Music
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Adamson, Barry
Barry Adamson – I will set you Free: Retro Rock with a serve of Irony
Addison Groove
Addison Groove – Transistor Rhythm: A pleasant surprise
Akiyama, Tetuzi
Omni – Hideki, Akiyama and Nakamura move away from the conventional aspects of time. (music review)
Alcatraz
Alcatraz: Vampire State Building – The uncompromising devotion to Prog/Kraut Rock goes Jazz.
Alien City
Alien City – Alien City (1979): A little pre-punk in the post -punk era.
Altman, Laura
as is – Monica Brooks and Laura Altman push sound around a room.
Ambarchi, Oren
Oren Ambarchi – Audience of One: And one is all it takes
Anal Magic
Anal Magic and Rev. Dwight Frizzell – Beyond the Black Crack: Insane as Insane gets
Alternative TV
Alternative TV – The Image has Cracked
Archaia
Love love love Archaia
Art Bears
Art Bears – Winter Songs and The World as it is Today
Association P.C.
Association P.C.: Erna Morena – Jazz fusion/prog/avant garde Canterbury oriented sound
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Baron, Marc
Marc Baron – ∩: Outsider music at its most outside
Bardo Pond
Bardo Pond – Yantra: Three epic tracks of dense textural landscape. (music review)
Battus, Paul
Toc Sine – Drawings: Music defining the act of creation.
Baxley, Kail
Keep one eye out for Kail Baxley – Heatstroke / The Wind and the War – (Music Review)
Bennink, Han
Han Bennink – Nerve Beats: A man becomes his drum. (music review)
Bergerault, Claire
Mune – Claire Bergerault and Jean-Luc Guionnet use sound against the signifier.
Beuger, Antoine
Antoine Beuger – s’approcher s’éloigner s’absenter – The acceptance and awareness of silence. (music review)
Biglietto per l’Inferno
Biglietto per l’Inferno: Italian Prog takes the world by storm – eventually!
Black Cracker
Incisions by Black Cracker – The already music shuffling from immanence to silence and back again.
Blamey, Peter
Peter Blamey – Forage: the sound of Kafkas Burrow.
Bley, Paul
Paul Bley – Open, to love: One of the most influential solo piano recordings in history.
Boards of Canada
Board’s of Canada – Geogaddi: Music as manipulation.
Brainstorm
Brainstorm – Smile a while! Add a little Jazz fusion to your day.
Brandlmayr, Martin
Brandlmayr, Dafeldecker, Fennesz – Till the old world’s blown up and a new one is created.
Broadcast
Everyone’s talking about Berberian Sound Studio and Broadcast (music review)
Brooks, Monica
as is – Monica Brooks and Laura Altman push sound around a room.
Brötzmann, Peter
Sonore – Oto: Every assertion automatically becomes its opposite.
Bryars, Gavin
Gavin Bryars: “The Sinking of the Titanic” and “Jesus Blood Never Failed me yet” – Pure beauty.
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Capece, Lucio
Wedding Ceremony – experiencing sound detached from its source.
Catherine Ribeiro+Alpes
CATHERINE RIBEIRO+ALPES— PAIX
Ciani, Suzanne
Suzanne Ciani – Atari and other forms of love
Chamberpot
Chamberpot – S/T – rare rare rare jazz.
The Chap
The Chap: We are nobody
Cohen, Leonard
Retro Love – Songs of Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen: Old Ideas – god bless the man who will not rest.
My favorite Leonard Cohen Album: Songs of Love and Hate.
Cooper, Mike
Radio Paradise – Mike Cooper In Beirut: Pynchon, Hawaiian shirts and The (deconstructed) Blues.
Mike Cooper – White Shadows in the South Seas: Exotica for the dawn of a new age. (music review)
Coster, Tim
Tim Coster – A place in the Sun. Music to end time to.
Cow, Henry
Henry Cow – In Praise of Learning: Art is not a mirror, it’s a hammer.
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D.A.F.
Alles ist gut – DAF give us sound sex.
Dafeldecker, Werner
Brandlmayr, Dafeldecker, Fennesz – Till the old world’s blown up and a new one is created.
Davies, Rhodri
Rhodri Davies | Dominic Lash – Delicate Double Bass, Harp and Wind
The Deep Freez Mice
The deep Freeze Mice – music for the future of somewhere.
Dome
Dome #1 – A little retro punk pleasure
Doyle, Roger
Thalia – Roger Doyle bent on the road to brilliance. (Music Review)
Dubrovay, László
László Dubrovay – “A² “/ Oscillations Nos. 1-3
Denley, Jim
Your Breath on my Lips – Jim Denley and the intimacies of the natural.
Denny, Martin
Martin Denny – Exotic Moog: Exotica in a quiet village.
Destroyer
Kaputt: Destroyers super album of 2011
Dilloway, Aaron
The Squid – Aaron Dilloway & C Spencer Yeh go deep.
Drumm, Kevin
Kevin Drumm – Sheer Hellish Miasma:
Doubleheart
Doubleheart – Salsa Apocalypto makes me wanna dance dance dance.
Dunn, David
David Dunn | Patrick Farmer and Sarah Hughes – Bees and Ducks and Sound
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Eckhardt, Julia
Wedding Ceremony – experiencing sound detached from its source.
Eclipsing
Eclipsing – Dream Boat: Floating to the other side. (Music Review)
Eiliff
Eiliff – Eiliff (1971): Fuse into a little jazz fusion
Eubanks, Brian
777 – Ryu Hankil and Bryan Eubanks are the confessional outsider. (Music review)
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Farmer, Patrick
The Cat from Cat Hill – Loris. Music that meanders through my subterranean caverns.
Patrick Farmer and Dominic Lash – Bestiaries
David Dunn | Patrick Farmer and Sarah Hughes – Bees and Ducks and Sound
Bear Ground – The sound of objects / the object of sound.
Like Falling out of Trees into Collectors Albums – Patrick Farmer and the field.
Farmers By Nature
Farmers By Nature: Out of this world Distortions
Fennesz, Christian
Brandlmayr, Dafeldecker, Fennesz – Till the old world’s blown up and a new one is created.
Friendsound
Friendsound – Joyride: Time to chill.
Funke, Maxine
Felt – Maxine Funke and the lightness of the subterranean touch.
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Galaxo Babies
Glaxo Babies – Nine months to the Disco
Gotan Project
Breakthrough sometimes breaks through – Why I still love Gotan Project
Granberg, Magnus
Skogen – Ist gefallen in den Schnee: Music with the lightest touch.
Greenlief, Phillip
That Overt Desire of Object – Leandre and Greenlief produce sound as longing.
Guionnet, Jean-Luc
Mune – Claire Bergerault and Jean-Luc Guionnet use sound against the signifier.
Toc Sine – Drawings: Music defining the act of creation.
Gulda, Friedrich
Friedrich Gulda – Jazz Austrian style
Gustafsson, Matts
Sonore – Oto: Every assertion automatically becomes its opposite.
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Hampton Grease Band
Hampton Grease Band – Music to Eat: Insanity as music. (Music Review)
Hancock, Herbie
Hear O Israel: A Prayer Ceremony in Jazz or How to keep the young at the synagogue.
Hankil, Ryu
Sannakji – Roberto Mallo, Miguel Prado, Ryu Hankil: subject subverted to sound.
Ryu Hankil – Description for Other things
Ryu Hankil – The Sound of one hand Typing
777 – Ryu Hankil and Bryan Eubanks are the confessional outsider. (Music review)
Harper, Twig
Twig Harper – Twig Harper Hanson Records
Harris, Stefon
Stefon Harris: Takes me to heaven on a cloud of Kindred beauty.
Hideki, Kato
Omni – Hideki, Akiyama and Nakamura move away from the conventional aspects of time. (music review)
Hobo Cubes
Hobo Cubes – Modern synth with a touch of inner peace.
Hoffman-Richter, Heins
Heins Hoffman-Richter – Music to Freak Your Friends and Break your Lease.
Hughes, Sarah
The Cat from Cat Hill – Loris. Music that meanders through my subterranean caverns.
David Dunn | Patrick Farmer and Sarah Hughes – Bees and Ducks and Sound
The Human League
Getting In League with the Humans
Midge Ure
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Iatrogenics
Iatrogenics – Various artists and an overwhelming optimism. (music review)
Ikin, Kane
Strangers – Kane Ikin and David Wenngren speak across the miles.
Issue
Issue: Moonroof makes me love cars
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Jarmusch, Jim
Jozef Van Wissem and Jim Jarmusch: Concerning the Entrance into Eternity – the spirit of a new music.
Jerman, Jeph
Jeph Jerman and the sound of bands, gongs and drone. (music review)
Jewell, Ryan
Bear Ground – The sound of objects / the object of sound.
The Joe Harriott Quintet
The Joe Harriott Quintet: Abstract – Free Jazz was never so free
Johnny On The Spot
Johnny on the Spot – Steelesque and the Pittsburgh sound. (music review)
Jones, Bonnie
Green just as I could see – Andrea Neumann and Bonnie Jones provoke our symbolist “face”.
Jones, Daniel
The Cat from Cat Hill – Loris. Music that meanders through my subterranean caverns.
Josh Quinlan Quartet
Mountain Time Standards – Josh Quinlan Quintet: Jazz Colorado Style
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Kahn, Jason
Jason Kahn: Perception of the space through sound
Kang, Judy
Judy Kang – Judy Kang reimagines our relationsihp with the classical. (Music review)
Karen Cooper Complex
Karen Cooper Complex – ShinJukub Boardwalk
Kerbaj, Mazen
“A” Trio – Music to our Ears: Acoustic Improv goes Electric
Kesten, Christian
Wedding Ceremony – experiencing sound detached from its source.
King Dude
King Dude: Burning Daylight – a little dark / a little light.
Kurzmann, Christof
aso – Ami Yoshida and Christof Kurzmann mirror the mirrors mirror. (music review)
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La Casa, Eric
Eric La Casa and Tarab – Sounds of magnified beauty.
La Monte Young
La Monte Young: The Black Record – Layer upon layer of sound.
Lambkin, Graham
The Breadwinner – Graham Lambkin and Jason Lescalleet make art out of the everyday.
Air Supply – Graham Lambkin and Jason Lescalleet go deeper into the realm of the Breadwinner.
Lard Free
Lard Free: I’m Around About Midnight – Freakout French prog-post-jazz
Lash, Dominique
Rhodri Davies | Dominic Lash – Delicate Double Bass, Harp and Wind
Patrick Farmer and Dominic Lash – Bestiaries
Droplets – Dominic Lash moving sound around
Leandre, Joelle
That Overt Desire of Object – Leandre and Greenlief produce sound as longing.
Lescalleet, Jason
The Breadwinner – Graham Lambkin and Jason Lescalleet make art out of the everyday.
Air Supply – Graham Lambkin and Jason Lescalleet go deeper into the realm of the Breadwinner.
Loderbauer, Max
Conrad Schnitzler – Ricardo Villalobos – Max Loderbauer – Zug reshaped and remodeled
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Maajun
Maajun – French prog 70′s style with a tiny bit of everything else.
Majkowski, Mike
Tremolo – Mike Majkowski’s writhing sound. (music review)
Malatesta, Enrico
Enrico Malatesta – Bestiario Volume 2
Mallo, Roberto
Sannakji – Roberto Mallo, Miguel Prado, Ryu Hankil: subject subverted to sound.
Malfatti, Radu
Wedding Ceremony – experiencing sound detached from its source.
Marcoeur, Albert
Albert Marcoeur: Album a Colorier – Resisting definition
Martirano, Salvatore
Salvatore Martirano: Ballad (1966)
Milton, Matt
Bear Ground – The sound of objects / the object of sound.
Mister OTT
Mister OTT – Matthew Ottignon and the homage to Ethiopian jazz love. (music review)
McLuhan, Marshall
Marshall McLuhan – The Medium is the Me(a)ssage: Art is anything you can get away with
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Nakamura, Toshimaru
Omni – Hideki, Akiyama and Nakamura move away from the conventional aspects of time. (music review)
Wedding Ceremony – experiencing sound detached from its source.
The Necks
The Necks at the Sydney Opera House – I was there!
Negativland
Negativland: Points – Music collage and Music scandal.
Night Sun
Night Sun – Mournin’ : Kraut / Prog / Doom / boogie cool.
Neumann, Andrea
Green just as I could see – Andrea Neumann and Bonnie Jones provoke our symbolist “face”.
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Ono
Ono – Ennui: A really good reason to love the 80′s (Music Review)
Onward Chariots
Onward Chariots – This is my confession (music review)
Owen, Ben
Ben Owen – Scored Instruction for Durations / Michael Pisaro – Ascending Series (2.1)
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Panabrite
Panabrite: The Baroque Atrium – experiments with electronic sound. (music review)
Pettigrew, Sam
Sam Pettigrew – Domestic Smear: Bass as Theatre
Pisaro, Michael
Hearing Metal 1 – Michael Pisaro connects with the Source
Ben Owen – Scored Instruction for Durations / Michael Pisaro – Ascending Series (2.1)
Michael Pisaro: stages of musical development – in touch with the divine listening experience.
Michael Pisaro/Taku Sugimoto – 2 seconds / b minor / wave
Poitr, Derek
Raj – Derek Piotr and the relentless march toward a new horizon. (music review)
Prado, Miguel
Sannakji – Roberto Mallo, Miguel Prado, Ryu Hankil: subject subverted to sound.
Pythagoron Inc. 1977
Pythagoron Inc. 1977 – Electronica at its most mystical. (music review)
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Queen
Why I still love Queen, even after my discovery of good music.
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Radigue, Elaine
Elaine Radigue: The sound of thoughts
Ray Russell Quartet
Ray Russell Quartet – Dragon Hill: Avant Garde tipping off the edge of trad.
Riley, Terry
A Rainbow in Curved Air: An overdubbed virtuoso.
Roil
Roil – Frost Frost: Jazz Improv and beauty alive and well in Sydney
Rowe, Keith
Keith Rowe and John Tilbury: E.E. Tension and Circumstance – A concert I wish I hadn’t missed.
Christian Wolf / Keith Rowe – together again, Erstlive 010 (music review)
Rustie
Rustie : Glass Swords reaches the dabblers and the hardcore
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Samla Mammas Manna
Samla Mammas Manna’s Maltid: Prog Rock the way it was meant to be.
Sangtae, Jin
Jin Sangtae – Sacrifice 2 : Sounds stretched to a parallel sequence in me.
Sehnaoui, Sharif
“A” Trio – Music to our Ears: Acoustic Improv goes Electric
Stiebler, Ernstalbrecht
Ernstalbrecht Stiebler – Minimalism Maximised
Schnitzler, Conrad
Conrad Schnitzler: Endtime – A final farewell
Conrad Schnitzler – Ricardo Villalobos – Max Loderbauer – Zug reshaped and remodeled
Sid Chip Sounds
Sid Chip Sounds – The Music of the Commodore 64
Skogen
Skogen – Ist gefallen in den Schnee: Music with the lightest touch.
Skeleton$
Skeleton$ – music love from New York City
Sugimoto, Taku
Michael Pisaro/Taku Sugimoto – 2 seconds / b minor / wave
Wedding Ceremony – experiencing sound detached from its source.
Sun City Girls
Sun City Girls: Djinn Funnel
Sun Ra
Sun Ra: the sun always rises
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Tasogare – Various artists
Tasogare: Twilight. The light between day and night. Music as pure beauty.
Taj Mahal Travellers
Taj Mahal Travelers: soul-ploughed lust to thrill to.
Talibam!
Talibam! – music as a new species.
Puff up the Volume – Talibam! Music as a refusal. (Music review)
Tarab
Eric La Casa and Tarab – Sounds of magnified beauty.
Tazartes, Ghedalia
Ghedalia Tazartes – 1996 – Une Eclipse Totale du Soleil. Taste the strange.
Thomas, David
Bear Ground – The sound of objects / the object of sound.
Tilbury, John
Keith Rowe and John Tilbury: E.E. Tension and Circumstance – A concert I wish I hadn’t missed.
TMO
The Metropolitan Orchestra – Claire Edwardes Plays Rojas (music review)
Tokyo Kid Brothers
Tokyo Kid Brothers – Throw Away The Books, Let’s Go Into The Streets (1971)
Tristano, Lennie
The Complete Keynote recordings – Lennie Tristano: Start your Easter in style.
Tronics
Tronics: Love Backed by force – Early 80′s post-punk DIY.
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VA
VA – Fukushima! Artists answer the call for beauty. (Music Review) Disc One
VA – Fukushima! Artists answer the call for beauty. (Music Review) Disc Two
Van Etten, Sharon
Sharon Van Etten: Getting on the bandwagon like a Tramp.
Van Wissem, Jozef
Jozef Van Wissem and Jim Jarmusch: Concerning the Entrance into Eternity – the spirit of a new music.
Vander, Christian
Christian Vander Ẁurdah Ïtah: Prog Rock passion with a direction all of his own
Vandermark, Ken
Sonore – Oto: Every assertion automatically becomes its opposite.
Vijay Iyer Trio
Vijay Iyer Trio – Accelerando
Villalobos, Ricardo
Conrad Schnitzler – Ricardo Villalobos – Max Loderbauer – Zug reshaped and remodeled
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Waits, Tom
Bad as Me: Tom Waits and the new jazz.
Wolf, Christian
Christian Wolf / Keith Rowe – together again, Erstlive 010 (music review)
Waxahatchee
American Weekend : Waxahatchee – the dark night of the soul in song.
The Weeknd
The Weeknd: Thursday
The Weeknd: Echoes of Silence
The Weeknd – House of Balloons: R&B chic horror
Wenngren, David
Strangers – Kane Ikin and David Wenngren speak across the miles.
White, Alex
Alex White – Genuine Instability: Intensity pushed to the edge
White, Jack
Jack White – Blunderbuss: Not a review.
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Yassin, Reed
“A” Trio – Music to our Ears: Acoustic Improv goes Electric
Yeh, C Spencer
The Squid – Aaron Dilloway & C Spencer Yeh go deep.
Yoshida, Ami
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