Harold Budd, American avant-garde minimalist composer, has died, aged 84.
News of the influential artist’s passing was confirmed on Facebook yesterday by close collaborator Robin Guthrie of Cocteau Twins, who wrote: “It is with great sadness that we learned of the passing of Harold Budd. Rest in peace, poet of the piano.”
Nexcyia will release his new EP, ‘Crawl’, via Alien Jams this month.
Dutch producer Subp Yao will release his new album. ‘Infra Aqual’, this month on Prague label YUKU.
Set for release on 20th November, the album is a deep dive into UK soundsystem forms, half-time bass pressure and lucid electronics. Inspired by the world found beneath the ocean, it’s an expansive, enveloping 13-track collection featuring collaborations with Jamaican vocalist Warrior Queen and dOOp.
Eddington Again has released a new track, ‘Petrify’, with accompanying visuals from 011668.
‘Petrify’ follows the Los Angeles artist’s recent ‘Damani6’ EP, which was released in May. This new single finds them in more energised sonic territory, but retains all the hypnotic, emotive atmospheres that have coursed through their work to date.
aircode will release a new EP, ‘Effortless’, this week on Alien Jams.
The London-based Swedish producer’s new five-track release was written over the course of a year of intense sleep deprivation, and “reflects a period of disorientation, social claustrophobia, and the unbridled feeling of a loss of focus”.
Disjointed electronic rhythms tumble beneath dizzying vocal loops and self-generated melodies and soundscapes, the EP captures the foggy and confused mental state of the sleep-deprived well, making for a collection that is at once arresting and unsettling.
A new compilation on Swiss label Planisphere Editorial will see 13 artists reinterpret the work of experimental composer Michal Turtle.
Set for release on 23rd October, the compilation features remixes from artists including Laurel Halo (as LH), object blue, Jimmy Edgar, Mehmet Aslan, Lucrecia Dalt and Félicia Atkinson.
