Crucial Listening

XXX alcohol, forgone resolutions, avalanches of brutality. The multidisciplinary artist and performer discusses three important albums.

Jen's picks:

Joseph Spence – Good Morning Mr. Walker
Stephen Layton – Whitacre: Cloudburst And Other Choral Works
Opeth – Blackwater Park

Go spend a bunch of time on Jen's website and Instagram. Sonified Physiological Indicators Of Empathy is out on Cacophonous Revival Recordings.

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Slipping into the bloodstream, navigating hell, addictive polyrhythms. The Honduran-American producer discusses three important albums.

Pablo's picks:

Muslimgauze – Hussein Mahmood Jeeb Tehar Gass
Paul Schütze – New Maps Of Hell
Los Roland's – Solo Exitos Vol. 2

The new Dalibor Cruz album, Riddled With Absence, is out now via Natural Sciences – check it out here. Follow Dalibor Cruz on Instagram.

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Jaw on the floor, zoning into spirituality, bastardised reggae basslines. The multidirectional musician and producer discusses three important albums.

Kevin's picks:

Gil Mellé – The Andromeda Strain OST
The Necks – Sex
Public Image Limited – Metal Box

Kevin's soundtrack to Tarkovsky's Solaris comes out June 25th on Phantom Limb. Elsewhere, there's a Bandcamp for his music as Kevin Richard Martin and another for The Bug. Follow him on Twitter and Instagram.

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Going beyond the bandstand, simultaneous multidimensionality, searching for fire. The music research strategist and insurgent learning workshop co-ordinator discusses three important albums.

Marshall's picks:

Prokofiev – Peter and the Wolf (Disney animated version and accompanying reading)
Earth Wind & Fire – All 'n All
Ornette Coleman – The Shape Of Jazz To Come

Marshall's record as MUSIC RESEARCH STRATEGIES, titled Eleven Postures, is out now on SIGE, who will also be releasing his collaborative album with John Dieterich and Raven Chacon titled White People Killed Them. Follow him on Instagram here.

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Toilets on heads, high frequency feedback devastation, hot pink harsh noise. The New York-based vocalist from Sydney, Australia discusses three important albums.

Charmaine's picks:

Derek Bailey / George Lewis / John Zorn – Yankees
Yan Jun + Hsia Yu – 7 Poems And Some Tinnitus
Masonna – Noskl In Ana - Rare Tracks Collection

Charmaine's incredible new record, KNVF, is out now via Erratum Musical and is available on Bandcamp. Her website is here. During the conversation we talk about her article over on Wet Ink Archive, titled Reflections On Building A Personal Language.

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Drumsticks into sawdust, ripping off Harvey Milk, going crazy for the Blind Owl. The BIG|BRAVE guitarist discusses three important albums.

Mathieu's picks:

Rockets Red Glare – S/T
Harvey Milk – A Small Turn Of Human Kindness
Blind Owl Wilson – S/T

The latest BIG|BRAVE album, Vital is out now on Southern Lord. Check it out on Bandcamp here. BIG|BRAVE are on Facebook over here.

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Thrash at the rehearsal room, transcending cheap music, collapsing nature and artifice. The analog noise artist discusses three important albums.

Yuko's picks:

Slayer – Reign In Blood
Pink Floyd – The Dark Side Of The Moon
Monolake – Gobi. The Desert

Yuko's new record, End Of Trilogy, is out now on Room40. Follow Yuko on Instagram over here, and Tumblr over here.

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The opposite of politeness, sucky sucky bloodsuckers, ego destruction on the subway. The two improvisatory collaborators discuss their important albums.

Chris' picks:

Caroline Kraabel – Now We Are One Two
Art Ensemble Of Chicago – Chi-Congo

Bill's picks:

Jaynez Cortez And The Firespitters – There It Is
Ronald Shannon Jackson – Pulse

The duo's new album, Made Out Of Sound, is out right now on Bill's own label, Palilalia. Both have their own respective pages on Bandcamp too – here's Chris, and here's Bill (and Bill again).

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Snot-caked pants, wild banshee shit, the cadence and emphasis of Robert Ashley. The New York-based composer and multi-instrumentalist discusses three important albums.

Ka's picks:

Love – Forever Changes
Sonny Sharrock – Black Woman
Eliane Radigue – Songs Of Milarepa

Ka's new album, Vivification Exercises I, is out now on RVNG Intl. Check out Ka's website here.

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12 seconds of Stockhausen, high-altitude Frank Ocean, the power of SOPHIE. The Vancouver-based composer and music educator discusses three important albums.

Sarah's picks:

Karlheinz Stockhausen – Kontakte
Frank Ocean – Blonde
SOPHIE – Oil Of Every Pearl's Un-Insides

Sarah's YouTube channel is called Sounds Good – find that here – while her music is up on Bandcamp. Check out her band Watering too.

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