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Arild Andersen/Clive Bell/Mark Wastell - Tales of Hackney (Confront) I had to chuckle when I first put on this disc. I knew and gr...

Grisha Shakhnes - being there  (unfathomless) A dense collage of sound "recorded live at home" and, I take it, processed [not...

Jon Dale - theatre (triste tropiques) Sukora -  Ice Cream Day! Nice Day! (triste tropiques) Two excellent approaches to the not...

Nick Storring - Qualms  (Never Anything Records) A wildly entertaining if difficult to pin down solo venture from Storring. 'Qualm...

Fergus Kelly - Gleaming Seams (Room Temperature) I've been listening to Fergus Kelly's music for about a decade now and have f...

Antoine Beuger -  traces of eternity: of what is yet to be (A New Wave of Jazz) Antoine Beuger - Now is the moment to learn hope (A ...

Jason Lescalleet - This Is What I Do, vol. 21 (Glistening Examples) I first saw Lescalleet in the early oughts, on hands and knees, th...

Olivier Messiaen - Quatuor our la fin de temps/Linda Catlin Smith - Among the Tarnished Stars - Apartment House (Another Timbre) I came...

Driving over to Woodstock for a performance of Morton Feldman's 'For Philip Guston', played by the Bent Duo plus Emly...

Bertrand Denzler - Arc (Potlatch) Denzler has created a few of my favorite pieces of music over the last 5 - 10 years, always pushing ...

(cribbed from my fb post) fwiw, not that it's news of much import, I'm again planning to drastically scale down my reviewing activ...

Lance Austin Olsen - Look at the Mouth That Is Looking at You (Infrequency) When I listen to a piece for the first time, I like to do s...

A.F. Jones - Bourdon du Kinzie (Unfathomless) A.F. Jones - For Eschrichtiidae (Omniana) (Taâlem) Having known Al Jones and his hi...

Alfredo Costa Monteiro - Endlessness (anòmia) The concluding segment of Costa Monteiro's trilogy for electric organ, this LP prese...

Pareidolia - Selon le Vent (JACC) Pareidolia: The tendency to perceive a specific, often meaningful image or pattern in a random or am...

Vertical Music is a new cassette label based in Milan, run by Ludwig Berger. A few words on their initial three releases below. Rubén ...

Mazen Kerbaj - Walls Will Fall (Bohemian Drips) A site-specific work by Kerbaj, scored for 49 trumpets (seven groups of seven) to b...

Yan Jun/Jason Kahn - None of Us (Herbal International) Five tracks from a vocal duo of Yan Jun and Jason Kahn during 2016, four short ...

Eric La Casa/Eamon Sprod - Friche: Transition (Swarming) This release has special resonance for me as the sounds were recorded in and ...