Shall we write a new editorial? Who needs a damn editorial let alone a new one? Who needs Organ for that matter? No time for editorials, let the actual music do the actual walking and the actual talking. Exact same thing as last time once again, another five (or so) slices of music that have passed our way recently and however you like to slice it and of course it was the price of pears and here comes the editorial.

Five? There’s something rather compelling about five. Cross-pollination? Five more? Is there another way? A better way? A cure for pulling flying swordfish out of the clouds? Is there a rhyme? Is there a reason? Was there ever a reason? What do reasons make? Five more? Cake oil? Everything must go somewhere and no, we never do and the proof of the pudding is in that proof reading. When we started this thing, oh never mind, it doesn’t matter why we started this damn thing, we never should have done and like we asked last time, does anyone bother reading the editorial? Does anyone ever actually look down the rabbit hole or is it all just method acting? We do really try to listen to everything that comes in, we do it so you don’t have to, we are very (very) very very picky about what we actually post on these fractured pages or about what gets played on the radio or indeed what we hang in a gallery. Cut to the chase, never mind the editorial, skip this bit, there’s music further down the page, five or so pieces of music that have come our way in the last few days and what’s Wordsworth? Just the basic facts and links and those sounds (and visuals), that’s surely all you need from us?

Here we go, five more slices of music that have recently come our way, this time we start with something that happened in Chicago…

1: Terms and some footage that emerged a couple of days ago of them performing live in Chicago (thanks Danny). The studio version of this piece of music appears on the Skin GRGraft Records album Asbestos Mouth. I expect we reviewed it, I’ve lost track now, let me ask the search engine, AI doesn’t know, “An AI Overview is not available for this search”, AI doesn’t know shit, the other dat it told me we discovered Oasis for gawd sake! Apparently Steve Lamacq wrote a very early piece about the long forgotten Manchester band in Organ back there or so AI says. Ah yes, the Organ website search engine never lets us down, here’s that review of that Terms album – ORGAN THING: That debut Terms album then, people from Grand Ulena, from Yowie, like Jackson Pollock feeding spiders down your ears… Seems the album came out in 2020, always worth revisiting these things…

And there was this five years ago – ORGAN THING: An exclusive reveal of that new Terms track on that forthcoming SkinGraft compilation as well as news of the dynamic duo’s new album and some live dates at last… These things do sometimes need to be revisited don’t they?

2: Alice Cohen – There’s a couple of tracks from Alice’s new album Archaeology (out in early October) up on Bancamp right now (her name there is the link that takes you to the Bandcamp page), kind of like the simplicity of her songs and the delvil she knows and how she makes it all feel just to follow that starshine. The couple of songs from the album landed here, we liked them, we share them, that’s all these five pieces of music page are about, simple as that. That first song is rather gorgeous, some of the details in the playing, the colour, Alice plays everything. I don’t really know anything about New York’s Alice Cohen. I see the first 20 pre-orders for the album will receive a bonus collage art zine designed and hand assembled by Alice, I do like that… I like Alice for the same reasons I like that Ger Eaton song – ORGAN THING: That gorgeous Ger Eaton song we were on about before, news of an album and a bit more…

3: Jaan – A piece of music taken from the new album Baghali, (out via World of Echo on 3rd October), more details here or find a rather delicious second track, Scented Feather and more details via Bandcamp.

“Operating on the fringes of pure improv, organised chaos, minimal composition, lo-fi electronics and Italian spaghetti westerns, wide-eyed and with a healthy dose of DIY aesthetics lies the world of Jaan. It’s a poetic & cosmic universe, exploring “discreet music” whilst wandering on the edges of the Cat People soundtrack & Brian Eno’s more experimental output, in which you might yourself find floating, wandering or in the middle of a market place.

Jaan is a collective of one, a deliberately anonymous activistic unit with strong ties to the international art scene. Purposefully bypassing the know-it-all of the the internet & embracing the bygone mystery of dusty old archives and deep-dive searching, remarkably little is known about this project. Jaan is lead by veteran experimental sonic alchemist Jaan; they operate between Greenland, the Middle East and Europe, with frequent associates Lisqa, Mashid & Schneorr N. acting as local hubs for collaboration and exploration….” more via Bandcamp

4: Moja – Excuse me, from the new album I’m hungry, we probably are, seems rather careless the way people keep telling us they’ve dropped things, seem Japanese duo Moja have dropped this second single from their forthcoming album, I hope it didn’t break when they dropped it, no one reads any of this do they?

“Tokyo-based drum and bass duo moja is happy to present the second single off their most visceral release yet – I’m Hungry!! is coming out September 26 via Overdrive Records”. Surely they are happy? Tokyo-based drum and bass duo Moja are happy. There’s two of you, you’re a duo, you, I assume, are both happy (as well as hungry), excuse me, not is happy. The album landed here today, we’ll explore it properly later, there’s a mountain of albums to explore later…

5: Kuntari – “An intense 7 minutes of a Kuntari live session took place in a fifteen years deserted chemical ruin, Bessing is a reinterpretation of centuries deadly combat custom in south Celebes with enormous pace and dynamic range of rhythms. Tesla’s modified Trumpet emulate Puik-puik along with interlocking triple drum stick of Rio, emerge into a concrete structure of beat-based composition. Kuntari dissect ancient tradition with surgical instinct, rebuilding it in the form of primal-core: the guttural echoes of mating calls and tribal Indonesian rhythms resurrected from the 16th century blended into a feral rite, roto toms snarling with clipped resonance as Tesla’s percussive guitar transforms into an instrument of raw, thrumming power. Bessing is part of the upcoming album entitled Mutu Beton“. The vinyl will be released by 99Chants, Grimloc Records, Disaster Record and Bojakrama or maybe it has already? The video was psoted in July, it only just passed our way this week. Kuntari are Indonesian duo Tesla Manaf and Rio Abror, you can go search if you want more, our work is mostly done here….

And while we’re here more from the heart and soul of Cardiacs. We are mostly listening to that Mummy album at the moment, it is rather special – ORGAN THING: Mummy? A beautiful beautiful first album, let this just be the first, let this be the start of where Jo Spratley and Bic Hayes are going next, this is something like a whole bunch of love and more…