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After travelling to the island of Kimitoön in the halcyon summer of 2019, where field recordings and acoustic experiments lent a bright and sometimes plaintive air to three days of studio material, the New York trio Sontag Shogun departed Finland and the home of the composer and vocalist Lau Nau only to be bogged down by the ensuing coronavirus...

Shut up but not shutdown or vice versa, the music business gained succour from the margins in 2021 with so many lip-smacking delights from far-flung fields and hitherto unexpected quarters. Labels like New Amsterdam, Mappa Editions, Leaving Records, American Dreams, and Nyege Nyege Tapes put themselves on the map with a string of sterling releases, alongside solo undertakings and...

Good tidings of great joy and to all people! This week Joyful Noise Recordings present their annual holiday special, with the likes of C.J. Boyd, Jad Fair, Oneida, and The Ophelias each packing a snowflake-shaped 7-inch whose proceeds go to the Coalition for the Homeless. In the same spirit Arca, Merzbow, Foodman, Fire-Toolz and more line up for the...