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Artist: Phill Niblock
Album: Touch Strings
Label: Touch
Review date: Oct. 26, 2009

Artist: Henry Threadgill Zooid
Album: This Brings Us To, Vol. 1
Label: Pi Recordings
Review date: Oct. 26, 2009

Artist: OOIOO
Album: Armonico Hewa
Label: Thrill Jockey
Review date: Oct. 21, 2009

Artist: Do Make Say Think
Album: Other Truths
Label: Constellation
Review date: Oct. 20, 2009

Artist: Espers
Album: III
Label: Drag City
Review date: Oct. 20, 2009

Artist: Sufjan Stevens
Album: The BQE
Label: Asthmatic Kitty
Review date: Oct. 19, 2009
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From Dusted:

Artist: Sufjan Stevens
Album: The BQE
Label: Asthmatic Kitty
Review date: Oct. 19, 2009

Artist: Triorganico
Album: Convivencia
Label: Now-Again
Review date: Oct. 15, 2009

Artist: Steven R. Smith
Album: Cities
Label: Immune
Review date: Oct. 15, 2009
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KFJC On-Line Reviews

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Liles, Andrew & Peron, Jean-Herve, “Fini!”, Dirter Productions, CD

Faust’s Jean-Herve Peron collaborates with Andrew Liles (Nurse With Wound) on this playful romp of an album. This release is a fitting sister album to the Faust and Nurse With Wound collaboration Disconnected. It sounds like the two are having fun, there is an element of humor here. 14 tracks, ranging from 40 seconds to 8 minutes. Weird lyrics in French, English and German. A couple of tracks stand out as my favorites, most notably “The Drummer Is On Valium” which runs a little over 8 minutes. The final track “Fini” is instructions on how to make bread.

I Heart Lung – “Interoceans ” – [Asthmatic Kitty Records]

Organic collages with an occasional ambient free-jazz bent, from this duo comprised of guitarist Chris Schlarb and percussionist Tom Steck. Acoustic guitars and drums figure prominently throughout these medium-length tracks, with a nice assortment of other sounds (electric guitars including pedal steel, sitar, acoustic bass, trumpet, flugelhorn, clarinets, and electronic effects) swelling and receding in drifting layers, appropriate for these ocean-themed pieces. Aaron Ximm’s subtle field recordings fit the mood perfectly. Other notable guests include Nels Cline, Kris Tiner, and Lynn Johnston. This is carefully-assembled music with quiet, meditative passages and louder moments of extreme density as well. An outstanding effort.

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New From Asthmatic Kitty Records

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Asthmatic Kitty releases some cool noise:

On Interoceans, I Heart Lung blends first-take methods with Oblique Strategies: carefully composed, meticulously recorded pieces rooted in improvisation, revised and augmented over time. The results are a compelling vision of chaos and beauty as Chris Schlarb’s electric guitar drones and Tom Steck’s free-jazz drumming hold and flutter with shimmering acoustic guitars, soaring pedal steel and beautifully captured field recordings. When Kris Tiner’s trumpet follows Nels Cline‘s electric sitar three minutes into “Interoceans II,” it’s like Don Cherry‘s loving spirit doting on universal music drones.

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