Posts 2021/2022

All the posts from this year and the last.

JANUARY 2022

Our Daily Bread 485: Omega Institute ‘Panic Mount’ (Graham Domain)

Monolith Cocktail Social #62: Fake Fruit, Large Plants, Jeff Parker, Family Portrait… (Dominic Valvona)

ODB 486: Labelle ‘Eclat‘ (DV)

ODB 487: The NoMen, The Jazz Butcher, Salem Trials, Colonial Skyline… (Brian ‘Bordello’ Shea)

The Perusal #24: Spaceface, Mainstream Funk, Roedelius & Story, Cephas Teom… (DV)

ODB 488: Acid Mother Reynols ‘Volume 2’ (DV)

Kalporz X Monolith Cocktail: Interview With Rival Consoles (Paolo Bardelli)

ODB 489: Trupa Trupa ‘B Flat A’ (DV)

Monthly Choice Music Playlist: Binker & Moses, RULES, Selci, Nelson Dialect & Mr Slipz… (Team)

FEBRUARY

ODB 490: Silverbacks ‘Archive Material’ (GD)

ODB 491: Provincials ‘Heaven Protect Us’ (DV)

ODB 492: Mermaid Avenue, Armstrong, Pulco, Ghosts Of Torrez… (BBS)

The Perusal #25: Ilmiliekki Quartet, Daisy Glaze, Wovenhand, T.E. Yates… (DV)

Monolith Cocktail Social #63: BDP, Bad Brains, Lata Mangeshkar, Ronnie Spector… (DV)

ODB 493: Brian Bordello ‘Cardboard Box Beatles’ (DV)

ODB 494: Marsiglia Records Special (GD)

ODB 495: Dubbledge & Forest DLG ‘Ten Toes Down’ (Matt Oliver)

ODB 496: Future Kult ‘S-T’ (DV)

ODB 497: The White Russian, Goa Express, Red Pants, Legless Trials… (BBS)

ODB 498: Carl Schilde ‘Europop’ (GD)

Premiere (Video): Ben Osborn ‘Are We The Flood?’ (DV)

The Perusal #26: Jane Inc., Nova Charm, Širom, Houseplants… (DV)

Monthly Choice Music Playlist: Animal Collective, Lucidvox, Your Old Droog, Gabrielle Ornate… (Team)

MARCH

Kalporz X MC: Big Thief ‘Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You’ (SAMUELE CONFICONI)

ODB 499: Simon Grab And Francesco Giudici ‘[No] Surrender’ (Graham Domain)

MC Social Playlist #64: National Choir Of The Ukraine, Your Old Droog, Oleska Suyhodolyak, Faust… (DV)

ODB 500: John Howard ‘LOOK! The Unknown Story Of Danielle Du Bois’ (DV)

ODB 501: Sweeney ‘Stay For the Sorrow’ (GD)

The Perusal #27: El Khat Aalbat Alawi Op. 99’, Tone Of Voice Orchestra ‘S-T’, Kristine Leschper ‘The Opening Or Closing Of A Door’, The Lancashire Hustlers ‘Big Ask’, Koma Saxo w/ Sofia Jernberg ‘Koma West’, Kick ‘Light Figures’, Pjusk ‘Sentrifuge’, Anthéne & Simon McCorry ‘Mind Of Winter’, Various ‘I Won’t Give Up’, Escupemetralla ‘Maldacena Duality’, Solidarity ‘Blue And Yellow’ & “Yellow And Blue’, The Post-Everything Collective & Friends Present: ‘Ukrainian Relief Compilation’, Various ‘Music For Ukraine’, Various Artists ‘Pacification’ (DV)

ODB 502: Papercuts ‘Lodger’, Adam Walton ‘Cloudburst EP’, Pit Pony ‘Black Tar’, Crows ‘Garden Of England’, The Monochrome Set ‘Allhallowtide’, Shelterheart ‘Shelterheart’, Chlorinefields ‘Reclaim Your Brain’, Plastic Candles ‘Dust’ (BBS)

ODB 503: Bleak Soul ‘Shouting With Nothing To Say’ (DV)

Premiere: Mai Mai Mai Ft. Vera di Lecce ‘Fimmene Fimmene’ (DV)

ODB 504: Stepbrothers featuring The Honourable Ted ‘EP’ (GD)

The Perusal #28: Amine Mesnaoui & Labelle ‘African Prayers’, Nicolas Zullo ‘Credendoti Montagna’, Bart Davenport ‘Episodes’, Harry Christelis & Pedro Velasco ‘Scribbling’,
Yamash’ta & The Horizon ‘Sunrise From West Sea Live’, Ben Vida And Lea Bertucci ‘Murmurations’, Kumo ‘Three Tigers’, Adams, Dunn & Haas ‘Future Moons’ (DV)

Monthly Playlist: El Khat, Koma Saxo, Big Thief, Sweeney, ASSASSUN, Crows, Alice Dreamt, Terakaft… (TEAM)

ODB 505: Sis ‘Gnani’ (GD)

APRIL

ODB 506: David J ‘What the Patrons Heard’ (GD)

ODB 507: Violet Nox ‘Eris Wakes’ (DV)

K X MC: Celebrating The Legacy Of Pat Fish (Matteo Maioli)

ODB 508: Matt Donovan ‘Habit Formations’ (DV)

ODB 509: The Good Ones ‘Rwanda…You See Ghosts, I See Sky’. (DV)

Monolith Cocktail Social #65: Mira Calix, Taylor Hawkins, Big Star, Bruiser Wolf… (DV)

ODB 510: Papercuts ‘Palm Sunday’, Crystal Eyes ‘Like A Movie’, Otoboke Beaver ‘Pardon’, YOVA ‘Make It Better’, East Portal ‘Untitled #3’, Evan Kertman ‘Rancho Shalom’, The Legless Crabs ‘Always Your Boy’, Mercvrial ‘Brief Algorithms’ (BBS)

The Perusal #29: IFRIQIYYA ELECTRIQUE ‘Nafta Naghara’, Jane Inc. ‘Faster Than I Can Take’, Birds In The Brickwork ‘Recovery’, Kota Motomura ‘Pay It Forward’, OK:KO ‘Liesu’, Kloot Per W ‘Arbre A Filles’, Jörg Thomasius ‘Acht Gesänge der Schwarzen Hunde (Experimenteller Elektronik-Underground DDR 1989)’ , Qrauer ‘Heeded’, Astrel K ‘Flickering I’, Sinnen ‘Hawk Moth Man’. (DV)

Premiere: (Video) Mike Gale ‘I’m Really Gone’. (DV)

ODB 511: Anton Barbeau ‘Power Pop’. (GD)

ODB 512: Brainwaltzera ‘ITSAME’ (Mikey McDonald)

Premiere: (Track) Luke Mawdsley ‘Higher Plains Suffering’. (DV)

ODB 513: Lyrics Born ‘Mobile Homies Season 1’. (MO)

ODB 514: Roger Eno ‘The Turning Year’, Dana Gavanski ‘When It Comes’, Ignacio Simon ‘Old Friends’, Bambara ‘Love On My Mind’. (GD)

Monthly Playlist Revue: Şatellites, África Negra, Lunar C, Circe… (TEAM)

MAY 2022

ODB 515: Pussy Riot And Slayyyter ‘Hate Fuck’, Boycalledcrow ‘Wizards Castle’, Amoeba Teen ‘S-T’
The Walker Brigade ‘If Only’, Bithammer ‘Minimum Style, Maximum Effort!’, Ralph Of London ‘Yellow Sky Highway’, Cryptic Commands ‘Long Distance Call’, Salem Trials ‘Love Joan Jett’ & ‘Vegaland’, Adam Walton ‘Afal’, Sophie Sleigh-Johnson ‘Nuncio Ref!’ (BBS)

K X MC: [Scoutcloud] Leoni Leoni. (Monica Mazzoli)

The Perusal #30: Stephanie Santiago ‘Activa Tu Cuerpo’, Celestial North ‘When The Gods Dance’, Orryx ‘Ifera’, Black Mango ‘Quicksand’, Private Agenda ‘A Mannequin’, Saturno 2000: La Rebajada de Los Sonideros 1962 – 1983, Ethan Woods ‘Burnout’, Misha Sultan ‘Roots’, Gustavo Yashimura ‘Living Legend Of The Ayacucho Guitar’, Ghost Power ‘S-T’, Exterior ‘Umbilical Digital’,
The Staple Jr. Singers ‘When Do We Get Paid’. (DV)

ODB 516: SAULT ‘AIR’. (ACK)

ODB 517: Ali Murray ‘Wilderness of Life’. (GD)

ODB 518: Guillotine Crowns ‘Hills to Die On’. (MO)

The Social #66: Ornette Coleman, Stereolab, Sinead O Brien, Clap! Clap!, PENDANT, Modern Studies, Nathan Francis, Farhot and Rancho Relaxo. (DV)

The Perusal #31: The Master Musicians Of Jajouka ‘Dancing Under The Moon’, Avalanche Kaito ‘ST’, Jimi Tenor ‘Multiversum’, Lucrecia Dalt ‘The Seed’, Brigitte Beraha ‘Blink’, Various ‘Sharayet El Disco: Egyptian Disco & Boogie Cassettes 1982-1992’, Sebastian Reynolds ‘Athletics EP’, Flat Worms ‘Live in Los Angeles’, Francesco Lurgo ‘Sleep Together Folded Like Origami’ (DV)

ODB 519: Schizo Fun Addict ‘Fate Chaser’, bigflower ‘The Pill’, Borben Dallas & His Filipino Cupids ‘Too Convenient’, Martha and the Muffins ‘Save It For Later’, James Howard ‘Baloo’, Fast De ‘Miss Trutti Finally Found Her Gem’, Pineapple ‘Trials’, Linn ‘Happiness is Real’, Faust ‘Punkt’, Jelly Crystall ‘ILY’, Alas The Sun ‘Wild Honey Inn’, Black Monitor ‘Snake Of My Heart’, Super Hit ‘Pocket Rock EP’, Spiral Of Silence ‘Landmark’ (BBS)

The Monthly Playlist: Deca, Masai Bey, Ramson Badbonez, Vera Di Lecce… (DV)

JUNE 2022

ODB 520: Catrin Finch & Seckou Keita ‘Echo’. (DV)

ODB 521: Jacek Doroszenko ft. Ewa Doroszenko ‘Bodyfulness’. (ACK)

K X MC: (Essay) Bob Dylan. The Mask And The Songwriter. (Samuele Conficoni)

ODB 522: Cumgirl8 ‘Dumb Bitch’, Lucigenic ‘Joy’, Woog Riots ‘Beatnik’, Legless Trials ‘Dirt Bike/Failed Words’, Wolf Vanwymeersch ‘The Early Years’, Team Play ‘Wishes And Desires’, Spygenius ‘Jobbernowl’, Ghost Woman ‘Ghost Woman’, Rogers and Butler ‘Brighter Day’. (BBS)

Social Playlist #67: Julee Cruise, Cathal Coughlan, Party Dozen, Rachel Eckroth, Matthew Dear… (DV)

ODB 523: Vukovar ‘The Body Abdicator’. (DV)

The Perusal #32: Claude ‘Twenty Something’, La Chinaca ‘Juegos Malosos’, Gabrielle Ornate ‘Free Falling’, Tess Tyler (Ft. Barney Sage) ‘Sell The Sky’, The Paxton/Spangler Septet ‘Ugquozi’, Ghost Horse ‘Il Bene Comune’, Farmer ‘Things Do Things Without Thinking’, Omertà ‘Collection Particulière’, Xqui ‘Pieces Part 2’, The Mining Co. ‘Acoustic Phenomenology’, Loris Cericola ‘Metaphysical Graffiti’, Flying Moon In Space ‘Zwei’ (DV)

ODB 524: Angel Olsen ‘Big Time’. (MM)

Monthly Playlist: Santigold, Taraka, Dungen, Pan Amsterdam & Damu The Fudgemunk, Bishop Nehru… (TEAM)

JULY 2022

ODB 525: Gillian Stone ‘Amends’, Hal Cannon ‘Thirty-Six Miles’, The Legless Crabs ‘I Wanna Be A Cult Musician’, Beija Flo ‘Waiting For The Sun’, A.D Luck ‘WORMWOOD’, The Doomed Bird of Providence ‘A Flight Across Arnhem Land’, The Meltdown ‘Its A Long Road’, The Burning Hell ‘Garbage Island’. (BBS)

The Perusal #33: Various ‘Pierre Barouh And The Saravah Sound: Jazz, Samba And Other Hallucinatory Grooves’, Various ‘Spirit of France’, Nwando Ebizie ‘The Swan’, Healing Force Project ‘Drifted Entities (Vol. 1)’, Toni Tubna w/ the Stockholm Tuba Sect ‘When The Magic Went Wrong’, Anelli Beauchamp Cauduro ‘Sometimes Someone Watches’, The Dark Jazz Project ‘ST’, Delmore FX ‘Scompaio’, Runningonair ‘B.A.U.’ (DV)

ODB 526: Jill Richards/Kevin Volans ‘Études’. (ACK)

ODB 527: The Difference Machine ‘Unmasking The Spirit Fakers’. (MO)

MC Social #68: Amon Düül II’, Curtis Mayfield, Wu-Lu, Horsegirl, Cities Aviv, Eerie Wanda, Basia Bulet… (DV)

ODB 528: ‘Dreamworld Or: the fabulous life of Dan Treacy and his band The Television Personalities’ by Benjamin Berton. (Rick ACV)

ODB 529: Various ‘Live At WOMAD 1982’. (DV)

ODB 530: Aftab Darvishi ‘A Thousand Butterflies’. (ACK)

ODB 531: Brona McVittie ‘The Woman in The Moon’ (Single), Panjoma ‘Sun and Moon’, Jose Medeles ‘Railroad, Cadences and Melancholic Anthems’, Hari Sima ‘Solo en Occidente’. (GD)

KXMC: (LIVE) Amyl And The Sniffers June 16 2022. (MM)

ODB 532: Catarina Barbieri ‘Spirit Exit’. (ACK)

Monthly Playlist: U.S. Girls, The Difference Machine, Archers Of Loaf, The Korea Town Oddity (Ft. Kahil Sadiq), BKO, Hatis Noit (TEAM)

AUGUST 2022

ODB 533: Andrés Alcover ‘Where Did We Go Wrong?’, Mike Badger ‘Beatin’ A Path (To Your Door)’, Salem Trials ‘Another Fripp World’, Lucy And The Drill Holes ‘It’s Not My War’, Imaad Wasif ‘Fader’, Oliver Birch ‘Burning Daylight’, Nick Frater ‘Aerodrome Motel’, Kamikaze Palm Tree ‘Mint Chip’,
Legless Trials ‘Cheese Sandwich’ (BBS)

ODB 534: Goon ‘Hour of Green Evening’, Revelators ‘Revelators Sound System’, Diamanda La Berge Dramm ‘Chimp’, Julian Tenembaum ‘Fragmentos’, Social Union ‘Fall into Me’ EP. (GD)

The Perusal #34: The Movers ‘Vol 1 – 1970 – 1976’, Claude ‘A Lot’s Gonna Change’, Staraya Derevnya ‘Boulder Blues’, Li Yilei ‘Secondary Self’, Foch/Delplanque ‘Live Au GRM’, Shepherd Stevenson ‘Man Down’, THLTTLDBB ‘SeeUSearching’, Brown Calvin ‘dimension//perspective’, Die Welttraumforscher ‘Liederbuch’. (DV)

ODB 535: Helena Celle ‘Music For Counterflows’. (ACK)

ODB 536: John Howard ‘In The Eyeline Of Furtherance’. (DV)

ODB 537: Yanna Momina ‘Afar Ways’. (DV)

ODB 538: Ali Murray ‘Passing Through the Void EP’. (GD)

NOVEL SERIALISATION: Astral Deaths & Astral Lights (Parts One & Two) by Rick ACV.

Singles Night At Monolith Cocktail HQ: Montparnasse Musique ‘Bonjour’, Future Kult ‘We’, Lunar Bird ‘Venilia’, Celestial North ‘Yarrow’, Violet Nox ‘Magnetar’, Gabrielle Ornate ‘The Undying Sleep, Barrio Lindo ‘Espuma de Mar’. (DV)

NOVEL SERIALISATION: Astral Deaths & Astral Lights (Part Three) by Rick ACV

Monthly Playlist: Grooto Terazza, Your Old Droog & Madlib, Dearly Beloved, Vieux Farka Toure & Khruangbin, Lucy & The Drill Holes, Verbz & Mr Slipz… (TEAM)

SEPTEMBER 2022

ODB 539: Tess Tyler ‘Fractals Vols. 1 & 2’. (GD)

ODB 540: Alexander Stordiau ‘Nothings Ever Required’, It’s Karma It’s Cool ‘A Gentle Reminder’, Anxiolytics ‘S{R}[C]O[{T}[R]CHED EARTH’, Floorbrothers ‘Drive’, Bigflower ‘Tried To Care’, Rob Clarke And The Woolltones ‘Rubber Chicken B-Sides’, The Pixies ‘Doggeral’, Keiron Phelan & The Peace Signs ‘Bubblegum Boogie’, Grave Goods ‘Tursday. Nothing Exists’, The Legless Crabs ‘And If You Change Your Mind About Rock ‘n’ Roll’, Salem Trials ‘Postcards From The Other Side Of The Sun’, Andrei Rikichi ‘Caged Birds Think Flying Is A Sickness’. (BBS)

The Perusal #35: Al-Qasar ‘Who Are We?’, Clear Path Ensemble ‘Solar Eclipse’, Forest Robots ‘Supermoon Moonlight Part Two’, Machine ‘S-T’, Noah ‘Noire’, Lampen ‘S-T’, Qrauer ‘Odd Fazes’, Simon McCorry ‘Scenes From The Sixth Floor’, REZO ‘Sew Change’, John Howard ‘From The Far Side Of A Far Miss’, Yara Asmar ‘Home Recordings 2018-2021’, Valentina Magaletti & Yves Chaudouët ‘Batterire Fragile’. (DV)

ODB 541: No Age ‘People Helping People’. (DV)

NOVEL SERIALISATION: Astral Deaths & Astral Lights (Part Four) by Rick ACV

Social Playlist #69: Ramsey Lewis, Hubble Bubble, Anquette, Horseface, Poets Of Elan, Paul Misraki... (DV)

ODB 542: Christina Vantzou, Michael Harrison and John Also Bennett ‘Self-Tilted’. (ACK)

ODB 543: The Bordellos ‘Ronco Revival Sound’ (GD)

Monthly Playlist: Al-Qasar Ft. Jello Biafra, Antonis Antoniou, The Beach Boys, Sonnyjim/The Purist Ft. MF DOOM & Jay Electronica, Conformist X H O R S E S (TEAM)

OCTOBER 2022

ODB 544: Brona McVittie ‘The Woman in The Moon’. (GD)

Serialisation: ‘Astral Deaths & Astral Lights’ By Rick ACV (Part Five). (RACV)

The Perusal #36: Liraz ‘Roya’, Tau & The Drones Of Praise ‘Misneach’, Carl Stone ‘We Jazz Reworks Vol.2’, Say What ‘S-T’, Aucoin ‘Synthetic: A Synth Odyssey Season 1’, Montparnasse Musique ‘Archeology’, CAN ‘Live In Cuxhaven, 1976’, Puppies In The Sun ‘Light Became Light’, Spelterini ‘Paréidolie’, No Base Trio ‘II’. (DV)

Kalporz X Monolith Cocktail: (Review) ÉLIANE RADIGUE ‘Occam XXV’ (Edoardo Maggiolo)

ODB 545: Clark ‘Body Riddle & 05-10’ (ACK)

The Social Playlist #70: Pharoah Sanders, Ros Serey Sothea, R.E.M., J Scienide, Genesis, Nicolini…. (DV)

ODB 546: Blue Violet ‘Favourite Jeans’, Psychotic Monks ‘Post-Post-’, Una Rose ‘Resolutions’, Carla Dal Forno ‘Side By Side’, Super Hit ‘Get It Together’, Derrero ‘Curvy Lines’, Tuomo & Markus ‘Game Changing’, David Westlake ‘My Beautiful England’, Jd Meatyard ‘Live The Life’, Librarians With Hickeys ‘Handclaps And Tambourines’. (BBS)

Serialisation: ‘Astral Deaths & Astral Lights’ By Rick ACV (Part Six). (RACV)

Monthly Playlist Revue: Muramuke, Marlowe, Voice Actor, Lira, Underground Canopy, Keep Shelly In Athens…. (TEAM)

NOVEMBER 2022

ODB 547: Old Fire ‘Voids’, FaltyDL ‘A Nurse to my Patience’, A O Gerber ‘Meet Me at the Gloaming’, Modern Stars ‘Space Trips for the Masses’, Ben Pagano ‘Exploring Dreams’, I Work in Communications ‘Kiss My Emoji Ring’, Tigercub ‘The Perfume of Decay’, Gillian Stone ‘Ravens Song’. (GD)

The Perusal #37: Edrix Puzzle ‘Coming Of The Moon Dogs’, Surya Botofasina ‘Everyone’s Children’, Etceteral ‘Rhizome’, Karu ‘An Imaginary Journey’, The Dark Jazz Project ‘S-T’, Yemrot ‘The Sunken Garden’, The Magic City Trio ‘Amerikana Arkana’, Leverton Fox ‘In The Flicker’, Dead Horses ‘Sunny Days’, Biensüre ‘S-T’, Trans Zimmer & The DJs ‘S-T’, Casta ‘The Temple Of Doom’. (DV)

The Social Playlist #71: Tame One, Aphex Twin, Orange Juice, CAN, Ryo Fukui, Bnny…. (DV)

ODB 548: Cormac O Caoimh ‘Didn’t We’, Schizo Fun Addict ‘Over The Hills And Far Away’, Salem Trials ‘Zipporah’, bigflower ‘Magic Beans’, Mark Hegan ‘Rearrange Me’, Thank You Lord For Satan, THE Zew ‘IFI1IFO’, Neon Kittens ‘S-T’, Russ Spence ‘Attempted Soundscapes EP’, Cream Gorilla ‘S-T’, Bigfatbig ‘Rockin’ And Rollin’ and Whatnot’, Dot Dash ‘Madman In The Rain’, Vlimmer ‘Menschenleere’ (BBS)

ODB 549: Gillian Stone ‘Spirit Photographs’. (DV)

ODB 550: Mauricio Takara and Carla Boregas ‘Grande Massa D’Agua’ (DV)

ODB 551: ENTER LAUGHING ‘Met Me When I Landed’, KROOKED TONGUE ‘Lupines’, UNWAVERING ‘Ley lines in the Forth’ (four track EP), YOUNG RITUAL ‘Ages’, OTHER LANDS ‘Archipelagos’, LET SPIN ‘Thick As Thieves’, SLIM WRIST ‘Closer For Comforting’, OCELOT ‘Auringon Puutarha’, VENN ‘Identity Crisis’. (GD)

Monthly Playlist: Cities Aviv, Mui Zyu, Edrix Puzzle, Juga-Naut, Illogic, Arthur King…. (TEAM)

DECEMBER 2022

Kalporz X Monolith Cocktail: (Review) Weyes Blood ‘And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow’ (Paolo Bardelli)

The Perusal #38: David Lance Callahan ‘English Primitive II’, Noémi Büchi ‘Matter’, Björn Magnusson ‘Nightclub Music & Ethereal Faith’, Orchid Mantis ‘How long Will It Take’, Designers ‘S-T’, Greg Nieuwsma & Antonello Perfetto ‘Chase ritual’, Anton Barbeau ‘Stranger’, Kinked And Señor Service ‘Reincanto/Real Bwoy’, Various ‘Perú Selvático – Sonic Expedition Into The Peruvian Amazon 1972 – 1986’ (DV)

ODB 552: John Howard ‘Christmas Was Made For The Children’, LINN ‘Okay, Sister’, Humour ‘Jeans’, Dead Patrons ‘Nothing’, Kevin Robertson ‘Why/D.C.B.A 25’, Sanfeliu ‘To Absent Friends’, Richard Öhrn ‘Sounds In English’, Eamon The Destroyer ‘A Small Blue Car -Re-made/Re-modelled’, Scott Robertson ‘Footprints In The Butter’. (BBS)

Choice Albums of 2022: Part One: A to L: Anthéne & Simon McCorry to Lyrics Born. (TEAM)

Choice Albums of 2022: Part Two: M to Z: Machine Girl to THE Zew. (TEAM)