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Mari Kalkun - Ilmamõtsan
Estonia / 2017 / Estonian Folk As linguistic-minority female-led folk music, this kind of vocal- and kannel-led expression fascinates me, the original compositions herein drawing upon regilaul chants (the epic poetry of Estonia) to evoke sylvan feelings and provoke concern for environmental destruction and the depopulation of rural areas as recent demographic shifts pose an existential threat to…
La Festa delle Rane - Che mi guardi attraverso una fiamma
Italy / 2025 / Avant-Folk, Chamber Folk There’s a certain kind of artist who will intentionally bend off-key notes once in a while, just to see if you’re listening. This is that kind of music. Imagine entering a chrysalis not to evolve as the caterpillar does into the butterfly but to “devolve”, not to become lesser but to shed yourself of all the complications and regrets clinging to you. This…
Joe Harriott & Amancio D'Silva Quartet - Hum Dono
Jamaica, India, UK / 1969 / Post-Bop This so-called British jazz recording has a little bit of something for everyone: alto saxophonist from Jamaica, guitarist from India, female jazz vocals for those who like that sort of thing (I certainly do!), and killer support from British musicians who fill out this quartet. Jamaica? India? 1969? Ain’t no way anyone is letting this one go without harping…
Hannibal - Hannibal
USA / 1975 / Spiritual Jazz, Post-Bop, Free Jazz Lures the listener in with the mild, keeps him here for the wild, with the final track, “Soul Brother”, being the culmination of everything Hannibal wants to say about Malcolm X with his trumpet. My goodness… talk about using an instrument as a second voice! This cat’s got it. I also find it strange and exciting how Hannibal put down the trumpet…
mòs ensemble - Pets & Therapy
Belgium / 2024 / Chamber Pop, Art Pop For a pop band, eight members is a lot, but mòs ensemble is just that: an ensemble, not a pop band, which means they approach the whole process of creating and playing music differently. Fresh, playful, unpredictable. These are the words that come to mind when listening to this little gem. And, of course, mellow. The vocal harmonies are gorgeous and magical,…
People - Misbegotten Man
USA / 2007 / Experimental Rock, Avant-Prog Before Halvorson was a MacArthur Fellow, before she wowed us at NPR’s tiny desk, before she pissed off my friend for making the shittiest guitar music known to man, the eminent guitarist and weird vocalist was part of a duo (guitar and drums) that quickly expanded into a trio. Halvorson is known for her angular, atonal guitar work, and this album, in…
Lou Reed - Words & Music, May 1965
USA / 2022 (1965) / Singer-Songwriter, Contemporary Folk Every music nerd’s dream. The artist, the demo, what Reed did, how he did it, and how it was found. I’m just going to briefly retell the story that has been printed in various music rags already. When Lou Reed died in 2013, they were cleaning out / cataloging the detritus of his life when they came across a sealed package. The address was…
Col. Bruce Hampton - Arkansas
USA / 1987 / Experimental Rock These cats are weird. Just… weird. Going to Arkansas to get control? Then taking an elevator to the Moon. Who knew that southern rock had such a strange underground scene! I both hate and love the name “Throndossull”. Who or what is a “throndossull”? It just sounds dirty the way Hampton sings it. This dude seriously doesn’t give a single fuck, singing off-key…
Sophia Djebel Rose - Métempsycose
France / 2022 / Neofolk This is nowhere near as wild as her next album, but it’s still a damn great debut from a fearless vocalist, still very much in my wheelhouse of freaky foreign female folk. First of all, the album title: it’s referring to the transmigration of the soul, or, in a simpler term, reincarnation. This music, straight from the high heart of Auvergne, is a meditation upon the…
Erlend Apneseth Trio & Maja S. K. Ratkje - Collage
Norway / 2023 / Avant-Folk, Sound Collage Apneseth and Ratkje met on the opening day of a five-day music festival, and sparks immediately flew. They had an impromptu concert right there on the spot, and like others before them who were confident in their craft and in their expressive powers, they took that improvisation into the studio, reworked their magic in a more controlled setting, and…
Rumo - Rumo
Brazil / 1981 / Contemporary Folk, MPB What I love about this album is its unconventionality for the early 1980s, especially because it was a time of tight corporate control over music. This isn’t the album that led me to the Vanguarda paulista movement (an experimental, avant-garde approach to making music by artists without major record deals), but its eventual inclusion in my collection was a…
Cocanha - Flame Folclòre
France / 2026 / Polifonia occitana The duo is back, once again mixing their own compositions in with snippets and passages from the traditional folk of the region, that region being southern France, where the dying Occitan language is now spoken by only 600,000 people, most of whom are elderly. These ladies lend their magic to preserving the language and culture as best they can, also lending…
Red Tail Ring - II. Mountain Shout
USA / 2012 / Appalachian Folk, Old-Time When it comes to making an album like this–stepping away from original songs to delve into trad folk–the magic comes in song selection and arrangement. The field is wide open, which means one might be paralyzed by choice, but this duo does an excellent job at choosing a dozen songs that, through instrument choice and passionate delivery, evoke that…
Леонид Фёдоров & Владимир Волков - Романсы
Russia / 2007 / Avant-Folk, Experimental Rock Culturally I know nothing except what I’ve read about the content of this kind of music. Musically, I love what I hear. So let me see if I got this right: Oberiu scribbling was an early Soviet-era form of poetry that eschewed the past and tradition and instead embraced, in typical avant-garde modernism, destruction in the absurd name of progress.…
Ted Curson - Pop Wine
USA, France / 1971 / Avant-Garde Jazz I love the kind of jazz that’s made by musicians chasing a sound around the world, especially when they just miss each other flying over the Atlantic. That’s hyperbole, of course, but the Frenchman on piano on this recording once lived in the US, then returned to France and formed a jazz trio of his fellow countrymen. Then comes an American over to Paris to…
Peggy Seeger - Peggy Alone
USA / 1968 / Contemporary Folk, Traditional Folk One of the greatest names in folk revival and one of my favorites, Seeger’s interpretations of extant folk in the transatlantic cultural traditions between the United States and the British Isles are some of the best I’ve ever heard. She impresses with her instrumental accompaniment, of course, but can hold the listener’s attention even with her a…
Paolo Angeli & Iva Bittova - SUL FILO
Italy, Czechia / 2019 / Free Improvisation, Avant-Folk A talented free-improv Italian guitarist teams up with the ever-lovely, always-crazy Iva Bittová to give her a space, before a live audience, to gasp, groan, whine, moan, and play about in the only delightful (exasperating?) way she can. I know people who’d turn this shit off in the middle of the first track, but for me, this kind of silly…