Unseen are the mysterious group of UK players who have made it a point to adopt as low a profile as possible, without going so far as to extinguish their own identities or their own music. Their sporadic releases have graduated from low-run CDRs to slightly higher-run CDs, of which 2012 (HANDMADE IN ENGLAND...
GX Jupitter-Larsen (The Haters, Survival Research Laboratories) started to issue his Zelphabet series around September this year – we received the first five in the series, representing the letters A to E. The idea is that three or four artistes will be allotted around 15-20 mins of space on these hour-long compilations, and Jupitter-Larsen...
Plenty goodies arriving from the ESP-Disk’ label this season, the recent batches containing an unusual mixture of free jazz, be-bop jazz, reissues of weird stuff and new signings to the label…thus confirming the label’s reputation for fairly wild eclecticism. The Charlie Parker four-CD box set is quite fascinating, even to this listener who can’t...
These four Vinyl Voltroons certainly pack quite a few heavy electronic punches as they step up to the collective megaphone. Firstly, from the UK we have Hobo Sonn with The Thundering Nature of Reality, a great limited-press slabamaroo of which only 125 copies are currently grabbable from the ROTTENSLUSHY label. Both sides reveal a...
Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention: ‘Plastic People’ ‘The Duke Of Prunes’ ‘Amnesia Vivace’ ‘The Duke Regains His Chops’ ‘Call Any Vegetable’ ‘Invocation And Ritual Dance Of The Young Pumpkin’ ‘Soft-Sell Conclusion & Ending Of Side #1′ ‘Lumpy Gravy Part I’ ‘Sleeping In A Jar’ ‘Our Bizarre Relationship’ ‘The Uncle Meat Variations’ ‘Electric...
Nikos Veliotis is the Greek emperor of the restrained cello – he can fill churches and cathedrals with his gut-tuned langourous drones which are of the utmost severity yet still encapsulate a soothing balm in their stern notes. He’s just made a new record Vertical (LOW IMPEDANCE RECORDINGS LOZ-0013) in Athens with Anastasis Grivas,...
Matmos, ‘Last Delicious Cigarette’ From The West, USA AUTOFACT FACT06CD (2008) Hans Grüsel’s Kränkenkabinet, ‘Blue Door Openings’ From Blaue Blooded Türen, USA RESIPISCENT RSPT027 CD (2008) Zeitkratzer and Terre Thaemlitz, ‘Sloppy 42nds’ From Electronics, GERMANY ZEITKRATZER RECORDS ZKR 0005 CD (2008) Oldman, ‘Sunny Afternoon African Charge’ From Two Heads Bis Bis, GREECE LOW IMPEDANCE...
The combination of improvised sax with electronic music is usually a winning combination for me personally. If you’re of a like mind, you could purchase The Tail (WM RECORDINGS WM000088) and you can hear 14 tracks of Chris Parfitt and Geoff Reader doing it live in Stoke Newington. These UK players trade under the...
May Blitz, ‘For Mad Men Only’ From The 2nd of May, UK VERTIGO 6360 037 LP (1971) Cressida, ‘Lisa’ From Asylum, UK VERTIGO 6360 025 LP (1971) Patto, ‘Give it All Away’ From Hold Your Fire, UK VERTIGO 6360 032 LP (1971) Clear Blue Sky, ‘My Heaven’ From Clear Blue Sky, UK VERTIGO 6360...
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