You Are Welcome Here is a compilation featuring a mishmash of experimental musicians, some famous (Nocturnal Emissions, Rapoon, Dan Melchior) and some up-and-coming talent. From Fabrica Records’ Bandcamp site:

“You Are Welcome Here” is an experimental music compilation benefitting refugees of war. All of the 28 artists involved donated an unreleased composition, which is not available anywhere else.

All funds raised from purchases of this album will be donated to the International Rescue Committee to help support their work providing immediate assistance to refugees in Europe, including Greece, and to displaced people in Iraq, Yemen, and in other crisis zones around the world.

We want anyone and everyone to be able to download this compilation but please consider making a suggested donation of $5.00 or more.

Please consider taking a few moments of your time to share this compilation via e-mail and you social networks. When using twitter you can use the hashtags: #youarewelcomehere #refugeecrisis #refugeeswelcomehere

To learn more about what you can do, please visit:
International Rescue Committee – www.rescue.org/refugee-crisis
Unicef – www.unicef.org

Balazs Pandi – An Untroublesome Defencelessness (2016; RareNoiseRecords) — Avant Music News

July 1, 2016 / Rudy Carrera / Leave a comment

There is something about the combination of noise-maven Merzbow and drummer extraordinaire Pandi that can do no wrong. They have teamed previously with Mats Gustafsson (2013’s Cuts) as well as the combination of Gustafsson and Thurston Moore (2015’s Cuts of Guilt, Cuts Deeper). This latest effort includes Keiji Haino, whose dark guitar soundscapes have evoked nightmares […]

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[Music] Woob – DEATH BY COIN-OP Undead Countdown — Season 9

July 1, 2016 / Rudy Carrera / Leave a comment

https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/v=2/album=1441119715/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=0f91ff/tracklist=false/artwork=small/

Tonight at one minute to Midnight (BST) the Woob Album ‘DEATH BY COIN-OP’ will become the undead and will no longer available to buy with only its certificate remaining.

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[Music] Album Review: The Distance (2016) by Michael Formanek & Ensemble Kolossus — JAZZ RIGHT NOW

June 29, 2016 / Rudy Carrera / Leave a comment

The Distance – Michael Formanek and Ensemble Kolossus ECM (2016) Personnel: Loren Stillman (alto saxophone, flute) Oscar Noriega (alto saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet) Chris Speed (tenor saxophone, clarinet) Brian Settles (tenor saxophone, flute) Tim Berne (baritone saxophone) Dave Ballou (trumpet) Ralph Alessi (trumpet) Shane Endsley (trumpet) Kirk Knuffke (cornet) Alan Ferber (trombone) Jacob Garchik (trombone) […]

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[Music] Piarevaracien – Spadčyna / Heritage

June 28, 2016 / Rudy Carrera / Leave a comment

First, a debt of thanks to our friends at Heathen Harvest. Yes, we have some differences politically, religiously and socially, but Paddy has done a sterling job in bringing some amazing music to the forefront of the underground music scene. We wish them continued success.

HH recently reviewed a new release by Belarusian folk-metal band Piarevaracien. I had never heard anything from them until today, and though I normally don’t find much interest in the metal work, folk-metal is too intriguing for me to ignore. You find old Belarusian rhythms, including bagpipe music, mixed with a very thoughtful metal compositions.

There’s quite a lot of this sort of music floating around these days, and I’d say most of it is good. This one is particularly so.

[Music] OF RINGS AND SWEDES — VINYL CONNECTION

June 16, 2016 / Rudy Carrera / Leave a comment

How to approach Bo Hansson’s Lord of the Rings? Having played it so often over many decades, the chances of this reviewer listening dispassionately are about the same as Gollum opening a secondhand jewellery store. It must be said that not everyone likes the Swedish keyboard player’s album. In its early days, MOJO: The Music Magazine […]

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[Music] Silber Records: New Post Punk & Experimental Pop from M is We & Bronze Eye

June 16, 2016 / Rudy Carrera / Leave a comment

New releases from our friends at Silber Records:

Hello,

Hope all is going well with you. As mentioned last time the increased feeling of financial stability (if not actual stability) has created a dramatic increase in productivity here at Silber. The new releases from a couple weeks ago (Chvad SB, Yellow6, & Anda Volley) seem to be getting some attention & that makes it feel like the label is thriving instead of declining. The weather is hot & the days are long, but things seem good & promising & the future seems unstoppable.

M is We is back with us for an entry in the 5in5 series. Post punk & proto goth somewhere between Christian Death, The Germs, & Cabaret Voltaire. Good stuff & only 5 minutes to check out.
Buy or listen on Silber: http://www.silbermedia.com/miswe/feelslikefivedays.shtml
Buy or listen on Bandcamp: https://silbermedia.bandcamp.com/album/feels-like-five-days
Listen on Spotify: https://play.spotify.com/album/6SkL1A9fzdycePg0H6FHNk

Bronze Eye & LD Beghtol collaborated for a 5 minute EP of experimental pop music. I’m pretty stoked about this EP because the two of them got together because of LD’s 5in5 last year. Helping artists discover each other & work together has been a goal of Silber from the start, so this is awesome for us.
Buy or listen on Silber: http://www.silbermedia.com/5in5/beld-adventure.shtml
Buy or listen on Bandcamp: https://silbermedia.bandcamp.com/album/adventures-in-love-and-culture-onceability
Listen on Spotify: https://play.spotify.com/album/4yKIDimUAPOAT1YCEdBlqM

Lycia offered up a special with us. First 50 people to order a physical copy of any of the Lycia or Lycia related releases (Mike VanPortfleet, Tara VanFlower, Black Happy Day) through Silber will get a free download code for the new Lycia album A Line That Connects.
http://www.silbermedia.com/lycia

The new QRD is out in time for Fathers’ Day with a half dozen more installments in our artistic dad interview series (Tanner Garza, JB Sapienza, Jason Handelsman, Jon Madof, Josh Doughty, Loïc Josinski) plus more installments in our guitarist (Casey Harvey (Thrushes), Gabriel Douglas (The 4onthefloor)), touring musician (Nathan Amundson (Rivulets), Aaron Snow (Landing)), & cartoonist (Jeff McClelland, Peter Kuper, Josh Howard) interview series. Please help spread the word if you can.

www.silbermedia.com/qrd

New Releases coming soon from Dyr Faser, Cloaca, Azalia Snail, Ms, Koyl, Fullness Off Lack, Jon Dawson, Moodring, Hotel Hotel, Lum, Electric Bird Noise, & more in the coming weeks. Thanks for your interest & support & if you want to be taken off the mailing list just let me know.

Hrt

Brian John Mitchell

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[Music] Dither Craf – Impossible Music [1980] electronic / non-music

June 15, 2016 / Rudy Carrera / Leave a comment

Dither Craf are a new name for me. This is pure, cold, rather brutish experimental music which reminds me of the stuff I used to collect in the 1980s. I’m amazed that I missed out on his work.

[Music] Jarda Svoboda – K horám

June 12, 2016 / Rudy Carrera / Leave a comment

Many thanks to my friends at Indies Scope, perhaps the best indie label in the Czech Republic. I’m proud to support their roster of bands who continue to impress, like Jarda Svoboda, who was best known as the frontman of the bands Otcovy děti and Traband.