Fet Nat, Kitzl, and Battlebear

Fet Nat – Le mal [no wave, punk jazz, musique concrète]

Fet Nat—stylized FET.NAT—presents a unique and exciting excursion into sound collage, spoken word, and dope drum and bass. With Le mal the group gives us a work that defies any notion of convention and breaks fresh ground with every infant second. Ambient tapestries are woven through hypnotic grooves with the … Read more

Marathon Devlog 2: Text Command

[Link to Github]

Hey there, I’ve added a new, very useful preset to Marathon this week so I figured I might as well write a post about it. I added preset “99”, which is text command. Before now, you had to create a MIDI file by yourself, using an external program, and Marathon was really fragile about that. So, for now, I suggest to stay away from preset “1” and try “99” when creating custom beats, unless you are certain that your procedure for creating MIDI files is tolerated by the program.

With Text Command, you can write out rhythmic … Read more

Weekly Release Dump

Saturday, 23 February

Катерина Зяблюк (Kateryna Zjabljuk) – Лісова пісня (Lisova pisnja) / Forest Song (jazz)

Kyiv, Ukraine

Seules les mortes – Seules les mortes [EP] (blackened post-hardcore)

Marseille, France


Monday, 25

Jakob Heinemann – Latticework (contemporary classical)

Madison, Wisconsin
On Scripts Records

Label page


Tuesday, 26

Amina Figarova – Road to the Sun (jazz fusion)

New York, New York
On Bartamina Music

Trevor Watts & Stephen Grew – Let It Be: Live in Liverpool (avant-garde jazz)

Warsaw, Poland
On Fundacja Słuchaj

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Monthly Recommendations: February 2019

Anna Webber – Clockwise (Pi Recordings)

Anna Webber is a New York-based woodwind player and composer. Clockwise is her latest effort, offering us an interesting, thought-provoking séance. With many rhythmic changes, contrapuntal interchanges, and a modern sense of harmony and melody, Anna Webber has crafted here a fantastic album—her sixth one—performed by a proficient septet in which she also takes part. The album is really brilliant, a must!


João MacDowell – The Seventh Seal (IBOC)

The Seventh Seal is a modern opera by Brazilian composer João MacDowell. Adapted from the Swedish movie by Ingmar Bergman Det sjunde inseglet, it is

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February in 154 Albums

Friday, 1 February

Allison Miller’s Boom Tic Boom – Glitter Wolf (jazz fusion)

New York, New York
On Royal Potato Family

Read our review.

Astronoid – Astronoid (progressive metal)

Boston, Massachusetts
On Blood Music

Le Butcherettes – Bi Mental (garage rock)

Mexico
On Rise Records

Dopelord, Weedpecker, Major Kong, and Spaceslug [Split] (stoner metal)

Warsaw, Poland

The Emerald Dawn – Nocturne (progressive rock)

St. Ives, UK
On World’s End Records

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