Just outside

Esther Venrooy, a marvelous musician/thinker who doesn't release nearly enough work (!!) has written a book that charts her own developm...

  Pisaura - Asteraceae (Sedimental) Pisaura is a trio consisting of Michael Pisaro-Liu and the members of the duo Zizia, Amber Wolfe and Jar...

Rhodri Davies - Transversal Time (Confront Core Series) 'Transversal Time' is a single, 38-minute work composed by Davies, per...

A few brief words on twelve new releases from Edition Wandelweiser, music that spans a very wide territory. No images this time because, wel...

Arild Andersen/Clive Bell/Mark Wastell - Tales of Hackney (Confront) I had to chuckle when I first put on this disc. I knew and gr...

Grisha Shakhnes - being there  (unfathomless) A dense collage of sound "recorded live at home" and, I take it, processed [not...

Jon Dale - theatre (triste tropiques) Sukora -  Ice Cream Day! Nice Day! (triste tropiques) Two excellent approaches to the not...

Nick Storring - Qualms  (Never Anything Records) A wildly entertaining if difficult to pin down solo venture from Storring. 'Qualm...

Fergus Kelly - Gleaming Seams (Room Temperature) I've been listening to Fergus Kelly's music for about a decade now and have f...

Antoine Beuger -  traces of eternity: of what is yet to be (A New Wave of Jazz) Antoine Beuger - Now is the moment to learn hope (A ...

Jason Lescalleet - This Is What I Do, vol. 21 (Glistening Examples) I first saw Lescalleet in the early oughts, on hands and knees, th...

Olivier Messiaen - Quatuor our la fin de temps/Linda Catlin Smith - Among the Tarnished Stars - Apartment House (Another Timbre) I came...

Driving over to Woodstock for a performance of Morton Feldman's 'For Philip Guston', played by the Bent Duo plus Emly...

Bertrand Denzler - Arc (Potlatch) Denzler has created a few of my favorite pieces of music over the last 5 - 10 years, always pushing ...

(cribbed from my fb post) fwiw, not that it's news of much import, I'm again planning to drastically scale down my reviewing activ...

Lance Austin Olsen - Look at the Mouth That Is Looking at You (Infrequency) When I listen to a piece for the first time, I like to do s...

A.F. Jones - Bourdon du Kinzie (Unfathomless) A.F. Jones - For Eschrichtiidae (Omniana) (Taâlem) Having known Al Jones and his hi...

Alfredo Costa Monteiro - Endlessness (anòmia) The concluding segment of Costa Monteiro's trilogy for electric organ, this LP prese...

Eva-Maria Houben - Erwartung 1 und 2 (Second Editions) A wonderful LP containing a work by Houben (English translation: Expectation), ...

Pareidolia - Selon le Vent (JACC) Pareidolia: The tendency to perceive a specific, often meaningful image or pattern in a random or am...