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Keith Rowe - Concentration of the Stare (bottrop-boy) Spend any amount of time in the company of Keith Rowe and the names of certain painter...

Ferran Fages - Pèl Nord (Bocian) Robin Fox - More Impossible Futures (Bocian) And still another pair of 7" vinyl releases from Bocian.....

John Wall/Alex Rodgers - Work 2006-2011 (Entr'acte) A fascinating release. A bit has been written on what a departure this is for Wall, ...

Patrick Farmer - Green rings around the eyes, this grass in vibrant motion. (nadukeenumono) It's long been my belief that there are musi...

Anne Guthrie - Perhaps a Favorable Organic Moment (Copy for Your Records) Quite a wonderful very different kind of recording. Guthrie's ...

Pascal Battus - Simbol/l'Unique Trait d'Pinceau (Herbal International) Pity the poor, abused cymbal! The immense range of sounds cap...

Mike Bullock - Mild Disappearances (Songs from Under the Floorboards) As fine a bassist as he is, the few times I've heard Bullock deali...

Ben Owen - 05012009FP (cdr) I love hearing field-recording based work that still manages to confound my expectations of the are. It's st...

Christian Munthe/Lee Noyes - Onliners (*for*sake) When last I wrote about Munthe's music, in May of 2010, I remarked how difficult this ...

A few words on George Lewis. Like many outside of Chicago, I first heard Lewis in the context of Anthony Braxton's "Creative Orches...

I've sort of gotten in the habit of posting any semi-decent watercolors or drawings on facebook and letting them just slide down the pag...

Paul Vogel - Godwit Songs (Munitions Family) A cassette release (though I heard it on disc) of highly abstract electronics that bear, at bes...

Jürg Frey - "Metal, Stone, Skin, Foliage, Air" (l'Innomable) It's been a good year, thus far, for great recordings. Rowe/M...

Writer/musician/DJ/other-stuffer Kurt Gottschalk recently published a collection of short stories, "Little Apples", an often subtl...

Five releases that feature Ernesto Rodrigues, recorded between 1999 and 2010 in various settings. Rodrigues has been heard on many, many dis...

Roberto Mallo/Miguel Prado/Ryu Hankil - Sannakji (Manual/Taumaturgia) Mallo (alto sax, amplifier), Prado (plastic tapes, bags excited with m...