35:04
psychedelic rock
Portland, Oregon
Independent
20:41
Afrobeat, jazz fusion
New York, New York
Independent
40:59
blackgaze
Paris, France
Nuclear Blast
46:02
avant-garde jazz
Brooklyn, New York
Red Piano
37:34
modern jazz
New York, New York
Edition
36:08
experimental death metal
China
Independent
25:01
experimental rock
Paris, France
Collectif Coax
67:03
world fusion
Paris, France
Independent
16:41
post-black metal
Kyiv, Ukraine
Independent
40:00
progressive metal, Indian classical
India
Independent
Håla duett is the marriage of guitarist Sheik Anorak and drummer Yann Joussein. This union leads to a stellar polyrhythmic, psychedelic noise rock band with visible krautrock and African music influences. Being an EP, it’s cruelly short, but each one of the four tracks have plenty of time to breathe, most of them being over six minutes long and exploring at length only a handful of musical ideas. In this context, I think it’s better to fully explore a few themes rather than bring in a lot of them and having too little time … Read more
The Iléa ensemble—an acronym stemming from “improvisation libre électro-acoustique“, or “free electro-acoustic improvisation”—just released a new album, and it pushes the creation of sounds to new levels. I think that my favourite moment on the album is actually the introduction: it’s short, but it blends electronic and acoustic sounds so perfectly that it concisely gives away all that Iléa stands for. Of course, the rest of the album—thirty-something minutes—continues to explore, but in a more long-form format. Their blend of classical timbres with electronic effects is one of their defining … Read more
46:16
free jazz
Belgium
A New Wave of Jazz
40:23
experimental rock, noise rock
New York, New York
Warp
41:30
free jazz
Belgium
A New Wave of Jazz
42:30
technical death metal
France
Transcending Obscurity
32:35
progressive rock, art rock
Athens, Greece
Inner Ear