Julien Wilson – Meditations (Lionshare Records)
Julien Wilson is a Melbourne based saxophonist. He has released over twenty albums as leader…
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Bob Baker Fish
Bob is the features editor of Cyclic Defrost. He is also evil. You should not trust the opinions of evil people.
Ibukun Sunday – Mantra (Spirituals/ Phantom Limb)
Nigerian electronic musician and violist Ibukun Sunday offers up these gentle repetative suites of hypnotic…
Cyclic Selects: Womadelaide 2023
We’re now just over a month from Womadelaide, and it’s difficult not to get a…
Listen to ‘Machine Funk’ from Luke Vibert’s forthcoming ode to acid
Luke Vibert is back with another ode to acid. You have to admit few do…
Listen to ‘Lisa Marie Elvis’ from Dean Roberts and help Penultimate Press pay a massive fine
This heartfelt ballad by experimental New Zealand artist Dean Roberts comes from a compilation designed…
Cyclic Defrost: Best of 2022
Cyclic Defrost started 24 years ago and we celebrate our quarter century next year. That…
Listen to high altitude wind in Switzerland from Philip Samartizis’ forthcoming album
Besides being one of the most eminent field recorders in the country, Philip Samartzis is…
Incredible Malian musician Vieux Farka Touré returns to Australia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHGYnviV6E0 Legendary Malian electric guitarist Vieux Farka Touré returns to Australia with his full band…
Claire Rousay is touring Australia
Fresh from the vinyl pressing of her 2020 cassette A Heavenly Touch, and her recent…
Cyclic Selects: Syzygy
Syzygy is the duo of Rebecca Maher and Gus Kenny, both formerly of Melbourne synth-punk…
Watch JAMBINAI 잠비나이 – 지워진 곳에서 feat. 선우정아 (from the place been erased feat.swja)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkrMh0tmymU We first witnessed Korean outfit JAMBINAI when they blew us away at Womadelaide in…
Listen to and submerge into the incredible new sounds from ‘t Geruis
Via albums on Lost Tribe Sound and LAAPS Records, Belgium based artist ‘t Geruis has…
Peter Knight:”Letting go.”
Peter Knight is a trumpeter, composer and the artistic director of the Australian Art Orchestra…
Listen to the strange ‘death jazzier’ improv of Melbourne’s Pattern Recognition Machines
When we spoke to Pattern Recognition Machines after the release of their second album Defunct…
The Phonometrician – Cóiste Bodhar (Lost Tribe Sound)
The Phonometrician is Mexico City based musician Carlos Morales, and Cóiste Bodhar is his second…