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i treni inerti - luz azul (Flexion) Ah, my favorite palindromic band! Ruth Barberán (trumpet, objects) and Alfredo Costa Monteiro (accordion...

Richard Garet - Areal (23five) Another strong effort from Garet, part of a long string of same, departing a bit in structural terms from pri...

Crys Cole/Jamie Druin/Lance Austin Olsen - Linnaeus' Hydra (Infrequency) (may I first mention how beautiful the covers to thee two relea...

Thomas Tilly/Jean-Luc Guionnet - Stones Air Axioms (Circum-Disc) Intriguing idea--Thomas Tilly (whose recording of insect sounds from a year...

Textile Trio - AAA (Songs from Under the Floorboards) A raucous 2004 set recorded at Instants Chavirés by Alexandre Bellenger (turntables), ...

Kim Taeyong/Lee Youngji/Ryu Hankil - profile (manual) The first of two very unusual and provocative releases on this fine label. The serious...

Joda Clément - The Narrows (Unfathomless) Labels tend to acquire a certain character after a while. When something arrives from Unfathomless...

Rhodri Davies/Mark Wastell - Live in Melbourne (Mikroton) A fine recording from 2005 with a harpless (not hapless) Davies on electronics and...

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...