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16/03/2019 nausika

Nouvelle Aventure: travelling through sound archives from decades ago rejuvenates old friends and treasures

Hanno Leichtmann, Nouvelle Aventure, Germany, Karlrecords, KR 049 LP / digital (2018) Electronician Hanno Leichtmann takes us on a 16-piece

14/03/2019 Ed Pinsent

Grey Matter

Here be three records from Belgium of high-quality minimal / slow music. They’re all credited to TONUS, which is the

12/03/2019 Ed Pinsent

Broth of Life

Recently heard Bill Brovold on the cassette Superstar, from the Eh? Audio Repository label, a hugely enjoyable tape of guitar

10/03/2019 Ed Pinsent

Double Shadow

Indifferent cover art, banal title – but the music on Actions Soniques (VAND’OEUVRE VDO1850) deserves a curious lugger or two

09/03/2019 Ed Pinsent

Coup de Vent

Unusual clarinet improvisations from French players Xavier Charles and Jacques di Donato on their Ilex (PROTAGONISTE PROTA1801) album. Using only

09/03/2019 Paul Khimasia Morgan

Windmill Exercises

Three items whose common denominator is Salford’s most prolific polymath, purveyor of free/jazz/noise, promoter, label head and uttapam-fan David Birchall.

08/03/2019 Steve Pescott

Smiles from the Firmament

Håvard Volden Space Happy NORWAY SOFA RECORDS SOFA 568 CD (2018) A neatly presented storyboard all told, where Space Happy‘s

05/03/2019 Ed Pinsent

Magick Memos from Japan

Got a snootful of items from Michel Henritzi, the French improviser who still holds a torch for Japanese improvisation in

03/03/2019 Ed Pinsent

Station Masters

Ingar Zach, owner of Sofa Music in Norway, has made a percussion record Before Nightfall One (SOFA 567). He did

25/02/2019 Ed Pinsent

Gaudy Night

After many years of excellent and unusual CDRs, UK label Linear Obsessional Recordings started releasing cassettes in June 2018. The