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Out To Phalange
Skeleton Hand sent us three records in early 2022, although one of them might not actually be by Skeleton Hand. The first two certainly are, but they look very similar and have the exact same title, so...
View ArticleMycelium: piano and percussion improv infiltrating your head and brain
SPILL, Mycelium, Germany, Corvo Records, core 022 vinyl LP (2023) In 2022, Berlin-based duo SPILL (Magda Mayas on clarinet and piano, Tony Buck on percussion) celebrated 20 years of working, recording...
View ArticleFolk: free acoustic jazz improv with imagination, power and a wicked sense of...
“A” Trio, Folk, Lebanon, Al Maslakh Records, MSLKH 025 limited edition vinyl LP (2022) Claiming to be the oldest free jazz improv group to have come out of Lebanon, “A” Trio celebrated their 20th...
View ArticleSaint Vitus Dance: an unholy trinity of saxophone, soprano singing and sludge...
MoE y Escalantes, Saint Vitus Dance, Norway, Conrad Sound, CnRd333 CD (2022) On the same day that MoE released “Skinwalker”, their collaboration with UK band Bruxa Marie, the Norwegian trio also...
View ArticleKustomized Lines 4 New Genres
KL4NG Live à Venise FRANCE STUDIOLABUT 003 C.D. (2022) Here then is the story of how KL4NG came 2B. I’m presuming that the ‘4’ sitting in the middle of their name would really like to be an ‘A’ when it...
View ArticlePlayon Crayon: free jazz improvisation with a light and playful touch
Elsa Bergman, Playon Crayon, Sweden, Bergman Inspelningar, BI004 CD (2023) On days when you need relaxing music with a light touch, yet intriguing enough to capture all your attention and keep your...
View ArticleTørrfall: a distinctive kaleidoscopic musical landscape of continuous ebb...
Tørrfall, self-titled, Norway, Den Pene Inngang, DPI1 limited edition vinyl LP (2023) A new musical collaboration offering a new genre on a new label? Yes, I’ll buy that. Tørrfall is a new project...
View ArticleSchemen: eight incredible if fleeting soundscapes of free-jazz noise psychedelia
Kammerflimmer Kollektief, Schemen, Germany, Karl Records, KR101 CD / 180 gr LP (2023) Karlsruhe-based experimental free-jazz combo Kammerflimmer Kollektief goes back a long, long way, back to 1996, the...
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Enhanced Rock Weathering
Swiss experimentalists Cyril Bondi and d’incise continue their work with the Insub Meta Orchestra to propose questions about contemporary music, orchestras, minimalism, and advance their own take on...
View ArticleWild Billy’s Circus Story
Paal Nilssen-Love Circus Pairs Of Three NORWAY PNL RECORDS PNL035 CD (2022) He’s a great musician and probably a larger-than-life person who would slap you heartily on the back until you buy him a...
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