Ryoko Ono on saxophone, and Uchihashi Kazuhisa on daxophone, an instrument developed in the 1980s. On this track, wildly assertive playing, competing rhythms, competing repetitions, noisy intrusions that linger...
How guitars and banjo can be so themselves and so strange at the same time. Experimental composition with the energy of rock. The Allison Cameron Band by The Allison...
A strange correspondence of quasi-monody with timbral and spectral improbability. Banjo and analogue synth. Also notice how the resonant frequencies of the banjo change. Golden Melody Awards by Golden...
Andrew Wedman has invented a new instrument: the bass piano. It’s a regular piano but it’s tuned down. The detuning though, changes the character of the instrument radically, and...
Serious as philosophy, loose as sleep, sweet as raspberries blown in a bubble bath. It’s Eric Chenaux on guitalele and toe-synth (a homemade synthesiser played with the toes) and...
Artemis of Colour by April Aliermo puts recordings of breath and the voice into dialogue with gorgeously rich oscillators. Some wild binaural stuff at times. Hear Aliermo as part...
It’s difficult to know what analogy works to describe Karen Ng’s stunning solo saxophone recordings: a thought process, a dialogue with the self, a creator reacting to her moment-by-moment...
Unusual soundscapish jazz takes noisy turns, distorted climbs, and opens to beautiful spaces. Pull Ninja by Punk Kong
Very unexpected coupling of Coltrane and Bowie. Brødløs by Geir Sundstøl
Long tones, voluminous room sound (parking garage!), spare and grand, maybe scary, maybe consoling. Luke Stewart / Patrick Shiroishi by Luke Stewart / Patrick Shiroishi
My goodness, this carnatic / Hindustani collaboration is full of life. These singers are fried and sweet. Not sure who the band is, but they are wonderful as well....
Juana Molina makes some of the strangest and most beautiful pop music we have heard. The layered subtly de-tuned harmony here and the recording…oooo! Wed 21 by Juana Molina
Ambient becomes prominent, background to the fore, patterns and unexpected disruptions, in Kim Myhr’s You | Me. You | me by Kim Myhr
Susan Alcorn, Leila Bordreuil, and Ingrid Laubrock – pedal steel, cello, and saxophone – create an otherworldly sense of summer. Bird Meets Wire by Susan Alcorn, Leila Bordreuil, Ingrid Laubrock
From a solo album by percussionist/composer Scott Clark: “Quiet Friend” begins and continues with long, warm waves of harmonica. Companion drums then quietly enter – a strange combination that...
Mike Watt and Kira Roessler’s project Dos scratches an itch I didn’t know I had. Two bass guitars with weird riffs and arrangements. Justamente Tres by Dos
Lina Allemano plays trumpet and Mike Smith does live processing of the sound. The effects are magical: multiplication, sound shadows, parallel instruments. Proof by BLOOP (Lina Allemano / Mike...
Jonas Cambien Trio’s “Creationism” is like residue from “Pump up the Jam” discovered on a log or beside a pond. Sounds like prepared piano and what an unusual effect...
Our editor Josh Thorpe has a band and it’s unusual songs with dissonance, consonance, and some pretty neat sounds. Love & Weather by Josh Thorpe
Clark’s strangely tuned synthetic harmony might make you giddy. Colin Clark · Grasslands View this post on Instagram A post shared by UME (@unusualmusicexchange)
