Razen - Rim Saraband

 

One of the most "acoustic" but highly droned-out recording of Razen, featuring immersive jams with Eastern wind and string instruments. Awesome. 2013 tape on Sloow Tapes.

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Mummy Dust Trippers ‎– Song Of The Cactus House

By request of a reader, here's yet another release from the Million Brazilians universe by two of their members with a deeper emphasis on their ambient and new age side. I wouldn't place it too far from Robert Rich's mid-late 1990s material or O Yuki Conjugate, or even SPK's Zamia Lehmanni, and there also seems to be an affinity with Razen. 2018 LP on Lost Discoveries Exotic Music Shop.

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Senyawa & Stephen O’Malley - Bima Sakti

SOMA travelled to Indonesia and met the doom/folk duo Senyawa. Yes, it's like Sunn O))) participates in an ancient ritual. 2020 LP on iDEAL Recordings.

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Razen ‎– Reed Bombus LFO For Conrad Schnitzler

2014 pic-lp on Deep Distance.

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Razen ‎– The Xvoto Reels

Razen's weirdest album, this is their most electronic, with weird spacey sounds, old-school electronics and droney jams with Eastern instruments.

2017 LP on Three:four Records.

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Razen ‎– Ayîk Adhîsta Adhîsta Ayîk LP

Their most mystical album from those I've heard, it's like a mix between Stephan Micus, avant-garde jazz and drone. Superb. 2019 LP on (K-RAA-K)³.

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Razen - Remote Hologram LP

 

I love it how Razen mixes seemingly incompatible genres, with Middle/Central Eastern sounds always having a very prominent role, but here with an accentuated emphasis on drone, psychedelic electronics, atonal, classical and even a slightly Irish folk track ("Rust Constellation 11). 2014 2XLP on (K-RAA-K)³.

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Razen - Rare Undressed Mare

Razen is a Belgian group playing a mix of Middle-East/Central-Asian folk music with drone/ambient and experimental electronics. No, they don't have any new age shit, nor are they part of the ethereal ambient scene. Their music is dark and ecstatic, devotional and psychedelic. On this tape they employ heavily tabla, reed instruments and a droning instrument that sounds either like the sarangi or Indian harmonium. Highly recommended. 2014 tape on House Of Alchemy.

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