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Tag: improvisation

04/02/2023 Ed Pinsent

Dream about Plucking Ripe Mango

Plucked and Bowed (FRIM2) is the second release from the FRIM label, the Swedish Association for Free Improvised Music, and

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21/01/2023 nausika

Elvis: a fun witty compilation of songs on Elvis Presley’s legend and its exploitation

Various Artists, Elvis, United Kingdom, Penultimate Press, digital release (2023) Usually we don’t review items if they don’t have a

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16/01/2023 Ed Pinsent

Strict…But Fair

Another impressive album from Torsten Papenheim, that Berlin-based genius whose recorded output is very hard to classify. He’s here today

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21/12/2022 Ed Pinsent

Hypernormal Curves in Weyl Space

Andrew Raffo Dewar, Ekphrasis Suite (RASTASCAN RECORDS BDR 075) Modernist composition – jazz-ish – for a quartet, comprising Gino Robair,

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14/12/2022 nausika

Turbulence: more stable and steady than turbulent and tormented noise electronics

Jim Haynes, Turbulence, Germany, Verlautbarung, mitteilung 40 vinyl LP (2022) If “Turbulence” is the prequel, as claimed by the blurbs

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08/12/2022 Ed Pinsent

Innovation, Independence, Determination

Got a couple of new cassettes from Bryan Day’s label the Eh? Aural Repository, sent from his California address. Below

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07/12/2022 nausika

We Were Never One: a powerful and sprawling epic soundtrack exploring loss, extinction and human connection to nature

The Star Pillow, We Were Never One, Italy, Dissipatio, DISS008 CD (2022) Solo project of guitarist Paolo Monti, The Star

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07/12/2022 nausika

Isola Santa: eerie soundscapes not of this world inspired by a mediaeval-era ghost village

Ambasce, Isola Santa, Italy, Dissipatio, DISS007 CD (2022) Armed with two synthesisers (a Roland Alpha Juno 1 and a Modal

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28/11/2022 Ed Pinsent

How to do the Jazz Layout

“For once it’s not a live recording”, writes Geoff Cheesemaster as he sends me Laurie’s Revenge (SPIRIT OF GRAVITY GRAV144),

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15/11/2022 Ed Pinsent

States You Cannot Conceal

Can’t Hide (FRIM RECORDS FRIM1) is a nifty free-jazz blurt recorded in Stockholm just on the cusp of the international

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