Moon Duo - Stars Are The LightStars Are the Light, the luminous seventh album by the American psych explorers Moon Duo, marks a progression into significantly new territory. From a preoccupation with the transcendental and occult that informed Ripley Johnson and Sanae Yamadas guitar driven psych rock, and reached its apotheosis in the acclaimed Occult Architecture diptych, Stars Are the Light sees the band synthesize the abstract and metaphysical with the embodied and terrestrial.

The track is jaunty yet aloof

Friends for over two decades

with a lush torch song we‰۪ve been desperately chasing for years

Mdou Moctar

mid-downbeat

originally released on May 1987 by Warner-Pioneer Japan

Unseen Worlds

a university lecturer and picture researcher by day

Nirvana – Unplugged in New York (Vinyl LP)

While domestic stars of mbaqanga like Mahotella Queens had temporarily disbanded during the onslaught of disco

and edited by hand to tape entirely in the analog domain

Rex Roland's tribute to the old analog sound