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Tag: improvisation

09/04/2026 Ed Pinsent

Portable Stereo

We need more “riding the donkey” records in our field of experimental music, although the topic is not wholly unknown

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01/04/2026 Ed Pinsent

Chronic Inflammation

Fine explosion of chaotic noise on the tape Burst (BLANK RECORDS BLANK 044)…this is on Tobias Vethake’s label in Berlin,

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16/03/2026 Ed Pinsent

Outboard Types

Umiak Irrlicht SWITZERLAND WIDE EAR RECORDS WER079 CD (2024) Contemporary improvised music from three highly notable Swiss players, recorded in

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11/03/2026 Ed Pinsent

We’re All Heroes

Tungu / Mia Zabelka / Stefan Strasser The Confidence of One Swimming Against the Current UK FMR RECORDS FMRCD707-0824 CD

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24/02/2026 Ed Pinsent

Hard Truths

European free improv from 1999 by this line-up of European greats – Daunik Lazro (Fr), Paul Lovens (Gr), Annick Nozati

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19/02/2026 Ed Pinsent

Paper Tigers

Worth hearing Paper Trio on their Hippo Road (TIME SPAN RECORDS TSRCD202406) album for the vocal free-form brincillations and mormatoons

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04/02/2026 Ed Pinsent

Repeat Prescription

French free improvisation, heavy on the percussive actions, and quite maximal in its results. The trio of Philippe Lenglet, Samuel

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01/02/2026 Ed Pinsent

Distance Markers

Karm is the ad-hoc duo formed by Michal Wróblewski from Prague and German guitarist Torsten Papenheim; we heard them in

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20/01/2026 Ed Pinsent

Contemplation Stick

Solo clarinet LP by Isak Hedtjärn from Stockholm is called Kvarpan (FÖNSTRET 5). Get impression he’s proud of having developed

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15/01/2026 Ed Pinsent

Spirit By Numbers

Command-K is Kalina Solarek from Zurich. Her mini-album debut DAS (ATTENUATION CIRCUIT ACU 1073) is a strong set of experiments

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