Sir Richard Bishop – Hillbilly Ragas (Drag City)

Label Description: Our favorite six-string shaman is waving that axe around again! Sir Richard Bishop wrenches forth fresh damnable truth and beauty from a musical kamikaze run through histories both known and unknown. Turning a gimlet eye to the American Primitive guitar style, Sir Rick applies his own bloodthirsty interpretive methods on a self-described “excursion into the dark woods,” to locate – and play along with – the Primitive’s moonshine-fed inner savage.

{AN} EeL – Trance Music (Pan Pan Pan Avian Distress Call)

Label Description: One of the Best Times Ever
Was Sex on the Beach
And not the Drink – Nothing
Metaphorically, Wet Wild & Juicy
Sex on the Beach, Stars in our Eyes
The Glow of reckless Youth Riding
Waves of Pale Moonlight
I Saw the Stars that Night, But they
Were Outshone
Always there
But
Always Alone – A Blink
in Time, A Moment in Stride
Inside so Close
The Dance of Sighs,
The Pitter Patter pattie
Try it on for Size ~
It’s What passes for Clase
Classy
Both Here
And Far
And Wide ~

Spycker – The Very Thing We Need (Submarine Broadcasting Company)

Label Description:

The Very Thing That We Need can be experienced as a temporary sonic journey, a drifting passage through layered soundscapes. Each track unfolds like a chapter in an inward-bound narrative, leaning into atmosphere over urgency, weaving layered rhythms and unconventional melodies.
The album opens with a soft glow: piano and guitar drifting together in a quiet nostalgia. From there, the grooves loop and simmer, steady but just out of reach, like something half-remembered. Moments of calm give way to darker turns, sliding gently into a dreamlike haze that moves between the familiar and the uncanny.

In According To One, piano and guitar drift together in quiet conversation, conjuring a sense of ease, like looking back on something you never quite left behind.
From there, sink deeper into the slow-burning pulse of Induce the Peasants. Its steady groove is hypnotic and unhurried, perfect for losing track of time and letting the present dissolve.
With Santi Asoke, the mood lightens. Breezy and effortless, it carries you somewhere warm and weightless, a place where nothing is expected, and everything just is.
Things shift with Of Money Use. Here, the familiar starts to slip away and you’re left in a vivid, uncertain dreamscape where imagination takes the lead.
Finally, Asoke Hierarchy pulls it all back together. It’s a subtle revival: steady and composed, like standing up again after a long, introspective drift.

snw – music at a distance 270 (One Zero Music)

Label Description:

This is a particularly slow performance. I’d gone into it somewhat sleep-deprived, though by the third and fourth pieces, I was getting energy back from the music, enough energy to leave more space and allow the rests to speak. Thank you to the audience for staying with me.

The hollowbody Univox vibrates quite a lot–there’s a lot of air in there. Consequently, there’s a lot of air in these timbres: French horn, muted trumpet, accordion, glass harmonica timbres. This one’s a step toward a collaboration with silence.

The titles this week are references to the visual art of Louise Blyton. Thank you for listening!

Maurice Rickard: Guitar, programming

Signal chain: Univox Coily in Bb F Bb F Bb C tuning > Reuss Effects Understate, Reuss Effects Repeater Fuzz, Balls Effects KWB > Vox Wah > Hungry Robot Wardenclyffe Deluxe > Moyo Volume > Max/MSP eight-delay patch with FFT pitch shift, tremolo, convolution reverb, AudioThing Reels.

Impulses: Inchindown Oil Tanks ( Matt Gray mattg.co.uk ), silent5 Biamp MR/140 (Flat), St. Paul’s Huddersfield (near), Fort Worden Cistern

Lalén Ríos Luna – Aura Seminalis (Porous Collective)

Label Description:

It is made manifest only to those who travel through foul and fair, who pass beyond the summit of every holy ascent, who leave behind them every divine light, every voice, every word from heaven, and who plunge into the darkness where . . . there dwells what is beyond all things.


The instruments involved in the making of this one:
Trumpet
Clarinet
Telecaster
Morphagene
Microfreak
Landscape stereo field
Make Noise Wogglebug
Assorted percussion

SPRING – FORTH (Vivarium Sounds)

Label Description:

Vocals and Guitar: Laura Rintoul
Synth and Engineering : Isobel McKenna

Songs 1,3,5 written by Laura
Songs 2,4 written by Laura and Isobel

Recorded on 4 track and digitised by Isobel and Laura
Mixed and Mastered by Robert Dallas Gray

Photography taken by Isobel at an abandoned house near Kuusamo Lentoasema summer 2012

 

 


Vivarium Sounds 17

odd person – there is no place (Ingrown Records)

Label Description: Review from The Far Out Fox / Tuning In To Obscure
tuningintoobscure.wordpress.com/2025/05/31/odd-person-there-is-no-place/

odd person returns to ingrown with long-player there is no place, available for pre-order now on digital and Hi-Fi pro-dubbed cassette. a 76 minute mega-release masterpiece of an album for the ages. don’t be caught in the rain without. pick one up today!

all digital and physical orders go to helping to fund the physical release. at the very least I hope you can find time to listen and enjoy!

Support odd person here:
somnaphon.bandcamp.com
oddperson.bandcamp.com
augusttraeger.net

Previous outings on Ingrown

the flowers of arcadia ingrown.bandcamp.com/album/the-flowers-of-arcadia
Spring Sprouts Comp (as Somnaphon) ingrown.bandcamp.com/album/spring-sprouts-compilation
Regrown Compilation 2020
ingrown.bandcamp.com/album/regrown-compilation-2020
Ingrown Compilation 2021
ingrown.bandcamp.com/album/ingrown-compilation-2021
14 Years / 100 Releases Compilation
ingrown.bandcamp.com/album/14-years-100-releases-compilation
my dismal arcadia
ingrown.bandcamp.com/album/my-dismal-arcadia

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