Goran Kajfeš Tropiques, VÖ and Yokada. He also frequently performs solo, as well as with the likes of Sven Wunder and Mariam The Believer. Featuring strings, two pianos, three guitars and percussion, his new 13-piece ensemble is an attempt at “sculpting quasi-minimalist compositions”. Zethson is also a concert organiser and runs the label Thanatosis Produktion. alexzethson.bandcamp.com, thanatosis.bandcamp.com
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9 Kondi Band “Fatou” From We Famous (Strut) Kondi Band feature Los Angeles based producer and DJ Chief Boima, London’s Will LV and Sorie Kondi, who was born blind in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Building a name for himself as a street musician after Sierra Leone’s decade-long civil war ended in 2002, he adopted the name of his instrument, a custom-made 15-pin thumb piano, known as the kondi. Chief Boima recorded with Kondi on the 2017 album Salone, and has expanded the line-up to include UK producer Will Horrocks, who is one half of production duo LV. intlblk.com, strut.k7store.com/kondibandfamous
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10 Blue Lick “II” From Hold On, Hold Fast (American Dreams) Blue Lick are a Chicago experimental duo consisting of Havadine Stone on words and vocals, and Ben Baker Billington on percussion and electronics. Released by American Dreams in September, their debut LP Hold On, Hold Fast is a reflection on aggression, regionalism and finding beauty in the unexpected. bluelick. bandcamp.com, americandreamsrecords. bandcamp.com Dom
11 QRTR “Like That” From infina ad nausea (Dome Of Doom) Brooklyn based electronic artist Meagan Rodriguez aka QRTR followed her 2020 debut LP Drenched with the August release of infina ad nausea, both on Dome Of Doom. The latest features guest appearances by her cat ambientkitty, Los Angeles electronic producer/vocalist artemis orion, and New York’s Braille, Daniel de Lara and CSLTY. All tracks were mixed by QRTR and mastered by Ryan Schwabe (Oneohtrix Point Never, RJD2). qrtr.party, domeofdoom.org
12 Umlaut Big Band “New Musical Express” From Mary’s Ideas: Umlaut Big Band Plays Mary Lou Williams (Umlaut) Under the direction of Pierre-Antoine Badaroux, Paris based Umlaut Big Band explore the historical repertoire of big bands, based on recorded archives and manuscripts, revealing rare and never before heard works by Don Redman and Mary Lou Williams. The band have also commissioned new music from the likes of Jean-Luc Guionnet and Alexander Von Schlippenbach. umlautrecords.com/ groupe/umlaut-big-band, umlautrecords. com/en/collectif-umlaut
13 Logs “Latimeria (Wire Tapper Edit)” From Eight (End Of Story) From the Moscow improvisational scene, Darya Zvezdina and Andrey Guryanov
met while recording a film score in 2018 and formed Logs after a few recording sessions. Guryanov uses selfmade software designed to introduce chance into music, while Zvezdina reassembles field recordings and quotations into something new. In addition, they both play prepared guitar. Along with Samuel Weikopf, they co-founded the End Of Story label, which operates from Moscow and Berlin. logsmusic.bandcamp.com, endofstory.de
originates in live improvisations using only instruments, no samples, notably Shilov’s bass. soundcloud.com/gost-zvuk-records
14 Eric Wubbels & Charmaine Lee “Field of Action – signal” From Field of Action/contraposition (Out Of Your Head) Eric Wubbels is a composer/performer, pianist and co-director of New York City’s Wet Ink Ensemble. Charmaine Lee is a New York based vocalist and improvisor from Sydney who uses amplification, feedback and microphones to augment and distort the voice. Field of Action is the first culmination of a collaborative project they have been developing since 2018, working to find shared spaces and meeting points between composition and improvisation, freedom and form. wubbelsmusic.com, outofyourheadrecords.com
16 Gaspar Claus “Un Rivage” From Tancade (InFiné) French cellist Gaspar Claus has explored diverse genres, from film soundtracks, post-classical, ambient, neo-flamenco, pop and electro to contemporary jazz. Claus’s collaborations include work with artists such as Bryce Dessner, Sufjan Stevens and his father, the renowned flamenco guitarist Pedro Soler. His debut solo album Tancade aims to evoke chamber music suspended in the fourth dimension or the strange folk music of an undiscovered tribe. gasparclaus.com, infine-music.com
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15 Oaken Chariot “They Are Looking At Us From Above” From Oaken Chariot (Gost Zvuk) Anton Dvoenko of Gamayun, whose album Filterealism was released by Gost Zvuk in 2020, and Vasiliy Shilov make up the duo Dubovaya Kolesnitsa (The Oaken Chariot), a project designed to adapt roots music to Russia (the Gost Zvuk label is “is dedicated exclusively to the Russian and ex-USSR scene”). The Russian word for oak is dub, and chariot refers to the word for the duo’s jams (telega) which can translate as cart. All the music
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