French free improvisation on the record Delightfully Deceitful (CIRCUM DISC microcidi045), played by the trio Manoeuvres Sentimentales. Laurent Rigaut on
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Tag: improvisation
Target Detection in the Deep-Sea Shadow Zone
Jazz plus electronics from Swiss label. When faced with bass frequencies and long tones from the lower registers in music,
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Egress Landscaping
Latest album from the UK-Israeli collective Staraya Derevnya is Garden Window Escape (AUSTRALIA RAMBLE RECORDS RAM-195 / ISRAEL AURIS MEDIA
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Comrades with Rubber Gun
Mutants in Siberia (CIRCUM DISC microcidi043) is an unexpected pairing of Joke Lanz with the Czech improviser Petr Vbra, a
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The Psychology of Yellow
On Les Disparitions (INSUB. Insub.rec.cd27), French composer Sébastien Roux ruminates long and hard on the conundrum “how does a sound
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Transparent Black Ice
I think we’ve been hearing Nikos Veliotis, the excellent Greek cellist-improviser, since 2003 if not earlier. I recall being mightily
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Barometric Pressure
Free improvisation spliced with rock and jazz elements by The Resonators on their Dashin’ Headless (ANUNAKI TABLA AT-021) album. The
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More Songs about Vomit and Blood
Energy jazz from the trio who brought you NKM019 in 2019, now grabbing that original title Hungry Ghosts and using
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Build Voice Video
Gunk Slack Montage (KIRIGIRISU RECORDINGS kgr053) – a highly descriptive album title – was created by Cody Brant & Carl
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Machina Argentum Habeo
We’ve noted four records from Eclectic Maybe Band in 2019, 2023, and 2025 – see previous reviews for some sketched-in
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