New Releases
Hobo Sonn
Wary The Mind
I’d almost forgotten about Hobo Sonn’s last and first and mind-boggling (maybe it boggled itself right out of my mind!) self-released LP The Thundering Nature of Reality. But how could I? Other music, other noise shaped and twisted into anonymous industrial machine dread. From Amen Absen, 330 copies the first 120 include a bonus CDR *if you order from the above link).
The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble
self titled
2 x 12″ reissue of The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble’s 2006 debut. Cello, trombone, violin, beats, guitar, bass, vocals and electronics processed for your listening pleasure. The story:
The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble (TKDE) formed in 2000 as a project to compose new music for existing silent movies. Jason Köhnen and Gideon Kiers, both graduates of the Utrecht School of Arts, combined their audio and visual skills to reinterpret classic movies by F.W. Murnau (Nosferatu) and F. Lang (Metropolis).
In 2004 UK trombonist Hilary Jeffery and Swiss cellist Nina Hitz joined TKDE to record the self-titled debut album which was released on Planet Mu Records in May 2006. The ensuing tour saw Eelco Bosman and Paris based vocalist Charlotte Cegarra join, forming the Ensemble into a sextet. London based violinist Sadie Anderson joined in 2008 to supply the group with extra power on stage.
the kilimanjaro darkjazz ensemble – self titled (album preview) by experimedia
Mahmoud Ahmed
Jeguol Naw Betwa
“as good as it gets & as close to universally perfect music as ever has been made.” May be. Ethiopian super voice Mahmoud Ahmed’s 1978 release reissued. But the bigger news, yes bigger than universally perfect music, is Mississippi Records (who put this out) has a new online distributor – Little Axe Records. Enter at your own risk.
pssst – It appears as if the previously sold-out-in-an-instant Grouper titles – AIA: Dream Loss and Alien Observer resissues are available through their Distributed Titles page.