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Graham Lambkin/Jason Lescalleet - Air Supply (Erstwhile) Once again, I'm confronted with a release I enjoy very much but find very diffi...

Stephen Flato/Vanessa Rossetto - Hwaet (Abrash/Music Appreciation) "hwaet"* (an Old English term that literally means "what...

I wouldn't be surprised if more than half of the releases that come my way contain field recordings to one extent or another, sometimes ...

Asmus Tietchens - Abraum (1000 Füssler) The subject of these field recordings is a subway tunnel under construction in Hamburg, nearby the h...

Man, did I feel like an idiot. I'd first seen, and loved, the work of film projection artists Sandra Gibson and Luis Recorder in the unt...

Ingar Zach - M.O.S. (Sofa) Maybe it's the influence of Jason Kahn, but I seem to be hearing more improvised percussion discs that deal e...

Jason Kahn/Z'ev - Intervals (Monotype) In 1982, I attended a performance of Glenn Branca's Symphony No. 2 at St. Mark's Church i...

Syndromes - Temporary Perspectives (Organized Music from Thessaloniki) Syndromes is Kostis Kilymis, wielding field recordings, mics, compute...

Hammeriver - Hammeriver (Mikroton) You know those classic Coltrane (John or Alice), Sanders, etc. albums where some wonderful modal tune oft...

4 LP releases Joe Colley - Disasters of Self (CIP) A handsomely produced 3-LP box set with photo inserts. My experience with Colley's mu...

As I've written before, the music of Michael Pisaro has been my single favorite "discovery" (late though it was) of the last f...

Mites - nothing's gonna change (Alamut) Mites is Grisha Shakhnes an "Nothing's Gonna Change" (dedicated to Derek Bailey, n...

Rebecca Joy Sharp & Simon Whetham - The Clearing (Gruenrekorder) "Disarming" is a word that comes to mind, perhaps. A simple e...

Goh Lee Kwang - draw sound (Herbal International) Gotta love a 3", 8 1/2 minute long disc with 98 tracks...or do you? Each cut is rough...

Another brief note, because I mentioned it earlier. Had great hopes for this after very much enjoying "Remainder", but was rather ...

A brief hello from pleasant (if fairly boring) Albufeira, to strongly recommend Jonathan Lethem's "Chronic City". Perhaps one ...

Off to Portugal for two weeks...may or may not post from there depending on connectivity. See ya later...

(wondering if we're primed for a Michael Pisaro backlash...) Well, not from me at any rate. Despite the seeming flood of performances an...

Three recordings from Portuguese guitarist/electronicist Pedro Chambel, spanning the decade, that he was kind enough to pass along. Pedro Ch...