Dreamy soundscapes and almost tactile textures are the focus of Out of the Blue, the latest album from Yokohama-based sound artist Tomo-Nakaguchi. From cool, 80s noir-ish street scenes to high-flying vistas as far as the eye can see, Out of the Blue covers a lot of sonic ground (and mental footage). With its layers working subtly but effectively, the album conveys a very large and lush scope with each track, wonderfully giving the listener a vivid look at Tomo-Nakaguchi's mind's eye.

Brixton Cat is a three-CD set celebrating the work of Joe Mansano- a Trinidadian producer/label owner who moved to London in the early 1960s- to become a key figure in the early Ska and reggae scene. The set brings together 1969’s Brixton Cat, which was the debut album of his project Joe's All Stars, and two compilation discs, Funky Reggae 1969- 1970, and Skinhead Revolt 1970.

Doctor Dark is one of the most sonically contrasting / at points jarring records of The Residents fifty year career. It blends sad and swooning strings/piano keys, with blunt 'n' crude heavy metal, and a side order of electro beats, off-Broadway theatricality, mocked-up news reports, and twittering bird field recordings/uneasy ambience. Lyrical/theme-wise, the album blends 80’s heavy metal influenced shotgun suicide, and a creepy doctor involved in euthanasia. 

Here’s a two-track digital release, Calgary, Alberta’s CORR//PT│0N_UN1T- each track runs at the twenty-minute mark, and each is a journey into busy & detailed walled noise.

Like A Rock( როგორც კლდე) is a recently released three-track release from  Mtskheta, Georgia‘s Owners Of Knowledge, whose sound mixes elements of walled noise, dense ambience, and field recordings. Each track here rolls in at dead on the twenty-five minute mark, and each is a dense journey into all-enveloping sound craft, which sits at the more focused walled noise end of the project's sound.

Womb is a new horror/slasher movie being made available on digital platforms on 29^th April.