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Tag: free jazz

10/09/2023 nausika

Saint Vitus Dance: an unholy trinity of saxophone, soprano singing and sludge doom metal

MoE y Escalantes, Saint Vitus Dance, Norway, Conrad Sound, CnRd333 CD (2022) On the same day that MoE released “Skinwalker”,

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27/07/2023 nausika

Mycelium: piano and percussion improv infiltrating your head and brain

SPILL, Mycelium, Germany, Corvo Records, core 022 vinyl LP (2023) In 2022, Berlin-based duo SPILL (Magda Mayas on clarinet and

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26/07/2023 nausika

Folk: free acoustic jazz improv with imagination, power and a wicked sense of humour

“A” Trio, Folk, Lebanon, Al Maslakh Records, MSLKH 025 limited edition vinyl LP (2022) Claiming to be the oldest free

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22/07/2023 Ed Pinsent

Out To Phalange

Skeleton Hand sent us three records in early 2022, although one of them might not actually be by Skeleton Hand.

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10/07/2023 Ed Pinsent

Enter The Sensual Domain

Six related items from Jean-Marc Foussat, who operates the Fou Records label in France. These were all released on his

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29/06/2023 Ed Pinsent

Hands in the Dark

Talented young Slovenian pianist Kaja Draksler with her solo record In Otherness Oneself (UNSOUNDS 73U), sometimes using a quarter-tone keyboard…she

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05/06/2023 nausika

Omukade: a strange and wondrous journey through free-form death metal / jazz / grindcore

Ukakuja, Omukade, United Kingdom, Centipede Abyss, limited edition CD (2023) If the front cover artwork doesn’t put you off, you

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15/11/2022 Ed Pinsent

States You Cannot Conceal

Can’t Hide (FRIM RECORDS FRIM1) is a nifty free-jazz blurt recorded in Stockholm just on the cusp of the international

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07/10/2022 nausika

Heavy Rocks (2022): putting 1970s hard rock and metal through the wringer of Boris-style experimentation

Boris, Heavy Rocks (2022), United States, Relapse Records, RR7526, CD / vinyl LP (2022) Celebrating 30 years (and a humongous

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15/08/2022 Ed Pinsent

Out Of The Badlands

Mako Sica are a group from Chicago whose progress I haven’t been following diligently. As a trio they’ve been active

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