Rafael Anton Irisarri: Behind The Mask
Rafael Anton Irisarri’s mournful and majestic new work – all complex ambient and drone heft – heaves with “simmering electric despondency”
The Wolfgang Press: Back To The Future
With a sonic reinvigoration, former 4AD outfit The Wolfgang Press are making a surprise comeback with their first album in almost 30 years – a brooding and typically multidimensional return to form
Nídia And Valentina Magaletti: Opposites Attract
Afro-Portuguese producer Nídia and experimental percussionist Valentina Magaletti have teamed up for ‘Estradas’, a melodic and pulsating tour de force of eclectic rhythms and essential beats
White Noise: Lightning Strikes
Dark, psychedelic, sensual and enticingly strange… with their trailblazing 1969 debut album ‘An Electric Storm’, White Noise – Delia Derbyshire, Brian Hodgson and David Vorhaus – created visionary electronic music that has continued to resonate ever since. Vorhaus, Hodgson and others revisit the story behind this extraordinary record
Suzanne Ciani: Every Trick In The Buchla
With a recording from a live performance in New York surfacing 50 years after she made it, Suzanne Ciani reflects on playing with Beck, getting tear-gassed, parking karma and, of course, quadraphonic sound
Erland Cooper: Going Underground
Back in 2021, Scottish composer Erland Cooper buried a tape on the island of Orkney, allowing the music on it to be manipulated and “co-composed” by the soil. Unearthing it a few months ago after three years of natural decay, the resulting sounds are remarkable – as is the story of this project
Suzanne Ciani: Finding Suzanne Ciani
Since tracking down Suzanne Ciani, Finders Keepers have released more albums by the Buchla legend than in her entire career prior. Label boss Andy Votel gives us the rundown
DJ Kampire: Happy Kampire
Touring the globe with curated sets of African club music spanning the 1970s to the present day, East African DJ Kampire is a tastemaker extraordinaire, as her debut compilation so richly attests
Miki Yui: Deep Listening
Miki Yui has produced a beguiling body of work rooted in elemental electronics and field recordings. She describes being shaped by the art and music of Düsseldorf, the influence of her late husband Klaus Dinger, and her recent conversion to modular synths
Molchat Doma: This Is Not My Beautiful House
Having moved from their native Minsk to LA, the fourth album from Belarusian post-punk/synthpop outfit Molchat Doma also marks an expansive and propulsive “technicolour reinvention” of their sound. Taut, moody, imposing and typically brutalist, it’s one heck of a gut punch