Big band blank space navigations from a group led by punk/primitive psych artist Rory Storm and bolstered by a group of hired hands including ex-Double Leopards Jon Chapman. Classic post-Velvets clatter and zone in the higher-minded mode of peaked pilots like Rain, Flies Inside The Sun et al. Another thrilling NZ scene report.

Archival release of a live performance from 2000 at Robert McDougall Art Gallery in Christchurch New Zealand from the trio of Tim Cornelius, James Kirk and Nathan Thompson. Corpus Hermeticum/Metonymic recording artists Sandoz Lab Technicians’ main conceptual strategy is based around shepherding cavernous pockets of space into flashing, cumulous forms and here they navigate the gulf with melodica, bush sax, reed flute, electric guitars, effects, drums, tin whistle, glockenspiel, violin, autoharp, bass harmonica, bowed cymbal, tapes and keyboards. The muddy, slightly distant quality of the live recording only adds to the dislocated, edge of the world feel.

Deep space gloomp and wind-tortured drone-silence from the duo of Bill Wood - sometimes member of Campbell Kneale’s Birchville Cat Motel orchestra – and Jules Desmond. Huge lungs of void cut up with diamonds of percussion and lone metal tone in classic globe-gobbling style. Mastered by Campbell Kneale.

Slow-tone drone speak from a buncha hooded Australian soundists applying evocative, barely-identifiable loops of guitar smear, dissolved piano tones and bloops of melting phospherecent feedback tones that move like globs of animate lava. Should appeal to fans of the more minimal Mirror/Organum axis.