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Sébastien Branche - Ligne irrégulière (CDR) A fine, concentrated set of solo saxophonics from Branche. Can we use the term "post-Don...

[Entr'acte seems to have departed from its former disc wrappings, that metallic/plastic deal with info printed directly on. Current slee...

Ian Rawes/London Sound Survey - These Are the Good Times (Vittelli) So here I am, trying to make qualitative sense of the post-Cagean fie...

Antoine Beuger - sixteen stanzas on stillness and music unheard (l'Innomable) One of the quandaries I have, as a listener, when exper...

Nick Hoffman - Bruiser (Pilgrim Talk) Hoffman's disc begins rather disconcertingly, with a spray of percolating electronics that imm...

Sandy Ewen/Damon Smith - Background Information (Balance Point Acoustics) This release is unusual, for me, for a couple of reasons. One, ...

Antoine Beuger - Cantor Quartets (Another Timbre) Admirers of Beuger have had little to complain about recently, this fine release coming...

All you kind people who send music my way, please note my new address, effective immediately: Brian Olewnick 2 Rue Adolphe Mille Paris 7...

Antoine Beuger/Michael Pisaro - this place/is love (Erstwhile) The work begins in very un-Wandelweiser fashion, with a strong note played...

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...