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09/03/2024 Ed Pinsent

Get to know the Green Personality

Three new items from the Discus Music label, all arrived 7th November 2022. Green Money (DISCUS 142CD) is by Day

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04/03/2024 Ed Pinsent

Sighs and Whispers

Ad-hoc improvising group VÖ here on The Sounds of VÖ (THANATOSIS PRODUKTION THT19), a double-CD set and featuring some of

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20/01/2024 nausika

The Clear Distance: a contemplative work of quiet minimal improvisation

Bill Seaman & Stephen Vitiello, The Clear Distance, Australia, Room40, RM 4201 CD (2023) As a media artist, academic and

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19/01/2024 nausika

Carry Them With Us: Scottish Gaelic folklore given new life by smallpipes and saxophone duo

Brìghde Chaimbeul, Carry Them With Us, Germany, Glitterbeat, GB 139 CD / vinyl LP (2023) Albums of instrumental music centred

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10/01/2024 nausika

DAIKAN: reissue of a dronescape work beautiful and serene, dark and forbidding, blissful and hypnotic

Thomas Köner, DAIKAN, Germany, Mille Plateaux, MP49 CD digipak / double vinyl LP (2022) Twenty years after its original release

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31/12/2023 Ed Pinsent

Becoming More Horse

Toronto musician Nick Storring with his solo record Music From Wéi (ORANGE MILK RECORDS OM161), produced entirely using pianos (and

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13/12/2023 Ed Pinsent

Let Joy Be Uncontained

After so many “lockdown” and “pandemic” albums, it’s a nice change to hear a life-affirming “end-of-lockdown” record…Hunter Complex was so

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30/11/2023 nausika

Voyage initiatique: a start to many adventures in free jazz improv for two collaborators

Duncan Pinhas, Yérri-Gaspar Hummel, Voyage initiatique, France, Lab’ut, LABUT005 CD (2023) As far as I can tell, “Voyage initiatique” is

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19/11/2023 Ed Pinsent

The Effects of Freshwater Flow

On na margem sul (ROOM 40 EDRM431), the American guitarist David Grubbs joins the Portuguese guitarist Manuel Mota for a

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14/11/2023 nausika

Playon Crayon: free jazz improvisation with a light and playful touch

Elsa Bergman, Playon Crayon, Sweden, Bergman Inspelningar, BI004 CD (2023) On days when you need relaxing music with a light

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