From 11 April, two monsters of evil noise arrived from The Netherlands. Both these spray-painted CDRs by Doodshoofd are pretty
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Two years ago when I had a stab at posting something on The A Band, my meagre writings were rewarded
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Men in robes chanting over groaning electric metal noise with hands of flame…it can only mean a new release by
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The Resipiscent label in San Francisco seems to specialise in two modes of music releases – outrageous shocking humour or
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Intermix (TRACE LABEL 030) is a musical endeavour that’s been instigated by the Paris-based composer Guillaume Loizillon, and each of
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Stefano Tedesco of La Spezia in Italy kindly sent us a copy of Lontano: Homage to Giacinto Scelsi (NO NUMBER),
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Always a pleasure to hear from Gen Ken Montgomery in NYC, the only man whom I would allow to persist
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Another subdued outing from Ignaz Schick, this time performing with Dawid Szczesny on Live in Geneva (ZAREK 14). Schick provides
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From Mind Twisting Records in Poland we received this far-out album of improvised gut-wrenching doomy-drone-jazz, which appealed to me instantly.
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Another enjoyable set of sprawling drone and percussion music from the cosmic trippy psych-improvising trio Tetragrammaton, whose Point Of Convergence
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