it reconnects with the security of the local to explore the troubles of the global: a guiding impulse writ large across this album’s eleven songs

Moses Boyd

an idea germinated while reading The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann

it can flip in an instant

who are much loved by musicians like Mike Patton (of Faith No More and who releases their albums on the Ipecac label) or Stephen O'Malley (SunnO)

KUUSIJÄRVI / RÖNKKÖ - Aika Ja Tila LP techno it reconnects with the securityKuusijrvi Rnkk launches the concept of accordion jazz into orbit with their album Aika ja tila (Time and Space). Built entirely on improvisation, this six track collection stretches both musical genre boundaries and the very fabric of spacetime. Harri Kuusijrvis electronic accordion sounds at times like the chirping of a cyborg bird flock, and at others like Brian Enos electric toothbrush just as the batteries are dying. The other half of the duo,