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11/04/2019 nausika

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

10/04/2019 nausika

One 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

19/03/2019 nausika

Chariot 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

14/03/2019 Ed Pinsent

Grey Matter

Here be three records from Belgium of high-quality minimal / slow music. They’re all credited to TONUS, which is the

16/01/2019 Ed Pinsent

Blind Jose Muerto

Manchester label Thread Recordings is fast becoming the hot go-to label for great guitar music. In recent times there’s been

14/01/2019 Ed Pinsent

The Last Fog Entry

French genius Bertrand Denzler often appears in an improvising context, but he has great compositional skills too, and the latter

24/11/2018 Ed Pinsent

Cushion Draum Pile

House Of Cosy Cushions is Richard Bolhuis, a fellow who’s also a visual artist – indeed his CD Underground Bliss

18/11/2018 Ed Pinsent

Ceredigion Aerophilately

Here’s some items I received as a result of attending Listen To The Voice Of Fire at Ceredigion museum in

10/11/2018 Ed Pinsent

Kinetic Theory

Excellent new cassette from The Pitch, the Berlin-based foursome of improvising players who we last heard with their 2015 album

03/11/2018 Ed Pinsent

Freud’s Flower Theory

Nice to hear again from Hanging Freud, the Brazilian duo of Paula Borges and Jonathan Perez whose Motherland album we