AMN Picks of the Week

Here is where I post, at a frequency of about once a week, a list of the new music that has caught my attention that week. All of the releases listed below I’ve heard for the first time this week and come recommended. Don’t take the categories too seriously.

Transit – Quadrologues (2009, avant-jazz)
Lucky 7’s – Pluto Junkyard (2009, avant-jazz)
Dresser, Mark / Denman Maroney – Live in Concert (2009, avant-jazz)
Figueras, Nestor / David Toop / Paul Burwell – Cholagogues (2009, electronic experimental)
Provini, Herve – Musique Amour (2002, jazz)
Attias, Michael – Credo (2005, free jazz)
Dirge – Wings of Lead Over Dormant Seas (2007, drone / metal)
New Risen Throne – Crossing the Withered Regions (2009, dark ambient)
Fefer, Avram – When the Spirit Moves You (2009, jazz)
Gonzalez, Dennis – Scapegrace (2009, free jazz)
Herculaneum – Herculaneum III (2009, avant-jazz)
Threnody Ensemble – Timbre Hollow (2000, experimental)
Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO – Of the Underground: Vishnu and the Magic Elixir (2009, psychadelic)