Great Godz/Maher Shalal Hash Baz/autistic country brass band style brokedown folk music: Draeby plays in Trulofa and Shiggajon and here he combines reeds, brass, drums, percussion, piano etc in some beautifully odd compositions that combine ancient folk motifs, with slow, staggering rhythms and a dosed/cultic feel that is straight out of the Handgjort/Bo Anders Persson school of prole levitation. Another great one on a consistently wowing imprint. 

Another amazing out-of-time set from Shiggajon’s uniformly ass-flattening imprint Golem Tapes. Elektronavn aka the vehicle for composer Magnus Olsen Majmon play ancient-sounding acoustic folk with a minimalist/devotional atmosphere. Aspects of early Meredith Monk vocal work combine with the kind of singing medieval strings of Third Ear Band/Toho Sara and even Kronos Quartet’s Early Music recordings to create a dizzying future-primitive hybrid that is as folk-based as it is radically free. Fantastic. 

Dream team split release that pairs two of the best free/folk jam bands on the goddamn planet, England’s Part Wild Horses Mane On Both Sides and Denmark’s Shiggajon. Shiggajon contribute two tracks, a slow-burning vertical ascension of reeds over slow bowing strings and a final epic traverse of organ drone and triumphal brass that takes off on John Coltrane’s Cosmic Music. Part Wild Horses are on equally epic form, with the sound of slow feedback tones and prayer bowls sparkling in deep silence before Pascal starts batting around time signatures and Kelly summons the ghost of Takehisa Kosugi. Still no one like them. Highly recommended. 

Recorded “in an empty place in Copenhagen, March 2010” this is another amazing release from this Danish free music collective. Shiggajon combine cranky olde-world style volk melodies and instrumentation with ecstatic Fire Music chops and a heavy euphoric drone quotient and Strenge is the perfect amalgam of all three, with dark waves of string violence that are pure Ludlow Street ’66 giving way to fife and drum tattoos which unleash dramatic volleys of overtone violence. For fans of Tony Conrad, Angus MacLise, Third Ear Band, Revolutionary Ensemble et al.

Extended remixed/re-mastered edition of what was originally a very limited 3” release featuring an hour of dense, melancholy tape loop experiments from a project with connections to Shiggajon. The atmosphere approximates William Basinski’s masterpiece Disintegration Loops but with a frosty end of the world aspect and the sound of distant alien carousels repeat-spinning in space. Beautifully alien night-time tone poetry with a profoundly lonely aspect.