Recorded live in Virginia's Crozet Tunnel, Magic Tuber Stringband (Evan Morgan and Courtney Werner) and Weirs (Justin Morris and Oliver Child-Lanning) present a captivating collaboration blending Appalachian traditions with contemporary drone and song forms, exploring vocal harmonies, resonant acoustics, and the profound interplay between music and place.

Revived as an experimental supergroup by Biota's Gordon H. Whitlow, Sorry For Laughing brings together a unique cast including Edward Ka-Spel, Martyn Bates, Dave-id Busaras, Patrick Q-Wright, and Janet Feder in Rain Flowers, a two-CD album weaving post-punk echoes, poetic reflections, avant-classical textures, and psychedelic nuance into a vivid and surreal sonic garden.

Guitarists Henry Kaiser and Kurt Newman engage in free improvisations inspired by classic songs they love — not covers, but intuitive commentaries recorded after listening to tracks by Pink Floyd ("See Emily Play"), The Who, ZZ Top, Fleetwood Mac, Richard Thompson, &c. — creating spontaneous, exploratory duets that reinterpret familiar sonic memories through raw, imaginative abstraction.

The Barcelona trio of Gorka Benitez on tenor saxophone & flute, Guillermo Celano on electric guitar, and Marcos Baggiani on drums, play a lyrical and bluesy brand of instrumental rock music which they describe as an eclectic approach to rock emphasizing pure energy and fun, in nine upbeat and groove-oriented tunes of tight and enthusiastic playing.

Reissuing the 2013 box set of the 1980s UK/Euro improvising rock band Cassiber, including their 4 remastered studio albums + 2 additional CDs, a 2 hour DVD, and a 32-page color book, revealing an amazing band merging experimental rock, fringe jazz, punk, pop, plunderphonics, improvisation, & musique concrete with an energetic and complex form of studio composition - superb!

Straddling quirky folk song and experimental sound collage, the long-running Western Massachusettes duo of fiddler, banjo player & singer Mia Friedman and clarinetist, wind player & sound artist Andy Allen (Guerilla Toss) present an album of observational songs with unusual perspectives and an anything goes approach to the music that surrounds each song; delightful.

The final recordings of Un Drame Musical Instantané with co-founder Bernard Vitet, compiling sessions from 1998 to 2000 with the Machiavel Quartet and guests including Baco Mourchid and Nem, blending free jazz, electroacoustic experimentation, and multimedia spontaneity into cinematic improvisations that showcase the ensemble's enduring commitment to collective creation and sonic innovation.

The debut of guitarist Ava Mendoza, violinist Gabby Fluke-Mogul, and drummer Carolina Perez as a power trio, invoking the Inca moon goddess Mama Killa through eight electrifying tracks that fuse free improvisation with the raw energy of doom, death, and black metal, channeling country, blues, and psychedelia into a ferocious and feedback-laden sonic onslaught.