Musician Riccardo Sinigaglia is both an electronic-music teacher and an architect; he studied electronics under Angelo Paccagnini and Iannis Xenakis before turning to musique concrète. Drawn from his youthful travels in Africa and Asia, these pieces set field recordings and murmured self against familiar electronic sound, the tape splicing and speed shifts building a cinematic, three-dimensional audio. Collecting work from 1974–84.
The second and final album from Japanese rock pioneers Jacks, made after the band's breakup, reissued for the first time in 30 years since its 1996 vinyl edition. Born in the late 1960s and impossible to categorize, Jacks hold a solitary place in Japanese music history through fierce, singular originality. Completed amid the band's most chaotic period — frontman Yoshio Hayakawa left during production and the group had already dissolved by release — it still radiates an overwhelming worldview and psychedelic tension.