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Artist: Stefan Wesolowski Label: Important Records

Active since the late 1970's, founding member Makoto Kawabata has directed the ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE project and its various offshoots for over 15 years, championing an inimitable brand of sonic exploration at once visionary yet steadfast in its refusal to conform to the occasional mundanity of the present, taking in a diverse array of audible and aesthetic influences including Berlin School Krautrock, earlier German Elektronische Musik, British Progressive Rock - particularly its Canterbury contingent - as well as Japan's own hallucinatory pioneers such as Brast Burn, Taj Mahal Travellers and Les Rallizes Dénudés. "Doobie Wonderland" sees them utilising these influences to their full extent whilst continuing to expand, finding new inspiration in such genres as Psychedelic Soul, Funk and Disco. This new approach is perhaps evidenced by a shift in line-up; in addition to core members Makoto Kawabata, Higashi Hiroshi, Tabata Mitsuri and Shimura Koji, this collection of material, recorded over the space of five years, features the final appearance from drummer / vocalist Pika (formerly of Psychedelic Punk duo Afrirampo) and marks the arrival of Opera, who also performs with Kochi-based Hardcore group Reveal. Pika's spell with the band marked not only a new sound but a sensibility that extended to a live setting, giving rise to a new sonic and performative method, manifesting in a joyous, often ecstatic character that stands in contrast with the Doom-laden arrangements heard on albums such as "Starless and Bible Black Sabbath" and "Ominous from the Cosmic Inferno". This sensibility lives on following her departure, resulting in a refreshingly primitive style that can be heard both live and recorded. A must for converts, and a welcome addition to any Progressive Rock, Psychedelia or even Jazz Fusion collection, this is a trip not to be missed. Come armed with a sense of adventure and without a map Style: Independent

Beautiful new work from Kevin Doria (GROWING). "Radiator"'s companion piece, titled "Burner", will released in September to coincide with TOTAL LIFE's live dates with GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR. Recorded and mixed at home in the winter of 2012, "Radiator" represents the first proper full length release by TOTAL LIFE for Important Records. "Radiator" is inspired by standing on the gas and pushing forward by any means necessary in a fog of high volume and hazy memories, true love and terminal velocity. Intended for high volume playback. Style: Independent

Artist: Eliane Radigue Label: Important

Duane Pitre's new album, Bridges, features two pieces taken from a suite of analogous compositions by the same name, and was composed by Pitre in 2012. The two pieces that comprise the album are meant to work together in sequence as a composite work; or they can be isolated and listened to on their own. The title derives its name from the original concept for this work, which was to bring together aspects of traditional Eastern music (such as compositional form and tuning) with Western musical traditions (such as in the church music of the Middle Ages and modern classical music). The result is an album that merges the ancient with the new, while creating a sound that is wholly its own. Style: Alternative

Staggering collaboration between Nadja and Vampillia. The Primitive World originally saw release in Japan to co-incide with Nadja first Japanese tour in early 2012. The collaborative album combined Nadja's wall of guitars with Vampillia's operatic vocals and classical instrumentation to make a weird hybrid of doom and neo-classical music. This version of the release for Important Records features a new song, Avalanche, and brand new mixes of the original tracks. Style: Doom

BORN OF SIX, featuring Amelia Cuni, Catherine Christer Hennix and Werner Durand, create exemplary drone compositions rooted in the traditions of Dhrupad, Early Minimalism and Just Intonation. Composed by Durand, Cuni, Hennix, Svapiti is one long composition measuring 55 minutes in length. "A solid foundation is the best basis for the fundamental." Narada's exposition of the seven notes begins as follows: Because Sadja (the Tonic) arises from the combination of nose, throat, chest, palate, tongue, and teeth, it is known as "six-born." Style: Independent

Artist: Master Musicians of Bukkake Label: Important Records

SAL MINEO is a Jamie Stewart/XIU XIU + Eugene S. Robinson/OXBOW production. Now sleep tight. Sitting at the crossroads between OXBOW's EUGENE S. ROBINSON [lyrics/voice] and XIU XIU's JAMIE STEWART [music], SAL MINEO is a pure/impure distillate of experime Record Label: Important Style: Avantgarde

My Only Warm Coals" neatly sums up a fifteen year span of Emil Amos' basement home-recording in nineteen songs. Using the 4-track like a mirror in LSD therapy sessions, Amos disassembles himself and leaves the puddle on the floor for the listener to contemplate without easy resolution. The record also arcs a period of lo-fi recording technique and sonic experimentation that has largely gone undocumented in the larger underground culture, while epitomizing a supremely alienated sound from a person who wouldn't set foot on a stage for most of these 15 years. Style: Alternative Country

I first met Lubomyr Melnyk at a festival called Hea Uus Heli in October 2008. We were both scheduled to play that day and I was very excited to see him perform. Before the show I bought several LPs from him and mentioned as much. Lubomyr (more than modest and courteous, as he always is) asked me what I was doing at the festival and I replied that I was also performing at the festival a little later, to which he responded "I'll come and watch you", before being ushered into the hall to play one of the most staggeringly sonorous and beautiful sets I've ever heard. It was overwhelming, full of pathos and I left the hall with those incredible overtones hanging in my ears for hours. A couple of hours later, I was onstage when I glanced up and saw Lubomyr, true to his word, stood in the audience watching me attentively. I felt incredibly nervous. It's not everyday you get to play for someone who has greatly inspired and influenced your own music. After the show, I packed up my guitar and came out to meet the crowd. The first person who greeted me was Lubomyr: friendly. full of enthusiasm and keen to hear about my music, my processes, the way in which I made music. Yet again, I was overwhelmed - for very different reasons. "You have invented continuous music for guitar!" I don't know if that's true or not, but I can't think of an epitaph that would make me prouder. We also spoke about collaborating that night and via e-mail a while after, but it wasn't until January 2012, shortly after I'd moved back to Hastings, England from Ann Arbor, Michigan and Lubomyr played his first ever show in the UK at Cafe Oto that it came to fruition. John Chantler got in touch, said Lubomyr had a free day after his performance and could I come to London for a day, see what happens? He kindly agreed to record the whole thing. We all met at the Vortex Jazz Cafe around midday. We set up, Lubomyr at the grand piano, me directly facing him with my 12-string guitar and began. I would retune at random between songs and together we would find interesting chord progressions, hints of melodies and ways in which to weave those immense overtones that Lubomyr is able to generate on the piano with those of my guitar. No more than two takes per song. Improvisation, spontaneous composition, whatever you want to call it. Either way, it truly felt as if the piano and guitar were as one - inseparable, parts of a bigger whole, a means by which for two people to make one sound. It never felt forced and never less than engaging. Lubomyr was always humble, jovial and open to ideas. The whole session lasted six hours. I'm not a great improviser. I always want to take that raw creative element that the form brings and work upon it, to distill and refine it further. I think Lubomyr feels the same. But there is something about these recordings that would be incredibly difficult to recapture. A small moment in time, feeling perfectly and wonderfully lost within that sound. I'm honoured." - James Blackshaw, October 2012. Style: Independent

Artist: Professor Longhair Label: Important Artists

Artist: Jozef Van Wissem Label: IMPORTANT RECORDS

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Artist: Braxton; Artist: Anthony Label: Important Records