Dispatches from the Underground // February 2022, Vol. 1

New and Upcoming…Albums, Singles, EPs

Soshi Takeda – Same Place, Another Time (Constellation Tatsu) (h/t odubhda)

Omnibael – Rain Soaks The Earth Where They Lie (Cruel Nature) (h/t Us/Them Group / Echoes and Dust)

M.H.H. – Cassiope: Protection Songs for Guitar (Home & Garden) / This music has been created in the spirit of protection, with each track being devoted to a unique respective force, from elemental flora to deities of antiquity

short term memory loss – a bat eating her wings / Vampiric occult metal with touches of tech and doom! – Euphoriadic / stml is NyxDemonica

Cadu Tenorio – Lagrima

Andrew Tasselmyer – Limits (laaps) (h/t Marcus Fischer)

Nwyvre – Grianan (Fort Evil Fruit)

Paul Kolinski – TransLabrador / Paul is a close friend of mine (& has been playing drums with me on and off since 2008). He just released this stormy, spacious, & evocative album for solo electric guitar, go listen: – Clara Engel

Green/Blue – Offering (Hozac) (h/t Daggerboy)

The Reds, Pinks & Purples – Summer at Land’s End (Tough Love) / The new album from @GlennDonaldson is heavenly and reminds me I’m overdue for a long walk through the Richmond and the Sunset – Emmerich Anklam

Fragile X – Human Condition (Cue Dot Records) / ‘Eternal As Centre’ is one of the best tracks I’ve heard this year – FRBH Recordings

BVSMV – Kodachrome Forests (Triplicate Records)

Steel Dangerous – S/T (H&S Ranch) / single-handedly heading up the world jazz revival – JS

worriedaboutsatan – Bloodsport (This is it Forever) / Bloodsport is the ninth studio album from worriedaboutsatan. Pieced together in a home studio up in Saltaire, Yorkshire, the album marks a departure from the elegiac ambient layers of previous satan albums, as a gnarled, aggressive energy encapsulates the whole record. Full of burnt edges, it is still very much a worriedaboutsatan album, albeit a fairly angry one

Martin Glass – 21 Commissions for Business / #MWE I’d planned to get the new Mitski and BCNR recrds on the way home from work, but I forgot money (doh). So a BC trawl led to this: playfully dystopian electronic vignettes, with that “twisted new age” feel that I love in the spookier end of vapourwave – James Creswell / Mute Branches

Carlos Ferreira – Before Memories Fade (Aural Canyon) (h/t Record Crates United)

We Are Joiners – Combat Kid (single) (Totally Real Records)

Morgen Wurde & Tis – Wacht (Werra Foxma)

Fuss – We’re Not Alone (Phat’n’Phunky / Lost Sound Tapes) – read an interview with Bob Vielma via The Witzard

Listening Recommendations…Past and Present

Ada Odomo – AFTERPARTY / Lovely haunting minimalist piano pieces – mcc (h/t T2,000,000)

BLK JKS – Abantu / Before Humans (Glitterbeat) (h/t Bill Barnett)

Sendai – Ground and Figure (Editions Mego) / Really, one of the finest records I’ve heard – Countersunk

Morteza Mahjubi – Selected Improvisations from Golha, Pt. I + II (Death is not the End) (h/t Audrey)

A Journey of Giraffes – Sunshine Pilgrim Map / A companion for today. Sublime without false pretense. Always a surprise – Lalen Rios Luna (h/t solemnland)

Veritable Transformations – Anaesthesia Plateaus (Collapsed Structures) (h/t lighght)

Stereolab – Come And Play In The Milky Night (h/t Solilians)

J.R. Bohannon – Compulsions (Astral Spirits) (h/t Revolt of the Apes)

Radio, Mixes, Podcasts

Strange Waves #15 (via Anticipating Nowhere)

Sterrenplaten, February 4 – deep jams from Shane Parish, Dear Life Records, Chant Records and more

Industrial Mix for Def Synth Radio / Pummeling my brain with this uncompromising industrial mix of EBM & Post punk Electronica. Oof! – BlackWaxSolution

Tiny Red Dragons Radio Episode 056: Sitar

New episode of Vocal Fry on WFMU!