From Norway, five talented instrumentalists perform as Honest John on their newest (fourth) album Sweet Travels (PARTICULAR RECORDINGS p36). Among
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Tag: free jazz
Screaming Popes
French trio The Cry make good with their keyboards-and-drums album The Cry (GIZEH RECORDS GZH105) featuring Christine Ott who some
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Eat Up, Martha
While of course it’s wonderful to hear a woman jazz saxophonist showcased in free music for a change, I confess
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Your Digestive System
More indefatigable Norwegian energy jazz, this time in the form of Guts & Skins (SONIC TRANSMISSION RECORDS STRCD13 / PNL
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Sheep Melt Thy Fleece
From France, great double-disc set of noisy improvisations and spicy goop from two personal favourite gronksters, Romain Perrot, the naive
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Songs About Mapping
Large Unit from Norway with two new albums, not unrelated…both New Map (PNL RECORDS PNL054) and Clusterfuck (PNL055) were recorded
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Fear in the Sky
Intense performances on Chinmoku Wa Ishikure Ni Yadoru Bouryoku (TROST TR220), on which French guitarist Michel Henritzi is joined by
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Wild Billy’s Circus Story
Paal Nilssen-Love Circus Pairs Of Three NORWAY PNL RECORDS PNL035 CD (2022) He’s a great musician and probably a larger-than-life
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Enhanced Rock Weathering
Swiss experimentalists Cyril Bondi and d’incise continue their work with the Insub Meta Orchestra to propose questions about contemporary music,
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Schemen: eight incredible if fleeting soundscapes of free-jazz noise psychedelia
Kammerflimmer Kollektief, Schemen, Germany, Karl Records, KR101 CD / 180 gr LP (2023) Karlsruhe-based experimental free-jazz combo Kammerflimmer Kollektief goes
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