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Surgery 377

Since the beginning of this millennium Chris Clark has been one of the most reliably inventive electronic musicians to emerge from the Warp records roster. His newest album, Steep Stims, is the lastest to be recently release on his own label, Throttle. He is this week's spotlight artist.

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Clark - Death Peak (Warp/2017)

Clark - Turning Dragon (Warp/2008)

Clark - Cave Dog (Throttle/2023)

Clark - Empty the Bones of You (Warp/2003)

Clark - Kiri Variations (Throttle/2019)

Clark - Iradelphic (Warp/2012)

Clark - Body Riddle (Warp/2006)

Clark - Clark (Warp/2014)

Clark - The Last Panthers (Warp/2016)

Clark - Steep Stims (Throttle/2025)

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Clark - Aftermath [0:00]

Clark - Gaskarth / Cyrk Dedication [2:03]

Clark - Meadow Alien [6:53]

Clark - Slow Spines [10:34]

Clark - Cannibal Homecoming [14:10]

Clark - Black Stone [17:40]

Clark - Springtime Epigram [19:35]

Clark - Sodium Trimmers [21:07]

Clark - Naomi Pleen [24:43]

Clark - Gift and Wound [26:36]

Surgery 376

photo from Jesy Fortino's Flickr account.

Jesy Fortino is not a tremendously prolific artist. That is why every new recording under her alias as Tiny Vipers or in collaboration with artists like Grouper, Balmorea, or The Sight Below feels like a gift. On her newest album, Tormentor, she returns to the spare acoustic sound that defined her early work. She is this week's spotlight artist.

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Tiny Vipers - Hands Across the Void (Sub Pop/2007)

Tiny Vipers - Laughter (Ba Da Bing!/2017)

Mirrorring - Foreign Body (Kranky/2012)

Tiny Vipers - Life on Earth (Sub Pop/2009)

Tiny Vipers - Ambience 3 (Box Bedroom Rebels/2015)

Tiny Vipers - Tormentor (Bandcamp/2025)

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Track Listing

 

Tiny Vipers - Forest on Fire [0:00]

Tiny Vipers - The Summing of Moments [6:30]

Mirrorring - Fell Sound [10:19]

Tiny Vipers - cm [16:31]

Tiny Vipers - Tape II [19:31]

Tiny Vipers - American Prayer[24:23]

Surgery 375

Rafael Toral is a Portuguese artist who has been exploring his fascination with sound, silence, electronics, space, and the electric guitar for more than three decades. His newest album, Traveling Light, was recently released by Drag City. He is this week's spotlight artist.

Rafael Toral - Spectral Evolution (Moikai/2024)

Rafael Toral - Open Space (Bandcamp/2020)

Rafael Toral - Violence of Discovery and Calm of Acceptance (Staubgold/2001)

Rafael Toral - Liveloop (Noise Precision Libary/2009)

Rafael Toral - Electric Babyland / Lullabies (Tomlab/2002)

Rafael Toral - Traveling Light (Drag City/2025)

 

Track Listing

 

Rafael Toral - Intro + Changes [0:00]

Rafael Toral - III.III [6:10]

Rafael Toral - We Are Getting Closer [9:34]

Rafael Toral - Liveloop 2 [13:11]

Rafael Toral - slo [21:28]

Rafael Toral - Solitude [26:26]

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Surgery 374

Jon Porras first came to prominence as part of the San Francisco psychedelic drone duo Barn Owl along with Evan Caminiti. He is also the author of a good number of solo albums including the newest, Achlys, just released by Shelter Press. He is this week's spotlight artist.

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Barn Owl - Ancestral Star (Thrill Jockey/2010)

Jon Porras - Black Mesa (Thrill Jockey/2012)

Jon Porras - Arroyo (Thrill Jockey/2020)

Jon Porras - Orilla Oscura (Immune Recordings/2012)

Jon Porras - Light Divide (Thrill Jockey/2014)

Jon Porras - Achlys (Shelter Press/2025)

 

Track Listing

 

Barn Owl - Night's Shroud [0:00]

Jon Porras - Candlelight Mirage [2:10]

Jon Porras - Arroyo [7:34]

Jon Porras - Holy Hex [14:49]

Jon Porras - Pleiades [19:23]

Jon Porras - Sea Storm [24:15]

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Surgery 373

Separately and together, Tortoise have been a cornerstone in the Chicago music scene for more than three decades and helped to early on define the (sometimes contentious) genre of post-rock. Their first new album as a group in almost ten years, Touch, is soon to be released on International Anthem records. They are this week's spotlight artist.

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Tortoise - The Catastrophist (Thrill Jockey/2016)

Tortoise - Tortoise (Thrill Jockey/1994)

Tortoise - TNT (Thrill Jockey/1998)

Tortoise - Beacons of Ancestorship (Thrill Jockey/2009)

Tortoise - Standards (Thrill Jockey/2001)

Tortoise - Millions Now Living Will Never Die (Thrill Jockey/1996)

Tortoise - It's All Around You (Thrill Jockey/2004)

Tortoise - Touch (International Anthem/2025)

 

Track Listing

 

Tortoise - Yonder Blue [0:00]

Tortoise - Tin Cans & Wire [3:23]

Tortoise - Ten-Day Interval [7:41]

Tortoise - Prepare Your Coffin [12:22]

Tortoise - Firefly [15:56]

Tortoise - Glass Museum [19:49]

Tortoise - Five Too Many [25:10]

Tortoise - Layered Presence [29:34]

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Surgery 372

David Letellier emerged as Kangding Ray at the tail end of the Clicks and Cuts era of experimental techno. Recording extensively for the German Raster-Noton label he explored precision and the inner qualities of micro-detailed digital music. He currently runs his label, ara, and his soundtrack for the film Sirāt was recently released by Invada. He is this week's spotlight artist.

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Kangding Ray - Cory Arcane (Raster Noton/2015)

Kangding Ray - Stabil (Raster Noton/2006)

Kangding Ray - Automne Fold (Raster Noton/2008)

Kangding Ray - Ultrachroma (ara/2022)

Kangding Ray - 61 Mirrors / Music for SKALAR (ara/2020)

Kangding Ray - Solens Arc (Raster Noton/2015)

Kangding Ray - OR (Raster Noton/2011)

 

Track Listing

 

Kangding Ray - Brume [0:00]

Kangding Ray - Status + Light [4:20]

Kangding Ray - Apnée [8:25]

Kangding Ray - Pearls + Lichen [10:50]

Kangding Ray - Cnidaria [14:31]

Kangding Ray - Amber Decay [19:41]

Kangding Ray - Mojave [26:09]

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Surgery 371

Matthew Sage is a self-described "musician, intermedia artist, writer, and gardener" out in the tall grasses of Front Range, Colorado. He plays an interior-reaching brand of Americana that has continued to evolve since the early 2010s. His newest album, Tender / Wading was recently released by RVNG Intl. He is this week's spotlight artist.

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M. Sage - Catch a Blessing (Geographic North/2019)

M. Sage w/ The Spinnaker Ensemble - The Wind of Things (Geographic North/2021)

M. Sage - Camouflage Repertoire (Patient Sounds/2012)

Sage / Martens - Riding Fences (Edições Cn/2022)

M. Sage - No Same River Twice (Scissor Tail/2014)

Shabason, Krgovich, Sage - Shabason, Krgovich, Sage (Idée Fixe/2024)

M. Sage - Lux Collapsing (Patient Sounds/2012)

M. Sage - Music for Interior Shadows (Bandcamp/2011)

M Sage - Rife W/ Typo (Orange Milk Records/2016)

M. Sage - Tender / Wading (RVNG Intl/2025)

 

Track Listing

 

M. Sage - Michigan Turquoise [0:00]

M. Sage w/ The Spinnaker Ensemble - Luffing Adrift [2:54]

M. Sage - Motion Dazzle ii [5:40]

Sage / Mertens - Rodeo Daughters [7:23]

M. Sage - Hibernation Study [9:58]

Shabason, Krgovich, Sage - Old Man Song [13:51]

M. Sage - Sink the Stable [17:33]

M. Sage - Maria Sheets [21:20]

M. Sage - Progress Trap [24:03]

M. Sage - Witch Grass [26:21]

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Surgery 370

Mariska Baars is a Dutch artist whose main body of work has been released under the aka soccer Committe since early in the 00s. She is also a member of various duos and collectives that explore worlds where folk and improvised music and poetry meet. Her new album, Eye, was just recently release by morc records. She is this week's spotlight artist.

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soccer Committee - soccer Committee (Bandcamp/2005)

soccer Committee - ❤️ /Lamb (Morc/2023)

Machinefabriek, soccer Committee - Drawn (Digitalis/2008)

FEAN - FEAN (Moving Furniture Records/2018)

Piiptsjilling - In Spoar (Cloud Chamber/2023)

soccer Committee - sC (Bandcamp/2006)

Piiptsjilling - Fiif (Peter Foolen Editions/2017)

soccer Committee - Tell from the Grass (Morc/2021)

soccer Committee - Eye (Morc/2025)

 

Track Listing

 

soccer Committee - Look at You [0:00]

soccer Committee - Aride Afar [2:12]

Machinefabriek, soccer Committee - Very Well Drawn [4:25]

FEAN - Oardesis [6:55]

Piiptsjilling - Blaustimzen [15:16]

soccer Committee - Flock [21:01]

Piiptsjilling - Delstrutsen [23:32]

soccer Committee - Song for Staying [27:00]

soccer Committee - Horseclatter [28:43]

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Surgery 369

This week's spotlight, which is a little shorter than usual, is on Glasgow-based musician, painter and poet Joanne Robertson. She has been releasing music since 2007, both solo in collaboration with artists like Dean Blunt. Her new album Blurrr just came out on AD93.

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Joanne Robertson - The Lighter (Textile Records/2007)

Joanne Robertson - Wildflower (Escho/2016)

Joanne Robertson - Blue Car (AD93/2023)

Joanne Robertson = Black Moon Days (Feeding Tube/2015)

Joanne Robertson - Blurrr (AD93/2025)

 

Track Listing

 

Joanne Roberton - Lit [0:00]

Joanne Roberton - Heven [3:16]

Joanne Roberton - River Shock [7:33]

Joanne Roberton - Black Moon Days [10:42]

Joanne Roberton - Friendly [14:16]

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Surgery 368

Photo by Daniel Aime

Andy Cartwright is an English guitarist who has been playing recording as Seabuckthorn since 2008. His music, which can be found on a number of fine boutique labels, is a brand of uncanny folk that is resonant, at times unsettling or alternatively calming. His new album, A Path Within a Path, is due soon from Laaps. He is this week's spotlight artist.

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Seabuckthorn - The Silence Woke Me (Bookmaker Records/2012)

Seabuckthorn - Through A Vulnerable Occur (IIKKI/2020)

Seabuckthorn - Of No Such Place (Laaps/2022)

Seabuckthorn - A House With Too Much Fire (Bookmaker Records/2018)

Seabuckthorn - In Nightfall (Bookmaker Records/2011)

Seabuckthorn - They Haunted Most Thickly (Bookmaker Records/2015)

Seabuckthorn - This Warm, This Late (Quiet Details/2024)

Seabuckthorn - Turns (Lost Tribe Sound/2017)

Seabuckthorn - A Path Within a Path (Laaps/2025)

 

Track Listing

 

Seabuckthorn - Gathered and Unkept [0:00]

Seabuckthorn - Sunken Room [3:37]

Seabuckthorn - The Furnace and the Stillness [6:12]

Seabuckthorn - What the Shepherds Call Ghosts [10:20]

Seabuckthorn - Burnt Offering [13:36]

Seabuckthorn - They Haunted Most Thickly and Sang [16:09]

Seabuckthorn - Serre Noir [19:11]

Seabuckthorn - The Trail Already in My Mind [22:08]

Seabuckthorn - As Quiet as the Ruined House [26:02]

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