Streifenjunko are a duo of Norwegian players Eivind Lønning and Espen Reinertsen, whose earlier releases for the Sofa Music label
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Made 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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Manchester label Thread Recordings is fast becoming the hot go-to label for great guitar music. In recent times there’s been
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French genius Bertrand Denzler often appears in an improvising context, but he has great compositional skills too, and the latter
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House Of Cosy Cushions is Richard Bolhuis, a fellow who’s also a visual artist – indeed his CD Underground Bliss
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Here’s some items I received as a result of attending Listen To The Voice Of Fire at Ceredigion museum in
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Excellent new cassette from The Pitch, the Berlin-based foursome of improvising players who we last heard with their 2015 album
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