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Bruno Duplant - slow breath (b-boim) Funny, when I was scrounging around to find a pilferable cover image for this release, I cam upon Richa...

Eva-Maria Houben - druids and questions (Edition Wandelweiser) I've been listening to this recording quite often over the past few weeks...

Richard Chartier - Transparency (Performance) (LINE) There's this amazing-seeming thing called the Grand Tonometer pictured here , built...

Lee Noyes/Radio Cegeste - to orient themselves with coastlines (idealstate) Radio Cegeste is a project created by Sally Ann McIntyre which i...

Haunted House - Blue Ghost Blues (Northern Spy) I don't know Connors' work, in or out of Haunted House, nearly as well as I should, ...

Keith Rowe/John Tilbury - E.E.Tension and Circumstance (Potlatch) I'm not sure if all readers are aware of the circumstances surrounding...

Wade Matthews/Afredo Costa Monteiro - Winter (Copy for Your Records) A strong recording from Matthews (digital synthesis, manipulated field ...

(photo: Yuko Zama) OK, though I think this gets sillier and sillier over time, here's a listing of the recordings that I've enjoyed ...

Antoine Beuger - un lieu pour être deux (Copy for Your Records) As performed by Barry Chabala (guitar) and Ben Owen (synthesized tones, fiel...

mpld - one more episode in between recollection and amnesia (unframed) Six pieces from 2006 re-released (as also the one below) from an orig...

Michel Doneda/Jonas Kocher/Tao G. Urhovec Sambolec/Tomaž Grom/Giuseppe Ielasi - Udarnik (l'Innomable) Four pieces by the first four name...

Graham Lambkin - Amateur Doubles (Kye) I first encountered Lambkin's work, as did many, I imagine, with the brilliant "Salmon Run...

Patrick Farmer - Like falling out of trees into collectors' albums (Consumer Waste) The title poses a kind of question, or observation, ...

Hong Chulki/Jin Sangtae/Kevin Parks - 音影 (Celadon) Perhaps the translation as "chiaroscuro" is the most fitting; one of the immedi...

Ben Owen - Birds and Water, 1 (Notice Recordings) I wish I could figure out exactly what it is that I routinely enjoy about Ben Owen's w...

Steve Beresford/Stephen Flinn/Dave Tucker - Ink Room (Creative Sources) Nice title. Electronics/percussion/guitar. I haven't kept track ...

Haptic - Scilens (Entr'acte/Flingco) The band that refuses to disappoint. As ever, tough to encapsulate short of mere descriptives. They...

Just a note on this marvelous release, otherwise unrelated to the usual stuff here. Steve Roden, who, I guess, is actually a bit related to...

Greg Kelley/Olivia Block - Resolution (Erstwhile) Jérôme Noetinger/Will Guthrie - Face Off (Erstwhile) The two new Erstwhile releases stand ...

Two LPs by Mattin that were apparently released in early 2010 but showed up on my doorstep only recently. The first deals, more or less trad...