From Nickolas Mohanna’s Reflectors, a new 40-minute album of tone poems, comes “Neon Agents,” a lush, complex piece using a combination of field recordings and guitar/synth treatments. Australian minimalist label Preservation has one of the most consistent catalogs extant, recently releasing albums from Black Eagle Child, Quiet Evenings, Fabio Orsi, and Deep Magic, many of which are packaged in the same themed artwork “using a specially created abstract alphabet of shapes, determined by artist, title and catalog number for something both fixed and random.” It’s also worth scoping out the visual equivalent to this music — minimalist line drawings and zines — at the artist’s website.
• Nickolas Mohanna: http://www.nickolasmohanna.com
• Preservation: http://preservation.com.au/releases/nickolas-mohanna