Dispatches from the Underground // August 2024 Pt.2

New Music

Elysian Fields – What The Thunder Said (h/t Solilians)

Godspeed You! Black Emperor – “NO​ ​TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28​,​340 DEAD” (h/t Maxwell!)

Telestialvision – Taurus in a Field (Island House Recordings) / Got a new out today! Thanks to my A&R head, Chaz Prymek for directing me to all the good shit. Here’s some more good shit. Incredible ambient zones with very cool tape manipulation. Telestialvision is a great name for this duo.

Winged Wheel – Big Hotel / Core members Cory Plump (Spray Paint, Rider/Horse, Expensive Shit), Fred Thomas (Tyvek, Idle Ray), Whitney Johnson (Matchess, Damiana), and Matthew J Rolin (Powers/Rolin Duo, solo) expand their lineup to include Lonnie Slack (Water Damage) and Steve Shelley (Sonic Youth) (h/t wendy cloudberry)

VA – Music is Vast: A Tribute to the Music and Legacy of Vangelis (Castles In Space) / fundraiser for the Trussell Trust who run food banks up & down the UK, so you get loads of great music & support a good cause – Nigel Spencer / Folk Police Recordings

VA – Summer Flies (Four Flies Records) / there is still time to enjoy this summer-themed bumper compilation (27 tracks!) from the enviable catalog of Four Flies Records (classic library music and like-minded contemporary artists) – Bill Barnett

Listening Recommendations

Michael Ranta, Mike Lewis, Conny Plank – Mu / Nurse With Wound’s Steven Stapleton declared this a masterpiece. He wasn’t wrong – Nic Brown

Kurt Weisman – More is More / Was very honored to get to release this great 7″ single by Kurt Weisman back in 2006 (!), now available digitally for the first time (with a bonus track!). Check it out – James Toth via Twitter

Lobi Traoré – Rainy Season Blues / This, on the other hand, is marvellous. Very bluesy in all the right ways. Malian blues as they should be played – just one man and his guitar – NeverFadingWood

Theo Burt – Automatics Group – Summer Mix / Here’s an unjustly obscure album you will all enjoy thoroughly. Imagine a minimal, blissed-out mix of ‘Pop’ by Gas, ‘Endless Summer’ by Fennesz, and ‘Future Days’ by Can. All made by digitally comparing and contrasting a bunch of crappy EDM tracks! – connect_icut

Landing – Wave Lair (h/t Solilians)

Steve Hauschildt – Strands / Again this is more ambient that some of his synth wave and expansive work – Fraser H