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Ketil Bjørnstad — Sunrise: A Cantata On Texts By Edvard Munch (2014)

Ketil Bjørnstad — Sunrise: A Cantata On Texts By Edvard Munch (2014)

Ketil Bjørnstad — Sunrise: A Cantata On Texts By Edvard Munch

•   A classically trained jazz pianist with a bent toward avant–garde improvised music, Ketil Bjørnstad is a well–known musician and writer in Europe.
••   “Sunrise” is based on Munch’s texts, in which the artist vacillates between a destructive perception and a reconciliation with life and light. The premier performance of Soloppgang was in the University of Oslo Aula in 2011.
Born: April 25, 1952 in Oslo, Norway
Location: Oslo, Norway
Album release: May 2014
Recorded: April 2012
Record Label: ECM
Duration:     78:43
Tracks:
01 En rovfugl har satt seg fast i mitt indre (A Bird Of Pray is Clinging to My Inner Being)    7:26
02 Moren  (The Mother)     6:12
03 Intet er lite (Nothing is Small)     4:54
04 Jorden elskede luften (The Earth Loved the Air)     4:29
05 Resitativ I (Recitative I)     1:00
06 Stupet (The Cliff)     5:23
07 Som i en kirke (As If They Were in a Eclésias)     5:23
08 Intermezzo I     1:49
09 Livets dans (The Dance of Life)     4:59
10 Åpent vindu (Open Window)     4:32
11 Resitativ II (Recitative II)     0:58
12 Adskillelsen (The Separation)     5:48
13 Intermezzo II     4:09
14 Gravsten (Gravestone)     4:00
15 Resitativ III (Recitative III)     0:51
16 Alfa og Omega (Alpha and Omega)     5:23
17 De fineste nerver er rammet (The Most Delicate Nerves Are Affected)      4:17
18 Intermezzo III     1:44
19 Soloppgang (Sunrise)     5:16
Personnel:
•   Kari Bremnes vocal
•   Aage Kvalbein cello
•   Matias Bjørnstad alto saxophone
•   Bjørn Kjellemyr bass
•   Hans–Kristian Kjos Sørensen percussion
•   Ketil Bjørnstad piano
•   Oslo Chamber Choir
•   Egil Fossum conductor
Notes:
ρ•ð   Edvard Munch was born on Engelaug farm in Løten, 140 km north of the capital Kristiania (now Oslo). His father, Christian Munch, worked there as a military doctor. Christian Munch was introduced to Edvard’s mother, Laura Cathrine Bjølstad, by a colleague in Elverum. They married in 1861, and had two children while living in Løten: Sophie and Edvard.
ρ•ð   When Edvard was born on 12 December 1863, he seemed weak and was baptised at home; the baptism was confirmed in Løten church four months later. Before Edvard turned one, the family moved to Kristiania, but they kept in touch with the family at Engelaug. ... ...
ρ•ð   In his will, Munch left all his artwork that was in his own possession to Oslo municipality. During the last years of his life, Munch made several unflinchingly revealing self–portraits, showing an old man facing death.
ρ•ð   In 1942, four of Munch’s paintings were shown in the exhibition ‘Art and Not. Clean–up April 1942’ (‘Kunst og ukunst. Oppryddingen april 1942’) in the National Gallery. That year, Munch also exhibited his work in Gothenburg, and 34 of his prints were shown at the Brooklyn Museum in New York from December to February.
ρ•ð   In 1943, Munch continued to have great capacity for work, and he celebrated his 80th birthday in December.
ρ•ð   Edvard Munch died quietly at Ekely on 23 January 1944.
ρ•ð   Munch left approximately 1,000 paintings, 15,400 prints, 4,500 watercolours, drawings and six sculptures, as well as writings and literary notes to the City of Oslo.
KETIL BJØRNSTAD

ρ•ð   Ketil Bjørnstad, pianist, composer, improviser... and also novelist, poet and essayist, was described by The Guardian as “a cultural prodigy”. Prolific in his multi–discipline activities, he has released more than 50 albums and published 40 books. Bjørnstad has been an ECM recording artist since 1993 when his album Water Stories was issued. Other ECM recordings include The Sea, The River, The Sea II, Epigraphs, Life In Leipzig, The Light — Songs of Love and Fear, Remembrance, Night Song, Vinding’s Music and La notte. Among his best–known books internationally is his acclaimed 1993 fictionalised biography of Edvard Munch.
Description/Background:
••   Ketil Bjørnstad previously explored the life of Edvard Munch in his acclaimed 1993 novel Historien om Edvard Munch. In the same period he also collaborated with singer Kari Bremnes on the album Løsrivelse, based around Munch texts. When invited to compose music for choir in 2011, Bjørnstad’s thoughts turned once again to Munch and to the writings, still not widely known, of the proto–Expressionist Norwegian painter. With these as his guide, Bjørnstad shaped Soloppgang (“Sunrise”) subtitled “A cantata on texts by Edvard Munch”.
••   In his liner notes, Bjørnstad observes that “the texts written by Munch can be compared to his paintings in their power and intensity. Texts from different periods in Munch’s life have been used in Sunrise. Munch always wrote something about his motifs before painting them. These were often short prose texts describing the subject matter he envisioned for the picture. His prose style was heavily influenced by August Strindberg and the Norwegian anarchist and writer Hans Jæger. He produced modern, often crudely crafted pieces of writing that had a sketch–like quality, but that he would repeatedly re–edit. He worked on several ideas for novels, and wrote a number of short stories. They all portray existentialist dilemmas: surviving or being destroyed, believing or observing.”
••   The changing moods of the writings inspire very different musical settings. Kari Bremnes appears as solo vocalist in several pieces. Eight of the sections of the cantata include the Oslo Chamber Choir as well as Ketil’s hand–picked group of players, some of them familiar to ECM listeners. (Bjørn Kjellemyr, who also played on Bjørnstad’s first ECM album Water Stories, has been bassist for the very different groups of Terje Rypdal and Rolf Lislevand, while percussionist Hans–Kristian Kjos Sørensen can be heard on recordings with Christian Wallumrød and Misha Alperin.)
••   Sunrise was released first in Norway in November 2013 — in connection with the 150th anniversary of Munch’s birth — and met with a most positive critical reception. “Kari Bremnes is a formidable Munch interpreter,” wrote Norway’s Audophile. It’s almost as if she goes into a special mode in these songs ... Sunrise is a wonderful production that joins the ranks of Ketil Bjørnstad’s vast range of good and interesting releases.”
••   Bjørnstad has indeed been a prolific creator, with more than 50 albums and 40 books to his name. The Oslo–born pianist, composer, improviser, novelist, poet and essayist, described by The Guardian as “a cultural prodigy”, has been an ECM recording artist since 1993 when his Water Stories album was issued. Other ECM recordings include The Sea, The River, The Sea II, Epigraphs, Life In Leipzig, The Light — Songs of Love and Fear, Remembrance, Night Song, Vinding’s Music — Songs From The Alder Thicket, and most recently La notte, his Antonioni–inspired project recorded live at the Molde Jazz Festival. Further recordings with Ketil Bjørnstad are in preparation.
••   Kari Bremnes was born in Svolvær, and studied at the University of Oslo. She worked as a journalist before dedicating herself fully to music. She has released fifteen albums of her own, as well as a number of collaborative recordings. Last year Kari Bremnes joined Bjornstad for performances of Munch songs at London’s Purcell Room, prompting Jazz Journal to write, “Bremnes’ lucid, soulfully pitched phrasing delivered the direct and often very moving lyrics of love and death, longing, belonging and loss with consummate poetic understanding — and, where needed, controlled drama.”
••   The Oslo Chamber Choir was founded in 1984 by Grete Pedersen. The choir is noted for its quality, flexibility and an ability to combine and switch between different genres, such as classical, Nordic contemporary music and folk music. Its innovative exploration of the Norwegian song tradition has earned the choir recognition at home and abroad.
Artist Biography by Matt Collar
••   A classically trained jazz pianist with a bent toward avant–garde improvised music, Ketil Bjørnstad is a well–known musician and writer in Europe. With his cerebral, atmospheric style that belies a palpable inner passion and an inclination toward genre-crossing compositions, Bjørnstad helped develop and popularize the "European jazz" aesthetic. He is also a writer and poet and has published over 30 works beginning with his 1972 poetry collection Alone. Born in Oslo, Norway, Bjørnstad studied classical piano in London and Paris before making his debut in 1969 at age 16 with the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra playing Béla Bartók’s third piano concerto. Surrounded by the vibrant arts scene in Olso during the ‘70s, Bjørnstad became interested in jazz and developing his own style of music. Citing an array of influences from Bach and Ravel to Thelonious Monk and Miles Davis, Bjørnstad began working in an improvised idiom. In 1973, he released his debut album Åpning featuring what would become a core group of longtime associates in drummer Jon Christensen, guitarist Terje Rypdal, and bassist Arild Andersen. The album would be the first of several outings Bjørnstad would record for Phillips. Over the years, Bjørnstad’s particular mix of jazz, classical, folk, and rock music would become highly influential in the development of what became known as “European jazz.” Although he has become well–associated with the premier European jazz label ECM, he did not record for the label until later in his career with 1993’s Water Stories, 1994’s The Sea, 1997’s The River, and 1998’s The Sea II. In 2000, Bjørnstad released the duo album Epigraphs with cellist David Darling on ECM. That same year, he composed the millennium oratorio “Himmel Rand,” featuring the texts of the poet Stein Mehren. In 2002, he released the cinematic soundscape album Before the Light on Universal. In 2004, Bjørnstad released the rock–oriented Seafarer’s Song featuring his ensemble with vocalist Kristin Asbjornsen. Four years later, he returned to ECM for the concert album Live in Leipzig with guitarist Rypdal. In 2008, Bjørnstad once again worked with drummer Christensen as well as tenor saxophonist Tore Brunborg for the ECM release Remembrance. In 2011, Bjørnstad delivered the duo album Night Song with cellist Svante Henryson on ECM. The pianist, who is also a published poet, novelist, and essayist, has stated that the Italian filmmaker Michelangelo Antonioni was one of his greatest influences; to that end, he composed a series of works meant to act as "a soundtrack to an inner film." Recording with bassist Arild Andersen percussionist Marilyn Mazur, cellist Anja Lechner, Eivind Aarset on guitar and electronics, and saxophonist Andy Sheppard, Bjørnstad released the live suite, La Notte in the late spring of 2013. (http://ecmrecords.com/)
Also:

BY PETER BACON on 10 MAY 2014 •
•••   http://thejazzbreakfast.com/2014/05/10/ketil-bjornstad-sunrise/
•••   http://www.munch150.no/en/Programme/Sunrise-610998
Munch Museum:
•••   http://www.munch150.no/en/Munch-s-life                                                                                                                                               Discography:
1990: The Shadow (KKV), poems by John Donne, (1562–1626)
1993: Water Stories (ECM)
1995: The Sea (ECM)
1996: The River (ECM)
1998: The Sea II (Grappa/ECM)
2000: Epigraphs (ECM)
2001: Grace (Emarcy), poems by John Donne, 1562–1626
2003: The Nest (Emarcy), poems by Harte Crane, 1899–1932
2004: Seafarer’s Song (Universal Jazz)
2006: Floating (Emarcy)
2008: Life in Leipzig (ECM), with Terje Rypdal
2009: Remembrance (ECM)
2013: La Notte (ECM)
2014: Sunrise — A cantata on texts by Edvard Munch (ECM)

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Ketil Bjørnstad Sunrise: A Cantata On Texts By Edvard Munch (2014)

 

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John McLaughlin, Shankar Mahadevan, Zakir Hussain — Is That So?
THE SHAKING SENSATIONS — “How Are We to Fight the Blight” 2xLP
Alphaxone — Dystopian Gate (Jan. 14, 2020)
A Certain Ratio — ACR Loco (25th Sept., 2020)
THE SCHRAMMS — “Omnidirectional” (June 21st, 2019)
David Thomas Broughton — The Complete Guide To Insufficiency /re
The Chap — Digital Technology (10 Jan., 2020)
Joan As Police Woman — Cover Two (May 1, 2020)
The Shivas — “Dark Thoughts” (October 25, 2019)
Kim Myhr & Australian Art Orchestra — Vesper (17.04. 2020)
Lucy Railton — Paradise 94 (22 Mar 2018)
Drive~By Truckers — The Unraveling (cover)
The Shins — “Heartworms” (March 10, 2017)
The Weeknd — Beauty Behind the Madness (Aug. 28th, 2015)
The Shins — “The Worms Heart” (Jan. 18, 2018)
Psychic Markers — Psychic Markers (29 May, 2020)
Julianna Barwick — Circumstance Synthesis (Dec. 20, 2019)
The Weeknd — Beauty Behind the Madness (Aug. 28th, 2015)
Meredith Monk & Bang on a Can All~Stars — Memory Game (03/27/20)
Drive~By Truckers — The Unraveling (cover)
The Heliocentrics — Infinity Of Now (Feb. 14, 2020)
Eivind Aarset & Jan Bang — Snow Catches On Her Eyelashes (2020)
Richard Barbieri ‎— Past Imperfect / Future Tense (Mar 2020)
Kevin Morby — Sundowner (October 16, 2020)
Paul Weller — On Sunset [Deluxe Edition] (3rd July, 2020)
Laurel Halo — Possessed (April 10, 2020)
Helena Deland — Someone New (16 Oct., 2020)
Devendra Banhart — Ma (September 13, 2019)
Field Music — Making a New World (Jan. 10, 2020)
Gráinne Duffy — Voodoo Blues (Oct. 15, 2020)
The Memories — Pickles & Pies (May 29, 2020)
Norah Jones — Pick Me Up Off the Floor (June 12th, 2020)
Pearl Jam — Gigaton (March 27, 2020)
Walter Martin — The World at Night (Jan. 31, 2020)
The Tiger Lillies — Cold Night in Soho (10 Feb. 2017)
Silkworm — In The West (24 Jan., 2020)
Kamaal Williams — Wu Hen (July 24, 2020)
Caspian — On Circles (January 24, 2020)
Jennifer Curtis & Tyshawn Sorey: Invisible Ritual (2020)
DAVID POMAHAČ — DO TMY JE DALEKO (Feb. 7, 2020)
Don Gallardo — The Lonesome Wild (April 2, 2020)
Damon Locks Black Monument Ensemble — Where Future Unfolds (2019
The Tiger Lillies — Edgar Allan Poe’s Haunted Palace
Mark Lanegan — Straight Songs Of Sorrow (8th May, 2020)
I Break Horses — Warnings (08 May 2020)
Cocteau Twins — Head Over Heels
Cocteau Twins — Treasure
Sarah Jarosz — World On The Ground (June 5, 2020)
The Innocence Mission — See You Tomorrow (Jan. 17, 2020)
False Heads — It’s All There But You’re Dreaming (13 March 2020)
The Tiger Lillies — Covid~19 (April 10, 2020)
Hawkwind — Acoustic Daze (25 Oct. 2019)
Wendy Eisenberg — Auto (Oct. 16, 2020)
TANYA DONELLY: Swan Song Series bonus tracks (FC)
Kate Amrine — This Is My Letter to the World (Jan. 24, 2020)
Wrekmeister Harmonies — We Love to Look at the Car (2020)
False Heads — It’s All There But You’re Dreaming (13 March 2020)
Coloured Clocks — Flora (May 2, 2020)
Indoor Voices — Animal (Feb. 14, 2020)
ELYSIAN FIELDS — Pink Air
Midlake — Antiphon (Nov. 4, 2013)
Jonathan Wilson — Rare Birds (March 2nd, 2018)
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Fiona Apple — Fetch The Bolt Cutters (17 Apr., 2020)
Lucrecia Dalt — Syzygy (Oct. 15, 2013)
Hayden Thorpe — Diviner (24 May 2019)
Cocteau Twins — Garlands (1982, Reissue 2020)
Alessandra Leão ‎— Macumbas e Catimbós (24/05/2019)
Cowboy Junkies — Ghosts (30 Mar 2020)
Laura Marling — Song for Our Daughter (April 10th, 2020)
Wendy Eisenberg — Its Shape Is Your Touch (Oct. 2018)
Baxter Dury — The Night Chancers (20 March 2020)
San Fermin — San Fermin (Nov. 11, 2013)
Sara Bareilles — What’s Inside Songs From Waitress (11/06, 2015)
The Heliocentrics — Telemetric Sounds (Aug. 7, 2020)
The Dream Syndicate — „The Universe Inside“ (April 10, 2020)
Third Coast Percussion & Devonté Hynes — Fields (Oct. 11, 2019)
White Tail Falls — Age of Entitlement (May 29, 2020)
MUFF — Fatalust (Nov. 1, 2019) cover
Ben Watt — Storm Damage (31st Jan., 2020)
San Fermin — The Cormorant I & II (Oct. 4, 2019/April 3, 2020)
Stephen Duffy — I Love My Friends [Expanded Ed] (10 May 2019)
I Break Horses — Chiaroscuro
Sea Wolf — Through a Dark Wood (March 20, 2020)
Ezra Furman — Sex Education [Original Soundtrack] (April 24, 202
Yorkston | Thorne | Khan — Navarasa : Nine Emotions (2020)
Jetstream Pony — Jetstream Pony (May 22, 2020)
Stove — ‘s Favorite Friend (Oct. 31, 2018)
ANASTASIA MINSTER — Father ©Michael Haley
Jonathan Wilson — Dixie Blur (March 6, 2020)
Fruition — Broken At The Break Of Day (Jan. 23, 2020)
Weyes Blood — “Wild Time” from Titanic Rising
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ÁSGEIR: IN THE SILENCE
Martin Barre — Roads Less Travelled (26 Oct. 2018)
Loveblind / Sleeping Visions (March 27, 2020)
Walter Martin — The World at Night (Jan. 31, 2020)
Asher Gamedze – Dialectic Soul (July 10, 2020)
Frances Quinlan — Likewise (Jan. 31, 2020)
KING CRIMSON, The Night Watch
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith — The Mosaic of Transformation (May 15, 20
Matt Berninger — Serpentine Prison (Oct. 16, 2020)
Rizan Said — Saz û Dîlan (Oct. 11, 2019)
Ásgeir — Bury the Moon (7 Feb., 2020)
Riva Taylor — ‘This Woman’s Heart .1’ (27 Mar 2020)
Juraj Griglák, From The Bottom (Sept. 16, 2019)
Cheerleader — Almost Forever (Feb. 7, 2020)
Queer Jane — Amen Dolores (March 27, 2020)
BECCA STEVENS — WONDERBLOOM (March 20th 20, 2020)
Juraj Griglák — From the Bottom (Sept. 16, 2019)
Einstürzende Neubauten — Alles In Allem (May 29th, 2020)
Torres — Three Futures (29th Sept. 2017)
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith — The Kid (October 6, 2017)
Bison Bone — Find Your Way Out (Sept. 25, 2020)
Oh Wonder — No One Else Can Wear Your Crown [Deluxe Edition]
These New Puritans — The Cut (2016~2019) (14 Feb. 2020)
Thin Lear — Wooden Cave (24th July, 2020)
Torres — Silver Tongue (Jan. 31, 2020)
Anoushka Shankar — Love Letters (7 Feb., 2020)
Free To Grow — Imperfection (Aug. 7, 2020)
Dan Croll — Grand Plan (21 Aug., 2020)
Lilien Rosarian ~ A Day in Bel Bruit (June 9, 2019)
Jim Noir — A.M Jazz (Dec. 20, 2019)
Shemekia Copeland — Uncivil War (October 23rd, 2020)
I Like to Sleep — Daymare (April 17, 2020)
Kaki King — Modern Yesterdays (Oct. 23, 2020)
Bill MacKay and Katinka Kleijn — STIR (Oct. 17, 2019)
The Mountain Goats — Getting Into Knives (Oct. 23, 2020)
Varga Marián — Solo in Concert (1. feb. 2018)
No~Man — Love You To Bits (Nov. 22, 2019)
Blackbird & Crow — Ailm (17 Jan 2020)
Bruce Springsteen — Letter to You (Oct. 23, 2020)
Amy LaVere — Painting Blue (27 Mar 2020)
100 Gecs — 1000 gecs (May 31, 2019)
Devendra Banhart — Vast Ovoid (July 24, 2020)
Cold Chisel — Blood Moon (6 Dec., 2019)
Cold War Kids — New Age Norms 1 (Nov. 1, 2019)
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WaqWaq Kingdom — Essaka Hoisa (Nov. 15, 2019)
The Mountain Goats — Songs for Pierre Chuvin (April 10, 2020)
Hawktail — Formations (Jan. 10, 2020)
Morrissey — I Am Not a Dog On a Chain (March 20th, 2020)
Jack Peñate — After You (29th Nov. 2019)
Villagers — Darling Arithmetic [Deluxe Version] (April 10, 2015)
Ashley Paul — Window Flower (May 13, 2020)
Daniel Bachman — The Morning Star (July 27, 2018)
Roger Eno | Brian Eno — Mixing Colours (20 March, 2020)
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Joe Bonamassa & The Sleep Eazys — Easy To Buy, Hard To Sell
Martin Barre — Away With Words
Ezra Bell — This Way to Oblivion (3rd April, 2020)
All Them Witches — Nothing as the Ideal (Sept. 4, 2020)
Queer Jane — Home (Dec. 1, 2016)
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Evergreen — Overseas (15 Jun 2018)
Mr. Alec Bowman — I Used to Be Sad & Then I Forgot (May 1, 2020)
The Waterboys — Good Luck, Seeker (Deluxe) (Aug. 21, 2020)
Maarja Nuut & Ruum — World Inverted (11th Sept., 2020)
Kuře v hodinkách — Flamengo
Daniel Bachman — Green Alum Springs (June 6, 2020)
Midwife — Forever (April 10, 2020)
Siobhan Wilson — The Departure (10 May, 2019)
Kris Delmhorst — Blood Test
Martin Burlas & Musica falsa et ficta — Hexenprozesse
I Don’t Know How but They Found Me — Razzmatazz (Oct. 23, 2020)
Songdog — Happy Ending (27th March, 2020)
Zuzana Mikulcová — Slová
Holly Herndon — PROTO (Winner of Tais Awards 2020)
Rory Block — Prove It On Me (March 27, 2020)
Cate Le Bon — Here It Comes Again (2020)
Sean O’Hagan — Radum Calls, Radum Calls (2019)
Nicey Nice World — Obelisks and Asterisks (Sept. 22, 2020)
Robert Plant — Carry Fire (2 LP, 13/10/2017)
Le Butcherettes — DON’T BLEED EP (14 Feb 2020)
Mike Polizze — Long Lost Solace Find (July 31, 2020)
First Aid Kit — Stay Gold (2014)
Land of Talk — Indistinct Conversations (July 31, 2020)
Kuře v hodinkách — Flamengo
Luke Haines — Beat Poetry For Survivalists (6 Mar. 2020)
Nicole Atkins — Italian Ice (29 May 2020)
Maria Schneider Orchestra — Data Lords (24th July, 2020)
Son Lux — Learning Structures vol. 1~4 (Oct. 11th, 2019)
BC Camplight — Shortly After Takeoff (24 April 2020)
Delta Spirit — What Is There (Sept. 11th, 2020)
The Magnetic Fields — Quickies (May 15, 2020)
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Cold War Kids — New Age Norms 2 (Aug. 21, 2020)
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Becca Mancari — The Greatest Part (June 26, 2020)
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Thurston Moore — By The Fire (Sept. 25, 2020)
Kurt Rosenwinkel Trio — Angels Around (May 8, 2020)
Frazey Ford — U kin B the Sun (Feb. 7th, 2020)
Lizzy Farrall — Bruise (March 27, 2020)
Alice Peacock — Minnesota (Sept. 20th, 2019)
Devon Williams — A Tear in the Fabric (May 1, 2020)
LENKA DUSILOVÁ — ŘEKA (Nov. 6th, 2020)
STEREOLAB: Oscillons from the Anti~Sun
Hallelujah the Hills — A Band Is Something to Figure Out (2016)
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Lilly Hiatt — Walking Proof (27 March, 2020)
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Throwing Muses — Sun Racket (Sept. 4, 2020)
Sean McMahon ― You Will Know When You’re There (March 1, 2019)
Deradoorian — Find the Sun (Sept. 18, 2020)
The Chats — High Risk Behaviour (March 27, 2020)
Tylor Dory Trio — Unsought Salvation (Dec. 21, 2019)
György Ligeti — Lontano (22. Oct.,1967)
Yves Tumor — Heaven to a Tortured Mind (April 3, 2020)
Cub Sport — LIKE NIRVANA (24 July, 2020)
Guranfoe — Sum of Erda (Dec. 13, 2019)
Susanne Sundfør — Self Portrait (Original Score, 10th Jan. 2020)
Ronnie Godfrey — Shades of Blue (Oct. 25, 2019)
Intocable ― Percepcion (March 15, 2019)
Ytamo — Vacant (June 12, 2020)
Pancrace — The Fluid Hammer (09 Sep 2019/2LP)
Humanist — Humanist (21 Feb., 2020)
White Lies — To Lose My Life… [10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition]
Slow Pulp — Moveys (Oct. 9, 2020)
Wrekmeister Harmonies — We Love to Look at the Carnage (2020)
Bright Eyes — Down In The Weeds, Where The World Once Was (Aug.
Hallelujah the Hills — I’m You (Nov. 15, 2019)
OWEN PALLETT — Heartland (March 3, 2014)
Siobhan Wilson — There Are No Saints (14 Jul, 2017)
Erlend Apneseth — Fragmentarium (Jan. 31, 2020)
Delta Spirit — Into The Wide (Deluxe Edition, Sept. 9, 2014)