Having recently mentioned the netlabel Woe Betide, I just found two more submissions from them crammed down the side of
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Weather Modification
Nice home-made inventive and melodic item here from Beautiful Friend, which is the English duo of Robert Horton and Les
Continue readingA Sax Pax
We’ve been sent quite a few saxophone-type records lately, so let’s get our lips into embouchure position and finger open
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Bumper package sent in from Fritz Welch, the American player in Pee-Ess-Eye, who happens to have moved to Glasgow just
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Some exceptionally fine modern composition from German cove Alex Nowitz, who can compose, play keyboards, and sing as well, and
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Last heard from French underground proggy drummer Jean-Noël Cognard with LPs from his TANKJ project in 2009 and 2010. Well,
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Here’s the great Bernhard Gál with Same Difference (GROMOGA GRO 11001), a work which comprises 12 suites all based on
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Piiptsjilling is a fairly unusual cultural mix, with three Dutch improvising guitarists Romke Kleefstra, Mariska Baars and Rutger Zuydervelt, plus
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Five items from the Polish record label MonotypeRec., which arrived on 12 October 2010 in the TSP wicker basket. Three
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On Edges (+3DB 010), the improvising double-bass player Michael Francis Duch steps up to the manly task of performing compositions
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