You know the hour. It’s late, you’ve got that work-weary satisfaction deep in your bones combined with an I’m-not-ready-yet fear of the next day. This is the time recommended for you to be listening to this LP. It’s an interesting suggestion because despite the latent jazz building blocks, this is not a lull-you-to-sleep experience. Its […]
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Brandlmayr, Dafeldecker, Fennesz – Till the old world’s blown up and a new one is created.
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Mountain Time Standards – Josh Quinlan Quintet: Jazz Colorado Style
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Josh Quinlan is a Colorado based saxophonist, composer and educator. His ten original compositions that make up Mountain Time Standards reflect on the beauty of living in the Rocky Mountain region of the United States. This album features award-winning musicians and longtime musical partners of Quinlan’s including Ben Markley, John Lake, Ed Breazeale and Kells Nollenberger. Quinlan […]
Enrico Malatesta – Bestiario Volume 2
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Available from Experimedia.net. Here’s a new 7″ from the ‘Bestiario’ series by Italian percussionist Enrico Malatesta. Bestiario is a series of short compositions for solo acoustic percussion, recorded live with no overdubs or editing. Using extremely dense micro-structures, broken rhythms and fast tempi on a very reduced percussion set, those pieces are meant to explore a […]
Wire’s 100 Records that set the world on fire while no one was listening. 71 – 75
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We’re reaching the ‘nether regions’ of the list now, but by no means is the music any less at this end than it was at the other. The world is getting smaller and access is getting broader so the sounds are reflecting our interests and our reach. With Youssou N’Dour and Jonathan Harvey at the end there, we […]
Sonore – Oto: Every assertion automatically becomes its opposite.
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01 Fragments For An Endgame Sonore is Peter Brötzmann, Ken Vandermark and Mats Gustafsson; seasoned players who each have credits listed to their names. They come together as Sonore which is its own unanimous committment to their music as a process. These are players each intimately engaged with their instruments, allowing their engaging to be a perpetual lesson in […]
“A” Trio – Music to our Ears: Acoustic Improv goes Electric
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03 Track 03 3 Listen to The Shape of Jazz that Came – Track #3 “A” Trio is Mazen Kerbaj (Trumpet) and Sharif Sehnaoui (acoustic guitar) and Reed Yassin (double bass). Music to our ears is a tidy little disc just released on Mazen Kerbaj’s label from Lebanon Called Al Maslakh (The Slaughtehouse). Track one is […]
Martin Denny – Exotic Moog: Exotica in a quiet village.
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It’s Friday night here. Its been a big week. It’s Samuel Becketts birthday and I’ve been reading him even more than usual. I’m tired. I want Martin Denny Exotic Moog. One of my favourite down time discs! Enjoy. From Decrepit Tapes: Exotic Moog is the glittering grail for both Martin Denny collectors and Moog […]
The Cat from Cat Hill – Loris. Music that meanders through my subterranean caverns.
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Deep inside my capacity for music listening is a vast potential for horizonal expansion with the texture of cyber-like plasticity. Separate from the music that now inhabits it, or rather tries to inhabit, is the space for music. Long before the music presented itself, something inside me – god, evolution or an expanding to nowhere […]
Addison Groove – Transistor Rhythm: A pleasant surprise
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Never let it be said that I don’t throw in the odd surprise here on my tiny corner of the net. I bought this album (I know I know) purely based on the Dusted review by Brad LaBonte and my subsequent listen around. It’s a very ‘not Lisa’ kind of album – I mean Bad Things […]
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