Just outside

I'll be visiting the States for a bit over two weeks, so no new posts until sometime after the beginning of March...

Haptic - Abeyance (Entr'acte) Not the cover from the disc, which is simply the large, white number, "168" on a black ground...

Vile Cretin - Vile Cretin (Intonema) Ah, these kids today and their wacky band names..... Neither vile nor cretinous, this is a fine, t...

I went last night to a performance (of sorts) of Éliane Radigue's 'Trilogie de la Mort' at the Le Cube arts center in Issy, jus...

When I first saw the name of Seth Cooke's new CD-r imprint, Every Contact Leaves a Trace, I thought it carried a certain Prévostian tone...

Tomaž Grom - Sam, Za (l'Innomable/Sploh) A solo recording from Grom, who's credited with both bass and voice, though I'm unab...

Tim Feeney - Caroline (Weighter Recordings) The image above gives you every scrap of info I have about this recording. I like that and li...

Mike Bullock - Figures Without Ground (Sedimental) Bullock, while better known as a bassist, has delved into electronic composition befor...

Troy Schafer - Action for Solo Violin (Dusty Grass Imprint) Schafer's work, a cassette release, seems to be almost as much about danc...

Anne Guthrie - Codiaeum variegatum (Students of Decay) There have always been some musicians whose sheer musicality, at least how my brai...

Seth Cluett - Wound of This Deep Blue (Notice Recordings) A wonderful cassette recording from Cluett, fashioned from seven Dictaphone tap...

Machinefabriek - Attention, the Doors Are Closing! (self-released CD) A dance score by Rutger Zuydervelt for a work by Iván Pérez dealing...

Well, I dislike doing this more and more but it seems to be a requirement of the job.... As many have noted, 2013 yielded a bumper crop o...

Eva-Maria Houben - lost in dreams - works for piano (Edition Wandelweiser) Two pieces, one as delicate and beautiful as we've come to...

Peter Streiff - Vokal/Instrumental (Edition Wandelweiser) Sometimes, music reaches my desk which I genuinely feel is beyond my ken to wri...

Die Hochstapler - The Braxtornette Project (Umlaut) I love that "Hochstapler" translates to "impostor".... A quixot...

John Butcher/Thomas Lehn/John Tilbury - Exta (Fataka) It's not a rational approach though I'm probably not alone in this--when I ...

Michel Doneda/Jonas Kocher - le belvédère du rayon vert (Flexion) Five pieces recorded by Doneda (soprano sax, radios) and Kocher (accord...

Alan (or Anla) Courtis/BJ Nilsen - Nijmegen Pulse (BromBron) A set of four pieces by Courtis (depending where you look, he uses Anla or A...

Bespoken - Plays Nick Storring and Daniel Brandes (Heavy Fog) Bespoken is a newly formed new music ensemble from Toronto (see somewhat ha...