Music

Super-avant-garde-background-music press release writers sure do come up with some creative genre names. And though I'm not gonna claim I can hum many of the lovely selections below from memory, in the wee small hours, when the beer's wearing off or the coffee hasn't kicked in yet, they all make perfect sense. Excellent for flu season, to boot! And isn't it cool how so many of the wackiest ones come from guys whose last names start with K? What's up with that?

THE DRIFT
"Streets"/"Nozomi"
(Temporary Residence drifting ambient "dub/jazz/rock" single)
Download "Nozomi (Live Version)" (MP3)

ELUVIUM
Talk Amongst the Trees
(Temporary Residence ambient-minimalist "landscape" album)
Download "New Animals From The Air (edit)" (MP3)

SIMON KEEP
Interview With the Eggs
(Sub Rosa ambient-environmental snow/Buddhist monk/volcanic steam/origami cranes album)
Download Album Sample (MP3)

JACOB KIRKEGAARD
Eldfjall
(Touch "geothermal recordings of vibrations in the ground" album)

ZBIGNIEW KARKOWSKI
"One and Many"
(Sub Rosa 41-minute electro-acoustic architectural-ruin "ode to loud speakers" single)
Download Single Sample (MP3)

NILS ØKLAND
Bris
(Rune Grammofon improvisatory Norwegian Hardangerfiddle chamber-group album)
Stream Album Samples"

PHONOPHANI
Oak or Rock
(Rune Grammofonsoftware-manipulated "ur music" album)
Download "I.F.A." (MP3)

QUATTRO MANI
Harmony for a New World: Crumb/Patterson/Gamer
(Innova "new classical" album)

SCANNER & DESSY
Play Along
(Sub Rosa digital-doctored acoustic-instrument "deterritorialized composition" album)

SO PERCUSSION
Steve Reich: Drumming
(Cantaloupe minimalism album)
Stream "Part One" (MP3)
Stream "Part Two" (MP3)
Stream "Part Three" (MP3)
Stream "Part Four" (MP3)

TARENTEL
Paper White/Big Black Square
(Temporary Residence ambient shoe-gazing metal-dub album)
Download "Golden State Overnight" from Paper White(MP3)
Stream "Excerpt 1" from Big Black Square (MP3)
Stream "Excerpt 2" from Big Black Square (MP3)

SPIRE: LIVE IN GENEVA CATHEDRAL SAINT PIERRE
(Touch "experimental live cathedral works" compilation)