Just outside

I'll be gadding about the US for the next three or so weeks, so no new reviews until early August. Hope to see everyone then...

Lao Yang - Untitled (Subjam) I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that this isn't the first time, in world history, that a saw...

Matthieu Ruhlmann - This Star Teaches Bending (3LEAVES) Every so often, in this general area, a work appears laden with strong personal e...

pizMO - blst (fibrr) Every so often, pizMO emerges, bearing news from the Nantes noise scene--Christophe Havard, Jerome Joy and Julien Ot...

Going - Going I (silent water) A double duo of two keyboards (Giovanni Di Domenico and Pak Yan Lau) and two percussionists (Joao Lobo and...

Nick Hennies - Flourish (Consumer Waste) In the last several years, Hennies has performed, among others, numerous pieces by Alvin Lucier,...

Bruno Duplant/Darius Ciuta - (G)W(3) (Mystery Sea) I'm not precisely sure of the background to the two pieces presented here; apparen...

Jon Rose - Rosin (ReR) Another thing that occurs every so often is that a release will wend itself to my mailbox which, upon opening, eli...

Jason Hoopes/Agnes Szelag - October Pieces and Shadows (Trestle) Sometimes a release happens along that touches on two or three aspects o...

Dmitriy Krotevich - olgoi-khorkhoi (Intonema) Helluva cover, you gotta say, courtesy Solongo Monkhoorai, depicting the Mongolian death-wo...

With Lumps (Neil Davidson/Fritz Welch) - Lumps for Lovin' (never come ashore) Duos for guitar and percussion from 2011-12. My previou...

Michael Pisaro - Tombstones (HEM) Listeners whose exposure to Pisaro has been solely through recordings might be surprised at his astonis...

Manuel Mota - rcK (Dromos) Manuel Mota has always intrigued me, ever since "Leopardo" on Rossbin some ten years ago, but sighti...

Andrea Borghi - Vetrale (obs *) Instrumentation for this solo disc is listed as, "modified turntable, elaborated glass discs, comput...

A few short notes, from memory, on the concert this afternoon at Foundation Suisse, in the Universitaire a Paris. The building is a Le Co...

BOT - Compositions Continuums des Machines (fibrr) If I understand correctly--something always in doubt--BOT is a program more or less de...

Keith Rowe/Graham Lambkin - Making A (Erstwhile) In January, 2013, Rowe and Lambkin met in New York City to perform together for the firs...

For the last couple of years, the Bôłt label, under the curation of Michael Libera, has released a number of very interesting, occasionall...

Johnny Chang/Stefan Thut - two strings and boxes (Flexion) A composition by Thut for two zithers (excited by e-bows, if I'm not mista...

JesterN - hBar (dobialabel) OK, first some housecleaning. JesterN is the name used by Alberto Novello, whose concept and composition this...