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  • ŠIROM
     
    A deep, resonant soundworld.
  • EL KHAT

    A careening orchestra of percussion, horns,
    strings, electricity and el Wahab’s own DIY
    instruments. Mesmerizing retro-futurist sounds.
  • PARK JIHA
     
    Inventive, elegant and transcendent.
  • TRUPA TRUPA
     
    Poland's otly tipped psych/experimental
    rock quartet delivers a potent, galvanizing album.
  • LUCIDVOX
     
    Incendiary mix of atmospheric psych-rock,
    heavy riffs and Russian folk mystery.
  • KUUNATIC

    A thrilling Tokyo based tribal-psych
    trio bolstered by diverse global sonics
    and powerful female vocals.
  • MONSIEUR DOUMANI

    A danceable fever storm of stringed instruments,
    multi-layered singing and trombone-driven low end.

     

  • CATHERINE GRAINDORGE

    Gorgeous and haunting, Graindorge
    uses strings, harmonium and electronic
    treatments to explore intimate corners
    and widescreen vistas.
  • DAL:UM

    Ethereal and otherworldly this is music that
    treasures the space between the notes.

     

  • ALTIN GÜN

    Interpreters of the Anatolian rock and folk legacy.
    A leading voice in the emergent global psych-rock
    scene. Explosive, funky and transcendent.

     

  • SAMBA TOURÉ

    The legendary Malian singer/guitarist returns with his
    most personal and immersive album to date.
  • COMORIAN

    "We Are an Island, but We’re Not Alone”
    provides a vivid opportunity to hear unvarnished,
    original songs from Grande Comore island.
  • dal:um

    dal:um create a compelling soundworld
    that treasures subtle dynamics and the
    space between the notes.

     

  • LIRAZ
     
    Shimmering electro-pop meets
    pulsing dance rhythms and retro
    Persian sonics.
  • GAYE SU AKYOL
     
    Gaye Su Akyol is at the forefront of the new Istanbul scene.
  • AMMAR 808

    Futurist syncopations meet hypnotic, timeless narratives.
  • USTAD SAAMI

    The roots of Saami's music go back to the 13th
    century - but it's message is contemporary and
    universal: “to sing is to listen.”
  • KRONONAUT

    Krononaut is a richly textured new
    ensemble helmed by guitarist /producer
    Leo Abrahams and drummer Martin France.
  • TOOTARD
     
    Retro funky meets hi-sheen contemporary.
  • TAMIKREST

    Music always is a borderline experience.
    Especially when not only stylistically
    boundaries are shifting, but the centres of
    musical creativity are moving.
  • fra fra

    Raw and celebratory funeral music from northern Ghana.
    Hypnotic kologo excursions.
  • EDIKANFO

    Highlife meets afro-funk.
    Spirited and horn driven.
  • ORKESTA MENDOZA

    Border music withut borders.
  • PULLED BY MAGNETS

    Forget type, genre or influence: this is the
    start of a brand-new trip by one of the most
    questing musicians at work anywhere.

  • LINA_RAÜL REFREE

    Lina_Raül Refree is fado for today,
    a sound that goes beyond geography.

  • JON HASSELL
     
    Hassell’s soundworlds have been varied
    and bold and their influence on contemporary musics,
    discernable and ongoing.
  • BABA ZULA
     
    Dub, Turkish psych-rock, Anatolian folk music,
    Krautrock
    and the experimental beyond.
  • LOS PIRAÑAS
     
    Retro-futurism at its finest.
  • AZIZA BRAHIM
     
    Aziza Brahim’s is a contemporary sonic
    poet and an eloquent spokesperson for
    the Saharawi people and their struggle
    for recognition and justice.
  • BANTOU MENTALE
     
    A dark, thundering Kinshasa meets Paris soundworld.
  • 75 DOLLAR BILL
     
    Raw electric blues, Arabic modes
    and entrancing folk minimalism
    back to the streets of New York.
  • IFRIQIYYA ELECTRIQUE

    Sufi trance musicians and rituals –
    from the depths of the Tunisian desert –
    in conversation with post-industrial sonics.
  • NOURA MINT SEYMALI
     
    Born into a prominent family of griot
    and choosing from an early age to embrace
    the artform that is its lifeblood.
  • FOFOULAH

    Slippery West African beats, dystopian
    electronics & echoing, shamanic chants.
  • BIXIGA 70

    This ten-piece, Sao Paulo based combo,
    unleash a ground-breaking fusion of
    African and South American rhythms and
    sounds.
  • STELLA CHIWESHE

    Mbira Queen of Zimbabwe.

  • YONATAN GAT
     
    Yonatan Gat is a guitarist, producer
    and experimental composer based in New York City.
  • SONIDO GALLO NEGRO

    Sonido Gallo Negro is a stunning 9-piece,
    instrumental combo from east Mexico City
    (Aragon) that channels both the mystique
    and mysticism of 1960's Peruvian cumbia.
  • DIRTMUSIC
     
    Dirtmusic return for their fifth album,
    a full-scale collaboration with Turkish-psych visionary
    Murat Ertel from Baba Zula.
  • SAZ'ISO

    The joys and sorrows of Southern Albanian song.
    Assembled by veteran producer Joe Boyd.
  • JUPITER & OKWESS
     
    Jupiter and Okwess transcend the Congo’s
    unexplored musical heritage and dive into
    a pool of modernity.
  • BARGOU 08

    Bargou 08 deftly combines the little-known soundscapes
    and rhythms of the Tunisian highlands with driving electronic
    and rock textures.
  • KING AYISOBA


    Ghanaian legend creates a raw,
    emphatic sound that fuses kologo music
    with contemporary sonics.

  • ABATWA (THE PYGMY)

    Rough-hewn, tribal sonics from
    the Rwandan borderlands.
  • JOSHUA ABRAMS & NATURAL INFORMATION SOCIETY

    Mesmerizing and explorative.
    A nexus of non-western traditional musics,
    minimalism,
    krautrock textures and jazz.
  • AFRO-HAITIAN EXPERIMENTAL ORCHESTRA
     
    An unheard and unholy mixture of Haitian voodoo
    rhythms, afrobeat drumming and Krautrock
    experimentation.
  • DAMIR IMAMOVIĆ'S SEVDAH TAKHT

    One of the most inspiring forces behind the rebirth
    of the traditional style of sevdah (also known as sevdalinka).

  • M.A.K.U. SOUNDSYSTEM
     
    A visceral, politically charged 8-piece band based
    in New York City, with most of its members hailing
    from Colombia.
  • KHMER ROUGE SURVIVORS
     
    Sublime and unheralded sounds from Cambodia.
    Heartbreaking and inspiring.
  • CHIMURENGA RENAISSANCE

    Otherworldly sonics, Zimbabwean beats,
    Congolese guitar ambiance and political resistance.
  • BASSEKOU KOUYATE & NGONI BA
     
    Distortion and wah wah are now at the heart of his sound
    and the heat lightning vocals of his wife Amy Sacko
    serve as the perfect foil.
  • CHRIS BROKAW

    Boston-based Chris Brokaw has made an indelible
    mark on rock music both on his own as well as
    with his iconic bands Codeine and Come, and as
    a collaborator with Thurston Moore, Evan Dando,
    Stephen O’Malley and many others.
  • HANOI MASTERS
     
    Un-mediated “field” recordings of lesser-known global
    music traditions.
  • SACRI CUORI
     
    The music of Sacri Cuori is a kaleidoscopic road trip
    through imaginary 60/70’s soundtrack music
    and post-folk sonics from Italy, Europa and beyond.
  • DENNIS BOVELL
     
    Dub 4 Daze: Classic dub.
    Classic reggae.
    Classic Dennis Bovell.
  • HAYVANLAR ALEMI
     
    The flashpoint where dub music
    and global psych-rock melt together.
  • BEN ZABO
     
    A string of firecrackers igniting on the
    dance floor of a midnight party.
  • LOBI TRAORÉ


    Lobi Traoré was a true African original,
    a guitarist of profound depth and originality,
    a singer and songwriter with universal appeal.

  • BOMBINO
     
    The last couple of years have been an
    exhilarating ride for Bombino. In late
    2004, he recorded nine acoustic songs
    in the Ténéré desert, which became his
    first real album.
  • REFREE

    Mesmerizing acoustic and electric guitar explorations
    meet sampled street recordings,
    haunted voices and hushed electronics.

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  • Širom – The Liquified Throne of Simplicity

    The Slovenian “imaginary folk” trio’s most epic and transportive album yet. Powered by acoustic and often handmade instruments, these expansive compositions echo the borderless, collective spirit of groups like Don Cherry’s Organic Music Society and Art Ensemble of Chicago.

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  • Park Jiha – The Gleam

    The luminous 3rd album from the acclaimed Korean multi-instrumentalist and composer. A gorgeous meditation on the intersection of music and light.

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  • Catherine Graindorge – Eldorado

    Catherine Graindorge is a Belgian violinist, violist and composer. Produced by John Parish (PJ Harvey, Rokia Traoré), Eldorado is her second solo album. Gorgeous and haunting, Graindorge uses strings, harmonium and electronic treatments to explore intimate corners and widescreen vistas.

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  • dal:um – similar & different

    dal:um is a duo based in Seoul, who challenge the sonic possibilities of Korea’s most well-known traditional string instruments: the Gayageum and the Geomungo. Ethereal and otherworldly this is music that treasures the space between the notes.

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  • Krononaut – Scratch Test

    Coming out of the fertile London jazz and experimental scenes, Krononaut is a richly textured new ensemble helmed by guitarist/producer Leo Abrahams and drummer Martin France. Their self-titled debut album released by Glitterbeat label imprint tak:til in the autumn of 2020 was widely acclaimed for its deep dive into uncharted sonic territory. Krononaut have now returned with an equally engaging 3-song digital EP entitled “Scratch Test.”

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  • Chuck Johnson – The Cinder Grove

    The follow up to Johnson’s acclaimed Balsams album, The Cinder Grove delves further into the compositional possibilities of the pedal steel guitar. This halcyon collection of tracks draws on a wider palette of sounds, adding strings and piano, to dive deeper into the sound bath of Johnson’s meditative music. The Cinder Grove is a profound, affecting statement on the nature of loss and irreplaceability as well as a major addition to the canon of Johnson’s work.

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  • Pulled by Magnets – Entrance Gates

    London-based sonic explorer Seb Rochford lets fly an immersive EP follow up to Pulled by Magnets’ lauded debut album “Rose Golden Doorways” (released earlier this year). A dark frontier where doom rhythms rub against haunted saxophone atmospherics, 4-time Mercury Prize nominee Rochford (Polar Bear, Sons of Kemet, Basquiat Strings), has created with this new trio, his most adventurous soundworld yet.

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  • Adhelm – Yasam Rose

    Adhelm’s compositions investigate the spaces where insistent nature and bleak urbanity meet. The result is a compelling admixture of resonant percussion, processed field recordings and spectral electronics. His adventurous compositional processes and experiments echo musique concrète, Cageian indeterminacy and the deep listening ethos of Pauline Oliveros.

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  • Krononaut – Krononaut

    Coming out of the fertile London jazz and experimental scenes, Krononaut is a richly textured new ensemble helmed by guitarist /producer Leo Abrahams (Brian Eno, Imogen Heap, Jon Hopkins) and drummer Martin France. The album features an esteemed group of collaborators and a sonic footprint that channels spectral ambiance, ‘fourth world’ expansions and a gorgeous slow-boiling pointillism.

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  • Pulled By Magnets – Rose Golden Doorways

    Acclaimed London-based sonic explorer Seb Rochford unleashes a startling new band and debut album. The frontier where doom rhythms rub against haunted saxophone atmospherics. A 4-time Mercury Prize nominee (Polar Bear, Sons of Kemet, Basquiat Strings) Pulled by Magnets is Seb’s most sublime and provocative musical statement to date. Forget type, genre or influence: this is the start of a brand-new trip by one of the most questing musicians at work anywhere.

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  • Jon Hassell / Farafina – Flash Of The Spirit

    Composer and trumpeter Jon Hassell has been an elusive, iconic musical figure for more than half a century. The first ever reissue and remastering of Jon Hassell & Farafina’s prescient, “Fourth World” masterwork. Propulsive Burkinese rhythms meet revelatory, ambient soundscapes. Co-produced with the legendary studio team of Brian Eno & Daniel Lanois.

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  • Širom – A Universe that Roasts Blossoms for a Horse

    Slovenian ‘imaginary folk’ instrumental trio return with a kaleidoscopic third album ‘A Universe that Roasts Blossoms for a Horse / Svet, ki speče konju cvet’. Širom are all about the head and the hand, and the dark that always pushes against the light. Handmade and global instrumentation meets fearless sound exploration.

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  • 75 Dollar Bill – I Was Real

    The NYC based duo of Rick Brown and Che Chen, creates hypnotic, pulsing music that weaves an ecstatic line from raw electric blues, Arabic modes and entrancing folk minimalism back to the streets of New York. The third album from these acclaimed NYC mainstays adds concise rockers, fuller orchestrations and mysterious textures to the band’s long, odd/deep grooves and microtonal tunings. 

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  • Park Jiha – Philos

    Park Jiha’s debut album “Communion” – released internationally by tak:til last year – drew well deserved attention to the young Korean instrumentalist/composer’s vivid soundworld. The widely acclaimed album graced 2018 critics lists at The WIRE, Pop Matters and The Guardian. Her new album “Philos”– which she calls an evocation of her “love for time, space and sound” –is every bit as inventive, elegant and transcendent as her debut.

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  • Chris Brokaw – End Of The Night

    Boston-based Chris Brokaw has made an indelible mark on rock music both on his own as well as with his iconic bands Codeine and Come, and as a collaborator with Thurston Moore, Evan Dando, Stephen O’Malley and many others.

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  • Chuck Johnson – Balsams

    Chuck Johnson is a composer and musician residing in Oakland, CA. His 2017 album “Balsams” ended up on albums-of-the-year lists at UNCUT, Pitchfork and NPR. Tak:til is releasing “Balsams” for the first time ever on CD – with two additional tracks.

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  • Refree – La otra mitad

    Raül Refree is one of the most acclaimed Spanish producers of the last decade. Working with ground breaking artists such as Silvia Pérez Cruz and Rosalía he has been at the forefront of the so-called “new flamenco” movement. He also collaborates with rock experimentalists like Lee Ranaldo from Sonic Youth – both playing in his band and co-producing Lee’s last album “Electric Trim.”

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  • Yonatan Gat – Universalists

    Yonatan Gat is a guitarist, producer and experimental composer based in New York City. Gat’s second album – Universalists – is a conceptual and crafted snapshot of an artist evolving and experimenting, fusing the physical garage punk and freewheeling improvisational sounds of Gat’s past with elements of avant garde composition, electronic production and the signature sound of his genre-bending inimitable guitar.

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  • Park Jiha – Communion

    Park Jiha is in the vanguard of new Korean music. She combines classical minimalism with the rootedness of Korean folk motifs and the dynamics of post-rock and contemporary jazz. Over the last few years a rising tide of new Korean artists have staked a place in the global music conversation. Groups like Jambinai, Black String and Park Jiha’s earlier duo 숨[suːm] have created exciting soundworlds.

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  • Jon Hassell – Dream Theory In Malaya

    The first-ever reissue of Jon Hassell’s “Fourth World” masterpiece – originally released in 1981. Collaborators include Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois (U2, Peter Gabriel) and Michael Brook (Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan). Beautifully re-mastered, with a bonus track (“Ordinary Mind”) and liner notes written by Hassell himself. The 4th release from Glitterbeat Record’s new label imprint: tak:til.

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  • Širom – I Can Be a Clay Snapper

    The intertwining of diverse musical approaches, tools, histories of sounds and unbridled musical imagination and craftsmanship; these are the expansive guiding principles behind the Slovenian trio Širom. Hailing from Slovenia, Širom play vividly textured and mostly imagined folk music(s). Fusing handmade and global instruments with fearless sound exploration, the results are unbound by tradition or geography. Hypnotic, otherworldly & epic.

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  • Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society – Simultonality

    An album of “pure motion.” Without sounding frenetic it is the most explosive Natural Information Society music on record, & without sounding over-determined it is Abrams’s most structured & thru-composed music yet. Much of it is also fast, a mass of densely patterned elements swiftly orbiting constantly reconfiguring centers that are variously harmonic & rhythmic, clearly stated or implied.

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  • 75 Dollar Bill – Wood​​/​​Metal​​/​​Plastic​​/​​Pattern​​/​​Rhythm​​/​​Rock

    The NYC based duo of Rick Brown and Che Chen, creates hypnotic, pulsing music that weaves an ecstatic line from raw electric blues, Arabic modes and entrancing folk minimalism back to the streets of New York. Uncut called it: “An astonishingly potent next stage in an ongoing cultural exchange…magnificent; like a gnawa ritual that’s been convened by Junior Kimbrough.”

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  • Jon Hassell / Brian Eno – Fourth World Vol.1: Possible Musics

    In the late 1970’s in New York, Hassell began to produce a series of astonishing albums where his trumpet explored both non-western modalities and dramatic sound processing. Brian Eno, who was living New York at the time was thrilled by Hassell’s debut album Vernal Equinox and sought out its creator. Eventually they began an in-depth collaboration that resulted in the classic album Fourth World Vol.1: Possible Musics.

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  • Laraaji – Ambient 3: Day Of Radiance

    Widely celebrated at the time of its release in 1980 – as the third installment of Brian Eno’s emerging ambient music series (Ambient 1-4) – the album also brought with it an aura of mystification. An uncharted synthesis of resonating zither textures, interlocking, hammered rhythms and 3-D sound treatments (courtesy of Eno) “Day of Radiance” seemed to push open many doors at once, ambient music being only one of them.

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  • April 8th, 2022
    New Album: Širom – The Liquified Throne of Simplicity
    The Slovenian “imaginary folk” trio’s most epic and transportive album yet. Powered by acoustic and often handmade instruments, these expansive compositions echo the borderless, collective spirit of groups like Don Cherry’s Organic Music Society and Art Ensemble of Chicago.
    💥 Get the album: https://idol.lnk.to/Sirom-TLTOS

  • March 4th, 2022
    New Album: YĪN YĪN – The Age Of Aquarius
    YĪN YĪN’s dazzling second album dives even deeper into dancefloor propulsion and space travel atmospherics than their lauded debut The Rabbit that Hunts Tigers (2019). Funk and disco beats. Electro experimentation. Global retro vibes. A shimmering, cinematic sweep.
    💥 Get the album: IDOL.lnk.to/TheAgeOfAquarius

  • February 25th, 2022
    New Album: Park Jiha – The Gleam
    The luminous 3rd album from the acclaimed Korean multi-instrumentalist and composer. A gorgeous meditation on the intersection of music and light.
    💥 Get the album: https://bit.ly/B_FLAT_A

  • February 11th, 2022
    New Album: Trupa Trupa – B FLAT A
    With B FLAT A this much acclaimed quartet from Gdańsk have produced their most epic and visceral statement to date. A universe where echoes of Can, Syd Barrett and Fugazi lovingly collide.
    💥 CD/LP/DL: https://bit.ly/B_FLAT_A
    💥 Digital: https://idol.lnk.to/BFLATA

  • January 21st, 2022
    New EP: Avalanche Kaito – Dabalomuni
    Avalanche Kaito: a Burkinabe urban griot (vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Kaito Winse) meets a Brussels noise punk duo (Drummer/dataist Benjamin Chaval and guitarist Nico Gitto). It’s a completely new alloy and a huge opportunity to deconstruct both traditional and futurist knowledge. It is the sound of the world as it truly is; an unruly and unforgettable sonic explosion created by the intersection of wayward travellers. The 4-song digital EP »Dabalomuni« (out January 21st) is Avalanche Kaito’s opening salvo. Their self-titled full-length album will be released via Glitterbeat Records in June of 2022.
    💥 Listen: https://idol.lnk.to/Dabalomuni

  • December 7th, 2021
    New single: YĪN YĪN – Nautilus
    YĪN YĪN now return with a groove-filled second album ‘The Age of Aquarius’ (out 11 March 2022 on Glitterbeat) that dives even deeper into dancefloor propulsion and space travel atmospherics. There is an expansive richness in the sound as samples, drum computers and synthesizers intertwine with real-time playing. But more than anything, ‘The Age Of Aquarius’, is a simple, direct appeal to dance. The record’s party vibe can also be put down to YĪN YĪN’s experiences on the road, where the positive energies picked up from their audiences fed back into a sound that increasingly “kept people moving.”
    The first single from the forthcoming album is the track “Nautilus” (out now). Like much of the album, the track’s intergalactic party vibes are strong. It is brilliant, invigorating dance music that drops in some thumping 1990s-style electric boogie and italo disco chops along the way.
    💥 Listen: https://idol.lnk.to/_Nautilus

  • October 1st, 2021
    NEW: Kuunatic – Gate Of Klüma
    Kuunatic is a thrilling Tokyo based tribal-psych trio bolstered by diverse global sonics and powerful female vocals. Drawing on the members’ different musical and cultural perspectives, their music explores ritual drumming, pulsing bass lines, atmospheric keyboard sounds and Japanese traditional instruments.
    🎻 LP/CD: https://bit.ly/gate_of_kluna
    🎻 Digital: https://IDOL.lnk.to/GateofKluna

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