Author Archives: lisathatcher

Green just as I could see – Andrea Neumann and Bonnie Jones provoke our symbolist “face”.

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The Appeal to the other made on Bonnie Jones’ web page regarding the task of listening to her work (she describes it almost as a kind of sound poetry which I liked a great deal) is one of collaboration. As is often the case with music of this nature, the listener and what they bring […]

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Radio Paradise – Mike Cooper In Beirut: Pynchon, Hawaiian shirts and The (deconstructed) Blues.

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What a gem I was lucky enough to trade my finances for in the purchase of Mike Coopers Radio Paradise. This stunning disc with its deconstructed devotion to Pynchon, its heavily disguised blues covers and it’s demand for an intelligent listener is a diamond in the coal mine of 2012. Mike Cooper has been a blues […]

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Sam Pettigrew – Domestic Smear: Bass as Theatre

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The claim made by Sam Pettigrews beautiful disc Domestic Smear is that the bass acts as theatre in order to have us question the very triggers inside us that provide the already always aspect of who we are and how we listen.  Here is the central premise and the primary claim of Domestic Smear: “Domestic […]

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Conrad Schnitzler – Ricardo Villalobos – Max Loderbauer – Zug reshaped and remodeled

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I have a lovely little treat for you lucky lucky readers today! Anyone who reads this blog knows of my deep abiding love of Conrad Schnitzler and my appreciation for what he did within the world of electronic music. Of course I’m not the only one who feels this way about him.  M=Minimal have dedicated a large […]

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Farewell Carlos Fuentes – you will be greatly missed.

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Carlos Fuentes Macías  was a Mexican writer and one of the best-known novelists and essayists in the Spanish-speaking world. He has influenced contemporary Latin American literature, and his works have been translated into English and other languages. When he was 30 years old Fuentes published his first novel, La región más transparente, which became a classic. It […]

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Friendsound – Joyride: Time to chill.

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A lovely little retro pleasure for you today. Self-produced, 1969’s “Friendsound” makes absolutely no attempt to go down the commercial road and to ours ears may deserve to be noted as one of the first real “jam” albums.  I’ve got the album in toto for you here – lets take a listen-peek at side the first… Now don’t that […]

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Ray Russell Quartet – Dragon Hill: Avant Garde tipping off the edge of trad.

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Dragon Hill Russell 2 Something in the Sky 3 Can I Have My Paper Back 4 We Lie Naked in White Snow 5 Mandala I have a lovely little tid bit for you today.  This is one of my favourite wind down discs – a ver neglected classic that will blow you away the more […]

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Sannakji – Roberto Mallo, Miguel Prado, Ryu Hankil: subject subverted to sound.

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In the lovely notes to this amazing cd on the TMTG website the following is related: In his first days in spain we recorded with Ryu two improvised pieces. His sounds of mechanical bumps were well known to us, but he did not know our way of working. Taking advantage of these circumstances, and being […]

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Hear O Israel: A Prayer Ceremony in Jazz or How to keep the young at the synagogue.

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Lucky lucky me. Look what landed in my letterbox last night! I’m behind the 8-ball as usual, this was (re)released June 2008, but if your a fan of experimental and avant garde jazz, you will kick yourself for not already having this just as I did when I first got my ears on a couple […]

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Cafe de Flore – Music, ritual, religion and life.

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It’s a very brave move to make a spiritualist film in this day and age – particularly one that is well made and treated with great respect. This isn’t some new-agey guff like The Tree of Life, this is an approach at that hard-core naked spirituality.  You know, Christianity and reincarnation. While the tree of […]

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