Improv and Avant-Garde

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  Esmerine Drop Surprise Album, Share Contemplative "Fractals for Any Tonality" Video

  PUBLISHED May 10, 2022

  Montreal contemporary classical chamber ensemble Esmerine have surprised fans with the surprise release of their long-awaited first album i...

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  Kelly Lee Owens's Voice Cuts Through the Commotion on 'LP.8'

  PUBLISHED Apr 28, 2022

  "This is an emergency. This is a wake-up call," Kelly Lee Owens declares calmly on LP.8 over harsh industrial noise amid frantic, phantasma...

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  Grimes Proclaims "God Is Dead" on Metal-Hyperpop Single with Russian Radicals IC3PEAK

  PUBLISHED Apr 22, 2022

  It goes without saying that Grimes can't do anything to surprise us anymore, so why not this? The post-human hacker is featured on a new me...

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  Nick Cave Unveils New Spoken Word Project 'Seven Psalms'

  PUBLISHED Apr 21, 2022

  With a long career spent being backed by a crew of Bad Seeds, it was only a matter of time before Nick Cave decided to start preaching: the...

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  John Carpenter Details 'Firestarter' Soundtrack

  PUBLISHED Apr 21, 2022

  John Carpenter has unveiled the soundtrack for Firestarter, a forthcoming new film adaptation of Stephen King's 1980 thriller novel. Compo...

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  Susumu Yokota's Albums as Stevia Treated to Vinyl Reissue

  PUBLISHED Apr 20, 2022

  Two rare albums recorded by late Japanese composer, producer and DJ Susumu Yokota under the alias Stevia are set to be reissued. Previousl...

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  Panda Bear Shares New 17-Minute Ambient Single

  PUBLISHED Apr 12, 2022

  Animal Collective's Noah Lennox — a.k.a. Panda Bear — took to Twitter last night to share a WeTransfer file of some new music. The shared...

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  Joyful Joyful Take Hope to the Hills in "Oh Jubilation" Video

  PUBLISHED Apr 5, 2022

  Ahead of releasing their debut album via Idée Fixe Records on April 29, drone-hymn experimenters Joyful Joyful (a.k.a. Cormac Culkeen and D...