avant-rock – Page 27 – The Sound Projector

08/03/2020 Ed Pinsent

One Touch Of Venus

Highly experimental rock-noise thing from the English combo Mosquitoes, with their album Vortex Veering Back To Venus (FEEDING TUBE RECORDS

04/03/2020 Ed Pinsent

Telescopic Sight

Very good drone-rock psych-noise thing from The Telescopes. Stone Tape (COLD SPRING CSR267CD) arrives with a little mental baggage to

02/03/2020 nausika

La Planète Sauvage: a mix of jazz, funk and psychedelic guitar rock / pop in a trippy movie soundtrack

Alain Goraguer, La Planète Sauvage, France, Pathé, 2C 066-12698 vinyl LP gatefold (originally released 1973) Recent news I heard that

26/02/2020 nausika

Anthology of Persian Experimental Music: a tasteful survey of alternative music in Iran

Various Artists, Anthology of Persian Experimental Music, Italy, Unexplained Sounds Group, CD digipak (reissued 2019) First released in digital format

19/02/2020 nausika

The Earth is Silent: epic death / doom metal album delivers a work of art and beauty in themes of grief, loss and despair

Sun of the Dying, The Earth is Silent, Germany, Art of Propaganda, limited edition CD digipak / 12″ vinyl (2019)

16/02/2020 Ed Pinsent

Desert Song

Abronia are a rather sombre and serious-looking six-piece combo from Portland, and here’s their second LP The Whole Of Each

11/02/2020 Ed Pinsent

Freestyle Stroke

English combo Rutger Hauser from SE London are a six-piece featuring Lisa Busby and John Harries; we’ve noted Busby before

18/01/2020 Ed Pinsent

Rebuild all your Ruins

Welcome return, I think, of the highly distinctive Polish occult-folk combo 23 Threads, led by driving force Marek Spazm Marchoff

31/12/2019 Ed Pinsent

Protozoan Infections

Enjoyable instrumental rock music from Genoa in the form of band calling themselves Apeirophilia. On Interrelate: L.U.A. (NO LABEL) the

29/12/2019 Ed Pinsent

Metal Mickey

Ken Matsutani deserves to be reckoned as a hero of Japanese underground rock. He formed Marble Sheep and the Run-Down