MUSIC

From the late 1950s onwards a music scene developed around Cambodia's capital Phnom Penh, inspired by the prevalence of imported rock & pop records arriving in the country from US & UK and also chanson and bolero records from France & Latin America. This collection documents some of these early home-grown slow rock, pop & rnb 45 recordings from the early 60s, prior to the further embrace of US psych & garage rock-orientated sounds in the mid 60s and into the Vietnam war era.

From the late 1950s onwards a music scene developed around Cambodia's capital Phnom Penh, inspired by the prevalence of imported rock & pop records arriving in the country from US & UK and also chanson and bolero records from France & Latin America. This collection documents some of these early home-grown slow rock, pop & rnb 45 recordings from the early 60s, prior to the further embrace of US psych & garage rock-orientated sounds in the mid 60s and into the Vietnam war era.

Don’t DJ meets Fourth World, Indonesian Music and Exotic Ambient Sound! Asa Tone is a multidisciplinary, multinational group formed in New York City comprised of Melati Malay, Tristan Arp and Kaazi. Originally commissioned by Yu Su as an event-specific work for the New Forms Festival in Vancouver in 2020, Asa Tone worked together virtually during quarantine, embracing new approaches in chance-based composition. The group’s members individually recorded a pool of generative loops and field recordings in lieu of performed “songs,” adhering to general tempo and key parameters, yet each responding to their respective lockdown environments in Mexico City, New York and the Australian rainforest. From this nonlinear web of possibilities, Asa Tone prepared a continuous 30 minute piece via zoom, which was later adapted and spatialized for the 4D sound / 32-channel audio system at Lobe Studios in Vancouver by producer and festival curator Yu Su.

Seekers international's own label, , a super-limited cassette album by musician DOCTOR NACHO, whose details are unknown except that he is a member of their artist family, has appeared! Enjoy the profound smoky sound image of the 2010s obscure music that demonstrated the acid & mysterious zone dub & dance hall sound that can only be drawn by these people, which gives off a strange pop while derailing abnormally. One that can be done. Limited to only 74 copies!

Limited Cassette edition. To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Deep Listening, Important Records offer a definitive double-LP combining the classic, complete original 1989 release with selected tracks from the Deep Listening Band's 1991 album, The Ready Made Boomerang. Recorded in a cistern, this cassette reverberates with brilliant sonic clarity and masterfully improvised performances combining live electronics, vocals, trombone. and accordion. Deep Listening is a classic in the fields of improvisation, minimalism, ambient/drone, and modern classical. Listen with attentiveness, listen while lying down, listen with headphones -- as recording engineer Al Swanson entices the listener to become a virtual performer in selecting the many different ways to perceive these phenomenal tracks. Whatever you do, listen deeply. Packaged in a gatefold sleeve with original and updated recollections from the performers, the engineer, and a mesostic from John Cage, to whom these recordings are inextricably linked.

After "Bristol Pirates" in '19, it's pirate radio all over again! From "Death Is Not The End", a great place to dig up antique music from all over the world, from pre-war blues to immigrant music and South American folklore, comes a super-impressive compilation of pirate radio commercials from the heyday of London stations between 1984 and 1993. Attack! This is a collection of about 10 years of pirate radio advertisements from the station, which is well known as a regular program on NTS Radio, and includes material provided by Simon Reynolds and the Pirate Radio Archive. "I find a recording of a pirate radio DJ set somewhere and listen to it whenever there's a commercial break. Most of the time, however, the people who recorded them stopped the tapes when the ads came on. It is truly a feat of hard digging, and the fact that most of the clubs, pubs, businesses, DJs, and promoters mentioned here no longer exist is a stiff antique... It is a historical documentary of the past, far from the present, and "the nostalgia associated with them has a certain It is a historical documentary about a past far removed from the present, and "the nostalgia surrounding them has a certain socio-historical significance" (Luke Owen, Death Is Not The End). This is a very valuable film that contains 40 air check scenes.

He has collaborated and performed with Kamasi Washington, Thundercat and Carlos Niño. Jamael Dean is a 20-year-old jazz pianist & producer who is influenced by legendary soul jazz drummer and his grandfather, Donald Dean, as well as Sun Ra and Alice Coltrane, and his latest cassette is out now on the prestigious Stones Throw label. Dean's debut album, co-produced by Carlos Niño, was a hit at Stones Throw, and he's back with a 30-minute cassette album of three lengthy tracks. The album features jazz singer Sharada Shashidhar (Leaving Records), with whom he collaborated on his debut, viola player/arranger Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, who has also worked with Masaaki Hara of dublab.jp's "rings" and "Alpha Pup," and Aaron Shaw. Aaron Shaw, and other gorgeous musicians. With soaring piano, a sacred horn section, and Shashidhar's lustrous vocals, this is a masterpiece that updates Alice Coltrane and Herbie Hancock to the present day, while blasting out tremendous soul jazz vibes!

The debut album by C. Blumberg (living in Berlin DE) is a series of composite images. Anecdotes with distorted perspectives. Documents or maps - impressions...? However if you look a bit closer you see something very different, quite like a technologic fantasy. The second track, ¿À´ñ¿¹ÎӾ峤 (tr. Shanghai Magical Forest), holds a certain key to enter the psyche of the album. Here Blumberg is inspired by a photo found on Flickr. The author of the photo gave it a made-up name, c.q. a theme park that doesn¡Çt exists. But in the canon of the Internet this place was misunderstood to be an actual real place. Resulting in bewildering daytrips and unfulfilling online voyages to find the apt information about this amusement park. It became a glitch. The attentive listener hears a similar fabrication in the sounds. And is witness to: the simple creation of a truth. Contrasting with Murmansk, the opening track. This track grants its name from something we should not see. Think about demarcation lines where none can go. I see a certain relationshop between this release and the Berko album we produced two years ago. However where Andras Fox, as Berko, wanted to pay homage to YouTube bloopers and animal-attack videos – threating these as a mirror of society – C. Blumberg changes the gaze. Blumberg hints at the Internet of Things. Resulting in a gloomy album, infused with enough humor and affection to enjoy. And with enough hidden meanings for the listener to explore ¡Ä ¡ÈThe Drake-YouTube Piano Tutorial combined with the chords of a Schubert Impromptu in Like when Chrysler ¡Ä . (¡Ä) The sound of driving a mountain road in a Youtube video, while someone is reading of Kenneth Goldsmith¡Çs ‚Wasting Time on The Internet¡Æ (also if it¡Çs edited you won¡Çt understand it or identify it anymore).¡É