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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Electric Zebras
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
Continue readingThree Vinyl Vostigans
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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Our graves must send those that we bury, back From Bloomington we received a copy of this excellent limited CD
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Illusions in Zurich Four side-long pieces of excellent instrumental work from the trio Tetras on their double album Pareidolia (FLINGCO
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