Just outside

Well, the postman has been by on this last day of 2010, bearing no musical packages and, as it happens, I don't have anything sitting ar...

Jürg Frey - Weites Land, Tiefe Zeit: Räume 1-8 (B-Boim Records) I'm finding that writing about this is even more difficult than the Beug...

Antoine Beuger - keine feren mehr (Wandelweiser) again the larkspur heavenly blue in my garden they, at least, unchanged These lines, by Amy...

Bernhard Gál - Same Difference (Gromoga) Even when I haven't been entirely convinced, I've always found Bernhard Gál's music (or...

Three utterly unrelated releases.... Manfred Werder - 2007 (1) - (futow) Baffling, in a number of ways. Apparently performed by a quartet of...

The foyer of the Presents Gallery on Washington St. in Brooklyn, just north of the Manhattan Bridge, served as the small, cold but perfectly...

Julia Holter - celebration (Engraved Glass) Few things better than hearing exciting music from a name entirely new to me. Holter is (or was)...

It was probably late 1970. I was 16, had been getting more and more into the burgeoning prog rock of the period (Crimson and Soft Machine, i...

A new batch from Gruenrekorder... Andreas Bick - Fire and Frost Pattern (Gruenrekorder) hmmm...that cover image looks oddly familiar...... A...

Stephen Cornford/Samuel Rodgers - Zinc [extracts] (Consumer Waste) A delightful jewel, this 3" collaboration between Cornford (piano fe...

Taku Sugimoto - Musical Composition Series 1 & 2 (Kid Ailack Enterprise) Something of an overview of Sugimoto's activity in recent y...

Mike Shiflet - Llanos (Editions Shiflet) So dense and rich...Though divided into six tracks, I tend to hear "Llanos" as an enormou...

Michael Pisaro/Taku Sugimoto - 2 seconds/ b minor/ waves (Erstwhile) Short of Yuko Zama, I may have been trumpeting the hosannas about Micha...

Some thoughts on Sunday evening's performance by Keith Rowe and Kjell Bjørgeengen at Experimental Intermedia. Arriving for sound check a...

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...