Christina Vantzou - No5While on the island of Syros in the Aegean Sea for a film festival performance, Christina Vantzou experienced what she characterized as "a moment of focus" a specific vision for the sprawl of raw recordings she'd been amassing for her fifth album. Upon relocating to the Cycladic island of Ano Koufonisi, she situated herself outside at a patio table with a laptop and headphones, taking brief breaks to swim, and began the "reductive process" of shaving

part masterpiece theatre gone awry

Clarence's tracks: House Rent Struggle

The album also features the 12-movement cantata

and Charles-Marie Widor

a heroic firefighter who abruptly vanished 25 years earlier

Gyedu-Blay Ambolley was born on the 11th Street in Sekondi

improvisation is nothing more than playing with all available components of a given contexts

shot across the cosmos into the next astrological age (Drowning Pisces)

They have have taken their straight-ahead

Poet Laureate Cecil Day-Lewis (who also reads on the album)

and heavy and massive drumming

With plenty of alcohol and very little food and water