New Arrivals / Last 4 weeks

Carl Ludwig Hübsch (voice, tuba) and Ignaz Schick (sampler, turntables) between abstracted song, sound poetry, noise improvisation and radio play, from sessions in Cologne and at Morphine Raum in Berlin.

The 1993 RRRecords session, the heaviest Skullflower record of the first decade: Matthew Bower, Stuart Dennison and Russell Smith in five long pieces of droning, chaotic dissonance.

Raoul Björkenheim on guitar and Paal Nilssen-Love on drums, old partners from Scorch Trio, in nine pieces of free music recorded in Helsinki: wild and raw, at times delicate and introspective.

Lucrecia Dalt's score for Bryn Chainey's folk horror Rabbit Trap, a film about the power of sound: humming drones, unnerving loops and garbled fairy chatter, with Aaron Dilloway on one track.

Alvin Curran conducts the Iato Orchestra, thirty musicians with voice, reeds, brass, strings, harp, accordion, guitars, vibraphone, basses, two drummers and four electronics players.

Ikue Mori and Craig Taborn, the duo Highsmith, return after ten years and open up into three trios with Bill Frisell, Tomeka Reid and John Zorn, plus a few quintet pieces.

Stephan Micus' 27th solo album for ECM, dedicated to the sea: a dozen instruments from Borneo, Japan, India, Armenia, Africa and beyond, from hang and kalimbas to shakuhachi, duduk, sapeh and sho.

Gidon Kremer and Kremerata Baltica play Georgs Pelēcis' title concerto, written for Kremer, Andrius Žlabys' Kaleidoscope of Lost Time and two works by Arvo Pärt, Passacaglia and Darf ich.

Spencer Clark returns as Monopoly Child with five electronic sound paintings inspired by Rome's Villa Borghese gardens: distorted voices, transformed bells and luminous synthesizers as a manual of levitation magic.

Wolf Eyes' first full-length as the core duo of Nate Young and John Olson since 2023: twelve tracks of warped kicks, skittering drum synth, narcotized vocals and Olson's homemade reeds.

Belgian improvisers Linus and Bonnie 'Prince' Billy reimagine the songs of Dutch songwriter Jules de Corte: slowed, expanded folk miniatures on religion, love and loss, with guitars, banjo, clarinet and lap steel.