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  • The Squid’s Ear Reviews

    Source: The Squid’s Ear. Han-earl Park / Yorgos Dimitriadis / Camila Nebbia – Gonggong 225088 (Waveform Alphabet) Jason Stein / Marilyn Crispell / Damon Smith / Adam Shead – Spi-raling Horn (Balance Point Acoustics / Irritable Mystic)

  • New Releases From Unexplained Sounds Group

    Source: Unexplained Sounds Group. Out Now Drone Islands – Borealis (Published by Eighth Tower Rrecords, dl + limit. edition cd) is now available and ready for shipping. After a three-year absence “Borealis” marks the return of the Drone Islands series by Eighth Tower Records. It is the fourth volume, following the previous releases “Stellar” (2021),…

  • Vital Weekly Reviews 1460 

    Source: Vital Weekly. REVERSE IMAGE – TOWARDS THE NOCTURNAL SUN (CD by Fourth Dimension Records) TADASHI YONAGO & EISUKE YANAGISAWA & MASAMI BABA – ‘ALLEGORIES OF LISTENING’ AT LISTUDE ON 20 MAY 2023 (CD by Immeasurable) YOUNGS NO – 蟄​虫​坏​戸 | TIME: 17​:​12​-​18​:​12 DATE: 02 OCT 2023 (CD by Immeasurable) NOISE FOREST (2LP/CD by Cold…

  • Rabble Without A Cause Show – November 13, 2024

    Source: CKCU. Newly released life performances from Andrew Hill, the Arthur Blythe Quartet and Wayne Shorter.

  • Chain D.L.K. Reviews

    Source: Chain D.L.K.. Yugen: s/t Disturbio: Les Mauvaises Fréquentations Stefan Prins: inhabit Angel Lin: all of these are in me Roman Leykam: New Worlds in Interslices Brume: Syncronicity & Wandering Current mHz: Material Prosody Bankert: ol07 Christopher Chaplin: Door 1 Door 2

  • Ambientblog Reviews

    Source: Ambientblog. DreamScenes – November 2024 The Joy Paradox Tracklist: Play this edition on-demand from the Concertzender website OR: read post”DreamScenes – November 2024″ Edu Comelles * Jacek Doroszenko Deconstructed soundtracks of Berlanga movies by Edu Comelles with visuals by Sergi Palau *** Jacek Doroszenko treats sound phenomena as a legitimate material of a field…

  • Cold Spring Records Overview Page Completed

    Our Cold Spring Records Label Overview page is now up and running with our new design. We have reviewed 23 albums from that label and these are now available in an easy-to-navigate and more visually pleasing format. We are concurrently working on several other label overview pages right now, hoping to have them done in…

  • AMN Reviews: Nathan Hubbard / Kyle Motl – Obsidian (2024; Confront Recordings)

    This combination of percussionist Hubbard and bassist Motl was recorded in 2021 and recently released on the UK-based Confront Recordings label. It consists of four tracks of heavily (if not fully) improvised duets. What is notable here is how Obsidian sounds little like a traditional bass/drum outing, as both musicians employ extended techniques and no…

  • RIP Roy Haynes

    Source: Los Angeles Times. Roy Haynes, a jazz drummer and band leader whose skill and versatility led to performances with such diverse artists as Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker, Chick Corea and Pat Metheny over the course of his seven-decade career, has died.

  • Black Artists Group Profiled

    Source: The Shfl. The Black Artists Group (BAG), formed in St. Louis, Missouri in 1968, is often seen as a junior stepsibling to Chicago’s Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), which launched a few years earlier. But while the AACM was focused entirely on music, BAG was a multidisciplinary arts organization that included…

  • S.E.M. Ensemble to Perform The Year of Czech Music In Conclusion

    Source: S.E.M. Ensemble. Why present Cage, Feldman, and Heflin as part of the Year of Czech Music? Because these composers and their ideas are connected with the Czech Republic in an important way. John Cage’s ideas in particular had an impact on a group of composers and artists in Prague in the early 1960s. It…

  • Cuneiform Records Artists on Tour

    Source: CUNEIFORM RECORDS. EMPIRICAL December 3 – Jazz Hastings – Hastings, UK December 6 – Sheffield Jazz Festival – Crucible Theatre – Sheffield, UK HAMSTER THEATRE November 17 – Bug Theater – 3654 Navajo St – Denver, CO [first gig in many, many years] ROGER C. MILLER with the Anvil Orchestra [live soundtracks for silent…

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