minimalism

Cahill//Costello – Offworld (Gearbox)

Glasgow duo Cahill//Costello chart an improvised course under sheltering skies and ocean depths, with their minimalist debut Offworld

Leaning into the Spaces: Burd Ellen Interview

Burd Ellen’s Debbie Armour talks to Gareth Thompson about sacred dramas, Mary as an Ever Mother and taxidermy wrens

Listening Center – Diaphanous Structures (Temporary Tapes)

David Mason takes a far more meditative but no less effective turn with this new digital-only Listening Center long-player

Fran & Flora: Seedlings of the Mind Mixtape

Fran & Flora’s mixtape for Concrete Islands opens a portal and takes a journey across cultures and musical styles, through the Fourth World and beyond

Burd Ellen – Silver Came

Debbie Armour’s Burd Ellen bring a modernist edge and samurai-like minimalism to interpretations of traditional folk songs on their debut album

Dylan Henner – A Reason for Living (Phantom Limb)

Dylan Henner’s debut EP channels American minimalism and classic ambient to evoke the imaginary score to a stripped back science fiction film

Snow Palms – Everything Ascending b/w Circling (Village Green)

David Sheppard resets his Snow Palms alias into an ensemble configuration for a 12” slice of multi-movement tunnelling and orchestral sophistication

Jozef Van Wissem and Jim Jarmusch – An Attempt to Draw Aside the Veil (Sacred Bones)

Jozef and Jim’s experimental lute and guitar drones form an occult music for thin places which lingers and insinuates through cosmic visions

Irmin Schmidt – 5 Klavierstücke (Mute)

Can founder Irmin Schmidt’s pieces for piano are in search of lost memory and misplaced time, finding tranquility regained alongside the menace of things to come