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An old record, but a brilliant one that came onto my radar the past year and I picked it up.
Two masters playing two pianos tuned to be 1/4 tone apart.

Sweet reissue from late last year:

New fresh experimental electronics from Slovak label Mappa Editions:



Balanced, crisp, vibrant, abstract but hyper-real, somehow very sober and transparent. Big fan of this sort of thing...

See also this brilliant mix accompanying the album release:

https://foxydigitalis.zone/2022/02/16/f ... ollection/

A couple more Bandcamp picks from the past year or so and then I will stop the spammage.

I got to play and tour with Michael in some projects and he has been one of my favorite drummers for ages. Richard Barrett's electronics are nice and agile here:



I liked the following for the playing and the instrumentation, especially the marimba playing, which is rarely so good (read: non-cheesy) in this context:



Nice archival release from Ignaz Schick (check out all the stuff he's released on BC over the past 18 months or so), this one with Marcel Türkowsky doing really rad stuff on tapes:



Lastly, drummer Lukas Koenig doing some unique, noisy live percussion through electronics with a minimal set-up:

https://opaltapes.com/album/buffering-synapsis

Fuck it, one more from the last couple years.

Sven-Åke Johansson & Jan Jelinek: Live at moers festival 2020

The festival relaunched their label and put this out on vinyl last year.

OK, two more, call me Plinka Plonka Janeway, I don't care...

2014 record that I got into last year:



Special microtonal vibraphone made for this band, I wish there was more music being played on it (like a rad solo record), but it seems like that hasn't happened yet...

Will Guthrie rules, this record is a solid collab:

jimmy spako wrote: Mon Apr 04, 2022 3:30 pm Will Guthrie rules, this record is a solid collab:

I've been looking for more stuff along these lines. I realize that's not a pure solo record, but it's so hard finding (and making) drum/percussion/electronics stuff that amounts to more than the sum of its parts.

penningtron wrote: Mon Apr 04, 2022 4:07 pm

jimmy spako wrote: Mon Apr 04, 2022 3:30 pm Will Guthrie rules, this record is a solid collab:

I've been looking for more stuff along these lines. I realize that's not a pure solo record, but it's so hard finding (and making) drum/percussion/electronics stuff that amounts to more than the sum of its parts.

For sure. His solo collage records People Pleaser I & II are great too...

Here's another really sweet rare archival reissue record from earlier this year, special vibe etc:



Since it's ECM you can't find it on YouTube, but I have been putting the little dude to bed every night with an old cassette dub of Don Cherry and Ed Blackwell's El Corazon. Such a beautiful, timeless record.

PS: check out Eli Keszler's collab records under his own name from the past decade for very atmospheric drums/percussion/electronics/jazz noir vibes , all on Bandcamp. His style is kind of similar to Lillinger's, who is also interesting/compelling.