Staggeringly talented British composer and pianist Tom Rogerson has been a longtime favourite of ours. A prolific classically trained musician and gifted improviser as well as a key player in the London experimental/improv scene, he has worked in multiple musical formations for many years, including Three Trapped Tigers. In 2017 Rogerson released Finding Shore, a collaboration with Brian Eno which made it to our Album Picks of that year and followed it up earlier this year with his first solo album, Retreat to Bliss. A peaceful, masterful and mesmerizing album, written and recorded in his native Suffolk, it reflects a series of life changes. Needless to say, we’re over the moon to have him curating this month’s utterly sublime mixtape which opens a window onto the influences at play in his new record.
- Caterina Barbieri – Information Needed To Create An Entire Body [Important Records]
- Mother Mallard’s Portable Masterpiece Co. – Ceres Motion [Cuneiform Records]
- Irena & Vojtěch Havlovi – Růženka [Melody As Truth]
- Mark Pritchard – The Arched Window [Warp]
- Kathryn Joseph – The Why What, Baby? [Hits The Fan Records]
- Jefre Cantu-Ledesma – Joy [Mexican Summer]
- Toumani Diabaté – Cantelowes [Nonesuch / World Circuit]
- William Basinski – The Deluge [2062]
- Claude Debussy – La Cathédrale Engloutie (performed by Aldo Ciccolini) [Universal]
- Autechre – Yulquen [Warp]
- Keith Tippett – I love you, Julie [FMP]
- Richard Youngs – The World is Silence in Your Head [Jagjaguwar]
