New Music Releases – March 2020: Pt. 4

One last roundup of all the new music that came out in March – compiled with help from our followers! See part 1 here, part 2 here and part 3 here.

I Think You’re Awesome & Taïga String Quartet – Suite to be You and Me (Jaeger Community Music)

postrock-inflected jazz plus strings is a great idea

This is the recording of Suite To Be You And Me by prominent Danish indie-jazzers I Think You’re Awesome and the Berlin-based Taïga String Quartet

Ratgrave – Rock (Black Focus)

a fun blend of Rockit-era Herbie Hancock, Squarepusher, and Nintendo

FACS – Void Moments (Trouble in Mind)

anyone else rate Colossus as their favorite Scorn album? Then check this out!

Astral Travel – If You Say You Are From This Planet, Why Do You Treat It Like You Do? (Hyperjazz Records / Goodfellas)

Dwight Trible & Tommaso Cappellato together on a set inpired by Sun Ra

The Necks – Three (Fish of Milk)

as in three tracks this time instead of their recent practice of one long track, but the sound is still unmistakably theirs

W.R.D. – Judy (Color Red Records)

“Judy” by WRD (ft. Robert Walter, Eddie Roberts, and Adam Deitch) pays homage to classic organ trios combined with 60s British Invasion influences. Composed by organist and keyboard Robert Walter, the Meters-inspired track carries inventive harmonic movement that keeps you on your toes mixed with Eddie’s production vision that harks to early rock band Small Faces. The title is dually inspired by both a nickname for Walters’ girlfriend, Julia, and his love for The Jetsons.

via Bill Barnett

Nick Storring – My Magic Dreams Have Lost Their Spell (Orange Milk Records)

some fantastic records came out yesterday (waxahatchee, cucina povera, nicolas jaar, dua lipa) but this one beats them all ~ rich, fascinating music

For the past six years, Toronto-based composer Nick Storring has been generating a unique body of deeply personal work, painstakingly created by layering his own performances on a wide assortment of acoustic and electromechanical instruments. My Magic Dreams Have Lost Their Spell—a heartfelt, albeit oblique, homage to Roberta Flack—is his frst vinyl release and sees his overdub-rich music taking a lush and nocturnal turn.

via Adam Badi Donoval

Tyresta – Room to Breathe (Self Released)

I just released a digital only album on @Bandcamp called “Room to Breathe.” All proceeds will be donated to @CDCFound’s Corona Virus Emergency Relief fund.

Cordite Tracker – Intubate (Self Released)

my new release is now live on Bandcamp.

Intubate is 6 tracks made in the last 2 weeks during quarantine.

Noise industrial metal doom techno electronic despair

Dumama + Kechou – Buffering Juju (Mushroom Hour Half Hour)

buffering juju, the title of dumama + kechou’s debut album, relates to the process of “excavating spiritually charged content from within”.

the duo’s textural sound, driven by cyclical song structures and chant making, not only captures the angst of the modern world but mines this state of affairs for regenerative potential. their approach to music is a coalescence of their respective individual journeys into the self and society, making their sound – described as nomadic future folk music – the sonic result of an organic meditative process.

Lửa – Chlorophyll (Cho Oyu Records)

𝑰 𝒅𝒐𝒏’𝒕 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝒂𝒏𝒚𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈, 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒗𝒐𝒍𝒖𝒎𝒆 𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒅𝒐𝒘𝒏,𝑴𝒖𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒂 𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒔𝒊𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒊𝒕’𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝑰 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒛𝒆 𝑰’𝒗𝒆 𝒍𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒎𝒚 𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒔𝒆𝒔 𝒕𝒐𝒐.𝑨𝒍𝒍 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒎𝒚 𝒔𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕, 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒄𝒉 𝒊𝒔 𝒇𝒊𝒙𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒄𝒍𝒐𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒚 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝒈𝒆𝒏𝒖𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝒔𝒎𝒊𝒍𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝑰’𝒗𝒆 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒔.𝑯𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒏𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒃𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒊𝒎𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒏𝒕, 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒔𝒕 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝒎𝒚 𝒉𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝑰 𝒎𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒖𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒃𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒕.

Crystal Zima – 2020: The Future Is Clear (XanaduSounds)

via T2,000,000

Mason Jones – The Giants Hold the Key To Other Stars (Self Released)

I’ve been prepping a few albums that I planned to release on LP, but the way the year’s going I’ve decided on digital releases for now. The first one is up, a heavy drone album: The Giants Hold The Keys To Other Stars. Enjoy!

via Dan Kletter

M00NofS0rr0W – Look Into the Fire (Hairs aBlazin’)

They say the eyes are the window to your soul…

Look into the fire… what do you see?

Arbee – Polysémie III (Unknown Tone Records)

Earlyguard – Orange Is The Happiest Color (Self Released)

via Eeem

i.o – Injecting Logic (Self Released)

FOUR HOURS OF SOLO DEATH METAL/FREE JAZZ DRUMMING. Just… an insane amount of blasts. My whole body hurts listening to this.

via Lars Gotrich / ewan

Jute Gyte – Respice Finem (Self Released)

Holy SHIT, new Jute Gyte

via Lettuce

Bulbils – S/T (Self Released) – suggested by Neil Donovan

Bulbils – Draught of Courage (Self Released)  – suggested by No Place Like Drone

Since the 23rd of March, Sally Pilkington and Richard Dawson have released almost an album a day of wonderful peaceful music. There’ll probably be another one tomorrow.

Curha – II (Chant Records)

Ennio Morricone, chip tunes Weather Report, shoe-gaze muzak and trip-hop-meets-Marvel collide on ‘Curha II.’ Check it out on #bandcamp

The Skerry Hill – Hometime: Volume One (Self Released)

Put this out this morning (technically a very short EP)

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Slash Need – Spit Lip (Self Released)

“omg best album ever” says the tweetbot but I’m inclined to concur… #quarantunes

via Jakob Rehlinger

RA – The Meditations of Zera Yacob (Free Range Beats)

The piano textures of ‘Meditations’ by @SoundOfSet give way to taut dark cascading drones. Standout tracks include, Miracle, Interpretation and Overcoming Sadness…

via memorymask / No Neuro

apostrophebeats – S/T (Self Released)

Take a moment today to vibe to @apostrophebeats album full of the vibest of vibes! A treat to your ears.

via TeraVex

Compilations

Music For Quarantine Vol​.​1 (Covid 19 Comp)

21 Track Digital compilation – was supposed to be a tape for RSD (maybe still will!)

Up for download now [Name Your Price]

ALL proceeds going to ALONE to help the elderly over the next few weeks/months

via AllCity

Sounds for Lifting Hearts (Cities and Memory)

In these strange and unsettling times all over the world, we all need a little something to brighten up our day, however small it might be.

Sounds for Lifting Hearts ❤️is a compilation of some the most beautiful field recordings from Cities and Memory, from Sri Lanka and Chile to Italy and Israel.

via Pope Dan Gusset

tʌntrə V (Neotantra)

New compilation on Neotantra has a Memex track on it.

via Darren McClure