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Meitei / 冥丁 :: AGATE / 瑪瑙
Experimental electronica, Japanese memory, ritual loops and decaying voices
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Records are followed back into the things that made them: rooms, instruments, damaged tape, field recordings, weather, family histories and particular stretches of land. Folk, ambient, experimental music, electronics and song meet here without a fixed hierarchy. Hwael listens closely to the music, and to everything that has entered the recording with it.
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D. Rothon :: Angel Pavements
Hauntological folk, pedal steel, working-class London and forgotten novels
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Victoria Mingot :: God Spill
Experimental folk, fingerstyle guitar, pedal loops and devotional unease
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Jackdaw :: Larry Conklin & Jochen Blum
Fingerstyle folk, twelve-string guitar, violin and pastoral restraint
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Asuna :: Tide Ripples
Ambient folk, minimalist guitar, humming and long-form repetition
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Maisy Owen :: Dark on a Sunny Day
Folk, fingerstyle guitar, Nashville unease and spectral Americana
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Scholars of the Peak :: The Seawatch Observatory Tapes
Ambient electronica, modular synths, field recordings and coastal observation
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Tokyo Bedroom Orchestra :: Tsuioku / 追憶
Ambient folk, cassette loops, guitar, strings and unstable memory
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Ana Roxanne :: Poem 1
Ambient, piano, exposed vocals and heartbreak after years of reverb
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Ann Annie :: El Prado
Pastoral folk, modern classical, field recordings and reclaimed identity
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Sylvain Chauveau :: The Complexity of the Simple
Post-classical minimalism, acoustic guitar, silence and Japanese aesthetics
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Cajupitanga :: Ubā (2019-2024)
Ambient folk, field recordings, acoustic guitar and rural memory