From Berlin, Ignaz Schick puts in a welcome reappearance with three recent releases from his Zarek label. Schick I well recall from years ago as a member of the Perlonex combo and a solo performer in his own right, provider of a most distinctive and abrasive sort of grumbly-rumbly improvised music. Here are said...
From Brussels, this little bamboo box arrived. Inside the box is a USB stick, also covered with bamboo. On the stick are ten hour-long tracks, roughly the equivalent of 10 CDs of sound and music created by martiensgohome, an improvising electronica and sound-art collective. We know next to nothing about its membership, but they...
A solo record by Andrew Howes, Carrion hors d’oeuvres (LEEP/CJC JOHNC0032), finds your man Howes working hard as a one-man avant rock band playing bass, drums, keyboards, guitars and electronics. These seven klanking instrumentals, in places somewhat reminiscent of Can or Neu!, feel as though they would have felt right at home if released...
Can, ‘Fizz’ (1977) From Can Live, GERMANY SPOON CD42/43 2 x CD (1999) Satin Whale, ‘Seasons of Life’ From Desert Places, original issue GERMANY BRAIN 1049 LP (1974) Abacus, ‘Cappucino’ From Abacus, original issue GERMANY POLYDOR 237 1225 LP (1971) Amon Düül, ‘Shattering and Fading’ (1969) From Collapsing / Singvögel Ruckwarts & Co, JAPAN...
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