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  • AMMAR 808

    Futurist syncopations meet hypnotic, timeless narratives.
  • BRÌGHDE CHAIMBEUL

    An exhilarating weave of rich textural
    drones, trance atmospheres and
    instrumental folk traditions.
  • KUUNATIC

    A thrilling Tokyo based tribal-psych
    trio bolstered by diverse global sonics
    and powerful female vocals.
  • PARK JIHA
     
    Inventive, elegant and transcendent.
  • JULIÁN MAYORGA

    A feverish mix of angular electric guitars,
    circuit-bent beats, found percussion and
    rapid-fire incantations.
  • BUZZ' AYAZ
    Hailing from Cyprus’s divided capital
    Nicosia, Buzz’ Ayaz creates a transfixing
    Eastern Mediterranean psychedelia.
  • EL KHAT

    A careening orchestra of percussion, horns,
    strings, electricity and el Wahab’s own DIY
    instruments. Mesmerizing retro-futurist sounds.
  • SAAGARA

    A buzzing juxtaposition of dense Indian
    rhythms and pulsating electronic patterns.
  • ŠIROM
     
    A deep, resonant soundworld.
  • DAL:UM

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

     

  • BABA ZULA
     
    Dub, Turkish psych-rock, Anatolian folk music,
    Krautrock
    and the experimental beyond.
  • LANDLESS
    The Irish quartet sings centuries old ballads
    as well as more recently penned folk songs.
    Sometimes unaccompanied and at times with
    subtle instrumentation, their vocally rich music
    is dark and patient; spellbinding and gorgeous.
  • GORDAN
    Gordan mirror the mysticism of legends and
    stories from the Balkan region, creating a music
    that stretches between expressiveness and
    abstraction; tradition and the avant-garde.
  • ANA LUA CAIANO
    Caiano’s music melds rural Portuguese
    musical traditions with layered vocals,
    synthesizers, insistent beats and field
    recordings.
  • CATHERINE GRAINDORGE

    Gorgeous and haunting, Graindorge
    uses strings, harmonium and electronic
    treatments to explore intimate corners
    and widescreen vistas.
  • GORDAN
    Music that stretches between
    expressiveness and abstraction;
    tradition and the avant-garde.
  • AVALANCHE KAITO

    A Burkinabe urban griot (vocalist
    and multi-instrumentalist Kaito Winse)
    meets a Brussels noise punk duo.
  • LENHART TAPES

    Hypnotic Walkman jams meet industrial
    rhythm loops and trad-folk songs interpreted
    by a lineup of thrilling female vocalists.

  • 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.
  • LUCIDVOX
     
    Incendiary mix of atmospheric psych-rock,
    heavy riffs and Russian folk mystery.
  • BIXIGA 70

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

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

    A lush sonic tapestry of polyrhythms, modern
    dancefloor styles, amapiano, Nile basin
    ceremonial chants and Pan-African field recordings.
  • KING AYISOBA


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

  • GAYE SU AKYOL
     
    Gaye Su Akyol is at the forefront
    of the new Istanbul scene.
  • AL-QASAR

    An explosive mix of heavy
    Arabian grooves, global psychedelia
    and North African trance music.
  • CATHERINE GRAINDORGE
    featuring IGGY POP

    A thrilling collaboration between the
    acclaimed Belgian composer/instrumentalist
    Catherine Graindorge and the ever-iconic
    Iggy Pop.

  • TAU & THE DRONES OF PRAISE

    Ecstatic folk-psych that full embraces
    the natural world and living ancestry,
    through joyful experimentation and
    deeply rooted sonics.
  • YANNA MOMINA

    Yanna Momina’s Afar Ways
    was recorded live in a stilt-hut
    on the horn of Africa when Grammy-
    winning producer & author, Ian Brennan
  • THE MASTER MUSICIANS OF JAJOUKA
    LED BY BACHIR ATTAR

    A collective of Jbala Sufi trance makers,
    committed to creating a contemporary
    representation of their centuries-old
    musical tradition.
  • TRUPA TRUPA
     
    Poland's otly tipped psych/experimental
    rock quartet delivers a potent, galvanizing album.
  • MONSIEUR DOUMANI

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

     

  • 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.
  • 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.”
  • LIRAZ
     
    Shimmering electro-pop meets
    pulsing dance rhythms and retro
    Persian sonics.
  • 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.
  • LOS PIRAÑAS
     
    Retro-futurism at its finest.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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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  • 75 Dollar Bill

    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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  • Adhelm

    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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  • Brìghde Chaimbeul

    Scottish smallpipes player Brìghde Chaimbeul’s second album “Carry Them With Us” is an exhilarating weave of rich textural drones, trance atmospheres and instrumental folk traditions. Acclaimed Canadian sound explorer and saxophonist Colin Stetson is a featured collaborator on the record.

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  • Catherine Graindorge

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

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  • 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.

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  • Chuck Johnson

    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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  • dal:um

    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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  • Etceteral

    Etceteral are a Slovenian experimental trio (saxophone & electronics, drums, visuals) who create a propulsive, polyrhythmic futurist jazz. It is a sound marked by abstract modular explorations, hypnotic drumming, ricocheted horn textures and crystalline production.

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  • Jon Hassell

    When speaking of his musical journey — a journey that that spans more than five decades — Jon Hassell recently noted: “without overstating it too much I don’t know who else has had the kind of experience that I’ve had in various kinds of music.” It is very hard to argue with his self- estimation. Hassell’s soundworlds have been varied and bold and their influence on contemporary musics, discernable and ongoing.

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  • Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society

    Simultonality – in Joshua Abrams words – is 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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  • Laraaji

    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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  • Park Jiha

    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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  • Pulled By Magnets

    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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  • Refree

    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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  • Širom

    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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  • Yonatan Gat

    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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tak:til is a label imprint of Glitterbeat that specializes in contemporary (mostly) instrumental music. While the sound of tak:til at times echoes rhythms and textures that can be found on Glitterbeat releases, it maintains its own conversation and identity.
tak:til albums loosely navigate Jon Hassell's idea of "Fourth World" musics, musics that blur the divide between (so-called) futurists and (so-called) traditionalists.

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  • April 11th, 2025
    Kuunatic • Wheels of Ömon
    This acclaimed Japanese psych-rock trio returns with a kaleidoscopic, otherworldly new album. Their musical core of drums, bass, keyboards and grouped female vocals, is augmented by an array of Japanese folk instruments. It’s a powerful swirling sound. A ritual music for undiscovered galaxies and unimagined futures.
    Get the album: https://idol-io.ffm.to/wheelsofomon

  • March 7th, 2025
    Los Pirañas • Una Oportunidad más de triunfar en la vida
    A veritable supergroup consisting of Eblis Alvarez (Meridian Brothers), Mario Galeano (Frente Cumbiero) and Pedro Ojeda (Romperayo), Los Pirañas, the Colombian Avant-Latin experimentalists, return with their most formidable and forward-looking album yet. Daring, imaginative, eclectic and always deeply groovy, Una Oportunidad más de triunfar en la vida is an infectious trip into the dark, pulsating heart of Bogota’s thrilling underground music scene.
    Get the album: https://idol-io.ffm.to/unaoportunidadmasdetriunfarenlavida

  • February 21st, 2025
    New Album: Trupa Trupa • Mourners
    Trupa Trupa returns with the “Mourners” EP, a bold new release produced by the renowned Nick Launay (Nick Cave, Idles, Amyl and The Sniffers). Featuring five dynamic, fast-paced tracks, the EP showcases a powerful rhythm section, blending loud basslines and driving drums with psychedelic elements, rage, and unexpected stylistic twists.
    Get the album: https://idol-io.ffm.to/mourners

  • February 7th, 2025
    New Album: AMMAR 808 • Live at Another Sky Festival
    Capturing the energy and the experience of Ammar 808’s 150+ global performances, the album unfolds as a pulsing interconnected journey. Live at Another Sky Festival delivers raw, dance-inducing grooves and a deeply individual high-energy Maghreb electronica.
    Get the album: https://idol-io.ffm.to/liveatanotherskyfestival

  • April 25th, 2025
    Famo Mountain • For Those Left Behind
    Recorded in situ in the highlands of Lesotho—one of the world’s most elevated and perilous nations—the group Famo Mountain crafts raw, topical music driven by visceral vocals, accordion and percussion. This sound not only echoes the rugged beauty and harsh realities of its environment but also rises above them, creating something timeless and transcendent.
    Get the album: https://idol-io.ffm.to/forthoseleftbehind

  • January 24th, 2025
    New Album: Samba Touré • Baarakelaw
    The legendary Malian desert blues artist Samba Touré, has returned with a new album Baarakelaw (The Workers) – the follow up to his highly-acclaimed 2021 album Binga. The album received ecstatic, career defining reviews and led to Samba being named the “Best Artist” of 2022 at Songlines magazine. Baarakelaw is a vivid mix of traditional northern Malian Songhoy music, blues-rock tracks with psychedelic overtones, ballads and love songs.
    Get the album: https://idol-io.ffm.to/baarakelaw

  • January 17th, 2025
    New Album: Parcham Prison Prayer – Another Mississippi Sunday Morning
    A poignant sequel to Some Mississippi Sunday Morning (2023), the acclaimed prison recorded gospel album that UNCUT called “an inescapably spiritual experience.” Producer Ian Brennan (Tinariwen, Ustad Saami) has returned to Parchman Farm to record a new collection of raw, haunting performances from the prison’s Sunday gospel service.
    Unforgettable.
    Get the album: https://idol-io.ffm.to/anothermississippisundaymorning 

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