Third hard to find album from this reknowned NY trio (featuring Samara Lubelski, Theo Angell and Dan Brown) who channel the palm prints of Angus MacLise and Terry Jennings into whole new vectors of tone, colour and zig-zag shape. On Siltbreeze.

Another bewitchingly beautiful solo album from Samara Lubelski (Tower Recordings/Hall Of Fame/Metabolismus/Sonora Pine/MV et al), that moves away from the tranced instrumental brainbeams of her In The Valley album on Eclipse and instead re-visits the acid chanteuse moves of her first De Stijl album, The Fleeting Skies. The arrangements are beautifully positioned between classic baroque pop ala Byrds/Love/Left Banke/Montage, handmade basement moves and early morning Lower East Side comedowns. Samara's beautifully breathless vocals sound like they're being whispered straight into your ear and the backing band are a peach, including contributions from Hamish Kilgour of NZ garage legends The Clean, Matt Heyner of The No-Neck Blues Band, Christian Frederickson of Rachels and Cynthia Nelson. Limited vinyl edition with stuck on coloured sleeves in classic De Stijl-style. Highly recommended.

Stunning new duo drone set from two masters of the form, Marcia Bassett of Double Leopards/Zaimph/Hototogisu et al and Samara Lubelski of Hall Of Fame, Tower Recordings etc. Although Lubelski is best known as a singer-songwriter with a 60s Euro bent through the solo sides she has cut for De Stijl her sole COM recording, In The Valley, later reissued on vinyl by Eclipse, remains a classic of extended string drone. Two side-long pieces see the duo work guitar and violin into eerie slow-motion architectures. Lubelski has mastered that lucid, post-Takehisa Kosugi/Taj Mahal Travellers style w/aspects of Bill Breeze and John Cale, working arcs of uncannily speech-like violin drone into Bassett’s ascending feedback sculptures. There’s an occult/modal aspect to the interaction that gives it a heady ritualistic aspect, the feel of slow sunrises in distant galaxies that seems to tie it in with several decades worth of higher-minded drone research coming out of New York’s Lower East Side. Way beyond a standard issue ‘drone’ side, this is a reminder of just how powerful long, suspended tones can be in the hands of master levitators. On Graham Lambkin’s Kye label in an edition of 500 copies. Recommended.