Andy Beta
@andybeta.bsky.social
Author of Cosmic Music: The Life, Art, and Transcendence of Alice Coltrane (Spring 2026) Pre-order it here: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/andy-beta/cosmic-music/9780306836169/
Bummed that Domnauer posted zero drawings made of the lilliputians witnessed while tripping on shrooms.
December 10, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Bummed that Domnauer posted zero drawings made of the lilliputians witnessed while tripping on shrooms.
And I just learned that Virginia Astley has physical copies of this wistful 26-minute piece, a continuation of her classic From Gardens Where We Feel Secure sound: virginiaastley.bandcamp.com/album/the-si...
The Singing Places, by Virginia Astley
1 track album
virginiaastley.bandcamp.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:25 PM
And I just learned that Virginia Astley has physical copies of this wistful 26-minute piece, a continuation of her classic From Gardens Where We Feel Secure sound: virginiaastley.bandcamp.com/album/the-si...
Along similar lines, just saw that '90s electronic ambient producer Anthony Manning has dug into the unequal temperament of Bach and posted his own idiosyncratic take: germstore.bandcamp.com/track/j-s-ba...
J.S.Bach : Goldberg Variations : Aria (Unequal Temperament), by Anthony Manning
track by Anthony Manning
germstore.bandcamp.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Along similar lines, just saw that '90s electronic ambient producer Anthony Manning has dug into the unequal temperament of Bach and posted his own idiosyncratic take: germstore.bandcamp.com/track/j-s-ba...
Very curious to hear how this comes out and first single has me hooked: shaneparish.bandcamp.com/album/autech...
Autechre Guitar, by Shane Parish
10 track album
shaneparish.bandcamp.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Very curious to hear how this comes out and first single has me hooked: shaneparish.bandcamp.com/album/autech...
More more Pat Thomas, this one from [Ahmed], a full band, full-voiced tribute to Ahmed Abdul-Malik that is rollicking and joyous: ahmedquartet.bandcamp.com/album/samaa-...
سماع [Sama'a] (Audition), by أحمد [Ahmed]
4 track album
ahmedquartet.bandcamp.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:19 PM
More more Pat Thomas, this one from [Ahmed], a full band, full-voiced tribute to Ahmed Abdul-Malik that is rollicking and joyous: ahmedquartet.bandcamp.com/album/samaa-...
More Pat Thomas, more solo piano, this one prickly as a pissed-off porcupine. This took me awhile to get into, but now I find myself craving its edges and unsettled spirit: taoforms.bandcamp.com/album/hikmah
HIKMAH, by Pat Thomas
8 track album
taoforms.bandcamp.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:17 PM
More Pat Thomas, more solo piano, this one prickly as a pissed-off porcupine. This took me awhile to get into, but now I find myself craving its edges and unsettled spirit: taoforms.bandcamp.com/album/hikmah
Another meditative late-in-life piano album on Red Hook from another unsung great, Masabumi Kikuchi: redhookrecords.bandcamp.com/album/hanami...
Hanamichi - The Final Studio Recording Vol. II, by Masabumi Kikuchi
7 track album
redhookrecords.bandcamp.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Another meditative late-in-life piano album on Red Hook from another unsung great, Masabumi Kikuchi: redhookrecords.bandcamp.com/album/hanami...
Starting with the album I returned to the most in 2025 (and coming in at #2 on @darkforcesswing.bsky.social NYT list), this profound beauty from Amina Claudine Myers: redhookrecords.bandcamp.com/album/solace...
Solace of the Mind, by Amina Claudine Myers
10 track album
redhookrecords.bandcamp.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Starting with the album I returned to the most in 2025 (and coming in at #2 on @darkforcesswing.bsky.social NYT list), this profound beauty from Amina Claudine Myers: redhookrecords.bandcamp.com/album/solace...
Weird they have an extra '1' next to Jackie Brown
December 5, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Weird they have an extra '1' next to Jackie Brown
Last one from that imaginary Lot Radio show, an album of jazz standards transformed into interstellar light by Rafael Toral: rafaeltoral.bandcamp.com/album/travel...
Traveling Light, by Rafael Toral
6 track album
rafaeltoral.bandcamp.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Last one from that imaginary Lot Radio show, an album of jazz standards transformed into interstellar light by Rafael Toral: rafaeltoral.bandcamp.com/album/travel...
If early '80s Stevie silk scarf cos-play is your thing, this new Smiling C comp hits like a white winged dove: smilingc.bandcamp.com/album/neon-c...
Neon Castle, by Compiled by Charles Bals
9 track album
smilingc.bandcamp.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:43 PM
If early '80s Stevie silk scarf cos-play is your thing, this new Smiling C comp hits like a white winged dove: smilingc.bandcamp.com/album/neon-c...
Always repping for Blue Lake and his new one is a gentle refinement/ double-down on that sound: bluelake1.bandcamp.com/album/the-an...
The Animal, by Blue Lake
10 track album
bluelake1.bandcamp.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Always repping for Blue Lake and his new one is a gentle refinement/ double-down on that sound: bluelake1.bandcamp.com/album/the-an...
Lament missing out on Joanna Robertson from this summer, sounding like the long lost daughter of Grouper, but her own distinct mumble voice is clear as well: joannerobertson.bandcamp.com/album/blurrr
Blurrr, by Joanne Robertson
9 track album
joannerobertson.bandcamp.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Lament missing out on Joanna Robertson from this summer, sounding like the long lost daughter of Grouper, but her own distinct mumble voice is clear as well: joannerobertson.bandcamp.com/album/blurrr
Best believe I'm adding this new Iyer trio EP to the cart, too: alamkhan.bandcamp.com/album/sanctu...
Sanctuary, by Alam Khan, Vijay Iyer, Nitin Mitta
3 track album
alamkhan.bandcamp.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Best believe I'm adding this new Iyer trio EP to the cart, too: alamkhan.bandcamp.com/album/sanctu...
Can't get enough of @vijayiyer.bsky.social when his hands are on the Rhodes and the startling amount of deep spaces it conjures, so this new Fieldwork is key: fieldworktheband.bandcamp.com/album/thereu...
Thereupon, by Fieldwork
9 track album
fieldworktheband.bandcamp.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Can't get enough of @vijayiyer.bsky.social when his hands are on the Rhodes and the startling amount of deep spaces it conjures, so this new Fieldwork is key: fieldworktheband.bandcamp.com/album/thereu...
I also played Yara Asmar's album on consecutive shows. It's telling that it worked for both Halloween and in this set, these albums "full of haunting dread in one instance, something gentle and heartrending in the next."
yaraasmar.bandcamp.com/album/everyo... @hivemindrecords.bandcamp.com
yaraasmar.bandcamp.com/album/everyo... @hivemindrecords.bandcamp.com
everyone I love is sleeping and I love them so so much, by Yara Asmar
11 track album
yaraasmar.bandcamp.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:11 PM
I also played Yara Asmar's album on consecutive shows. It's telling that it worked for both Halloween and in this set, these albums "full of haunting dread in one instance, something gentle and heartrending in the next."
yaraasmar.bandcamp.com/album/everyo... @hivemindrecords.bandcamp.com
yaraasmar.bandcamp.com/album/everyo... @hivemindrecords.bandcamp.com
Loved this Natasha Pirard album so much I played it consecutive months. It's an album built on loss and remembrance in small études, what my colleague Stephan described as "wondering about life’s strange pathways, as well as memories cherished and lost.” natashapirard.bandcamp.com/album/fernan...
Fernande, Cecile, by Natasha Pirard
8 track album
natashapirard.bandcamp.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Loved this Natasha Pirard album so much I played it consecutive months. It's an album built on loss and remembrance in small études, what my colleague Stephan described as "wondering about life’s strange pathways, as well as memories cherished and lost.” natashapirard.bandcamp.com/album/fernan...
Special shout-out to this prickly, irascible duo set from Fell and Pat Thomas: blacktruffle.bandcamp.com/album/realit...
Reality Is Not A Theory, by Mark Fell & Pat Thomas
2 track album
blacktruffle.bandcamp.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Special shout-out to this prickly, irascible duo set from Fell and Pat Thomas: blacktruffle.bandcamp.com/album/realit...
Mark Fell's prolific Fall 2025 continues with this astringent avant-garde string album on @frozenreeds.com that reminds me of Scelsi, Pendercki, but also of Radigue's late period collaborations with others, opening up this cloistered soundworld to new realms: frozenreeds.bandcamp.com/album/psychi...
Psychic Resynthesis, by Mark Fell
10 track album
frozenreeds.bandcamp.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Mark Fell's prolific Fall 2025 continues with this astringent avant-garde string album on @frozenreeds.com that reminds me of Scelsi, Pendercki, but also of Radigue's late period collaborations with others, opening up this cloistered soundworld to new realms: frozenreeds.bandcamp.com/album/psychi...
How can this be Eyvind Kang's first true solo album?? Two sidelong meditations on the viola d'amore (which I never ever heard of before) that are irreducibly, indelibly Kang: contemplative, free, gorgeous, enigmatic.
eyvindkang.bandcamp.com/album/riparian
eyvindkang.bandcamp.com/album/riparian
Riparian B, by Eyvind Kang
from the album Riparian
eyvindkang.bandcamp.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:26 PM
How can this be Eyvind Kang's first true solo album?? Two sidelong meditations on the viola d'amore (which I never ever heard of before) that are irreducibly, indelibly Kang: contemplative, free, gorgeous, enigmatic.
eyvindkang.bandcamp.com/album/riparian
eyvindkang.bandcamp.com/album/riparian
A gorgeous duo album that draws on the violin as a European staple suited to traditional Carnatic music, Raman and Sivarajah conjuring “a space where Tamil heritage, diasporic memory and contemporary practice coalesce." efficientspace.bandcamp.com/album/syncre...
Syncretic, by Bhairavi Raman & Nanthesh Sivarajah
7 track album
efficientspace.bandcamp.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:23 PM
A gorgeous duo album that draws on the violin as a European staple suited to traditional Carnatic music, Raman and Sivarajah conjuring “a space where Tamil heritage, diasporic memory and contemporary practice coalesce." efficientspace.bandcamp.com/album/syncre...
A beautiful posthumous release from Amelia Cuni: "Neither a classical Indian performance nor an archival release, it instead hews closer to the recent work of French composer Eliane Radigue...hovering between tradition and modern minimalism." cunidurand.bandcamp.com/album/melopea
Melopea, by Amelia Cuni
2 track album
cunidurand.bandcamp.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:21 PM
A beautiful posthumous release from Amelia Cuni: "Neither a classical Indian performance nor an archival release, it instead hews closer to the recent work of French composer Eliane Radigue...hovering between tradition and modern minimalism." cunidurand.bandcamp.com/album/melopea