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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.

Lots of listening this week, especially to the Black Saint / Soul Note material just released in digital format.

William Parker – In Order To Survive (1995, free jazz)
Paul Motian – The Story of Maryam (1984, free jazz)
Jemeel Moondoc – Nostalgia in Times Square (1986, free jazz)
Larry Ochs Sax and Drumming Core – The Neon Truth (2002, free jazz)
Rova – Favorite Street – Rova plays Lacy (1984, free jazz)
Rova – From the Bureau of Both (1993, free jazz)
Rova – The Works Volume 2 (1996, free jazz)
Rova – Beat Kennel (1987, free jazz)
Rova – The Works Volume 3 (1999, free jazz)
William Parker – Mass for the Healing World (2003, free jazz)
Leroy Jenkins – Mixed Quintet (1983, free jazz)
Drew Gress – Heyday (1998, free jazz)
Air – Live Air (1980, free jazz)
Air – Air Mail (1981, free jazz)
Roscoe Mitchell – The Flow of Things (1987, free jazz)
Ellery Eskelin – The Sun Died (1996, free jazz)
Art Moulu – Art Moulu (1990, avant-rock)
Jason Dumars / Joseph Janiga / Pere Soto – A Tragedy in 2 Acts (2007, avant-rock / improv)
Todd Sickafoose – Tiny Resistors (2008, modern avant improv)
Rob Price – I Really Do Not See the Signal (2008, modern avant improv)

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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.

Alex Maguire Sextet – Brewed in Belgium (2008, jazz)
Paul Lansky – Alphabet Book (2002, modern classical / acousmatic)
Francois Carrier – Kala (2008, free jazz)
Charles Dodge – Any Resemblance is Purely Coincidental (1994, modern classical / acousmatic)
Kalte – The Lanthanide Series (2008, electronic)
Harris Eisenstadt – Guewel (2008, free jazz)
Daniel Levin – Fuhuffah (2008, free jazz)
Jeff Gauthier / Goatette – House of Return (2008, avant-jazz)

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Sun Ra at New England Conservatory, February 2...
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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.

Francois Carrier – Great Love (2008, free jazz)
Francois Carrier – Far North (2008, free jazz)
Vladimir Bozar n Ze Sheraf Orkestar – Universal Sprache (2008, avant rock)
John Zorn – Filmworks XXI: Belle de Nature / The New Rijksmuseum (2008, soundtrack)
Megaphone Man – Live From Berlin (2008, jazz)
The Flatlands Collective – Gnomade (2006, free jazz)
Steve Roach – Landmass (2008, electronic / ambient)
Sun Ra – Strange Strings (1967, avant jazz)

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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.

Mary Halvorson – Dragon’s Head (2008, complex free jazz)
Sun Ra – Horizon (1971, free jazz)
Bill Brovold and Larval – Surviving Death / Alive Why? (2007, progressive rock / composed jazz)
Byron Metcalf / Mark Seelig / Steve Roach – Nada Terma (2008, ambient electronic)
Stephen Haynes / Taylor Ho Bynum – Double Trio (2008, dense free jazz)
Mathias Grassow – Inner Light (2008, ambient electronic)
James Tenney – Selected Works: 1961-1969 (2003, experimental / electroacoustic)
The Legendary Pink Dots – Alchemical Playschool (2004, experimental rock / collage)

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Sun Ra at New England Conservatory, February 2...
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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.

Anthony Braxton – Quartet (Moscow) 2008 (2008, composed / free jazz)
Paul Lansky – More Than Just Idle Chatter (1994, electroacoustic)
Aidan Baker – Phantasma Paratasie (2008, electronic / noise)
Sun Ra – Media Dream (1978, experimental jazz)
Sun Ra – Disco 3000 (1978, experimental jazz)
William Parker – Petit Oiseau (2008, modern free jazz)
Menace Ruine – The Die is Cast (2008, ambient / metal)
Rob Reddy – The Book of the Storm (2007, modern free jazz)
James Beaudreau – Fresh Twigs (2008, acoustic guitar)

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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.

Friedlander, Erik – Broken Arm (2008, jazz)
Schulze, Klaus – Moonlake (2005, electronic)
Andriessen, Louis / The California EAR Unit – Zilver (1997, modern classical)
Bad Statistics – Static (2008, krautrock)
Copperhead Trio – Labyrinths (2008, free jazz)
Iskra 1903 (Rutherford / Wachsmann / Guy) – ISKRA / NCKPA 1903 (1995, free jazz)
Dan the Automator – Deltron 3030: The Instrumentals (2001, trip-hop, urban)
8 Bold Souls – Last Option (2000, jazz)
Dewar, Andrew Raffo – Six Lines of Transformation (2008, modern classical)
Guy, Barry – Elise Jo Live (1992, free jazz)
Xolotl, Bernard – Return of the Golden Mean (1981, electronic)
Guy, Barry and the NOW Orchestra – Study-Witch Gong Game II/10 (1994, free jazz)

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Crazy jazz sheet music, Montreal Bistro, Toronto
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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.

Ok, so I’ve missed a couple of weeks here. I’ll try to get back on track and stay there.

Cutler, Chris / Thomas DiMuzio – Quake (1999, electroacoustic)
I Heart Lung – Interoceans (2008, free improv)
Blink – The Epidemic of Ideas (2008, free jazz)
Mezei, Szilárd / Trio – A Kölyökkutya Reszketése / Trembling of the Puppy (2004, free jazz)
Mezei, Szilárd – Bot (2005, free jazz)
Djam Karet – Recollection Harvest (2005, instrumental rock)
Riley, Terry & Arte Quartet – Assasain Reverie (2005, modern classical)
Biota – Half a True Day (2007, collage)
Dickey, Whit – In a Heartbeat (2005, free jazz)
Dumitrescu, Iancu – Medium II / Cogito / Trompe L’oeil (electroacoustic)
McCaslin, Donny – Recommended Tools (2008, jazz)

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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.

Had an insanely busy week but still managed to get in some listening…

Morris, Joe – Beautiful Existence (2006, free jazz)
Morris Quartet, Joe – Underthru (1999, free jazz)
Morris Trio, Joe – Antennae (1997, free jazz)
Stone, Dave – Solo (1998, solo piano)
Mills, Gregory – Esfoma (1984, solo sax)
El’Zabar’s Ritual Trio, Kahil – Africa N’da Blues (2000, free jazz)
El’Zabar’s Ritual Trio, Kahil – Big M: A Tribute to Malachi Favors (2004, free jazz)
Never Enough Hope – The Gift Economy (2008, experimental jazz)
Controlled Bleeding – Inanation (1996, electoacoustic, world)
Carrier Band – Voice Coil (2003, experimental electronic)
Rabotnik – Rabotnik (2008, experimental)
Rhythm Section / Fred Van Hove – Hear Here Now (2008, free jazz)

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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.

Nu Band, The – The Dope and the Ghost (2007, free jazz)
Fujii, Satoko – April Shower (2001, free jazz)
Fujii, Satoko / Natsuki Tamura – In Krakow, In November (2006, free jazz)
Howard, Earl – Clepton (2007, free jazz)
Free Jazz Posse – Fanfares from the Noh Age (1998, free jazz)
Thompson, Robert Scott – Frontier (1998, electronic)

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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.

Taylor, Cecil – 3 Phasis (1979, classic free jazz)
Rothenberg, Ned – Power Lines (1995, modern free jazz)
Stray Ghost – Losthilde (2008, noise)
Bianchi, Maurizio / Telepherique – The House of Mourning (2006, noise / electroacoustic)
Whitman, Keith Fullerton – Lisbon (2006, electroacoustic)
Bad Plus, The – Give (2004, jazz)
Dockstader, Tod & David Lee Myers – Pond (2004, electroacoustic / experimental)
Conrad, Tony – Joan of Arc (1968, electroacoustic / experimental)
The Thing – Now and Forever (2008, free jazz)
Gov’t Mule – The Deep End Volume 1 (2001, blues-rock)