017. Usual extreme Finnish noise.

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Blanck Mass – In Ferneaux
    Blanck Mass – In Ferneaux
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    What is the utility of pain? Can it do anything but fester? In Ferneaux explores pain in motion, building audio-spatial chambers of experience and memory. Using an archive of field […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative, Techno / House / Electronic
  • Matt Shoemaker – Isolated Agent Stranding Behavior
    Matt Shoemaker – Isolated Agent Stranding Behavior
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    Limited edition picture disc Much of Shoemaker’s recorded output prominently features the use of field recordings (see his “Tropical Amnesia One” CD), but in this case he has [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Count Ossie & The Rasta Family – Man From Higher Heights (2016 Soul Jazz Reissue)
    Count Ossie & The Rasta Family – Man From Higher Heights (2016 Soul Jazz Reissue)
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    Soul Jazz Records are releasing Count Ossie & The Rasta Family’s long lost reggae album ‘Man From Higher Heights’ (originally released in 1983), digitally remastered and [...]

    GENRE: Reggae / Dub
  • This Kind Of Punishment – In The Same Room
    This Kind Of Punishment – In The Same Room
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    “With This Kind Of Punishment, Graeme Jefferies and Peter Jefferies produced some of most adept DIY sounds to emerge from New Zealand’s 1980s post-punk scene. After their phenomenal [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • Russell Haswell – Digital
    Russell Haswell – Digital
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    Coventry’s most notorious export celebrates 50 years of existence with an expansive new set on Editions Mego. Spread across two x vinyls (LP and 12″). Please note the 12″ tracks [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Kluster ‎– Zwei-Osterei
    Kluster ‎– Zwei-Osterei
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    Zwei Osterei is the second half of a recording session which took place on a single day in November 1970. Klopfzeichen is the first part. Yet the uncompromising Zwei Osterei […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Nahawa Doumbia – Kanawa
    Nahawa Doumbia – Kanawa
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    Nahawa Doumbia’s new album Kanawa concisely captures this current moment in Malian history. The singer, whose storied career spans more than four decades, reflects on the immigration crisis from [...]

    GENRE: International
  • Sun Ra & His Astro-Intergalactic-Infinity Arkestra – Nidhamu (2020 Strut Reissue)
    Sun Ra & His Astro-Intergalactic-Infinity Arkestra – Nidhamu (2020 Strut Reissue)
    $25.00 | , Add to cart

    Strut present the definitive edition of Sun Ra’s ‘Egypt 1971’ along with the original albums ‘Dark Myth Equation Visitation’, ‘Nidhamu’ and [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • The Ex – History Is What’s Happening
    The Ex – History Is What’s Happening
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    “Emerging out of Amsterdam’s vibrant squat scene in 1979, The Ex — a name chosen for the ease and speed with which it could be spray-painted onto a wall — […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • Sun Ra Arkestra – Swirling (Europe Black Vinyl)
    Sun Ra Arkestra – Swirling (Europe Black Vinyl)
    $30.00 | , Add to cart

    The planets align this October as the mighty Sun Ra Arkestra, under the direction of the maestro Marshall Allen, release their first studio album in over twenty years, ‘Swirling’. [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Saturn And The Sun – The New Age Is Shit
    Saturn And The Sun – The New Age Is Shit
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    After seeing us off with last year’s ‘Your Skulls Are To Us What The Sun Is To You’ for Industrial Coast, the duo’s instinct for ace titles is in effect […]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Russell Haswell/Dungeon Acid – split 12”
    Russell Haswell/Dungeon Acid – split 12”
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    This 12″ was released in an edition of a few hundred copies that were quickly sold out.

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • Saturn And The Sun – In Love With The Extreme
    Saturn And The Sun – In Love With The Extreme
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    Joachim Nordwall and Henrik Rylander created Saturn and the Sun for their mutual passion in mindchanging sound experiments. Since 2005, they have created music together in ritual rock band The [...]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Villa Abo – Carpet Proof Of Daily Reports
    Villa Abo – Carpet Proof Of Daily Reports
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    It’s a Swedish house thing. Börft boss Jan Zwarre Svensson a.k.a Frak returns to his early project, Villa Åbo, for six deep and rude acid rub downs.

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • Sins For Beginners – Fireburn The Bloodlot
    Sins For Beginners – Fireburn The Bloodlot
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    Fireburn the Bloodlot’ commits crenellated walls of guitar noise by CM Von Hausswolff and Joachim Nordwall under their Sins For Beginners alias for avant-garde powerhouse, iDEAL Mantled after a [...]

    GENRE: Metal
  • RM – Spazi Futuri
    RM – Spazi Futuri
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    A masterful work from the Italian underworld. Riccardo Mazza is a hidden master of the Italian experimental music scene, a scene that has been extremely important since the late 70’s […]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Nick Klein – Actor Network Theory
    Nick Klein – Actor Network Theory
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    “Actor-Network Theory” is the final record Nick Klein made as a resident of New York City. Recorded in 2018, it weaves a disparate sonic narrative of dissociative opiated sleeping-bag [...]

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • Doug Carn – Spirit Of The New Land
    Doug Carn – Spirit Of The New Land
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    Of all the artists who recorded for the Black Jazz label, keyboardist and composer Doug Carn was the most prolific, releasing four albums for the imprint. 1972’s Spirit of the […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Alastair Galbraith – Seconds Mark III
    Alastair Galbraith – Seconds Mark III
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    Alastair Galbraith is considered nothing less than a genius around these parts. A New Zealand underground legend active since the ’80s, his solo works have seen release on Siltbreeze, MIE, [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Troupe Ecole Tudu – Oyiwane
    Troupe Ecole Tudu – Oyiwane
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    Sweet and sublime school recordings from elementary school group in Northern Niger from the 1980s. All-girl group accompanied by their instructor on the guitar, recalling Guinean folk and early [...]

    GENRE: International
  • Drew McDowall – Agalma
    Drew McDowall – Agalma
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    “Veteran NYC based Scottish electronic musician Drew McDowall’s latest work is his loftiest, most liturgical, and least industrial outing to date — and potentially the apex of his [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Profligate – Too Numb To Know
    Profligate – Too Numb To Know
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    “‘Too Numb to Know’ showcases Profligate continuing to shirk the heavy electronics of his early years for razor sharp pop. On 2018’s ‘Somewhere Else,’ Noah [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • Andrew Elaban – VARIEGATED TRIBUTARY / WOVEN CRESCENT
    Andrew Elaban – VARIEGATED TRIBUTARY / WOVEN CRESCENT
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    As part of Whited Sepulchre’s 4 x LP release in June, Cincinnati experimental electronic artist Andrew Elaban brings his wide-screen conduction of chance connections and orchestrated unfolding of [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Death Bells – New Signs of Life
    Death Bells – New Signs of Life
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    Australian outfit Death Bells return with their sophomore album, New Signs of Life. Nine Captivating tracks for fans of eighties indie, classic antipodean new wave, and turn of the century […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Chasman – Synth E Fuge
    Chasman – Synth E Fuge
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    “From the blown-out motherboard of West Philadelphia’s Master Control Programmers, Charles Grossman broke off to explore his own personal outer space experience. With just a DW-8000 to keep [...]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Uniform – Shame [Smoke Vinyl]
    Uniform – Shame [Smoke Vinyl]
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    What if the antihero in your favorite film or book had no chance to repent, reconcile, or redeem himself? There’s no victim to rescue. There’s no evil to thwart. There’s […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Greg Fox – Contact
    Greg Fox – Contact
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    “Greg Fox’s Contact is an extension and evolution of the multidisciplinary artist’s rigorous, virtuosic sound-making practices. On Contact, the devoted performer, intrepid composer and avid [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Private World – Aleph
    Private World – Aleph
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    “Aleph is often defined as the “oneness of God”, and Cardiff, UK indie pop outfit Private World thematically embrace the sentiment on their debut album for Dais while eschewing pop […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • Silvia Tarozzi – Mi Specchio E Rifletto
    Silvia Tarozzi – Mi Specchio E Rifletto
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    “Silvia Tarozzi, inspired by the poet Alda Merini and her studies with composer Garret List, worked with intimate personal history to write songs of love, motherhood, and the mystery hidden [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Angel Olsen – Whole New Mess
    Angel Olsen – Whole New Mess
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    “An intimate and vulnerable emotional portrait that shows her grappling with a period of personal tumult, ‘Whole New Mess’ presents Angel Olsen working through her open wounds [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Suzanne Langille & Neel Murgai – Come When The Raven Calls
    Suzanne Langille & Neel Murgai – Come When The Raven Calls
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    “Come When The Raven Calls is the second album by Suzanne Langille and Neel Murgai after more than two decades performing together. Langille fuses the rawness of American spiritual blues [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Inventions – Continuous Portrait LP
    Inventions – Continuous Portrait LP
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    “On their first album together since Maze of Woods (2015), Matthew Robert Cooper (Eluvium) and Mark T. Smith (Explosions in the Sky) further their creative curiosities as Inventions. [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Tabloid – Music For Tape and Voice
    Tabloid – Music For Tape and Voice
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    Tabloid formed in Northern California in 2011 exploring growing repetition and sustained tones. It is comprised of Philip Geraldi (Shock Tropics, Mystics in Bali) and Luke Molloy (Piles, Anxient [...]

    GENRE:
  • Syl Johnson-Uptown Shakedown
    Syl Johnson-Uptown Shakedown
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    “A different sound than usual for Syl Johnson – but a record that still has loads of those amazing vocals we love from Syl! The style’s mostly modern soul – […]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Ron Geesin – Pot Boilers
    Ron Geesin – Pot Boilers
    $23.00 | , Add to cart

    Sublime, unique, sexy, and peculiar unreleased scores by electronic and jazz pioneer Ron Geesin, made for the films by maverick director Stephen Dwoskin. Geesin made great music and worked with [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Bomis Premdin – Clear Memory
    Bomis Premdin – Clear Memory
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    LP version includes digital download card; includes CD bonus track. Mental Experience present the first ever reissue of Bomis Prendin‘s Clear Memory, originally released in 1984. Formed in [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Wetware – Flail
    Wetware – Flail
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    rooklyn-based outfit Wetware (Roxy Farman and Matt Morandi) return with the intense follow-up album to 2018’s Automatic Drawing, an electronic dirge, simply titled: Flail. Formed in 2015 and [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • Alternative Particle Choir-Black Hole Diaries
    Alternative Particle Choir-Black Hole Diaries
    $27.00 | , Add to cart

    “The early 1980s was a formative time for a wide variety of outstanding unique music coming out of Phoenix, Arizona. Experimental DIY, punk, prog rock, noise, comedy, jazz was all […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Richard Marks – Love Is Gone
    Richard Marks – Love Is Gone
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    “Previously unreleased soul and funk from legendary Atlanta guitarist/singer/songwriter Richard Marks, the companion piece to our Never Satisfied anthology. These songs, found on reels that [...]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Lubelski/Bassett – Morning Flare Symmetries
    Lubelski/Bassett – Morning Flare Symmetries
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      “The fourth album that Samara Lubelski and Marcia Bassett have recorded as a duo — the second for us, following 2017’s Live NYC (FTR 302LP) — is much less […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise