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  • Dusted Reviews

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    From Dusted: Artist: White Hills Album: Heads on Fire Label: Thrill Jockey Review date: Jul. 14, 2009 Artist: Joe Morris / Petr Cancura / Luther Gray Album: Wildlife Label: AUM Fidelity Review date: Jul. 13, 2009 Artist: Isis Album: Wavering Radiant Label: Ipecac Review date: Jul. 10, 2009 Related articles by Zemanta Tortoise – new…

  • New Release on 577 Records

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    577 Records Demian Richardson Matthew Putman David Moss Federico Ughi Daniel Carter The Gowanus Recordings The Gowanus Recordings are the embodiment of the 577 approach. Featuring some of Free Jazz’s most established musicians, it covers a wide range of musical ideas, creating a dynamic atmosphere of kinetic interplay. Song titles are scientific terminology which are…

  • Arve Henriksen and Nils Petter Molvaer at Le Poisson Rouge

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    Nils Petter Molvær via last.fm From NYTimes.com: At first blush Arve Henriksen and Nils Petter Molvaer might seem nearly indistinguishable. Both are pristine-sounding Norwegian trumpeters with conspicuous investment in electronics. They share a fondness for fragile lyricism and rippling atmosphere, building on a 40-year tradition that began with the Miles Davis album “In a Silent…

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    From Dusted: Artist: Gareth Davis & Stephen R. Smith Album: Westering Label: Important Review date: Jun. 15, 2009 Artist: Tortoise Album: Beacons of Ancestorship Label: Thrill Jockey Review date: Jun. 15, 2009 Artist: Ata Ebtekar Album: Ornamentalism: Ata Ebtekar and the Iranian Orchestra for New Music performing works of Alireza Mashayekhi Label: Sub Rosa Review…

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    John Wiese via last.fm From Dusted: Artist: Alva Noto Ryuichi Sakamoto Album: utp_ Label: Raster-Noton Review date: Jun. 5, 2009 Artist: John Wiese and C. Spencer Yeh Album: Cincinnati Label: Dronedisco Review date: Jun. 4, 2009 Artist: Tony Malaby Album: Paloma Recio Label: New World Review date: Jun. 2, 2009

  • Free Jazz Blog Reviews

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    From Free Jazz: Monday, May 25, 2009 Avram Fefer Trio – Ritual (Clean Feed, 2009) **** Sunday, May 24, 2009 Rob Mazurek – Sound Is (Delmark, 2009) ***** Friday, May 22, 2009 Gato Barbieri – In Search Of The Mystery (ESP, 2009) **** Thursday, May 21, 2009 Franz Koglmann – Lo-Lee-Ta (Music on Nabokov) (Col-Legno,…

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    From Dusted: Artist: Nilsson / Sandell / Strid Album: Beam Stone Label: Psi Review date: May. 7, 2009 Artist: Fredrik Nordstrom Album: Live in Coimbria Label: Clean Feed Review date: May. 6, 2009 Album: Music Inspired by the Film Scott Walker: 30 Century Man Label: Lakeshore Review date: May. 5, 2009 Artist: Ami Yoshida /…

  • Mode Records Releases

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    Sun Ra (via last.fm) From Mode Records: The Respect Sextet: Sirius Respect – The Respect Sextet play the music of Sun Ra and Stockhausen Garth Knox: Viola Spaces Peter Ablinger: 33-127

  • Musique Machine Reviews

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    The Axis of Perdition (via last.fm) From Musique Machine: Moha! – One-way Ticket to Candyland One-way Ticket to Candyland pumps out a manic and strange melding of jagged hardcore meets overloaded lo-fi synth and wavering gone wrong synth drum patterns; with the odd drifts no less strange, un-nerving and sickly ambient dwells and ebbs The…

  • Sonomu Reviews

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    From Sonomu: Mikkel Metal, Peaks and Troughs (Echocord) Since bursting into notice as the showcase singer Tikiman of Rhythm & Sound´s genre-creating album of the same name, Paul St. Hilaire has guested albums by Pre Fade Listening, The Bug, Mind over MIDI, Radiq, Markus Kienzl, Sub Version, Deadbeat and Sideshow. And those are only the…

  • Dusted Reviews

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    From Dusted: Artist: Andrea Parkins Album: Faulty (Broken Orbit) Label: Important Review date: Apr. 15, 2009 Artist: Yoshie Fruchter Album: Pitom Label: Tzadik Review date: Apr. 15, 2009 Artist: Joe Morris Album: MVP LSD Label: Riti Review date: Apr. 9, 2009 Related articles by Zemanta Shakti Reviewed By Dusted And JazzTimes (improvisedcommunications.wordpress.com) Ancestors And Shakti…

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    Cisfinitum (via last.fm) From Musique Machine: The Idealist – I Am the Fire The Idealist is Joachim Nordwall, known as a member of the Skull Defekts. This solo excursion may surprise people acquainted with the usually more extroverted, guitar oriented music that the latter band puts forth. I am the Fire consists of what might…

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    From Dusted: Artist: Fabio Orsi / Valerio Cosi Album: Thoughts Melt in the Air Label: Preservation Review date: Mar. 23, 2009 Artist: The Revolutionary Ensemble Album: Beyond the Boundary of Time Label: Mutable Review date: Mar. 20, 2009

  • My Cat is an Alien / Enore Zaffiri Release

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    From Atavistic Worldwide: Clandestine auteurs the Opalio Brothers (AKA My Cat Is An Alien) have deftly sprinkled our solar system with their beautifully fragile,arcane soundscape/tracks via their own OPAX label. Atavistic is most definitely thrilled to have the pleasure of releasing Through the magnifying glass of tomorrow, a freshly-minted collaboration with one of the pioneers…

  • Experimenting with Kayo Dot

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    Image via Wikipedia Toby Driver from Kayo Dot is interviewed. No doubt, you may have a bit of difficulty determining whether Kayo Dot’s latest album The Blue Lambency Downward is the soundtrack to a bizarre avant-garde masterpiece, or just a flurry of chaotic, sonic incomprehensibility. Did this Boston-born experimental project compose it for the end…

  • All About Jazz Reviews

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    From All About Jazz: 24-Feb-09 Marcin & Bartlomeij Brat Oles Duo (Fenommedia) Reviewed by Raul d’Gama Rose 24-Feb-09 Anthony Braxton / Kyle Brenders Toronto (duets) 2007 (Barnyard Records) Reviewed by Mark Corroto 23-Feb-09 Humcrush Rest at Worlds End (Rune Grammofon) Reviewed by John Kelman 23-Feb-09 Cooper-Moore The Cedar Box Recordings (AUM Fidelity Records) Reviewed by…

  • Making avant-garde jazz in a mostly killing climate

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    Moppa Elliott of Mostly Other People Do the Killing is interviewed. The record business is a sinkhole no matter which way you turn. But in this troubled economy, Moppa Elliott chose an especially tough path: playing in an avant-garde bop band named Mostly Other People Do the Killing, and starting his own tiny jazz label,…

  • Dusted Reviews

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    From Dusted: Artist: Pauline Oliveros Album: Four Electronic Pieces 1959-1966 Label: Sub Rosa Review date: Feb. 10, 2009 Artist: David S. Ware Album: Shakti Label: AUM Fidelity Review date: Feb. 9, 2009 Artist: Henri Pousseur Album: Electronic Experimental and Microtonal 1953-1999 Label: Sub Rosa Review date: Feb. 9, 2009 Artist: Giuseppe Ielasi Album: Aix Label:…

  • Cynic mixes it up with extreme metal and avant-garde jazz

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    Sean Reinert (via last.fm) This is a bit of an indulgence on my part – an interview with the founder of Cynic. Though nurtured in the humid birthplace of modern death metal, Miami, Florida’s Cynic never really fit in with its more brutal peers. Despite having played on Death’s pivotal album Human (Relativity/Sony, 1991), childhood…

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    Image by mary_gaston22 via Flickr From Dusted: Artist: Daniel Levin Album: Fuhuffah Label: Clean Feed Review date: Feb. 3, 2009 Artist: Henry Grimes Album: Solo Label: Ilk Review date: Feb. 2, 2009

  • Free Jazz Blog Reviews

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    From Free Jazz: Sunday, January 11, 2009 Ernst Ludwig Petrowsky & Michael Griener – The Salmon (Intakt, 2008) **** Andrew Lamb & Warren Smith – The Dogon Duo (Engine, 2005) **** Saturday, January 10, 2009 Carl Ludwig Hübsch – The Universe Is A Disk (Leo Records, 2008) **** Friday, January 9, 2009 Wac?aw Zimpel &…

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    Image via Wikipedia From Dusted: Artist: Cecil Taylor / William Parker / Masashi Harada Album: CT: The Dance Project Label: FMP Review date: Jan. 6, 2009 Artist: Tony Malaby Cello Trio Album: Warblepeck Label: Songlines Review date: Jan. 6, 2009 Artist: Parts & Labor Album: Receivers Label: Jagjaguwar Review date: Jan. 5, 2009

  • Musique Machine Reviews

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    Cover of I Knew Her From Musique Machine: Hoor Paar Kraat – A Whisper In The Sow’s Ear This 3 inch cd finds surreal sound smiths Hoor Paar Kraat in a more horror filled droney, ritual, hypnotic and mainly field recording stripped mind set. With the 3 pieces on offer here concentrating on sinister manipulated…

  • Indie labels deliver the goods: 2008 in Review

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    The Denver Post provides yet another best of list. I didn’t have to strain to come up with 10 winning jazz discs from 2008. Actually, I had to edit down from at least 25 — that must mean it was a terrific year for the music, chiefly due to artists making uncompromising, heartfelt sounds on…