From daring experimentalists @maryhalvorson.bsky.social and @orenambarchi.bsky.social to pop geniuses @sparksofficial.bsky.social and FKA twigs: SILY's top albums of 2025 sinceileftyoublog.tumblr.com/post/8052860...

Recorded a solo guitar record yesterday for Kou Records at Studio Dede in Tokyo 🇯🇵 Engineer: Randall Dunn Vid: Charmaine Lee

Today's special edition of the Nowhere Street newsletter is part one of my rundown of my 40 favorite albums from 2025. It's free to subscribe. open.substack.com/pub/petermar...

The first Nowhere Street newsletter in 2026 looks at Roland Keijser & Christer Bothén, with a preview of Stop Over featuring Brandon Lopez & Fred Moten, Yuhan Su, Kaja Draksler & Irena Z. Tomazin, and Lorenzo Soules with Apparat. It's free to subscribe. open.substack.com/pub/petermar...

開場19:00 / 開演19:30 　前売￥5,000 / 当日￥5,500​ 2/14(日)13:00~販売・予約受付開始（販売は代引郵送販売のみ）

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Two from Black Truffle to cap off the year

21/ Ghosted III by Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling & Andreas Werliin. Kind of an annual tradition now. orenambarchi.bandcamp.com/album/ghoste...

'There is absolute perfection in the tooth and drone of the strings on Melopea, moving in tandem with Cuni’s vocals - a hybrid of deep traditional vocal technique and the precision of microtones and partials' Amelia Cuni - Melopea - Rum Music: The Best of 2025 buff.ly/RekOkQL

I wrote about my favourite albums - 10 ALBUMS FOR 2025 obladada.com/2025/12/15/1... #NicolaeBrindus @dj-surgeon.bandcamp.com #ChristophHeemann @orenambarchi.bsky.social #jamesholden #CostinMiereanu #PAINT #MattBaldwin #MaxEilbacher #CrystalVoyager #UFOm #TOMO #avantgarde #drone #psychedelic

if I had gotten the physical copy of this a bit earlier it def would have made my year-end list. stunning stuff. and the fact that Mark Fell put out three of the best releases of the year is wild.

Today on WFMU: On Observations of Deviance w/David Mittleman (Give the Drummer Radio stream), Oren Ambarchi Interview. Guitar player/composer Ambarchi has produced some of the most remarkable music of the last decade, as a solo artist and with the Ghosted project (7 p.m. ET).

Jennifer Lucy Allan picks out 10 of the best from another Rum year, from lucid bedroom pop made in 80s Hungary, to wild new sounds out of Lancashire produced on self-built wooden instruments, via accordions, kanteles, lap steel guitars, modular synths Rum Music: The Best of 2025 buff.ly/RekOkQL

last three Black Truffle releases of 2025 just came through 🍾

On the next episode Ghosted: Oren Ambarchi Interview @orenambarchi.bsky.social Sat, Dec 13, 7-10pm(ET) @wfmu.bsky.social STREAM ▶️ wfmu.org/playlists/sh...

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Special shout-out to this prickly, irascible duo set from Fell and Pat Thomas: blacktruffle.bandcamp.com/album/realit...

A beautiful posthumous release from Amelia Cuni: "Neither a classical Indian performance nor an archival release, it instead hews closer to the recent work of French composer Eliane Radigue...hovering between tradition and modern minimalism." cunidurand.bandcamp.com/album/melopea

The new Richard Youngs album, coming out tomorrow, is an AOTY (I have a review copy, am reviewing it for WXDU) It's an album "that seems to have more to do with dub or early hip-hop than high-brow models of musical reductionism," says @bandcamp.com nofansrecords.bandcamp.com/album/hidden

Out today on Black Truffle, our last release for 2025 is HIDDEN by the inimitable RICHARD YOUNGS. Like little else in contemporary music, Youngs’ work beams with the simple joys of exploration & experiment. LP+Digital: blacktruffle.bandcamp.com/album/hidden

New Richard Youngs LP now available! www.anost.net

Available direct from me, my new album on Black Truffle. Mailing out with free risograph Youngsie and Creation Room postcards. www.nofansrecords.com/shop/richard...

Richard Youngs switches it up again on his third Black Truffle episode, serving two long sides of bone-dry kosmische sequences and asymmetric vocalisations that land somewhere between Manuel Göttsching x Conrad Schnitzler, with an inimitable slant boomkat.com/products/hid...

early christmas present of oblique bloops from richard youngs (and black truffle) nofansrecords.bandcamp.com/album/hidden

The latest contemporary music column is up at Bandcamp Daily w/ music by Anaïs Maviel & The Rhythm Method, Ian Power, Zihua Tan & NO HAY BANDA, Santiago Díez Fischer, Luis Fernando Amaya, Marie Schreer, Ruby Colley, Laura Cetilia, Léo Dupleix, and Jonas Olsson. daily.bandcamp.com/best-contemp...

Searching for the best new contemporary classical music on Bandcamp? You've come to the right place.

Sessions in Stockholm right about now for Ghosted IV

Out today on Black Truffle! MARK FELL & PAT THOMAS - REALITY IS NOT A THEORY blacktruffle.bandcamp.com/album/realit...

Super excited to be releasing another record on Black Truffle. Copies are on their way to Scotland and it’ll be available direct from me in a week or so, should you wish.

Preorders now available for HIDDEN by the inimitable RICHARD YOUNGS. Like little else in contemporary music, Youngs’ work beams with the simple joys of exploration & experiment. LP+Digital: blacktruffle.bandcamp.com/album/hidden

*STROBING SOUND & VISION WARNING* Titans in their fields Mark Fell and Pat Thomas induce proper hyper-jazz screwfaces with some of the rudest, most adventurous tackle in either’s arsenal on their debut collab. New from Black Truffle, now shipping ✨ boomkat.com/products/rea...

Coming December 5th: kompakt.fm/releases/hid... Thanks @orenambarchi.bsky.social for asking, @lassemarhaug.bsky.social for design, and Francis Plagne for writing.

Performing a live soundtrack together with Fredrik Rasten to the Slovak film “Dragon’s Return” in Salerno, Italy tomorrow night. More info here: www.lineadombrafestival.it/en/info/oren...

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good evening leodupleix.bandcamp.com/album/round-...

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Akira Sakata solo performance in Wels, Austria this afternoon 🔥

Out today on Black Truffle! leodupleix.bandcamp.com/album/round-... More info 👇🏾

Pre-Order Now: Mark Fell & Pat Thomas - Reality Is Not A Theory Black Truffle https://bleep.com/release/543216 Recorded in concert at the University of Sheffield in March 2025, the first collaboration between SND's Mark Fell and pianist Pat Thomas,

fully engrossing baroque drone played on synth, harpsichord and spinet with double bass, quarter-tone flute and guitar - kinda easy for these black truffle’s to pass you by cos they’re all so consistently great - but this really is quietly spectacular boomkat.com/products/rou...

Preorders available for Reality Is Not A Theory,the 1st collaboration between MARK FELL & PAT THOMAS presenting 2 sides of algorithmic & improvised music for computer & piano, exemplifying both players insatiable search for new playing situations. LP/digital blacktruffle.bandcamp.com/album/realit...

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Mark Fell x Pat Thomas Reality Is Not A Theory algorithmic and improvised music for computer and piano, new from Black Truffle ✨🔥✨ boomkat.com/products/rea...

Léo Dupleix returns with the Round Sky LP featuring 3 new pieces, each of which is like a different view on the same landscape of unruffled calm, where unique harmonic events flicker across melodies & harmonies like light on the surface of water.Preorder here: leodupleix.bandcamp.com/album/round-...

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Photography work: Charlemagne Palestine/Oren Ambarchi/Eric Thielemans «Kaanal» LP on @matiere_memoire

10 years ago: Oren Ambarchi & Will Guthrie + Arnold Dreyblatt + Philip Jeck @ St-John-at-Hackney, London, 15th October 2015

Keiji Haino, 1994 - some of the deepest ever gear from one of our greatest living artists, coupled with half an hour of absolute noise terror from 1973 - almost a decade before the term "power electronics" was coined heavyweight gatefold 2LP ✨ boomkat.com/products/whe...

REVISIO: Nijiumu | When I sing, I slip into the microphone. Into that void, I bring comrade “prayers”, then, turning to face the outside, together we explode. obladada.com/2025/10/13/r... I wrote about this: "utter brilliance at the very crumbling edge of rock music" @orenambarchi.bsky.social