Jane Weaver – Loops In The Secret Society. Album based on her solo shows from last year, where she did various stripped down but swirly reinterpretations of recent songs. It is, dare I say, a little samey in places and a bit over-long, but still quite a trip: https://janeweaverfire.bandcamp.com/album/loops-in-the-secret-society
Justin Hopper/Sharron Kraus/Belbury Poly – Chanctonbury Rings. Latest from Ghost box, and it certainly ticks all the expected boxes, even if the narration from Hopper is delivered in an American Accent, good god… https://soundcloud.com/ghost-box/sets/chanctonburyrings
Elephant9 – Psychedelic Backfire 1. Heavy jazz rock types from Norway produce live album which is pleasingly a bit more direct than some of their studio stuff
Spaceship – Outcrops. New one from enviro-ambient bloke, ecstatic drones and field recordings galore, very good: https://wiaiwya.bandcamp.com/album/outcrops
Hampshire And Foat – Saint Lawrence. Bloke from The Bees and jazz pianist record album live in a church. A bit folky, a bit jazzy, a bit post-rocky, perfectly nice: https://aotns.bandcamp.com/album/saint-lawrence
VA – The Watchers. Latest comp from A Year In The Country, who are also very much on the hauntological wagon, but specialise in a kind of pastoral electronica. Nothing terrible, but nothing that outstanding
Beaver & Krause – In A Wild Sanctuary / Gandharva / All Good Men. Never properly checked these guys out before, so this three-albums-on-two-CDs reissue is handy. Not at all totally electronic – in fact, they cover just about every musical base at some point, inc blues, soul, gospel and ragtime – but IAWS in particular has some cool proto-radiophonica. On saying that, the ‘holy jazz’ tracks from Gandharva with saxophonist Gerry Mulligan are perhaps the best thing here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMoQIr_ngAs
Minoru Muraoka – Bamboo. Japanese ethno-jazz from 1970, this track plundered for breaks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EfsEMg8swI
Procol Harum – Broken Barricades
VA – Lullabies For Catatonics
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