Catalogue - Khomeiny Twist YouTube video by bonzoboydog

Another little known French should-be classic, (1982) from the album Pénétration. Catalogue were Jac Berrocal, Gilbert Artman and J-F Pauvros. The most post-punk improv I know.

Bernard Verley & Catharsis - Rimbaud c'est Toi (1972) 04 - Mauvais sang-Voyelles YouTube video by tiguissas

One of the great almost-unknown 1970s French Underground sounds. 15 minutes of actor Bernard Verley intoning Rimbaud’s poem over a massive psych improvisation by Catharsis. Verley sounds completely transported by the band’s flight. 1972, since you ask

Agreed. More like this please!

daily.bandcamp.com/lists/french... Some cracking '70s French Underground albums chosen here by Jim Allen for @bandcamp.com

I second this, by @hayleyscott.bsky.social. A blinding album by Brighton’s finest

Working their way through the alphabet

Entering Elysium, by Steve Roach & Serena Gabriel 5 track album

If there were such a thing as an Ambient summer smash, this would be it :-) By Steve Roach & Serena Gabriel on @projekt.bsky.social Records

Using Spotify is just as bad as using X, in some aspects, even more consequential: Spotify is actively killing music, not just exploiting musicians. All other streaming platforms are better, and have as wide a choice. Migrating your playlists is dead easy. Please leave that evil platform - now.

"Sounds Can Have Their Own Meaning": Remembering Éliane Radigue | The Quietus Warren Hatter reflects on the life of an extraordinary, innovative artist, ignored for most of her life before being celebrated this century

Read the obituary for artist Éliane Radigue, who occupies a chapter in the forthcoming Srange Attractor book 'Concrete Science Fiction Riot', written by the book's author Warren Hatter @frenchrocksampler.bsky.social

thequietus.com/news/remembe...

I love this. It’s brilliant and adventurous but also there’s a sense of them pushing their kit to the limit to get the sound and arrangement they want, so at odds with the techno-perfectionism they went on to project.

Hi nick i'm here. Not posting much but the book is forthcoming on @strangeattractor.bsky.social

Ha. I’m struggling to think of a less romantic track than the brilliant ‘464’ on side 2

“Radigue homed in on the sound – looked within it. She was a true experimental artist” My piece for @thequietus.com remembering Éliane Radigue, who left us on Monday

Thanks for all the love for this, and thanks @thequietus.com for commissioning. Éliane was - and remains - such an inspiration.

"Sounds can have their own meaning" – Remembering Éliane Radigue | The Quietus Warren Hatter reflects on the life of an extraordinary, innovative artist, ignored for most of her life before being celebrated this century

I wrote a ‘Remember Them’ piece for @thequietus.com about the wonderful Éliane Radigue. I hope I’ve done her justice thequietus.com/news/remembe...

So true. Realising that high volume isn’t necessary for her work’s impact was a massive step for me in appreciating Radigue. (A lesson I learned someone on the other place many years ago)

Farewell to French composer Éliane Radigue (1932-2026) who taught us the radical power of slowness, of patience, and attention stretched to the threshold of perception. Her work will continue to resonate—slowly, endlessly—like a tone that never quite fades.

Oh no. She was unique. There’s a case that Éliane was the most revolutionary musician of our times, and yet almost unknown until 25 years ago.

I saw drummer Charles Hayward at the Hayward Gallery

Post a banger that isnt in English youtu.be/WLQeYggeF_I?...

Only Came To Say Goodbye, by Ryan J Raffa & Sam Prekop 6 track album

Everything about this tape is beautiful crashsymbols.bandcamp.com/album/only-c.... By @rjraffa.bsky.social @1sampre.bsky.social on Crash Symbols out of West Virginia. The label is open to UK/EU distribution so raise your hand if you might be able to help.

Bodie & Zeulh

It was also an oddly reserved crowd on Friday night in Brighton. I wonder if it’s because they’re doing a proper ‘tour the album’ show, with older tracks picked to fit stylistically into the set … but half the crowd hoped for a heritage thing??

Serge Gainsbourg - Aux Armes Et Cætera View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2003 CD release of "Aux Armes Et Cætera" on Discogs.

You could count this dub/version double CD as two albums, I suppose www.discogs.com/release/2575...

oops - Rëlisp, not Rëslip

Warthåk, by Rëlisp 4 track album

There's a band in Mexico called Rëslip making heavy Zeuhl with the intensity, but not the virtuosity, of Koenjihyakkei. Thrilling stuff noizumx.bandcamp.com/album/warth-k

Let’s do this. (I have - to Tidal a while ago)

Alt text should be: “cover of Elizabeth Alker book ‘Everything We Do is Music: How 20th-Century Classical Music Shaped Pop’”

Well this looks fascinating www.faber.co.uk/product/9780...

I know a lot of us have feelings about Bandcamp’s changes in ownership over the last few years. But it’s still true that buying music directly from independent labels and artists on Bandcamp remains one of the best ways to support the musicians you listen to.