Atsuko Hatano – Insulated Paradise [CS] Avant-Garde / Leftfield The B-Side brings us the

The B-Side brings us the artist’s home recordings - tracks like “Farewell Eve

the band's music was typically based on repetitive rhythmic patterns bolstered by Mizutani's heavily distorted lead guitar

buck’s measured crescendo conjures the trance-inducing meditations of the sufi dervishes while watson’s pipes peal out glossolalic spasms that sound like a long lost maclise ritual

gifted to her “from a stoned friend on New Year’s Eve 10 years ago in Brighton – cheap keepsakes can be more valuable than diamonds

We had access to tapes Hooton recorded just before his death in 1961 in which he extemporized on his ideas and read his writing

Atsuko Hatano – Insulated Paradise [CS] Avant-Garde / Leftfield The B-Side brings us the"Atsuko Hatano is a contemporay classical Viola player who works with electronics to add textures and layers to her sound. Located in Tokyo, Japan, she is a commanding instrumentalist and composer who constructs innovative compositions with strings and layered electronics. Working in isolation due to the Covid pandemic, Atsuko Hatano played violin, viola, synthesizer and electronics to create these powerful, unique compositions. Insulated Paradise is