Algernon are a five-piece contemporary prog-jazz-rock fusion outfit based in Chicago, and Ghost Surveillance (CUNEIFORM RECORDS RUNE 297) is their
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Mombasa Love Songs
Just spun this delicious dose of 1950s exotica this afternoon, while dozing on the armchair and half-watching a Star Trek
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@c are the duo of Miguel Carvalhais and Pedro Tudela from Portugal. On 0° to 100° (MONOCHROME VISION MV31), we
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Jüppala Kääpiö take us on a Sporing Promenade (OMNIMEMENTO OM01), a very sylvian-pastoral escapade where the watercolour-styled music is a
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JD Parran, Window Spirits (MUTABLE 17539-2). Solo CD (bass sax, clarinet, and flutes) from this estimable veteran improviser and player
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Early Electronic Works (PRISMA CD708) is a collection of compositions made by the Norwegian 20th century composer, Sigurd Berge. The
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From Seattle, Wind Swept Planes offer Spirit Man, an entire double-CD set of “experimental psychedelic” music on Debacle Records (DBL
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We received a number of “Dark Dans” from Cold Spring Records this Autumn. Here are four of them which I
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Pietro Riparbelli is the Italian sound-sculptor noted in the current issue of TSP with a couple of highly atmospherically-charged items
Continue readingHow The Residents Stole Christmas
Don’t we all have favourite records we play every Christmas? I know I do. It’s the first album (from 1973)
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