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Giuseppe Ielasi - 15 Tapes (Senufo Editions) As indicated, 15 brief, often blistering pieces derived from taped sources. It's almos...

Robin Hayward/Kristoffer Lo/Martin Taxt - Microtub (Sofa Music) [my pc is temporarily--I hope--out of commission so I can't scan an...

Apologies for the lack of posting...doing other things while on vacation and faced with a pile of stuff upon return, half of which I've ...

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...