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Roy Harper – HQ

Style: Progressive Folk, British Folk Rock, Singer/Songwriter

Vibes: Passionate, Reflective, Rebellious, Poetic, Political, Romantic, Boisterous, Heartfelt, Philosophical, Spring, Dramatic, Sentimental

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Bushpilot – 23

Style: Post-Punk, Krautrock-Influenced, Post-Rock

Vibes: Primal, Hypnotic, Motorik, Surreal, Cryptic, Rebellious, Angsty, Meandering, Wirey, Focused, Intertwined, Psychedelic, Raw, Lethargic

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Various Artists – I Hear the Devil Calling Me

A sampler of 1 minute vignettes from artists on the Dunedin label Xpressway Records. Featuring Alastair Galbraith, Dead C, Dadamah, The Renderers, Peter Jefferies, Olla, A Handful of Dust, Gate, Cyclops, David Mitchell, Queen Meanie Puss, Stephen Kilroy

Styles: Slacker Rock, Noise Rock, Dunedin Sound, Experimental, Loner Folk

Vibes: Raw, Eclectic, Lethargic, Cryptic, Surreal, Hypnotic, Apocalyptic, Abstract

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Sigur Ros – Inni

Style: Chamber Rock, Ambient Pop, Post-Rock

Vibes: Winter, Ethereal, Cryptic, Cathartic, Anthemic, Ceremonial, Haunting, Melancholy, Passionate, Hazy, Sentimental, Dramatic, Ancient, Sad, Triumphant

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Tonto’s Expanding Head Band – Zero Time

Zero Time is an exploratory, psychedelic synth odyssey, created entirely on an expanded Series III Moog, aka T.O.N.T.O. (The Original New Timbral Orchestra). The designers and operators of this powerful, polyphonic synthesizer are Robert Margouleff and synthesist-guru Malcolm Cecil (who may be better known for programming synths on legendary albums by Stevie Wonder and Gil-Scott Heron, in addition to his celestial ambient work). The intricately layered results here feel like a synthetic wilderness, with a wide variety of colors and textures that sound warm, organic, and alive.

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Bird by Snow – Sky

Style: Avant-Folk, Experimental Singer/Songwriter, Dub Folk, Weird Americana

Vibes: Animist, Forest, Existential, Elemental, Intimate, Introspective, Earthy, Journeying, Observational, Poetic, Raw, Reflective, Restrained, Rhizomatic, Winter

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Forest – Forest

Style: Wyrd Folk

Vibes: Flowing, Forest, Bittersweet, Longing, Intertwined, Romantic, Ethereal, Medieval, Sentimental, Pastoral, Breakup, Mellow, Morning

Instrumentation: Mandolin, Harmonium, 12-String Guitar, Cello, Harmonica, Organ, Pipes, Piano, Electric Harpsichord, Percussion

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Air – Air Time

Henry Threadgill, Fred Hopkins, Steve McCall

Style: Avant-Garde Jazz, Creative Music

Vibes: Spontaneous, Responsive, Knotty, Passionate, Exploratory, Intertwined, Open, Airy, Playful, Elegant, Abstract, Complex, Eclectic, Mysterious, Suspenseful

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Sandy Denny – Sandy

with Richard Thompson, Dave Swarbrick, Allen Toussaint

Style: British Folk-Rock, Singer/Songwriter, Country Rock

Vibes: Flowing, Longing, Existential, Passionate, Heartfelt, Lonely, Bittersweet, Sentimental, Melancholy, Autumnal, Confident, Anthemic

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HRSTA – Stem Stem in Electro

Mike Moya with Eric Craven, Sophie Trudeau, Gen Heistek, Rebecca Foon, Harris Newman

Style: Slowcore, Chamber Rock, Post-Rock

Vibes: Gloomy, Murky, Intimate, Melancholy, Apocalyptic, Autumnal, Haunting, Bleak, Brooding, Depressive, Desolate, Determined, Dystopian, Eerie, Ethereal, Hypnotic, Lonely, Moody, Mysterious, Rainy, Sombre, Tender, Weary

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National Health – National Health

National Health was a continuation of Canterbury supergroup Hatfield & the North, bringing over essentially everyone from that project, except Hatfield’s bassist Richard Sinclair (Caravan), including Pip Pyle (Gong), Dave Stewart (Egg), Amanda Parsons, and Phil Miller (Matching Mole). Unsurprisingly, the LP is packed with warm, playful virtuosity. Overdriven bass takes the helm for most of the themes, locked in with propulsive grooves and shifting time signatures of Pyle’s drums. The space fills out quite colorfully with harmonious waves of electric piano, woodwinds and Moog synthesizer. When things need to be taken up a notch, Miller comes in with some triumphantly energizing guitar solos. What really makes this album special though are Amanda Parson’s vocals, which work both as a wordless instrument within the polyphonic arrangements, and as a unifying, lyrical force during the album’s most epic moments.

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James Fella / Steve Jansen / Steve Zimmerman – Full Names, Alphabetical Order (Title)

12″, 45rpm, single-sided, Alien Summer / That’s Cool, 2020 Recorded live at Revolver Records (Phoenix, AZ) on 5/15/2011 Paste on Cover, Limited to 100 copies Style: Free Improvisation, Free Jazz Vibes: Chaotic, Abstract, Raw, Exploratory, Primal, Energetic, Kinetic Musical Qualities: Atonal, Electro-Acoustic, Noisy, Lo-Fi, Collective Improvisation, Live Recording Instrumentation: Saxophone, Homemade Instruments, Amplified Objects, Percussion

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Burial Chamber Trio

Oren Ambarchi, Greg Anderson, Attila Csihar

Style: Drone-Doom, Dark Ambient

Vibes: Murky, Claustrophobic, Mysterious, Haunting, Primal, Dark, Shadow, Hypnotic, Monolithic, Nocturnal, Visceral

Musical Qualities: Slow, Droney, Fuzzy, Dense, Heavy, Noisy

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Moor Mother – The Great Bailout

Sonically, this suite continuously transforms by folding different time-spaces on top of each other. Funereal keyboards and ethereal harp echoes give way to haunting trumpet improvisations over stark trap beats; choral spirituals emerge from gritty bass drones; spectral strings are set against glitchy samples. But this is not just music. This is quantum physics; temporal alchemy; ancestral communion; vibrational magic; spirit channeling. These sounds & words are ultimately an act of liberating history from the colonial clutches of a linear timeline, whose violent inertia charges forward to a hegemonic and apocalyptic horizon.

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Los Gigantes Dormidos – En Los Jardines de Mis Abuelos

“he music contains mostly indigenous instruments such as flutes and ceremonial percussion instruments, as well as classical guitar, electric bass, a persian Santoor and one small keyboard. The song texts are improvised prayers in English, Spanish and Nahuatl. Every recording session started with a guided meditation and ultimately turned into a spiritual journey. A psychedelic trip telling of holy lands, the great spirits that inhabit it and a newborn, yet ancient brotherhood.”

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Hannah Frances – Keeper of the Shepherd

While the progressive songwriter’s music retains a rootsy essence of folk and Americana, with passionate multi-tracked vocals and thorny knots of electric and acoustic guitars, the’ polyphonic chamber arrangements and shifting time signatures often push things further into prog territory, without ever losing their rustic warmth. The resulting songs are transcendent, haunting and earthy, rising triumphantly from the remaining layers of volcanic ash after a fiery existential catharsis.

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Elucid – Revelator

Style: Hip-Hop (Abstract, East Coast, Experimental), Illbient, influenced by Post-Punk, Noise Rock, Industrial

Vibes: Cryptic, Visceral, Menacing, Surreal, Philosophical, Brooding, Gritty, Raw, Futuristic, Haunting, Cerebral, Introspective, Rebellious, Dystopian, Eerie, Conscious, Abstract, Dark

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Tongue Depressor & Austin Larkin – Landau Bar

LP, Redscroll, 2024 Recorded by A.F. Jones, Mastered by Rashad Becker Style: Country-Drone, Electroacoustic, Ritual Ambient, Post-Spectralism Vibes: Witchy, Disorienting, Haunting, Ritualistic, Spectral, Dark, Nocturnal, Gothic, Gloomy, Alchemical, Desolate, Drifting, Eerie, Shadowy, Rural, Occult, Ominous, Murky, Mysterious, Intense, Elemental, Hypnotic Musical Qualities: Droney, Microtonal, Dense, Instrumental, Slow, Dissonant, Dynamic, Electro-Acoustic, Extended Technique Instrumentation: Viola, Lap

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Rafael Torral – Spectral Evolution

LP, Moikai / Drag City, 2024 Recorded 2020-2022 Style: Progressive Ambient, Experimental Electronic Vibes: Ethereal, Luminous, Patient, Nature, Birds, Blissful, Meditative, Abstract, Airy, Bright, Hypnotic, Mysterious, Soothing Musical Qualities: Loops, Lush, Textural, 432 hz, Harmonious, Droney, Suite, Extened Technique, Instrumental, Slow, Improvisation, Layered Instrumentation: Electric Guitar, Electric Bass, Homemade Electronic Instruments

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Gayle / Graves / Parker – WEBO

Recorded live on Jun 6 & 7, 1991

Style: Fire Music, Free Jazz

Vibes: RItualistic, Kinetic, Fiery, Entropic, Raw, Searching, Cathartic, Ecstatic, Spiritual, Healing, Energetic, Exploratory, Mysterious, Multi-Directional

Musical Qualities: Collective Improvisation, Acoustic, Dense, Dynamic, Polyphonic, Polyrhythmic, Dissonant, Instrumental, Live, Heavy

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Mount Eerie – Night Palace

“Recorded music is a statue of a waterfall”

Style: Experimental Songwriter, Drone Rock, Avant-Folk, Post-Rock, Slacker Rock, Black Metal-Influenced

Vibes: Animist, Foggy, Forest, Majestic, Intimate, Expansive, Poetic, Nocturnal, Windy, Oceanic, Epic, Winter, Raw, Mystical, Eclectic, Introspective, Reflective, Bittersweet, Cold, Rainy, Conscious, Sensual, Melancholy

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