Murky Recess

الحياة وراء الستار رمل

Chaabi Music From Al-Maghrib  is a collection of Moroccan music in the "proto-rai" vein of Sublime Frequencies' 1970s Algerian...

Wang Jiahua performs 甜蜜蜜 (" Sweet Honey") + 瀟灑走一回 ("???") The "Magic Saw" technique involves amping a traditi...

Jean-Claude Vannier arranged much of Gainsbourg's psychedelic sixties soundtracks as well as Histoire de Melody Nelson (1971).  He has...

Serge Gainsbourg created this, his first of many concept records, out of African and Carribean percussion rhythms.  Still relatively new t...

"Tlahoun Gèssèssè ( ጥላሁን ገሠሠ ), known across Ethiopia and Sudan as "The Voice," first came to stardom at age 18 when he join...

"A sado-masochist with a sense of rhythm." – Guillermo Cabrera Infante La Lupe's act was an exorcism.  Her fans gave her the ...

Delhi, India

This mysterious record from the Republic of Guinea in West Africa is a frenzied kora string jam session with light, varied percussion. Almos...

Barry Hannah has been my favorite living author for much of my adult life.  On March 1st, to little fanfare, he became one of my many favo...

[l to r: Andrew (Douglas) Rothbard, keys; Dave Clifford, drums; Joshua Hughes, guitar] San Francisco's Slaves were originally the band ...

Recorded live at Chicago's Fireside Bowl, this is Clikatat Ikatowi's most essential album, and may be the single best document of th...

"No one leaves a star. That's what makes one a star."

"Isn't that awful? You sing your heart out and nobody... nobody ever listens." Robert Mitchum is most popularly remembered a...

  There is a cornucopia of great Ethiopian pop on YouTube, which I'll be posting more of in the future.  I stumbled across Yeshimebet D...

House of Broken Hearts Pt. 1 and Pt. 2 are the first two cassettes released by Mississippi Records' ongoing and ever-engaging Cassette S...

The Codex Seraphinianus is kind of like a textbook for a universe parallel to our own. Luigi Serafini, an Italian designer and architect, ...