Algernon are a five-piece contemporary prog-jazz-rock fusion outfit based in Chicago, and Ghost Surveillance (CUNEIFORM RECORDS RUNE 297) is their third album. With oodles of guitars, keyboards, vibes and proficient drumming on offer, they turn in some very decent instrumental pieces which, although a little too slick and polished for me, do have the...
Michael Tee used to run the M Squared label in 1979, a home to many good things experimental and synth-based in Australia in the 1980s. A five-LP retrospective of that label’s endeavours was issued last year by Vinyl On Demand which probably hoovers up a lot of the good stuff from the time. As...
This oddity arrived from Austin Texas about the end of last month from a person or organisation who dub themselves “Festival Of Failure”. Two intriguing found photographs, perhaps filched from the covers of Scientific American, convey something of the American aspirations through the 1960s and 1970s in the areas of sonic devilry. Open up...
Great batch of heavy vinyl pressings arrived today from Vinyl On Demand. Luckily I had a ‘meat porter’ with me to carry them home from the mail box. Never be without your ‘diable’, as they say in the meat markets of Paris. The combined weightage must be about 10 kilos. Now I can safely...
Obscure independent classics that should have changed the world Compiled and co-presented by Lawrence Burton Pre-War Busconductors, ‘P.W.B. Photograph’ From P.W.B. Photograph / White Radiator, UK BUSCONDUCTOR RECORDS PWB3 C15 cassette (1982) Mandible Rumpus, ‘Laugh’ From A Sudden Surge of Power, UK CAUSE FOR CONCERN TAPES CFC009 cassette (1982) The Apostles, ‘Thalidomide’ From 2nd...
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