Valentina Magaletti & Jeugdbrand - Delayed for Repetitive Reasons

Another week, and another Valentina Magaletti wonder. Here she is in particularly outre form alongside post-industrial shapeshifting trio, Jeugdbrand, pushing right out into the NWW free music hinterland. Across two sides of long-form experimentalism, the second of which I'm choosing to read as a tribute to Tom Smith of To Live and Shave In L.A., we get a resolute exercise in genre agnosticism, sliding, in that trademark Magaletti way regardless of who she's working with, between musique concrete, krautrock, drone, free jazz and post-industrial collage in ways equally instinctive and unpredictable. With projects like this, texture and tone have far more sway than form, so what you're essentially experiencing is a set of interconnected, on-point impulses. For all her obvious virtuosity, it's that which ultimately reveals Magaletti's true power: a true collabortor. The wall of the underground, to lean into, to bounce off, and take support from. And for sure, you'll notice it when it's gone. Take it not for granted. Edition of 200.