Asnaqetch Werqu, Ethiopiques 16: The Lady with the Krar, Buda Musique, CD 822652 (2004) On the cover of this album and
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Parallel Tracks (S.C.A.P. Records Vol. 1) is an unassuming and modest record of quite pleasant electronic and electro-acoustic meanderings by
Continue readingNigredo: a melodic post-metal / prog rock reworking of an earlier release
Janvs, Nigredo, Avantgarde Music, CD AV 224 (2014) My interest was piqued when I heard that Janvs had re-recorded an
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AION, Verses of Perdition, Goathorned Productions, CD GOAT018 (2014) “Verses of Perdition” is the debut release for this Swiss trio and
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French drummer Philippe Foch has devoted a lot of time to learning to play the tablas, from attending workshops in
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English player Chris Cole used to be a member of Movietone, who in the later 1990s and early 2000s scored
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The cassette tape Wir Triumphieren: Bergedorfs Kinderbandszene 1981-1986 (ALARM AT013) purports to be a compilation of early, unheard and unreleased
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Scarlet (HELEN SCARSDALE AGENCY HMS030) is a most excellent cassette in which Jim Haynes, up to now widely perceived as
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We seem to have been passing through a small rash of “high energy” records lately, including the Norwegian power trio
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Unusual and very good album called Xenon & Argon (GAFFER RECORDS GR053) of acoustic chamber music by a quartet called
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