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Dynamite Day
Got some very delectable items from the Japanese EM Records label, often a reliable source of enticing and exotic reissues of all stripe. I think these arrived around November 2010. International...
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Their Hearts were full of Spring
Excellent Dutch improv by Premier Roeles on Ka Da Ver (VINDU MUSIC VINDU20111). Nice to see this quartet still uses the old-fashioned term of “instant compositions”. The line-up is all-acoustic –...
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Quando Quandary
Superdisque (SUB ROSA SR321) was sent to us in November, an uncanny record made by three towering personalities in Paris and musically occupying a twilight area which somehow includes improvisation,...
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Flotsam and Jetsam
Cold Cuts While we’re enjoying something of a Ghédalia Tazartès bonanza, seems the right time to mention this LP Repas Froid (PAN 17) which I’ve had lurking in the Summer 2011 bag for a while now....
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Then I saw the Congo, creeping through the black
As part of my musings today I consider a photograph I took on Friday of a Lego Giraffe in Berlin. All of us like to think we’re seeing something special on our travels overseas, but with the internet...
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Four Vinyl Vamaritans
The Bunwinkies LP Maps Of Our New Constellations (FEEDING TUBE RECORDS FTR062) is a collection of acoustic songs from these fey American types who play plenty of acoustic guitars and sing, adding many...
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Universal is Born
The lovely EM Records label in Japan has been busy with more of its characteristically wonderful reissues of scarce, choice and exotic items. All the below were received here 02 May 2012. I happened...
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A Worm is At Work
Kink Gong is Laurent Janneau. He’s been very active recording the speaking and singing voices of ethnic minorities in Asia, China, Vietnam and Laos, and quite often contributing extensively to the...
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Get-Togethers
Remix Residue First the gloom: remix albums seldom if ever excite me; pips of the predecessor squeaking as the last few notes are squeezed dry, while retailers foresee the slashing of another price...
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Unbalancing Acts
Akşak Akşak STAUBGOLD 139 (2015) An approachable, percussion fusion set from an inter-generational duo comprising Can’s rhythm wizard Jaki Liebezeit and multi-percussionist...
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Temple of Discordia
Long overdue notice for this fairly overpowering vinyl LP of psychedelic ultra-Techno drum’n’bass hip-hop material from Fallopian Disco Force, a “collective” of strangely-named Japanese players who do...
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Gone Native
Song From The Forest Soundtrack A Documentary Film by Michael Obert. Selected Recordings of Bayaka Music by Louis Sarno. GERMANY GRUENREKORDER Gruen 150 CD (2014) Need an interesting solution to the...
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Spirit World
Lost Shadows: In Defence Of The Soul (SUB ROSA SR379) is two CDs of Shaman songs recorded in 1978 by David Toop. The Yanomami, whose music this is, live in a few hundred villages scattered around the...
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Wherever it Falls
Alif Aynama-Rtama NAWA RECORDINGS NAWA003 CD/LP (2015) Summer is the time I typically turn to desert blasted, Arabic acts like Tinariwen and Omar Souleyman. So I find myself slipping on the debut CD...
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Moroccan Beats
Martijn Comes is a Dutch composer with an academic background, and has studied interesting areas of sound design, digital media and electro-acoustic composition. Tradition Noise (THE SILENT HOWL...
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Ethno-Jazz Delights
Sibarg Ensemble Cipher U.S.A. SIBARG RECORDS 01 C.D. (2018) A brief dip then into Sibargian history can reveal that this venture came into being at the Tehran Music Conservatory, Iran, and was...
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Ghazi Barakat is the German-Palestinian creator who has appeared in these cyber-folds a few times over the years, prolific fellow that he be, most often as Pharoah Chromium, though I learn today he’s...
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Weird Tales
Canadian player Pierre-Yves Martel made a series of recordings for a blog called Weird Studies, said blog jointly hosted by Phil Ford, a professor of musicology, author, and musician; and J.F. Martel,...
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Trips to the Edge of the World
Three otherwise unrelated items from the Room40 label that were inspired by or influenced by the global lockdown situation, all released in 2021. Fine keyboard experiments by Olivia Block, the...
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Goat Meadow: warm summer meadow universe imagined by noise and dungeon synth
Meadowgoat, Goat Meadow, United States, Realm and Ritual, limited edition vinyl LP (2022) Originally released in 2019 in two tape pressings that quickly sold out, this debut work (and as far as I can...
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