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Tord Gustavsen — What Was Said (29.01.2016)

Tord Gustavsen — What Was Said (29.01.2016)

        Tord Gustavsen — What Was Said (29.01.2016)  Tord Gustavsen — What Was Said (29.01.2016)Location: Cologne, Germany
Album release: January 29, 2016
Record Label: ECM
Duration:     59:55
Tracks:
01. YOUR GRIEF (Tord Gustavsen)     2:46
02. I SEE YOU (Norwegian Traditional)     5:10
03. IMAGINE THE FOG DISAPPEARING (Mathilda Montgomery–Cederhielm)     6:23
04. A CASTLE IN HEAVEN (Norwegian Traditional)     4:46
05. JOURNEY OF LIFE (Norwegian Traditional)     7:26
06. I REFUSE (Tord Gustavsen)     5:42
07. WHAT WAS SAID TO THE ROSE — O SACRED HEAD (Tord Gustavsen, Hans Leo Hassler)     5:36
08. THE WAY YOU PLAY MY HEART (Tord Gustavsen)     3:04
09. RULL (Tord Gustavsen)     3:08
10. THE SOURCE OF NOW (Tord Gustavsen)     4:26
11. SWEET MELTING (DUO) (Norwegian Traditional)     3:23
12. LONGING TO PRAISE THEE (Norwegian Traditional)     4:26
13. SWEET MELTING AFTERGLOW (Tord Gustavsen, Simin Tander, Jarle Vespestad, Norwegian Traditional)     3:39
Personnel:
♣   Tord Gustavsen   Piano, Electronics, Synth Bass
♣   Simin Tander   Voice
♣   Jarle Vespestad   Drums♠   What was said brings new colours to Tord Gustavsen’s musical palette. His latest trio project builds upon the subtle understanding of his long musical association with drummer Jarle Vespestad, introduces German–Afghan vocalist Simin Tander, and explores the tradition of Norwegian church music in untraditional ways: “For the repertoire of the new project, Simin and I have been working with Afghan poet B. Hamsaaya, translating and shaping a selection of hymns that I grew up with in Norway into Pashto,” Gustavsen explains. “This process has been challenging and really fruitful. We have gone quite far in interpreting the lyrics in a more ‘integral’ manner, reaching into a space where I feel that Sufism and Christianity actually meet.” Simin Tander also sings, in English, verse of Persian mystic Jalal al–Din Rumi (1207 — 73) and US proto–Beat poet Kenneth Rexroth (1905 — 82). As a pure play of sounds, too, the combination of Tander’s voice and Gustavsen’s piano and discreet electronics has an emotional persuasiveness of its own, outside the limits of language. The trio takes its programme of “hymns and visions” to the concert halls and clubs of Europe in the first months of 2016.
♣   What was said was recorded at Oslo’s Rainbow Studio in April 2015 and produced by Manfred Eicher.BACKGROUND
♣   Tord Gustavsen’s new trio project builds upon the subtle understanding of his long musical association with drummer Jarle Vespestad, introduces the entrancing German–Afghan vocalist Simin Tander, and, alongside new compositions and improvisations, explores the tradition of Norwegian church music in an untraditional manner. “Simin and I have been working with an Afghan poet,” Gustavsen explains, “translating and shaping a selection of hymns that I grew up with in Norway into Pashto.”
Born in Cologne to an Afghan journalist father and a German teacher, Simin Tander has been attracting attention on the European jazz scene, with innovative performances which find her moving between English and Pashto and invented languages of her own. Gustavsen: “I liked the sound of the Pashto language itself and coincidentally was encountering it at a time when I was becoming increasingly interested in Sufi poetry.”
♣   So Tander also sings — in English — the revelatory lyrics of Jalal al–Din Rumi (1207 — 73). Gustavsen sets the Rumi renderings of Coleman Barks, creative paraphrases in free verse which make the great poet of Konya seem like a literary ancestor to Walt Whitman. The lyrical reach of the album is rounded out with a setting of a poem by US writer Kenneth Rexroth (1905 — 82), who also counted Rumi amongst a vast range of influences, and was himself a pioneer in delivering verse to the accompaniment of jazz improvisers. In the sources that Tord Gustavsen has intuitively brought together for his programme in What was said there are connections being made at a number of levels, as a sense of extended dialogue opens up, and poets talk to each other across the centuries…
♣   Outside the limits of language and as interplay of sounds, the combination of the intimacy of Tander’s voice, Gustavsen’s melodically inventive piano and discreet electronics, and Vespestad’s patient, textural drumming has an emotional persuasiveness of its own. “Of course to me it’s a dual intention. This is a devotional project, and the way in which the words transcend the boundaries between forms and traditions is important for me. But it’s also fully OK to approach it as a pure musical experience. The sounds have texture and content. For anyone who feels invited to dive deeper, the lyrics and translations are there, but this is not the kind of music where you have to read in order to listen.”
♣   In the trio, singer Simin Tander rises to the challenge, as Gustavsen says, of being “both a soloistic interpreter of melody and an ensemble member, singing accompanying motifs, and contributing to improvisations in which the three of us are equals in terms of sharing ideas. She has a unique way of improvising, finding sounds that really work, staying with them, developing them very gradually. She has a discipline that really appeals to me and Jarle.”
♣   Drummer Jarle Vespestad has been an important part of Tord’s music throughout his ECM history, and plays on all of his albums for the label. Over the last decade and more Jarle and Tord had occasionally played duo pieces as part of group performances as well as many piano and drum interludes. The extent of their resourcefulness was put to the test in 2014 when a Paris release concert for Extended Circle had to be played as a duo show after saxophonist Tore Brunborg and bassist Mats Eilertsen were stranded in Northern Norway by a plane cancellation. This was initially daunting since the concert was broadcast live on French radio: “We were really thrown into it, but it proved to be such a cool experience. It felt like there was a whole orchestra there. The context opened up the lower part of the drum kit in a new way. Jarle, with his extreme ability to be grounded, was really making all the dark sounds and textures of the drums shine. While we were playing I was thinking: ‘I want to do this on an album!’, because it was so rich.”
♣   In the last year and a half Tord Gustavsen — somewhat to his surprise — has expanded his own textural range with the addition of electronics, using a Moog system which allows him to trigger computer based sounds and samples from the acoustic piano. On some pieces, he also uses a bass synthesizer. Throughout the album electronics are frequently almost a subliminal presence, felt as much as heard, but new sound–colour hybrids blossom as Gustavsen combines, for instance “the warmth and the sustain of a synth pad with the minimalism of a single piano line in the top,” or casts a euphonic halo around a piece, deepening an atmosphere. Restraint has always been a hallmark of Tord’s acoustic piano playing and a similar rigour is applied in his use of electronics. “The acoustic piano is a universe of exploration, and I’ll never be through with that journey, but the electronics are speaking to me much more than I could have anticipated. In fact, using them has influenced the acoustic piano playing, too. It’s as if I’m approaching the piano from a slightly different angle now. This too has been very fruitful.”
♣   What was said was recorded at Oslo’s Rainbow Studio in April 2015, and produced by Manfred Eicher.
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♣   The Gustavsen/Tander/Vespestad trio takes its music on an extensive tour in the first months of 2016, with concerts in Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, the UK, the US and Canada. More details can be found at www.ecmrecords.com and http://www.tordgustavsen.com
PRESS REACTIONS:
♣   Tord Gustavsen, the lyrical and scholarly Oslo–born pianist, got big with a blend of pensive improv and Norwegian hymns, but lately he has moved closer to jazz. This album, however, finds him returning to simple songs with religious roots, and to collaboration with a remarkable singer […] in the tender–toned German–Afghan Simin Tander. Tander sings Norwegian traditionals and hymns in Pashto, and Beat icon Kenneth Rexroth’s stark renewal poem I Refuse and Persian sufi mystic Rumi’s writings in English, while Gustavsen gradually adds melodic embroidery, glimpsed grooves and electronics, with Jarle Vespestad’s fragile percussion the only other instrumental sound. [ ]the mixture of the instrumentalists’ distilled reflections with Tander’s palette of hummed tones, sighing note–bends and pristine inflections represents a beguiling new Gustavsen collaboration. — John Fordham, The Guardian
♣   Although instantly recognizable as a Tord Gustavsen album ‘What was said’ also represents something of a radical departure for the Norwegian. This is essentially a vocal record that contains more singing than any previous Gustavsen release and it also introduces an element of electronica to what has previously been an exclusively acoustic music. […] ‘What was said’ represents Gustavsen’s most personal and spiritual album to date, and in many respects it’s also his most ambitious. It’s further removed from conventional jazz than any of his previous albums and while it’s possible that the devotional nature of the project and the underlying air of religiosity may deter some listeners the undeniable beauty of the music should ensure that the majority of Gustavsen’s audience, a very sizeable one in jazz terms, will continue to walk with him on his continuing musical and spiritual journey. — Ian Mann, The Jazzmann
♣   Their method —  kind of Nordic meets Sufi — is initially puzzling but ultimately rewarding, with trad Norwegian hymns translated into the Afghan language of Pashto and sung with quiet intensity by Tander […] it all really takes off with the startingly beautiful ‘I Refuse’ halfway through. By then, you’re hooked. — Phil Johnson, Independent On Sunday
♣   Seit vielen Jahren ein Meister der Entschleunigung, bevorzugt der Norweger kleine Besetzungen, ausgehend vom klassischen Piano–Trio […] Auf ‚What Was Said‘ ersetzt nun die deutsch–afghanische Vokalistin Simin Tander den Bassisten Mats Eilertsen. ♣   Ihre zart gesponnenen Versgeflechte schweben auf einem majestätisch in sich ruhenden Fundament aus Gustavsens Klavierakkorden und dem dezenten, gleichwohl stabilen Rhythmusteppich von Schlagzeuger Jarle Vespestad. Einfach wunderschön ist das anzuhören. — Matthias Inhoffen, Stereoplay
♣   Ein Wunder an Ausdruckskraft und musikalischer Delikatessse. — Rolf Thomas, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
♣   Was sich liest wie ein Gedankenkonstrukt, das in der Realität Gefahr läuft zu scheitern, entfaltet eine musikalische Atmosphäre, der man sich nur schwer entziehen kann. Simin Tanders Stimme besitzt ein Timbre wie geschaffen für die kehligen Pashto–Laute. Gemeinsam mit Gustavsen und Vespestad bildet sie ein Trio, das trotz über weite Strecken großer Zurückhaltung ein Höchstmaß an Intensität erreicht. — Thomas Loewner, SWR 2 (Website: http://www.simintander.com/)_____________________________________________________________

Tord Gustavsen — What Was Said (29.01.2016)

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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)
Highasakite — Uranium Heart (Feb. 1st, 2019)
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)
KIESLOWSKI Tiché lásky
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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ROBERT FRIPP — THE KITCHEN (New York, NY) — 05 FEB 1978
Sara Bareilles — More Love: Songs from Little Voice Season One (
The Sufis — Double Exposure (Jan. 24, 2020)
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)
King Khan — The Infinite Ones (Oct. 30, 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)
Ben Sidran — Blue Camus (Oct. 2014)
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)
Blackbird & Crow © 2020 Author: Megan Doherty
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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Moonchild — Little Ghost (6th Sept. 2019)
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)
Richard Youngs — Dissident (Jan. 25, 2019)
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)
Ben Sidran — Who’s the Old Guy Now (Nov. 20, 2020)
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)
Lambchop — TRIP (Nov. 13th, 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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Severin Bells — A Brighter Side to the Unknown (24th Oct., 2020)
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)
Gwenifer Raymond — Strange Lights Over Garth Mountain (2020)
LENKA DUSILOVÁ — ŘEKA (Nov. 6th, 2020)
STEREOLAB: Oscillons from the Anti~Sun
Hallelujah the Hills — A Band Is Something to Figure Out (2016)
Loveblind: Visions
Lilly Hiatt — Walking Proof (27 March, 2020)
Mekons — Deserted (March 29, 2019)
Loveblind: Visions
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)
Andrej Šeban — Rock and Roll z Rači (11. Sept., 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)