Category: Reviews

Source: ATTN:Magazine.

Crucial Listening #121: Colin Stetson
Ruinous beauty, hauling a bass sax up the stairs, Hendrix’s face, worlds of breath. The saxophonist and composer discusses his important albums.

Review: DODE – Music for critters

Source: Bandcamp Daily.

Lithuania may be the most populous of the former Soviet Baltic states, but relatively speaking, it’s still small—its population is about the size of Chicago’s. That’s not all it shares with the Windy City: the music scene in Lithuania’s capital Vilnius is home to artists who like to blur the organic and the electronic, and to explore lengthy hypnotic live jams—which is not too far removed from the Chicago post-rock of artists like Tortoise and Gastr Del Sol.

Source: Jazzword.

Pauline Oliveros & James Ilgenfritz
Altamirage

Ahmad Jamal
Emerald City Nights: Live at the Penthouse 1963-1964

Ivo Perelman & Matthew Shipp
Fruition

Fowler/Perelman/Shipp/Amba/Parker/Hirsh Sextet
Alien Skin

Lebik/Edwards/Lovens
Lepomis Gibbosus

Gabriele Mitelli/John Edwards/Mark Sanders
Three Tsuru Orgami

Source: Dusted.

John Cale — Mercy (Domino)

Wes Tirey — No Winners in the Blues (Full Spectrum)

Source: Noise Not Music.

Review: Zbyszko Cracker / MAURICIO – Shovlin’ (Grandmother’s House, Jan 13)

Review: Shadow Pattern – Outside Inside (Inside Outside) (Radiant Clay, Jan 13)

Source: Bandcamp Daily.

All kinds of experimental music can be found on Bandcamp: free jazz, avant-rock, dense noise, outer-limits electronics, deconstructed folk, abstract spoken word, and so much more. If an artist is trying something new with an established form or inventing a new one completely, there’s a good chance they’re doing it on Bandcamp. Each month, Marc Masters picks some of the best releases from across this wide, exploratory spectrum. January’s selection includes genre-mashing, shrieking noise-jazz; hydraulic sound submersion; and moving drones played on an instrument made of metal and glass.

Source: Vital Weekly.

MISAKI MOTOFUJI – YAGATEYAMU (CD by Hitorri/Ftarri) *
MASAHIKO OKURA – CTX1 (CD by Hitorri/Ftarri) *
ACTIVE RECOVERING UNIT – MATERIAL UNITY 2 (CD by Hitorri/Ftarri) *
TETUZI AKIYAMA & AYAMI SUZUKI – ALLELOPATHY (CD by Ftarri) *
MASAHIDE TOKUNAGA – OBSERVER (CD by Ftarri) *
THE LAST DOSSIER (CD compilation by Impulsy Stetoskopu)
DEVIATION SOCIAL – AT HOTEL UTAH SAN FRANCISCO 31 JULY 1982 (CD by Impulsy Stetoskopu) *
GONÇALO ALMEIDA – IMPROVISATIONS ON AMPLIFIED & PREPARED DOUBLE BASS (CD by Shhpuma) *
@C & DRUMMING GP – FOR PERCUSSION (CD by Cronica Electronica) *
LUCA FORCUCCI – TERRA (CD by Cronica Electronica) *
KREYSING & EMERGE – RESSOURCEN (CD by Attentation Circuit) *
PHILIPPE PETIT – SLEEPWATCHING THE STARS DANCE (CDR by Attenuation Circuit) *
WILFRIED HANRATH & BOBAN RISTVESKI – BE HERE NOW (CDR by Attenuation Circuit) *
INNOCENT BUT GUILTY & NLC FEAT. WOLF CITY – DYSTOPIAN THOUGHTS (CDR by Attenuation Circuit) *
DOUG & CHUCK – THE BEST OF CHUCK & DOUG (cassette by Attenuation Circuit) *
Y BÜLBÜL, YUMURTA – NOT ONE, NOT TWO (LP by Pingipung) *
SLACKING – ROUNDHOUSE A BOOTLICKER (7″ by Tribe Tapes) *
VERTONEN – CAPSIZED (2CDR by Ballast) *
LESLIE KEFFER – AETHEREAL (CDR by No Part Of It)
LESLIE KEFFER – REVERIE (CDR by No Part Of It)
PAROXYSM: A BENEFIT COMPILATION FOR LESLIE KEFFER (2CDR compilation by No Part Of It)
OCEAN VIVA SILVER – ĦAL SAFLIENI (print, download)
FERTILE GROUNDS (cassette compilation by Odmwa)

Source: This Is Darkness.

The Great Old Ones – Mythos Of Cthulhu

Rojinski – DEFCON 1

nula.cc – beyond sublargo

SONOLOGYST – Electrons (new edition)

loscil // lawrence english – Colours Of Air

Macrogramma – Asphyxia

Perry Frank – Nuit Ensemble

CrAwE – Dr​(​o​)​neNotDrones

Source: Bandcamp Daily.

Even by January standards, this month was a pretty quiet period for new releases. It forced me to dig deep into corners of Bandcamp that I rarely delve into. Because of this, I was able to grow fond of a number of records I may not have otherwise allowed myself to love. From Phauss’s uncomfortable noise odysseys to Tomoyoshi Date’s long-awaited new album, these are the most compelling records I found uploaded to this website under the ambient tag this month.

Source: The Free Jazz Collective.

Meson – Obscurer Subjectivity (Discus Music 2022)

Maciej Staniecki – Spirals (Alpaka Records, 2022)

Abdul Moimême: Sound Sculpter / Sonic Architect

Abdul Moimême – Livro das Grutas (Creative Sources, 2022)

Lionel Marchetti & Abdul Moimême – Ciel – Cristal (Sonoscopia, 2022)