Razine a Ruckus Good contemporary French improv on Razine (MONOTYPE RECORDS MONO43), a team-up between the saxophonist Michel Doneda and
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Ghosts and Poissons
Lightning Striking Me Again Pretty Lightning is the duo of German players Christian Berghoff and Sebastian Haas. There Are Witches
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Free avant-rock Dutch band The Ex have been making tours of Ethiopia for ten years. Their guitarist Terrie Ex has
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Electronic Panorama As I write the Editions Mego label are engaged on a programme of repackaged vinyl reissues of historical
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Hear Richard Sanderson‘s melodeon improvisations radically transformed on Tone Chambers (LINEAR OBSESSIONAL RECORDINGS LOR 003)…it’s an unsettling listening experience even
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Wadada Leo Smith is an Afro-American free jazz major player whose work is lamentably under-represented in my so-called collection, outside
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Mmm…Grapefruit From January 2012, we’ve got a double CD set by Ensemble Pamplemousse, an American combo of performers who are
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Gimlet Eyed Mariners are the English duo of Michael Fairfax and Barry Witherden. On Dark Secret Love (SLIGHTLY OFF KILTER
Continue readingSevenstars: Fennesz in an 18-minute nutshell
Fennesz, Sevenstars, Touch, CD EP Tone44 (2011) Not much of an album here, being only 18 minutes long, but at
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First, long overdue notice for the latest Dancing Wayang Records production which we’ve had in the vinyl rack since May
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