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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

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

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

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

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

29/04/2022 Ed Pinsent

The Sun of Righteousness Will Rise with Healing in his Wings

Lively free jazz from the new duo Bianco Brackenbury on Rising Up (DISCUS MUSIC DISCUS 112CD). Made very simply –

01/02/2022 nausika

Turkish Belly: a lively and joyful collaboration but hardly electrifying

Konstrukt featuring Thurston Moore, Turkish Belly, Germany, Karlrecords, KR084 vinyl LP (2021) Over the past several years Turkish freeform jazz

28/01/2022 Steve Pescott

Terpsichorus

Neumann / Gutvik / Håker Flaten / Nilssen-Love New Dance NORWAY PNL RECORDS PNL 051 C.D. (2021) The story of

14/12/2021 nausika

Al Azraqayn: wild and exhilarating ride through a live fusion of contemporary and experimental Middle Eastern music, free jazz and improv

Karkhana, Al Azraqayn, Germany, Karlrecords, KR086LP double LP (2021) An ensemble of various musicians working in contemporary experimental Middle Eastern,

15/10/2021 nausika

V: slow ambient noise drone and restless free jazz improv in one continuous pairing

Yodok & Massimo Pupillo, V, Germany, Midira Records, MIDIRA 077 CD (2021) Created and performed in one continuous take for