Heavy collaborative album in an edition of 300 copies from Marcia Bassett (GHQ/Zaimph/Hototogisu et al) and Carlos Giffoni. Bassett feels like the dominant voice here, rolling out wave after wave of crushing tonal feedback and huge rushes of iron-clad chords while Giffoni stacks perilous accumulations of rotor tones, analog drones and monolithic electricity.

Edition of 100 copies art book presenting colour reproductions of six of Marcia Bassett’s (GHQ/Zaimph/Hototogisu) psychedelic paint/collage works, running from Rorschach forests peopled by huge kittens through weird crystal geometries and distressed anatomy. Stapled card booklet.

Taj Mahal Travellers were a name that was regularly associated with Marcia Bassett’s Double Leopards, a group that formulated a specifically US-underground take on Takehisa Kosugi’s deep-space drone environments. Yet her solo work has seen her move away from the more organic/psychedelic aspects of the Double Leopards experiment, focussed more on metal sonorities and vertical ascensions of tone than pools of dilated reverb. But this new limited cassette featuring Bassett on guitar alongside cellist Helena Espvall (Ghost/Espers et al) is the closest her solo work has come to the narcotic appeal of Taj Mahal Travellers. There’s an orchestral feel to the music that is a little more ornate than Bassett’s normal style, with the feel of two people interacting more directly than the normal fug of F/X would allow. Still, there’s still a huge amount of depth to the recording, with bowed and vibrated strings combining in vortices of magical anti-gravity tone to conjure ghosts of drone. With full colour covers. Recommended.

Limited self-released cassette from the duo of Marcia Bassett (GHQ/Hototogisu/Double Leopards) and Taylor Richardson (who played alongside Daniel Lopatin in Infinity Window). Delayed drum machine settings, heavenly synth and transparent choral vocals, somewhere between the more slow-burning Zola Jesus settings and the Gothic euphoria of Harmonia’s Deluxe. Recommended.

New set of solo electric guitar recordings from Marcia Bassett (Double Leopards/GHQ/Hototogisu et al). Tectonic string work that has the weight of planets, with high, eerie melodies threaded through massive baseline drones. Aspects of Keiji Haino, Charalambides and Electronic Meditation-era Tangerine Dream make this a particularly explosive set. On Brother Raven’s label, hand-numbered edition of 200 copies.