Thought Forms are the trio of Romijn, Dhariwal and Metcalfe, playing a delicious form of acoustic trance music on their
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Ensemble Pearl: debut album of low-key cavernous drone soundscapes
Ensemble Pearl, self-titled, Drag City, DC544CD (2013) Led by Stephen O’Malley and featuring Michio Kurihara, Atsuo of Boris and William
Continue readingUnfolk + Live Book: psychedelic journey and call for justice in folk music adventures
Alessandro Monti, Unfolk + Live Book, Diplodisc, 2 x CD DIPL 005/6 (2012) News reached me the other day of
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Fukushima! (PRESQU’ILE RECORDS PSQ004-2) is a compilation themed on the Japanese nuclear disaster of 2011, caused by an earthquake and
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Loopy and intense noisy jazz rock blurt from Cactus Truck, a trio which showcases the saxophone malarkey of John Dikeman
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UK marginalista Hari Hardman‘s cleverness consists of stating his themes in short bursts of electronic drone-noises that stimulate the mind
Continue readingNoize 2005: jazz klezmer fusion that’s born to be wild … or mild
Kruzenshtern i parohod, Noize 2005, Auris Media, CD aum033 (2011) In spite of its title, this is an album of
Continue readingHidden Album: a breezy klezmer jazz improv fusion
Kruzenshtern i Parohod, hidden album, Auris Media, CD aum031 (2011) Apart from a couple of those suggestive little black silhouettes
Continue readingFistula: a complex and temperamental sound beast of many moods
Sujo and Sun Hammer, Fistula, Inam Records, CD 107 (2012) “Fistula” is a medical term describing a passage between two
Continue readingVaporware / Scanops: quiet electronic wonderworld shyly waits for visitors
Bee Mask, Vaporware / Scanops, Australia, Room 40, RM450 (2012) Deceptively innocent and cheerful, this spacey and spaced-out recording by Bee
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