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Mike Shiflet/Daniel Menche - Stalemate (Sonoris) Some serious dronage, on Hammond organs, no less (with electronics). This was a good exampl...

What to make of Philip Brophy's music? I'd heard three discs of his five or six years ago, wrote them up for all music , in fact, en...

Activity Center - lohn & brot (absinth) A favorite pairing returns. Something just so right about Beins and Renkel, the ratio of grit t...

Just as a room would seem out of balance if all of the furniture were piled up on one side, a scene must be balanced to be aesthetically ple...

Dave Barnes/Richard Kamerman/Graham Stephenson - Three Duos (Copy for your records) Two very different releases from musicians who often ove...

The Aughts Instead of a listing of individual favorites from the decade, I thought I'd mention those musicians whose body of work meant ...

Jason Lescalleet played two sets last night at Issue Project Room, one with Sean Meehan, the other with dancer Pauline Monin. The performanc...

So, yes, my favorite music releases of 2009. It's fuzzier than usual. In fact, the favorite thing I picked up all year was Reinhart de L...

The Sealed Knot - and we disappear (Another Timbre) A fine live set, almost three year ago now, from a Swiss festival with Burkhard Beins (p...

Cremaster - Noranta Graus a l'Esquerra (Monotype) Super-crunchy goodness. Ferran Fages (feedback mixing board, pick-ups) and Alfredo Cos...

Tim Barnes/Jeph Jerman - Live + Gallery Denver June 10, 2005 (CDR) Hard to go wrong with this pair. The gentlest, least assuming kind of imp...

Bryan Eubanks/Ryu Hankil - 777 (Cathnor) I don't normally pay attention to "release strategies", the hows and whys of grouping...

Josef Anton Riedl - Klangregionen 1951-2007 (Edition RZ) First, an admission: I've always had a certain amount of trouble with, generall...

Choi Joonyong/Park Seungjun - Driller (balloon & needle) Primitive sound, a phrase used in Park Daham's liner notes. In a way, I gue...

Richard Garet - Four Malleable (and/OAR) Four pieces, each about 1/2 hour long, from 2004-2009. Garet is an expert in the art of the "g...

Theo Burt - Colour Projections (Entr'acte) What a unique, wonderful release! How to describe? Well, it's not a music disc per se tho...

Greg Davis - Primes (autumn) Greg was kind enough to send me several of his recent discs. I'd been largely unaware of his investigations...

Six, count 'em, six! new releases from Cor Fuhler's maliciously spelt Conundrom label. Let's listen in, natch, catalog # order: ...