Futurism Restated 101: Shards of Strange Things

New releases from Tim Hecker, Mabe Fratti, Jordan GCZ, and more

Nuno Canavarro’s Plux Quba is one of my favorite records. I discovered the 1988 album after the fact, but still quite a long time ago now, via its 1998 re-release on Jim O’Rourke’s Moikai label. (It’s striking to think, today, that just 10 years separate the two editions; at the time, it felt like an artifact from another century—which I guess in some s…