#free improvisation

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Russia / 2024 / Free Improvisation, Avant-Folk As three-part vocal experiment, starting off with clarinet accompaniment, then moving to drums and double bass, and finally finishing off with homemade instrumentation, this collection of recordings is a dive into the extremity of vocal expression, be it for hunting, for warfare, or for lamentation for all the lost rivers of the world. Though Lost…

Czechia / 2022 / Avant-Garde Jazz, Free Improvisation, Vocal Jazz It’s right there on the label: a jazz septet that grows together over three years, so on their sophomore release, they say they gel better, understand better when to give and take, when to weave free improvisation, and when to allow structured composition to take form and guide the…

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Skin Insects is music found beneath the skin.

It unfolds within a thin, restless layer where noise becomes surface and the body ceases to function as a boundary. Here, sound does not simply surround the listener; it replaces the skin. It clings, presses, twitches, forming a wet membrane through which the outside world arrives already distorted.

This is music submerged beneath a heavy body of water. In that depth, everything is altered: voice becomes vibration, rhythm becomes spasm, touch becomes an electric itch. Pressure does not mute the sound so much as change its nature. What might have been melody on the surface becomes a nervous reaction below.

Skin Insects sounds like an organism that has lived underwater long enough to transform pressure into music. Its skin is noise. Its breath is repetition. Its memory is interference.

Here, sound is neither ornament nor message, but behaviour: microscopic gestures, small movements, a strange interior life. The album stops, but the sensation does not. It feels as though the recording has merely ceased to be audible and continued its work inside the body.

Skin Insects is an album about music that ceases to be external.

About noise becoming skin. About repetition becoming memory. About a body living underwater and turning pressure into sound.