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Vinyl label from מלכה שפיגל [Malka Spigel] - Hide (1997)

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Malka Spigel—Gliding and Hiding (swim~)

Malka Spigel makes feedback-drenched shoegaze anthems that swim through warm honey. The basslines nod and buzz through expansive psychedelic spaces. Guitar chords pound down like hard rain on metal roofs, but their force dissolves into blissful indeterminacy. Like My Bloody Valentine, but freer in form and warmer and more welcoming, Gliding and Hiding makes a dreamy space in the midst of a swirl of noise.

Malka Spigel is an Israeli-born musician best known for her work in the Middle Eastern-flavored post-punk outfit Minimal Compact and the Wire offshoot Githead. She’s been married to Colin Newman since the mid-1980s—and he plays guitar on this and other Malka Spigel albums. Her band also includes Ronald Lippok of To Rococo Rot and Tarwater on drums, and two members of Mambas, Gil Luz on keyboards and Uri Frost on guitar. Gliding and Hiding is her fourth full-length. It reworks material from two previous EPs, 1994’s Hide and 2014’s Gliding, with four songs from each.  

The album’s first cut appeared on both of those EPs, so perhaps it makes sense to start with “Strumgliding.”  It opens with a palpable sense of wonder,  glistening expanses of synthesized tone that vibrate with anticipation.  A slow-moving barracuda of a bassline zooms up into the mix—that’s Spigel herself—and guitars dart and slice around it.  The track’s sense of forward progress comes almost wholly from the bassline; you can feel it nudging things forward.  All else feels still and luminous.  The vocals bob on the surface weightlessly, “Strumgliding…strumgliding.” And indeed, strumming and gliding is 100% what this is.  

Other cuts are similarly enveloping, turning feedback-blistered blare into the equivalent of sun-warmed breezes.  “Hacol Zaram Beyachad,” which originally came out on Spigel’s 1993 debut, Rosh Ballata, looms like a zeppelin, floating slowly and massively in the air.  “Talk Grey Buildings” distills this music’s welcoming, woozy embrace. Friction-y swathes of strummed guitar dissolve into fog. A simple rising melody comes first murmured in melodic trance, then exploded into anthemic large-ness.  

The single, “I Just Want,” at first seems like an outlier, with its prickly bare drumbeat setting a rapid pace.  But the keyboards, then the vocals smooth a blanket over this rocky foundation. The skittery pulse recedes under the weightless hum of ambience.  Even the most agitated elements become soothing and meditational. This is bright, airy, euphoric music, with its gaze fixed not down on its shoes but up at the beautiful colors swirling around.  

Jennifer Kelly

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Episode 301: Colin Newman and Malka Spigel

The van is running late. Never underestimate the traffic in from D.C. When Malka Spigel and Colin Newman do finally arrive, they’re both a bit wiped. Another late night on tour, getting in after last call, but the couple are both excited and slightly melancholy to play the final show of the tour.

It’s Immersion’s first in the U.S., celebrating their first LP in a decade and a half. Spigel and Newman are clearly happy at the reception both the album and tour have received, even if it’s felt a bit like starting from scratch. After all, the mention of the pair’s other legendary bands Wire and Minimal Compact only go so far when it comes to filling venues.

But with their son out of the house — as it happens, Spigel and Newman are also a married couple — the time is finally right to fully embrace a musical project that’s been on the back burner for quite some time. And the result is a sort of newfound energy musicians often lack later in their career.

Spigel and Newman sat down ahead of a show at Rough Trade in Brooklyn to discuss the project, touring and choosing musical passion over commercial success.

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Tomorrow on Beginnings, I had the honor of talking Colin Newman of Wire and his wife Malka Spigel of Minimal Compact (who together make up Immersion), and we get into their lives growing up in Britain and Israel in the 60s and 70s. It’s a great talk and I can’t wait for you to hear it!

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It's time for Beginnings, the podcast where writer and performer Andy Beckerman talks to the comedians, writers, filmmakers and musicians he admires about their earliest creative experiences and the numerous ways in which a creative life can unfold.

On today's episode I talk to musicians Colin Newman and Malka Spigel. Married since 1986, Colin and Malka are a post-punk power couple. Colin is a member of the seminal post-punk band Wire, whose early albums Pink Flag, Chairs Missing and 154 were the blueprints for decades of music. And Colin continues to be a vibrant creative voice with his solo albums, and his work with his wife Malka in Githead and Immersion. Before her collaborations with Colin, Malka was a member of the influential European rock band Minimal Compact, who released numerous albums in the 1980s on Crammed Discs. Immersion's latest album Sleepless was just released, and it is wonderful!

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Immersion Featuring Colin Newman & Malka Spigel Announce New Album What Is Lost Will Return For September 2026 Release, Share New Single & Video “We Don’t Need Your Validation”

https://music.mxdwn.com/2026/05/07/news/immersion-featuring-colin-newman-malka-spigel-announce-new-album-what-is-lost-will-return-for-september-2026-release-share-new-single-video-we-dont-need-your-validation/

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Malka Spigel | Colin Newman - I Just Want