A weekly(ish) answer to the question “What have you been listening to lately?” It’s lightly annotated because I don’t like re-posting material without providing some context. In the interest of conversation, let me know what you’re listening to in the comments below. Just please don’t promote your own work (or that of your label/client). This isn’t the right venue. (Just use email.)
I listened to plenty of new music this week, from Autechre’s surprise [*Plus*](https://autechre.bandcamp.com/album/plus) to Patricia Wolf’s [remix](https://soundcloud.com/scenenoise/premier-fadi-tabbal-the-new-and-improved-guide-to-birdwatching-vol3-patricia-wolf-remix) of material from Fadi Tabbal’s [new album](https://disquiet.com/2020/10/23/tabbal-subject-to-potential-errors/) to ioflow’s [ambient workout](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2XFQtsj4zw) on the Elektron Digitone, but I wanted to highlight in this edition of Current Listens some music I’ve written about over the past month or so that’s really stuck with me. The emphasis on the new can create a false impression of constant new. Even the recent new can linger in ways that change one’s initial impression, often for the better:
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NEW: Recent(ish) arrivals and pre-releases
▰ The patzr radio art-sound podcast of Jimmy Kipple’s musique concrète (music constructed from field recordings and pre-existing recorded sound) is a font of textural pleasure, especially the recent [two-parter](https://disquiet.com/2020/10/12/patzr-radio-202/). Here’s the second half:
▰ Loraine James’ [remix](https://disquiet.com/2020/10/28/loraine-james-lunch-money-life/) of Lunch Money Life’s “Lincoln” reveals key moments of the source material before artfully falling to deliberately challenging pieces.
▰ Lloyd Cole recorded an economical little album of modular synthesizer music with one little noise source, from which the record takes its name, [*Dunst*](https://disquiet.com/2020/10/11/current-listens-johannsson-tribute-coles-synths/), as its focus:
▰ “Suite pour l’invisible” was the first track made available from Ana Roxanne’s forthcoming [*Because of a Flower*](https://disquiet.com/2020/09/09/ana-roxanne-flower-suite/) album. I’ve gone back and listened frequently. It was followed up by the beat-machine-backed, almost Sade-like “Camille.” The [full release](https://anaroxanne.bandcamp.com/album/because-of-a-flower-2), with five additional tracks, comes out on November 13.