Nick Pynn Buffalo Orbison UK OSCAR RECORDS OSC 003 CD (2018) Now that accompanying sleeve art is so evocative of
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How the Grim Reaper Works
Second LP Chop Off The Tops (SELF RELEASE, NO NUMBER) by The Dogmatics is another impressive set of mysterious, slow
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Trio Blurb turn in two excellent long tracks of string-and-voice glatteroon on their W (EVIL RABBIT RECORDS ERR 27) album
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On the cassette Sepertae (LINEAR OBSESSIONAL RECORDINGS LOR117), UK improvisers Daniel Spicer and Paul Khimasia Morgan join forces to create
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Here we have Se (IN) De Bos (SUB ROSA SR444), the new album by Stijn Cools and his Book Of
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Streifenjunko are a duo of Norwegian players Eivind Lønning and Espen Reinertsen, whose earlier releases for the Sofa Music label
Continue readingMade in Japan: occasional bursts of guitar and vocal fire not enough to warm up a tepid album
Flower Travellin’ Band, Made in Japan, Atlantic Records, vinyl P-8187A (1972) Pedantic TSP readers may say the album should really
Continue readingOne Day: an ordinary mellow soft rock album like any other, by an otherwise classy psych-rock guitarist
Hideki Ishima, One Day, Propeller, vinyl JDX-7010 (1973) Best known as lead guitarist (and later sitarist) for the cult Japanese
Continue readingChariot Rising: an ordinary psychedelic pop album with a few gems
Dantalian’s Chariot, Chariot Rising, United Kingdom, Wooden Hill, WHCD005 (1996, originally recorded 1967) Surprisingly the only album by this short-lived
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Here be three records from Belgium of high-quality minimal / slow music. They’re all credited to TONUS, which is the
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