Touch Releases New Album from Jana Winderen

Touch Releases New Album from Jana Winderen

Touch has released the newest album from Jana Winderen. It’s entitled Spring Bloom in the Marginal Ice Zone and was commissioned by Sonic Acts's Dark Ecology. It was initially premiered as a 7-channel installation at the Sonic Acts festival and has now come to CD. The description for the album is as follows:

The marginal ice zone is the dynamic border between the open sea and the sea ice, which is ecologically extremely vulnerable. The phytoplankton present in the sea produces half of the oxygen on the planet. During spring, this zone is the most important CO2 sink in our biosphere. In Spring Bloom in the Marginal Ice Zone the sounds of the living creatures become a voice in the current political debate concerning the official definition of the location of the ice edge.

The listener experiences the bloom of plankton, the shifting and crackling sea ice in the Barents Sea around Spitsbergen, towards the North Pole, and the underwater sounds made by bearded seals, migrating species such as humpbacks and orcas, and the sound made by hunting saithe, crustaceans and spawning cod, all depending on the spring bloom.

You can find more information about the album on Touch’s website here. The album can also be purchased on the same page. Spring Bloom in the Marginal Ice Zone will also be released on Jana Winderen’s Bandcamp page here. It will officially be released through that outlet on November 9th.

No Rent Records Releases New Album from Brandon Lopez

No Rent Records Releases New Album from Brandon Lopez

No Rent Records has released a new album from NY-based musician Brandon Lopez. It’s entitled The Church of Plenty, Empty and features four tracks of solo double bass performances. You can stream the album above via the label’s Bandcamp site. You can also purchase the cassette there or on the label’s official website (the latter is cheaper). As per usual, the tape is limited to 100 copies.

Lopez released his solo album quoniam facta sum vilis last month on Monofus Press & Astral Spirits. He also performed with Matthew Nelson, Andria Nicodemou, and Gerald Cleaver on The Industry Of Entropy, which was released back in January.

'Broken Music' Gets Reprinted, Available Now

'Broken Music' Gets Reprinted, Available Now

Primary Information has reprinted Broken Music, a crucial compendium for records that was created by visual artists. The book was edited by Ursula Block and Michael Glasmeier and originally published in 1989 by DAAD. The book contains essays by the two editors as well as Theodor W. Adorno, René Block, Jean Dubuffet, Milan Knizak, László Moholy-Nagy, Christiane Seiffert, and Hans Rudolf Zeller. The book also comes with a flexi disc containing a performance of Knizak's "Broken Music" by the Arditti Quartet.

Broken Music can be purchased via Primary Information’s website here or on Metamkine here. You can find more information about the publication on either site.

Tone Glow Launches New Film Review Section

Tone Glow Launches New Film Review Section

Starting today, Tone Glow is dedicating a section of its site to film reviews. Readers can expect coverage to be limited to contemporary films that are not receiving wide release and are primarily viewed at festivals around the world. Given the homogenization of film coverage across major publications, Tone Glow finds it beneficial to devote writing towards these lesser known films. Three film reviews have been published today: Johann Lurf's ★, Helena Wittmann’s Drift, and Aminatou Echard's Jamila. Extensive coverage of the 52nd Chicago International Film Festival will also appear soon.

Those who are interested in reviewing films for the site can contact Tone Glow at toneglow@gmail.com. Please send examples of your writing in the email. Those who are accepted will be given access to screeners for films they are interested in reviewing. You will get paid per review.

Erstwhile Records Announces Retrospective Toshiya Tsunoda Box Set

Erstwhile Records Announces Retrospective Toshiya Tsunoda Box Set

Last week, Erstwhile Records announced that they were launching a new imprint called ErstPast. An archival Shadow Ring box set was announced, and they’ve also just revealed that a Toshiya Tsunoda box set is the other release set to come out in 2019. The box set will contain five discs that contain Tsunoda’s Extract from Field Recording Archive series.

The first three discs of the box set will contain the first three albums from the series, all of which had been previously released between 1997-2001. The fourth disc will contain unreleased material from that era, and the fifth will feature new recordings that find Tsunoda revisiting the original project. The box set will come with a new set of liner notes in both English and Japanese. More information to come closer to the release date.

Gravity Wave Announces New 5-CD Michael Pisaro Box Set

Gravity Wave Announces New 5-CD Michael Pisaro Box Set

Gravity Wave has announced a new 5-CD Michael Pisaro Box Set. It’s entitled Nature Denatured and Found Again and is projected to be released early next year. The box set’s five CDs will all be 48 minutes in length and features a slew of performers. The description for the album is as follows:

The piece is derived from field recordings made along the Grosse Mühl River, Neufelden, Austria, from 2011 to 2015 (during the flussaufwärts project created by Joachim Eckl, Marcus Kaiser and Michael Pisaro). Alongside the recordings of the river as it flows down from Neufelden to the Danube, are performances by Antoine Beuger, Jürg Frey, Marcus Kaiser, Radu Malfatti, André Möller, and Kathryn Pisaro. Pisaro has been working on the piece since 2011 and we are very happy to have it finally see the light of day.

More information to come closer to the release date.

Gabi Losoncy Releases "Ten Jokes About Intimacy" on YouTube

Gabi Losoncy Releases "Ten Jokes About Intimacy" on YouTube

Gabi Losoncy has released a new piece on YouTube and it’s entitled Ten Jokes About Intimacy. The piece spans 33 minutes and is described as an “album” in the description. You can listen to the track above via Gabi’s YouTube page. The piece contains percussive clanging, coughing, and some warbled rustling near its end. Stick around for the photo that appears approximately 20 minutes in. Last month, Gabi released “Spring and Summer” on the video platform.

Telomere Records Releases Newest Edition of Ddakji Live Series

Telomere Records Releases Newest Edition of Ddakji Live Series

Korea-based record label Telomere Records has released its newest album. It comprises recordings from Ddakji#10, a concert series focused on group improvisation that started in 2015. The album features four musicians: Jung Shine aka Shi_ne, Kieran Monaghan, Chrissie Butler, and Rémi Klemensiewicz. The first two tracks are duos, while the third track contains all four performers. The performances took place earlier this month and the release contains no overdubs. You can stream the full album above and purchase it via its Bandcamp page here.

Nomad Exquisite Releases New Works by A.F. Jones and Seth Cooke

Nomad Exquisite is a recently started Chicago-based label that is committed to releasing short-form pieces from experimental artists. All releases will not exceed 13 minutes in total. These “miniatures” are “prompted by the brevity of life” and aim to provide a survey of contemporary experimental music.

The label has just put up two new releases, one of which is by A.F. Jones and the other by Seth Cooke. Jones’s piece is entitled larkspur, iron filings and was birthed from a period of change and uncertainty. He views the piece, however, as optimistic. A working out and working through of circumstances that have a final resolve. You can stream the album above and purchase it via the album’s Bandcamp page here.

Cooke’s release is entitled The Slip and features six tracks that all last two minutes and four seconds. The description for the album features numerous quotes that are derived from various sources. You can stream the album above and purchase it via its Bandcamp page here.

Earlier this year, Nomad Exquisite released four other miniatures. You can view the label’s entire catalogue here.


larkspur, iron fillings tracklist:
1. larkspur, iron fillings

The Slip tracklist:
1. L 361204 175438
2. K 361166 175435
3. A 361150 175220
4. J 361100 175148
5. M 361124 175116
6. B 361151 175253

Room40 to Release New Collaborative Album from Akio Suzuki & Aki Onda

Room40 to Release New Collaborative Album from Akio Suzuki & Aki Onda

Room40 are set to release a new album from Akio Suzuki & Aki Onda next week on November 2nd. The album is entitled Ke I Te Ki and features three tracks that were recorded in 2015 at The Emily Harvey Foundation. This marks the duo’s first release since their collaborative album ma ta ta bi in 2014 on Oral. In Japanese, the title of this new album refers to the sound of an alarm and was suggested by Akio Suzuki as a reminder for the two to continue pushing themselves further, questioning norms and exploring new possibilities.

Aki Onda described the album as such:

My role was to set an assortment of “scenes” with field recordings, sustained drones generated by an industrial electric fan, and electronic tones and pulses from radios, et cetera. Akio then built upon these with layers of melodies and rhythmic patterns, while we both engaged in fabricating distinctive texture and timbre. Akio kept changing his instruments—such as the Analapos, the stone flute, discarded objects, et cetera—bringing surprises and sudden changes, creating contrast and powerful tension. 

You can stream the first, titular track above via the label’s Bandcamp page. Pre-orders for the digital album and the physical CD are also available on the same page.