Bleep

Gritty, Odd & Good just about sums this up; less a disc of pseudo-music than a document of the global underground’s refusal to limit music by our paltry understanding of melody and rhythm, this compilation LP, overseen by audio artist and avant-garde composer Francisco López, sounds profoundly material. Compositions by the likes of Giuseppe Moretti and James Ocampo take jazz tunes and make them skitter and stop like incidental music, simultaneously enacting both halted and ever-present aesthetic histories.