Satomimagae invites you to 'revel in your immediate and imagined surroundings' on Hanazono, their first release for RVNG Intl. I discovered Satomimagae through Maria Somerville's early morning NTS show, which I think I've recommended to everyone since it began broadcasting earlier this year. If you like Maria's show, I'm sure you'll enjoy this album - it's very psychedelic, but more in the sense that a walk through the woods is psychedelic - melodies kind of drift through the record, rather than taking the forefront, which gives you the sense you're being guided through a series of spaces.

Next up is Girls In The Grass, a set of dreamy, balearic instrumentals recorded between 1986 and 1997 by Steve Hiett, an English musician and fashion photographer. These ten recordings were salvaged and given the reissue treatment by Efficient Space, the Melbourne label responsible for the excellent Sky Girl compilation I posted about last month.

Maxine Funke is a New Zealand-based folk artist who I discovered through another great Melbourne label, A Colourful Storm. Seance is collection of tender, evocative songs for voice and guitar, reminiscent of Sibylle Baier's 'Colour Green'.

Also on A Colourful Storm is 'A Young Person's Guide To The Early Welttraumforscher', a compilation of unreleased recordings by Die Welttraumforscher. According to one reviewer, 'Die Weltraumforscher' is a German expression meaning both "The Explorers of the Universe" and "The Explorers of the Dream of the World" - this is very much that, an exploration of cosmic, dreamy sound worlds with a lovely DIY feel.

On a completely different tip, Eternal Screw is a mixtape of Asian songs chopped and screwed by ONY, a producer and NTS resident based in London. I particularly like his hazy version of Ryuichi Sakamoto's 'Opus', as well as his flip of Triad God's 'Chinese New Year'.