Various

For the third volume of Tenerife imprint Keroxen’s Radar series, the label examines Canary artists in the diaspora, highlighting the cross-genre breadth of creativity that stretches across the globe.

On their first Radar volume, Keroxen looked at the Canary Islands’ fertile indie and shoegaze scene, while the second scrutinized the area’s experimental landscape. This third edition casts its net further afield, beginning with a trio of tracks from Berlin-based visual artist Arístides García aka Anisotrópico. García creates custom MIDI-based orchestral compositions that sound stylistically linked to James Ferraro’s bizarre vaporwave-adjacent swipes, or more recently Nozomu Matsumoto’s corrupted ‘n future-shocked elevator musick. ‘Rumbo’ is the most impressive composition, sounding as pitch-mangled as one of Aleksi Perälä’s wonked colundi material but infused with YMO-inspired drum shakes.

Amsterdam-based trio Halli Crigi make grotty jazz/improv noise that explodes into Derek Bailey-style tangled mayhem on ‘Jerry Cat’, and Sweden’s Hara Alonso takes another path completely, working with piano and synthesis to create minimalist vignettes that aren’t a million miles from Ryuichi Sakamoto’s collaborations with Alva Noto. Tarragona’s Transistor Eye finishes things off with a single long-form track that rushes thru American Primitive-style fingerpicking into psychedelic oscillations and clouded, mushroom-addled mayhem.