The circumstances and context behind writing or recording some LPs are so enriching, so essential to listening to the music within, that it becomes fairly difficult to keep the two topics separate.
Such is the case big-time with not one, but two new LPs from prolific percussionist, engineer and Quakebasket proprietor Tim Barnes – Noumena and Lost Words.
In 2021, doctors diagnosed Barnes with early-onset Alzheimer’s. He was just 54 at the time.
So, after some percolation, his friend Ken Brown — and, yes, for the record, that’s the Tortoise and Bastro alumnus who formerly went by the name Bundy K. Brown — hatched a project, cobbling together some of Barnes’ disparate strands of collaborators, friends and musical…
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David Byrne once described the thrill of collaboration as the moment when the work becomes something you’d never arrive at alone.
Disseminating experimental music from the myriad of vibrant scenes across the SWANA region to the wider world has been Ruptured Music’s generous undertaking for over fifteen years. Its creative source keeps giving and its curational insight keeps providing. Enter amongst the label’s significant June releases, the poignantly titled Crashing waves dance to the rhythm set by the broadcast journalist revealing the tragedies of the day, an expansive collaboration between 
Bioscope is a new collaborative project from guitarist Steve Rothery, founding member of Marillion and from electronic visionary 
Performing with veteran free improv percussionist William Winant, Zeena Parkins – probably one of the greatest living harpists – returns with a poetic, magickal set inspired by visual artist Jay DeFeo.
The Sun City Girls were unlike any band before them or that has come in their wake. Their catalog, their ethos, their *being* – you name it, with the Girls that “it” was singular and became legend. This singularity started early and extended to their release schedule and the means behind the same. While the band would prove to be wildly prolific throughout their existence, during their nascent days they quickly realized that they could not be contained by any sort of traditional label schedule. Ideas were simply coming to the trio too rapidly to even entertain the notion of being constrained by the possibility of “only” releasing at most two albums a year. To best answer the flood of ideas the name of the game was move fast, record, release and move onto the next concept.
Best known for his association with Trevor Horn, Woolley co-wrote ‘Video Killed The Radio Star’ with future Buggles Horn and Geoff Downes and notably also co-wrote Grace Jones’ 1985 single/album ‘Slave to the Rhythm’ (with Horn, Stephen Lipson and Simon Darlow).
The alt-folk band that got its start in Traverse City juggles so many musical balls that keeping track of the musicians’ globe-trotting, collaborative and creative ventures is akin to watching a three-ring musical circus.
There’s something transcendental about this time-bending collaboration between Copenhagen-based composer 
New England-based 
Mother Love Bone‘s debut EP, ‘Shine’, and their classic 1990 album, ‘Apple’, are being reissued with remastered audio for the first time since its initial release.
…includes a new feature or remix of each song on the original album.
Kaytranada has always been a groove master, knowing exactly how far to push into something cerebral and spiritual, owning the space between introspection and movement. But it took him a long time to get here. Over the course of his first three feature-heavy albums, the Montreal-raised producer evolved from behind the boards as a producer to curator to full-on main act. Now, he is very much the star of the show on Ain’t No Damn Way!, his first-ever album with no original features, one that proves he can stand tall alone.
Trevor Sensor is the type of artist that, Spotify algorithm failing, you might discover in a fever dream, conjured up in a dark music club among theatre eccentrics. There’s something not quite belonging to the digital age in his sound, even if thematically he navigates the emotional landscape of the modern world. His music evokes artists such as Tom Waits, Bob Dylan, Lou Reed, Elliot Smith… The list is endless. But, paradoxically, this profusion of association comes about precisely because Sensor is a true original, and as such is so full of ideas that he breathes new life into classic sounds. In his latest album A Few Tears of Eros roots music and myriad popular genres are passed through a blender, to stimulating results further enriched by a cultural baggage…
After focusing on the rhythmic, proto-techno side of Krautrock with the second volume, the third installment of Bureau B’s Silberland series gathers ambient, new age, and progressive electronic selections from the vast catalog of the reissue-heavy German label. This covers a lot of ground, from eerie, washed-out soundscapes to driving tracks that feel propulsive enough, even without drums. The set starts with Cluster & Eno’s gently contemplative “Ho Renomo,” immediately followed by a tranquil, shimmering Roedelius piece that feels like a pleasant drift down a river. Vono’s “Hitze” inhabits a much different mood, resembling a voyage into a bat-filled cave, and Der Plan’s “Die Wüste” is a haunting gothic miniature. You’s “E-Night” paints a sky-like canvas…
Delving into the Great American Songbook of 
The Heavy Heavy create the kind of unfettered rock-and-roll that warps time and place, immediately pulling the audience into a euphoric fugue state with its own sun-soaked atmosphere. Led by lifelong musicians Will Turner and Georgie Fuller, the Brighton, UK-based band breathe an incandescent new energy into sounds from decades ago, transcending eras with a hypnotic ease.