All About Jazz does a splendid job interviewing Leonardo Pavkovic, whose imprint MoonJune Records has released some of the most vital discs of the past five years in the field of jazz and avant-progressive rock.
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[Music] Throbbing Gristle – The Third Mind Movements
Throbbing Gristle’s 2009 release was something of a swansong for the band before the death of founding member and Coil legend Peter “Sleazy” Christopherson.
Truly, with this release, they went out on top.
[Music] 破地獄/Scattered Purgatory – 山險峻/Sua-Hiam-Zun
Scattered Purgatory are a heavy psychedelic band out of Taipei, Taiwan, whose influences seem to include Krautrock bands like Can and Amon Düül II, as well as Japanese psychedelic-folk bands like Ghost.
[Music] Tom Waits – Small Change (Remastered)
Today is a very happy day! It loooks like Tom Waits’ seminal albums, including Small Change, my favorite of this batch, have been remastered for Bandcamp!
[Music] 20 Years of Southern Lord’s Dark and Heavy Art
The label’s roster has always featured a wide breadth of sonic explorers, from ambient artists through very heavy metal and post-metal acts to jazz fusion.
via 20 Years of Southern Lord’s Dark and Heavy Art — Bandcamp Daily
It’s amazing to think that this label has been around for 20 years, and I missed a good fifteen of those due to ignorance. May they have another happy 20.
[Music] Various Artists – Nostress Netlabel Anniversary Compilation Number 7: The Quantum Differences of Universal Sounds
This is one of the few times you won’t see me share a Bandcamp link for a release like this. My colleague Andrey Kireyev let me know about this release, and I’m very much thankful he did!
Nostress Netlabel isn’t a one-trick-pony label. The genres covered include Psychedelic, Post Rock, Avant-garde, Electronic and Electroacoustic music. The breadth of what they are covering is incredible, and the label is offering this compilation as a FLAC file release for free.
This is a great way to acquaint yourself with one of the best netlabels operating today.
[Music] Various Artists: The Blog That Celebrates Itself: Girl Groups – The Underground Versions
The Blog That Celebrates Itself (TBTCI) has become one of my go-to labels for great covers of indie and post-punk music done in a style not unlike shoegaze music. This one is a gem because the theme is girl groups, and each of these Brazilian unknowns does a stand-up job reworking the originals into something quite modern-sounding,
[Music] The Myrrors – Arena Negra
I’m not sure about the other bands in Tuscon, Arizona, but local lads The Myrrors are swimming in a sea of sludge and LSD. This is slow, plodding, and very, very effecting stoner rock.
[Music] Five-Storey Ensemble – Not That City
Not a lot of bands are coming out of Belarus at the moment, but Five-Storey Ensemble are about the best working out of Minsk today. They are the standard bearers for the modern Rock-In-Opposition movement.
[Music] Alapastel – Hidden for the Eyes
I’ve been spending a lot of time listening to releases by James Murray’s beautifully-curated label Slowcraft Records. This one by Alapastel, at least given the two tracks available currently (the whole album will be released on March 9), seems to be the gem of the collection so far.
Lukáš Bulko (the aforementioned Alapastel) is a composer out of Slovakia, where a lot of amazing independent music is coming out of these days. He manages to patch together a mesmerizing blend of contemporary classical music, a touch of musique concrète, and maybe a speck of post-rock in a way not dissimilar to Ólafur Arnalds. I’m very much looking forward to following which direction Lukáš will go in the future.
For a more in-depth review, I recommend visiting Dan’s review over at Fluid Radio.
A Miscellany Of Tasteful Music 