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Category: Reviews

  • Exclaim! Improv-Avant-Garde News

    Source: Exclaim! Leah Singer and Lee Ranaldo Forged a New Road Ahead at Toronto’s Project Nowhere St. Anne’s, October 4 A Mary Lattimore-Endorsed Harp Emoji Has Been Approved by Unicode Sarah Davachi Embraces the Divide on ‘The Head as Form’d in the Crier’s Choir’ Colin Stetson Finds New Peaks on ‘The love it took to…

  • Chain D.L.K. Experimental Reviews

    Source: Chain D.L.K.. Timothy Archambault: Onimikìg Lukas De Clerck: The Telescopic Aulos of Atlas Albert Yeh: Motors/Pulses Botched Facelift: Core of Nothingness Jacob DeRaadt: Mindless Repetition

  • Musique Machine Reviews

    Source: Musique Machine. Olion – Soul Provider Päfgens – Aspect of What Earthstar – Collected Works (CD boxset) Exquise Esquisse – En Suspension Meanwood Beck – United We Stand

  • Fringes of Sound Reviews

    Source: Fringes of Sound. Cucurbitophobia – The Headless Horseman Bendu – Woolgathering f5point6 – A Random Sequence of Events Johnny Bell – FIELD TRIPS

  • All About Jazz Reviews

    Source: Jazz Album Reviews. Una ofrenda a la ausencia Camila Nebbia Seeing Tord Gustavsen Trio

  • Pitchfork Experimental Music Reviews

    Source: Pitchfork Plays John Coltrane and Langston Hughes Raphael Rogiński Moon in Gemini Isik Kural stradas Nídia / Valentina Magaletti / Nídia & Valentina Think Differently Callahan & Witscher

  • A Closer Listen Reviews

    Source: a closer listen. V/A ~ Inner Demons Batch 2024B ~ Part Two Nonconnah ~ Nonconnah vs. the Spring of Deception Patrick Shiroishi ~ Glass House Snorri Hallgrímsson ~ Longer shadows, softer stones Godspeed You! Black Emperor ~ “NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28,340 DEAD” mHz ~ Material Prosody Farah Kaddour ~ Badā…

  • ATTN:Magazine Reviews

    Source: ATTN:Magazine. Crucial Listening #165: Gábor Lázár No kick drum, three sounds and humour, the power of multidirectional expression. The Hungarian electronic producer discusses three important albums. Crucial Listening #164: Wendy Eisenberg

  • The Squid’s Ear Reviews

    Source: The Squid’s Ear. Silvan Schmid / Tom Wheatley / Eddie Prevost – The Wandering One – High Laver Levitation Volume 2 (Matchless Recordings) Henry Kaiser – The Lost Chord (Metalanguage) Nomi Epstein – Shades (Another Timbre)

  • October / November Perfect Sound Forever is Out

    Source: Perfect Sound Forever. COLLABORATING ARTISTS How 17 avant/jazz artists pick musical partners ERIC DOLPHY Bio excerpt- Out to Lunch! in detail SURREALISM & IMPROVISATION How the two art forms connect VINYL ANACHRONIST Alignment Protractors and You

  • Jazzword Reviews

    Source: Jazzword. Jacky Molard/François Corneloup Quartet Entre Les Terres Engel, Bazzicalupo,Thomsen Ø Steph Richards Power Vibe Ava Trio The Great Green Massaria/Kneer/Hertenstein The Absence of Zero Unzeit Quartett Unzeit Quartett Open Thread Open Thread Jack McDuff Ain’t No Sunshine (Live in Seattle) Woo Hoo-Hah Christine Wodrascka/Didier Lasserre Lupercales /1

  • The Best Field Recordings on Bandcamp, September 2024

    Source: Bandcamp Daily. Bandcamp hosts an amazing array of field recordings from around the world, made by musicians and sound artists as well as professional field recordists. In this column, we highlight the best sounds recorded outside the studio and released in the last month. This installment features recordings of wildlife in Peru and Suriname;…

  • Cyclic Defrost Reviews

    Source: Cyclic Defrost. Tropical Fuck Storm – Inflatable Graveyard (Three Lobed Recordings) As a passionate music lover, I am a big fan of live albums. Whether it… Abdel Benaddi – A Dream In Essaouira (World Within Worlds) The Gnawa trance music of Essaouira on the Western Moroccan coast has become increasingly popular… zakè & Angela…

  • Talk Low Festival Reviewed

    Source: I Care If You Listen. Running from Sep. 24-29, 2024, Cincinnati’s inaugural Talk Low Festival featured local, regional, and national artists of experimental and ambient music. Though dominated by performances, the festival also included a film screening, dance party, ambient music jam, and panel on Pauline Oliveros’ Deep Listening. With all these elements, Talk…

  • Vital Weekly Reviews 1454

    Source: Vital Weekly. LAURI HYVÄRINEN & JUKKA KÄÄRIÄINEN – PULLED APART BY HORSES (CD by Bokashi Records) * ZENO VAN DEN BROEK & HIIIT – RELATUM (CD by Moving Furniture Records/Contemporary Series) * SPUR ON TO XS – INDULGE IN PRIMAL ECSTASY (CD by Dunkelheit Produktions) * SORBD – WILD PEACOCK IN TRANSIT (CD by…

  • Ambientblog Reviews

    Source: Ambientblog. The DreamScenes Decennium – 10 Year Anniversary USB Credit Card All 120 DreamScenes editions collected on a limited edition 32Gb Credit Card USB! James Murray * Cleared James Murray’s tribute to understated and so-called inconvenient Weeds *** Steven Hess and Michael Vallera present their sixth album as Cleared. Markus Guentner * Joachim Spieth…

  • The Free Jazz Collective Reviews

    Source: The Free Jazz Collective. Oliwood feat. Evans, Mahall, Landfermann – Anatomy of Anarchy (Jazzwerkstatt, 2024) Ivo Perelman, Aruan Ortiz, Ramon Lopez – Ephemeral Shapes (Fundacja Słuchaj, 2024) Michael Griener – Sunday Interview Soft Machine
 – HØVIKODDEN 1971 (Cuneiform Records, 2024) Lina Allemano’s Ohrenschmaus & Andrea Parkins – Flip Side (Lumo Records, 2024) Yuki Fujiwara…

  • King Crimson’s Red Turns 50

    Source: The Quietus. Recorded at King Crimson’s nadir, Red looked destined to be just another forgotten final album, its release playing second fiddle to Robert Fripp’s idiosyncratic “retirement”. 50 years later, its influence is immeasurable, the perfect distillation of what’s possible from a rock trio.

  • The Best Experimental Music on Bandcamp: September 2024

    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.…

  • Musique Machine Reviews

    Source: Musique Machine. Jürg Frey – Outermost Melodies mHz – Material Prosody Damien De Coen – Elisabeth Förster-Nietzche Transatlantic Trance Map – Marconi’s Drift Frédéric D. Oberland/Grégory Dargent – SIHR Philippe Petit – A Divine Comedy Hiroshi Ebina – Into the Darkness of the Night

  • The Best Ambient Music on Bandcamp, September 2024 

    Source: Bandcamp Daily. Each month, writer, musician, and DJ Ted Davis wanders through the dreamlike outskirts of Bandcamp. Embracing a fluid, forward-thinking approach to ambient, anything deemed worthy of the genre tag is considered fair game for this column. Here are albums from rave veterans, a kaleidoscopic jazz duo, an ascending harp star, and others.

  • Reviews You May Have Missed – September 2024

    Last month we published a number of original reviews of some very interesting music. Check out the list below.

  • Fringes of Sound Reviews

    Source: Fringes of Sound. Black Wick – \​​​\​​​VIDEO​​​/​​​/​​​|​​​\​​​\​​​DRONED​​​/​​​/ Evan Hardy & Alex Tedlie-Stursberg – Float M Larsen-Bakk – Sorted Human Concept – Iridescent Forever Dystopiate – Terminal Dissonance Build Buildings – Ecotone Violent Shogun – Humble Submission To Wisdom Anatomy of the Heads – Summer Sunset Retreat (Split​-​EP w​/​GOLD)

  • All About Jazz Reviews

    Source: Jazz Album Reviews. No Steps Left To Trace PAKT Live at de Tanker Keefe Jackson / Raoul van der Weide / Frank Rosaly AIR Vol. 2 Urs Leimgruber Lifetime Rebel Joëlle Léandre