Various: Tunguska Chillout Grooves Vol. 11
Tunguska impresses me because I can be chillin’ out with Tunguska one minute, deep jungle groovin’ the next, and go in a different direction in the third.
Weldroid: Cure Light Wounds
I haven’t written about either Kahvi Collective or Weldroid before. But with Weldroid Cures Light Wounds, it is time to talk about both of them.
All Objects Lost: All Objects Lost (Self Titled / Eponymous)
All Objects Lost is a project from Nick Samarin and Polina Voloshina. On their eponymous debut release they explore ephemeral elements of the world around us.
Aires: Aires (Self Titled / Eponymous)
Aires aren’t about producing dance-able or humm-able music as we know it. Aires is an ambient shoegaze project from Portugal, producing the sounds of the landscape around us: metallic and mechanized and hollow.
Soni Sfardati: Saqiya
This is not my first journey into recordings that have mixed cultural origins. Unfortunately, many force cultural references to fit into western music molds. However I prefer the opposite: when western cultural influences are hammered into forms to fit within other cultures, or even completely re-invented to fit them.
Mooval: By Immersion
Moovals immersion is something to experience. The Italian art collective is more than just the pair of producers that have made a wonderful recording here.