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Leo Nocentelli

Another Side

At just sixteen, Leo Nocentelli was backing up Otis Redding. Soon after, he was playing on hits for Lee Dorsey, The Supremes, and The Temptations. As... more...

• 01 Thinking Of The Day
• 02 Riverfront
• 03 I Want To Cry
• 04 Pretty Mittie

Quilting

Untitled

The album is a quietly stunning collection of pastoral ambience dotted with moments of tension that reflects the maritime environment in which it was... more...

• 1 streaming
• 2 tambora
• 3 maisie macleod
• 4 crescent moon

Tapan

Novi Svet

Long time in the making, finally here: Belgrade’s Tapan debut on Offen. Folk infused slow-beat burners.

• 1 Missing
• 2 Samo Prolaznost
• 3 Rain Dance
• 4 Novi Svet

Mario Scherrer

Squares And Crossings

During the 1980s, the Züri brännt riots were violent protests against exorbitant cultural subsidies enforced by the city, which had also dismantled cu... more...

• 01 Some Different Men
• 02 They Came Along
• 03 An Old Familiar Cry
• 04 Sin-Claire

Taras Bulba

Venier Le Temps

Works from 1993-2004. Compilation of Taras Bulba, a German studio group that could be labelled Tribal, Trance, Pop, Folk, Ambient or something else. more...

• 01 Barune (Mystic Fog)
• 02 The Ash Man
• 03 Flipper Mon Amour
• 04 A New Days Coronation

Carcascara

Carcascara

''Applying elements of minimalism or electronic music to their compositions, Carcascara's second studio album is deeply rooted in folk, blues or jazz.... more...

• 5 sano bueltatu maitia
• 8 en ese muro de piedra

Salar Salman

09PM LP

Salar Salman (1959), an exceptional musician and composer, was born in Kirkuk, a city in Kurdistan — the North of Iraq. As a young boy he was famed in... more...

• 1 Shehrazada
• 2 Naze
• 3 Shapolekan
• 4 Mam Lalo

Merope

Naktes

The 3rd album by MEROPE with own compositions and Lithuanian folk melodies. Naktes presents a world full of wonder, inspired by the atmosphere of the... more...

• 1 Ganiau
• 2 Sniegas
• 3 Seng Ge
• 4 Rototo

YNV

Cosmic Cult EP

Based in San Francisco, originally hailing from Brussels, YNV has forged a distinctive sound that meanders in between tribalistic ritualism and ice-co... more...

• 1 Cosmic Cult
• 2 Rhythmic Reflection
• 3 Chasing The Oracle

82J6

Offen Im Sturm

Glitched out folk bangers on Offen Music. Imagine Bryn Jones on steroids.

• 1 r228 (maison mix)
• 2 r228 (beatless tool)

Carl Erdman

Bizzarrophytes

Recommended by: Tammo Hesselink

Carl Erdmann’s Bizzarrophytes was recorded in Roswell, New Mexico, during the final years of the 70’s. A desert-fried haze of buzzing sitar raga, shim... more...

• 01 Majesty
• 02 Turritwlla Flats
• 03 Dhun
• 04 Carried Away

Ana Stamp and Jonny Nash

There Up, Behind The Moon

A collaborative album from Romanian musician Ana Stamp and Jonny Nash. For this collaboration, the pair spent over two years researching, arranging an... more...

• 1 bright girl
• 2 the crown whispers
• 3 on the mountain realm
• 4 there down and never down

Dennis Taylor

Dayspring

Released in 1983 on a miniscule run of 300-self-financed LP’s, Dennis Taylor’s ‘Dayspring’ remains a lost masterwork of transcendental instrumental gu... more...

• 01 bicycle town
• 03 dawning point
• 10 from the east to the west

Nashenas

Life Is A Heavy Burden

The first compilation of legendary Afghan Ghazal singer Dr. Mohammad Sadiq Fitrat a.k.a. Nashenas, recorded at the Radio Afghanistan Studios and later... more...

• 01 The Way I Love My Beloved
• 02 Your Sorrow Is Killing Me
• 03 Flower Had A Thorn
• 04 I Am Happy Alone

Chabaphrai Namwai & Banyen Rakkaen

Lam Phloen Songthaew Fanclub

A one-sided 7” single! A great and rare song, never before reissued, an early 80s electric molam classic produced by Surin Phaksiri. This release cele... more...

• 1 Lam Phloen Songthaew Fanclub

A.R. Wilson

Old Gold

Melbourne auteur Andrew Wilson (Andras, A.R.T. Wilson, Wilson Tanner) soils the 'Australian songbook' with a collection of fragile, private and derang... more...

• 01 cinnamon nugget
• 02 raisins
• 03 twinkle
• 04 a long day in the saddle

Gordan

Down In The Meadow

Gordan join traditional Serbian singing with abstraction, energy and minimalism. Their music is marked by radical reduction, seemingly endless ascensi... more...

• 1 down in the meadows
• 2 woe is my foreign lands
• 3 dont ask how i live
• 4 oh my rose flowers

Jerry&ThePelicanSystem

Sariani

Sariani is a musical meditation exploring Indian musical culture and the widely understood concept of trance. more...

• 1 Raga or Raga
• 2 Temple of Jetsu
• 3 SARIANI
• 4 Everest INN

Michael Masley

Cymbalom Solos

There are constellations within the grooves of Cymbalom Solos. Innumerable points of light, rendered audible in glowing, radiant sound. There are enti... more...

• 1 Soleil
• 5 Survival In A House Of Darkening

Clan Caiman

Asoma

Clan Caimán returns to EM Records for their second album, continuing the instinctive evolution of their music: a wordless, timeless, gently pulsing an... more...

• 1 Asoma (Rises)
• 2 Caceria (Hunting)
• 3 Tribu (Tribe)
• 4 Risco (Crag)

Tarta Relena

Pack Pro Nobis (remixos)

Recommended by: Clone

Tarta Relena are Helena Ros and Marta Torrella, a vocal duo mainly focused on Mediterranean folklore songs. They base their music on the combination o... more...

• 01 Ma ezevgarosan
• 02 Tota pulchra
• 03 Denca
• 04 Morenika

Kiri Uu

Creak Woosh

Recommended by: Clone

‘Creak Whoosh’ is a collection of choral ballads originating in the Finno-Ugric regions of Estonia and Ingria, electronically adapted predominantly by... more...

• 1 Veimevaka Jagamine : Distributing The Dowry
• 2 Tsimmairuudiralla
• 3 Piirileikkilaulu : Roundelay
• 4 Ilus Neiu Kiigel : Pretty Girl On A Swing

Conny Frischauf

Affekt & Tradition

Little warehouse find, lucky day for our Kame heads out there.

• 1 Halbzeit
• 2 Wie Du Mir
• 3 Auf und Nieder
• 4 Kompass

Jan Van Angelopoulos

Streams

Teranga Beat proudly presents the drummer-composer Yannis Angelopoulos, aka Jan Van and his last project ''Streams''. A well known musician in the Ath... more...

• 1 recess cascade
• 2 still stream
• 3 fingering
• 4 psychic stream

Warren Hampshire

Language of the Birds

'Language Of The Birds' LP was recorded solo shortly after completing 'Galaxies Like Grains Of Sand' and 'The Honey Bear' with jazz pianist Greg Foat.... more...

• 01 Eve of the Deluge
• 02 The Falling Rain
• 03 Zep Tepi
• 04 Then It Was Gone