Another tasty French casserole from Franck Vigroux, a half-hour CD simply called Live (D’AUTRES CORDES RECORDS DAC 191) where he
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Extended Holiday Blues
Outstanding free jazz and improvised composition on Universal Sounds (PORTER RECORDS PRCD-0453) from tenorman Odean Pope and a fabulous small
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Got some very delectable items from the Japanese EM Records label, often a reliable source of enticing and exotic reissues
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Nice home-made inventive and melodic item here from Beautiful Friend, which is the English duo of Robert Horton and Les
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Five items from the Polish record label MonotypeRec., which arrived on 12 October 2010 in the TSP wicker basket. Three
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On Edges (+3DB 010), the improvising double-bass player Michael Francis Duch steps up to the manly task of performing compositions
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Fine album by Trawler Bycatch, a rubberised trio of greasy hotheads from Portland Oregon. Schlep’m (PORTER RECORDS PRCD-4050) exhibits the
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To my astonishment, I recently managed to pick up a copy of To You, With ReGard (CHANT RECORDS EJSP 9692)
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Harpist Rhodri Davies sent me a copy of his great new record, a team-up with the saxophonist John Butcher. Carliol
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Installation Recordings (1973-2008) (PD 26) is a superb collection of the gallery sound-art installations of Max Eastley out now on
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