Prince has died. Another massive loss, another long round of phone calls of friends sharing why they saw him as a pivotal artist during the 1980s. May he rest in peace.
Prince has died. Another massive loss, another long round of phone calls of friends sharing why they saw him as a pivotal artist during the 1980s. May he rest in peace.
The Orchestra Of Mirrored Reflections are a project out of Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, who are led by guitarist Jol Tai. They make a music reminiscent of musicians like Jon Hassell and bands like Tuxedomoon at their most experimental.
These folks are definitely going to be worth following.
From The Sunday Experience:
there was a time in mid to late 90’s when it seemed like Montreal was the centre of the musical universe, beneath the safe haven of Constellation records the likes of godspeed and fly pam am where left to nurture their post rock atmospherique. Some two decades down the line, yes two decades, time really does fly, its seems as though Veleri Fabrikant and CLC have keenly been influenced, influenced enough in fact to embrace that same spirit by tailoring their collaborative epic in the shadows ‘say goodbye to the world as we know it’ in the same kind of quietly majestic intricacy. At nearly 14 minutes in length ‘sun worshippers / gold diggers’ provides for a masterclass in both refrain / sustain and poise / pause, like the Grails magnified at quarter speed, there’s a dark beauty evolving and dissolving here amid a panoramic canvas populated by the sparse drone detailing and squirrelling scrapes that suggests an affinity with Kranky acts LaBradford and Stars of the Lid while likewise serving upon something carved with such stilled grandeur one suspects closer inspection might well be rewarded several fold.
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You expect David Bowie to tear up his own song in an amazing performance. You don’t expect Klaus Nomi to join him and up the weird quotient a thousand fold. This collaboration was done on SNL many years ago.

What a cover. Julia Guther’s “remixed artwork” is the EP’s entry point, making one think, I have to hear this.
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To hear Mikael’s music, go to Bandcamp.
Thanks, as always, to Miguel Douglas in Brazil who shared this amazing improv by the Ganelin Trio for a session recorded in 1980 and released in 1986 by the then Czechoslovakian state record company, Supraphon.
What a loss. Here is Emerson, Lake & Palmer doing Aaron Copland proud.
Hossein Alizâdeh is an Iranian master of the tar and setar, both related to the western guitar. In this video, he is teaming with the singer Raha and The Hamavayan Ensemble, his personal group.
It’s not often that I run into some charming music out of Afghanistan. Sahar Sahra is one of the country’s biggest stars currently.
Saniboj Žugić is a composer of electroacoustic music who hailed from Zagreb, Croatia, then part of Yugoslavia.
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