Sometimes the online world reveals unsuspected parallel dimensions. This is an unknown restyle of Neural independently (and secretly as we never knew about it) made by NY-based Motion and Graphic Designer, Clarke Blackham. Very nicely made, perhaps only a bit glossier for the magazine’s line, it testifies once more how even your most familiar outcomes can have another life somewhere else.
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Síria – Boa-Língua

Cassette – Crónica
Boa-Língua in Portuguese literally means “good tongue”. This expression is often used in contrast to “bad tongue” that is “small talk”. For his second album Siria used structures of his former work, Cuspo. She used them as →
Laguerre/Noetinger – DnT

CD + poster – Aagoo
The album DnT originates from a partnership between Jerome Noetinger and Anthony Laguerre. Both are sound artists and engineers, two refined and experienced experimental musicians, who met in 2018 at Centre Culturel André Malraux in →
Charlemagne Palestine, John Körmeling – Ffroggssichorddd

2xLP – Staalplaat
From first impact, the composer Charlemagne Palestine brings us again to the most vibrant and experimental tradition of modern American music – redolent of names such as John Cage, Philip Glass, Terry Riley and La Monte Young. →
Christian Meaas Svendsen With Nakama And Rinzai Zen Center Oslo – New Rituals

3CD + booklet – Nakama
Can music, with its different language, engage with Buddhist philosophy? In New Rituals, Christian Meaas Svendsen proves this is possible, by exploring the relationship between form and freedom, modern Western culture and traditional Oriental culture. →
11min – Snow

Vinyl – Weather
The name of the duo doesn’t refer to the track’s duration. 11 is the moniker of Jiyeon Kim, a sound artist and pianist collaborating here with the drummer Sangyong Min, another talented musician. The sounds of Snow →
Xavier Charles, Jacques Di Donato – ILEX

CD – Protagoniste
The clarinetists Xavier Charles and Jacques Di Donato had already worked together in the nineties, releasing also an album, “Du Slavon Glagol”, published in 1996 by Khôkhôt. Now they are back for Protagoniste with fourteen new compositions, →
Peter Orins – Happened By Accident

CD – Circum-Disc
The set Peter Orins organized for Happened By Accident is quite basic and lacks electronic instruments. In the seven compositions we can distinguish percussive elements, apart from other items such as bowls, wood and shells. You really →
Lan Cao, Gregor Siedl, Wolfgang Seidel – Optimistic Modernism

CD – Moloko Plus
Modernist music, with its aesthetic-philosophical references to interior design and architecture, should not only be included in easy listening, lounge or exotica compilations. The real post-war sound has been much more experimental than four easy listening →
Achim Zepezauer + Guest – Kuhzunft | Slotmachine

LP – Gruenrekorder
Kuhzunft-slotmachine is the brainchild of Achim Zepezauer, a musician, composer and organiser of events. It originated as a website project, focused on an image of a child-like slot machine, painted with pastel colours. Clicking on the →
Jessica Sligter & Wilbert Bulsink – Volume 1 – Untitled + 2 – The Mute

CD – Unsounds
Volume 1 – Untitled + 2 – The Mute, released by Unsounds, is a voice and live electronics project. Recorded in studio in Sweden after some concerts performed by the experimental composers Jessica Sligter and Wilbert Bulsink, →