Alice "Turiya" Coltrane was a visionary pianist, composer, and bandleader who spent the majority of her life seeking spiritually in both music and her private life. She released seven solo albums on Impulse! during the latter part of the decade and into the '70s, which wove together the strains of her musical thinking: modal jazz, gospel hymns, blues, Hindi devotional music, and 20th century classical sonorities.

https://www.nts.live/shows/in-focus/episodes/in-focus-w-alice-coltraine-3rd-august-2020

In Focus: Alice Coltrane 030820

Two hours of twilit and soulful sounds from the influential Bristol band Portishead. 

Selected by [Dr. Mystery.](https://www.nts.live/shows/dr-mystery)
 
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In Focus: Portishead 280225

Sonance

Roughly two years after the release of their initial statement of intent, debut single “Toutpartout PT2” with its hypnotic ripples, Andi Haberl and Florian Zimmer aka Bella Wakame have successfully channeled the magic of a 2024 live recording (captured at Berlin’s Donau115 & Silent Green) into their first proper studio offering. You can hear inspirations ranging from Bitchin Bajas, Jeremiah Chiu to Groupshow (Jelinek, Leichtmann, Pekler), the hypnotic, intricate battle between form and freedom (the fun of momentary formlessness) continues to unfold over the course of 10 new tracks, featuring album guest Indra Dunis (Peaking Lights). Their first single "Shadows of Nambei" was very much inspired by the wonderful band Spirit Fest and their song "Nambei".

You can either shorten the reins, or you can loosen them – and give things more slack. With Bella Wakame, it’s definitely the latter. Constantly challenging each other, they’re tapping a whole new energy. Tons of different energies.

Based on the impulsive, propulsive interplay between drums/sensory percussion (Andi Haberl) and modular synthesizer (Florian Zimmer), the frenzied, free-form results take listeners into completely new dimensions – sonic worlds that don’t really sound anything...  more
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released by Umor Rex © 2025
All songs written & produced by Bella Wakame.
(Andi Haberl & Florian Zimmer). Recorded live 2024 in Berlin at Silent Green, Donau 115 & our homes. Live recordings by Tadklimp. Mixed by Tadklimp, Berlin 2024. Words on The Island of Unknowns by Indra Dunis.

Mastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri at Black Knoll Studio in New York.
Artwork by Daniel Castrejón in Mexico City.

Bella Wakame

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Shades of Nambei

Gong bangers from southeast Asia

1-2 Rooster Dance by Isneg Group & Tadok by Kalinga (Izne Philippines) – Yasuhiro Morinaga
Bumper/ID – Realms and Layers - Asia 2005-2023 #5 - Jesse Paul Miller 
3-4 Nyaheun Tha #1 & #6 – Brao Tha Cambodia Laos – Kink Gong
5 Shan (Mru) Traditional Dance - TV Myanmar (Myanmar 2009)
6 Very Heavy Drinking Parties - Dayak Headhunting – Tom Harrison (Borneo 1959)
7 Night Recordings from Bali (Sublime Frequencies)
8-9 Kavet Brao Village Party & Kanying Brao Flat Gongs – Gongs of Cambodia & Laos – Kink Gong & Tiger Gong 
10 Hamong Gongs – Brao Gongs Laos – Kink Gong
11 Nkriang Song & Bells - Sekong Laos - Kink Gong
12 Brao Drinking Session – Gongs of Cambodia & Laos – Kink Gong & Tiger Gong 
13-14 Funeral Music by Churu & Funeral Music - Se Dang (Cambodia) – Yasuhiro Morinaga
15 Music of the Buffalo Sacrifice Ceremony of the Jarai (Vietnam) – Vincenzo Della Ratta
16 Excerpts from Gongs of the Bahnar (Vietnam) – Vincenzo Della Ratta


GONG BANGERS RADIO (RIAFC153)

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Taken from "VA - Artist Series EP (Alt/Dub)".  Out May 26th 2025. Buy here : 
https://altdub.bandcamp.com/music

Based out of San Francisco, Federsen and his Alt Dub imprint are known as purveyors of
all things raw and intricate in the world of Dub Techno, holding the beacon and
championing the sound, introducing new artists and featuring highly respected figures
from the scene also. This new various artist package promotes exactly that.
Taking the lead is the widely revered cv313, the Detroit based dub powerhouse delivers his
signature sound with ‘Spectral Vector’ via hazy field recordings, textural noise,
modulating percussion and spiralling dub echoes all subtly nuanced throughout its nine
minute duration. Hidden Sequence’s ‘Azteca’ follows, picking up the energy levels
courtesy of swinging organic percussion, bubbling echoes, reverberated stab sequencing
and oscillating resonant synth flutters.
Opening the B-Side is Fletcher’s ‘A Distant Place’, an eight and a half minute excursion
through soft, dream like chimes, twitchy synth tones, a heavily swung rhythm section and
subtly nuanced structure. Sydney’s Taction then concludes the release with ‘Caesious’,
employing trickling water sounds, ethereal, expansive pads, pulsating subs and reduced
percussion.

Label social media :

https://soundcloud.com/altdub
https://www.instagram.com/altdubrecords

PREMIERE : cv313 – Spectral Vector (Alt / Dub)

NTS hosts since early doors, Loose Bones take you on a freewheeling trip through filmic soundscapes, psychedelia, vintage experimentalism, fuzzed out rock and other esoteric surprises. Every single month.  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/loose-bones/episodes/loose-bones-1st-june-2025

Loose Bones 010625

Diving into the Pointe-A-Pitre based label Disques Célini / Aux Ondes, dedicated to preserving and reissuing traditional and folkloric Caribbean music, particularly from Guadeloupe. The label's catalogue includes rare recordings of Gwo Ka, biguine, Tumbélé, and Latin-influenced styles - and some of the few recordings by Marcel Lollia, known as Vélo, a legendary figure in Guadeloupean music and culture who left behind a limited discography. 

Mixed by [Hugo Mendez](https://www.instagram.com/hugotmendez/) 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/the-nts-guide-to/episodes/the-nts-guide-to-celini-aux-ondes-5th-july-2025

NTS Guide to: Célini / Aux Ondes 050725

Suzanne Ciani
Buchla Concerts 1975
FKR082LP
Finders Keepers Records

Finders Keepers invite you to witness the incredible first ever Buchla synthesiser concerts/demonstrations providing a distinctive feminine alternative to The Silver Apples Of The Moon if they had ever been presented in phonographic form. This is history in the remaking.

This spring Finders Keepers Records are proud to release an archival project that not only redefines musical history but boasts genuine claim to the overused buzzwords such as pioneering, maverick, experimental, groundbreaking and esoteric, while questioning social politics and the evolution of music technology as we’ve come to understand it. To describe this records as a game-changer is an understatement. This record represents a musical revolution, a scientific benchmark and a trophy in the cabinet of counter culture creativity. This record is a triumphant yardstick in the synthesiser space race and the untold story of the first woman on the proverbial moon. While pondering the early accolades of this record it’s daunting to learn that this record was in fact not a record at all… It was a manifesto and a gateway to a new world, that somehow never quite opened. If the unfamiliar, modernistic, melodic, pulses, tones and harmonics found on this 1975 live presentation/grant application/educational demonstration had been placed in a phonographic context alongside the promoted work of Morton Subotnick, Walter Carlos or Tomita then the name Suzanne Ciani and her influence would have already radically changed the shape, sound and gender of our record collections. Hopefully there is still chance.

In short, Suzanne was a self-imposed twenty-year-old employee of the Buchla modular synthesiser company, San Francisco’s neck and neck contender to New York’s Moog. Buchla was run by a community of festival freaks and academic acid eaters whose roots in new age lifestyles and the reinvention of art and music replaced the business acumen enjoyed by its likeminded East Coasters. In the eyes of the consumer the creative refusal to adopt rudimentary facets like a piano keyboard controller rendered the Buchla synthesiser the more obscure stubborn sister of the synth marathon, steering these incredible units away from the mainstream into the homes and studios of free music aficionados, art house composers and die-hard revolutionaries. Championed and semi-showcased by composer Morton Subotnick on his albums The Bull and Silver Apples Of The Moon, Buchla’s versatility began to open the minds of a new generation, but the high-end design features and no-compromise modus operandi was often confused with incompatibility and, in the pulsating shadow of Moog’s marketing, the revolution would not be televised nor patronised. Suzanne Ciani, as one of the very few female composers on the frontline (and also providing the back line) did not lose faith.

These “concerts” are the epitome of rare music technology historic documents, performed by a real musician whose skills and academic education in classical composition already outweighed her male synthesiser contemporaries of twice her age. At the very start of her fragile career these recordings are nothing short of sacrificial ode to her mentor and machine, sonic pickets of the revolution and love letters to an absolutely genuine vision of and ‘alternative’ musical future. In denouncing her own precocious polymathmatic past in a bid to persuade the world to sing from a new hymn sheet, Suzanne Ciani created a bi-product of never before heard music that would render the pigeon holes “ambient” and “futuristic” utterly inadequate. Providing nothing short of an entirely different feminine take on the experimental “records” of Morton Subotnick and proving to a small, judgmental audience and jury the true versatility of one of the most radical and idiosyncratic musical instruments of the 20th century. These recordings have not been heard since then.

Suzanne Ciani - Buchla Concerts 1975 (Excerpts)

Tracklist
1. Moiré (Piano & Organ)	
2. Rock In The Video Age	
3. They, Them	
4. Them, Their	
5. Tendency	
6. Moiré (Strings)	
7. Do Dekor	
8. Drift

Jan Jelinek - Loop Finding Jazz Records (Full Album)

Greatest Show On Earth

Elephant9 - Actionpack1

a record label dedicated to release work by the most adventurous and creative norwegian artists and composers

Elephant9 - Actionpack1

Rune Grammofon