On Sundays I try to at least quickly note some of my favorite listening from the week prior — things I would later regret having not written about in more depth, so better to share here briefly than not at all.
▰ The EP Extra Capsular Extraction was the first recorded music from Earth, the trenchant doom/drone/sludge metal band led by Dylan Carlson. It dates back to 1991. Geometry of Murder: Extra Capsular Extraction Inversions is a reworking of that source material by Black Noi$e (aka Robert Mansel), who’s worked largely in hip-hop with the likes of Earl Sweatshirt and Armand Hammer, among others. If you’re looking for an artistic green shoot at the start of 2026, a hint of the universe bending toward fruitful cross-cultural collaborations, this is such a thing. Just one track, “Divine and Bright (Black Noi$e Inversion),” is on Bandcamp, but the whole thing’s on streaming services. It has a heavy Bill Laswell vibe, which I mean as a high compliment.
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▰ One of Andrew Tasselmyer’s late-Jamuary tracks was a video of him performing just with a single app, the iPad classic called Samplr. Fantastic exploration of sonic stasis, the source samples being piano and strings.
▰ This video apparently goes back four years, but it’s new to me: a fine duet between great Norwegian musicians John Derek Bishop (synthesizer) and Eivind Aarset (guitar, heavy on the eBow).