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Zbigniew Herbert/Robert Piotrowicz - Pan Cogito (Institutul Polonez) Zbigniew Herbert was one of the most influential Polish poets of the 2...

I just heard that Willem Breuker died, at 66. I've written much of this before, but thought I'd do so again. In late '77, I was ...

Martin Küchen - The Lie & the Orphanage (Mathka) Martin was kind enough to send me an advance copy of this a couple of months back and a...

The International Nothing - Less Action, Less Excitement, Less Everything (ftarri) I saw this pair (Kai Fagaschinski and Michael Thieke, cla...

Can't get enough of this. Phil Minton (with Veryan Weston on piano, I believe) singing "The Cutty Wren", an old English folk s...

While I was working at Environ in the late 70s, we had a deal with NMDS (New Music Distribution Service) enabling us to take LPs on consignm...

Annette Krebs/Taku Unami - motubachii (Erstwhile) When this appeared (April?) I played it quite a bit, sometimes nothing but all day. It...

What a fine, fine recording. Why is it that something like this, quite mainstream even in its time (1972) still manages to sound fresher tha...

Ah, this holds up wonderfully, what a great record. That nexus where you could hold a banner like that unironically, utilize Cuban revolutio...

Cranc - Copper Fields (Organized Music from Thessaloniki/Absurd) The languorous, gorgeous slow grind. Angharad Davies (violin), Rhodri Davie...

The first recording of Alvin Lucier I ever owned was Vol. II of "Still and Moving Lines of Silence in Families of Hyperbolas", the...

Stasis Duo - s/t (l'Innomable) One of the interesting things here, in the recording's structure, is that it begins in a kind of cont...

Olivia Block/Kyle Bruckmann - Teem (either/OAR) Four pieces, which I hear as a suite of sorts, recorded and rearranged by Block (field recor...

Cage.Frey.Vriezen.Feldman.Ayres.Johnson Manion (Edition Wandelweiser) An absolutely delightful recording, beautifully selected and perform...

Barry Chabala gave a solo performance last evening in a room in St. Mark's Church, Manhattan. Although he'd mentioned to me some of ...

Hal McGee (compiler) - Dictaphonia, Vols 1 - 6 (HalTapes) What can one say? Six volumes of recordings by dozens upon dozens of individuals, ...

Seth Nehil - Furl (Sonoris) My experience with Nehil's work is, typically, an interestingly rocky one. Often on first blush, I feel at s...

Briefly, two "unofficial" releases on Copy For Your Records, both very good and worth your while. Delicate Sen - 20090829, Betalev...

Michael T. Bullock/Andrew Lafkas - Ceremonies to Breath Upon (winds measure) Almost 3/4 of an hour of two basses, played arco, in a large, r...