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Miguel Prado - Comedy Apories (Heresy) Richard has already beaten me to the punch on this one and made many excellent points, so I'll t...

Jeph Jerman - Arrastre (no label/Autumn) Actually three recordings, one each on CD, LP and cassette, all sourced from metal pot lids, those ...

I visited the Presents Gallery in Brooklyn for the second time last evening (now with benches!), once again for a performance centering arou...

Manabu Suzuki - Kantoku Collection (slub) So odd...and often quite good. Yet another name new to me, Suzuki presents seven tracks, each invo...

Revenant - Zeltini (Unfathomless) Revenant (I can't help but think of some especially powerful and frightening figures from Doom) on thi...

I had every intention, before re-listening to this, to write something about how a given recording can, at one point in one's mature lif...

The New Music Distribution Service, in the 70s, used to send out a wonderful mail-order catalog, a handsome set of stapled 8 1/2 x 11" ...

A quartet of new releases from Another Timbre. Michael Pisaro - fields have ears Ah, so beautiful. Three pieces by Pisaro, two more recent w...

Jason Kahn - Dotolim (balloon & needle) A Kahn composition realized by himself (analog synth, short wave radio), Ryu Hankil (speaker and...

Manfred Werder - stück 1998 seiten 624-626 (skiti) Manfred Werder's music presents many an obstacle for both performer and listener. Mos...

New heap o' Cathnors, actually issued last year but, via snowstruck post, only arriving at chez Olewnick recently. Four 3" discs (t...

I went to the opera last night. I can't say I went entirely willingly. I've been before, twice to the Met (Turandot and Tosca, both ...

So, I have a good deal of ambivalence about last evening's concert at Issue Project Room, with Graham Lambkin and Jason Lescalleet. It w...

Jon Mueller - Halves (Notice Recordings) Continuing down the path taken in other recent recordings of his, one that more or less parallels t...

Nice having an extended opportunity to play through a bunch of vinyl this weekend, but I don't feel the major urge to write about it a l...

Not surprisingly, I guess, aside from Abdullah Ibrahim, the "I" portion of my LP collection is mighty scanty. In fact, there are o...

When I was in school in Boston, the main record store was the Harvard Coop. They used to rotate the PA among the various departments and the...