Author Archives: birddog

https://trehasektori.bandcamp.com/album/rejet Genre: Industrial Dark Ambient Rating: 4/5 released on bandcamp November 5, 2021 This is hard hitting creepy music. Part Alio Die part Throbbing Gristle. And I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking, yo BirdBoy that’s… that’s Lustmord but nuhuh no it isn’t! This is its own thing. I’ve put you in the musical ballpark.Continue reading “Rejet by Treha Sektor”

https://murielgrossmann.bandcamp.com/album/union Genre: Spiritual Soul Jazz Rating: 5/5 released on bandcamp November 2, 2021 This is the first I remember hearing the music of Muriel Grossman but I can tell you this is going to stay on steady rotation. Union is in every way an excellent listen. I need to pay closer attention. I know whyContinue reading “UNION by Muriel Grossmann”

https://lillernetapes.bandcamp.com/album/grow Genre: Ambient Rating: 4/5 released on bandcamp November 22, 2021 Joseph Volmer aka Explain Water to Fish aka Clearing stands strong here as the latter. It’s droning keyboard style ambient. The final track, Fish, is the most outstanding. It has a church organ sound and drones in interesting waves. While we put our energyContinue reading “Grow by Clearing”

https://scatterarchive.bandcamp.com/album/uk-2019 Genre: Free Jazz Rating: 4/5 released on bandcamp November 22, 2021 I can get why they don’t list “free jazz” in their bandcamp tags. For me, it’s basically a matter of if I can see this as having grown out of Ornette’s tradition or not. I think it did. The second of the twoContinue reading “UK ツアー 2019 by Sam Andreae/David Birchall/Toshimaru Nakamura/Otto Willberg”

Genre: Spiritual Jazz Rating: 4/5 ***bandcamp link removed because he has a link to his personal website on his bandcamp page that has all kinds of fucking malicious scripts*** released on bandcamp September 14, 2021 This is modal era Coltrane influenced jazz from Tel Aviv. It’s spiced with just a touch of Middle Eastern andContinue reading “Nuff Headlines by Shay Hazan Quintet”

https://theoscillation.bandcamp.com/album/untold-futures Genre: Psychedelic Rating: 5/5 released on bandcamp October 29, 2021 Demian Castellanos is a fucking genius. Pre-DSOTM Floyd meets Spacemen 3. Yes. Hell Yes. And Hell Fucking Goddamn Yes. LSDLSDLSDLSD. This is the most under-appreciated music happening. Kids should be stealing grandma’s Vicodin to get money to see this guy live. The Mojave DesertContinue reading “Untold Futures by The Oscillation”

https://johnolivermusic.bandcamp.com/album/tao-20-tree-temple Genre: Experimental Rating: 5/5 Pick any spot. Your favorite spot. Stand there. If you’re from Philadelphia you can stand there longer than any other person from Philadelphia has ever stood there. You can stand there until you retire. You can stand there until you die. You still ain’t a tree, motherfucker. I took aContinue reading “Tao 20 Tree Temple by John Oliver”

https://pitp.bandcamp.com/album/color-of-time Genre: Ambient Rating: 4/5 released on bandcamp November 19, 2021 Past Inside the Present continues their reign as the gold standard in ambient music as mind medicine. Xanax in sound vibrations. When this one enters your ears your brain releases all the chillax neurons and you can sleep or read or write a musicContinue reading “Color of Time by Color of Time”

https://blankembrace.bandcamp.com/album/warlock Genre: Drone Rating: 4/5 released on bandcamp November 12, 2021 This Russian artist has several releases on Spotify but this isn’t one of them (yet?). In the bandcamp notes they challenge us to focus in deeply to catch the subtleties and so forth. Truthfully, I think this is standard fare but for a greatContinue reading “warlock by Blank Embrace”

https://boguscollective.bandcamp.com/album/westwave Genre: Country Vapor Unrated Review released on bandcamp November 15, 2021 Country vapor is an especially odd blending and hitting the sweet spot is going to be a challenge. The final track on this record does so brilliantly. 7.The Roadhouse 04:20 Mesmerizing and beautiful. Reminds me of the best that Mazzy Star put upContinue reading “westwave by shnozberry fields”

https://lontanoseries.bandcamp.com/album/silesco Genre: Ambient Drone Rating: 5/5 released on bandcamp January 27, 2021 I’ve gone through dozens of ambient drone releases this year. I’m partial to the style so even a lackluster attempt has a certain appeal even as we’re waiting for a new wave from the genre. Or perhaps its days are limited and nightContinue reading “Silesco by Thme”

https://innerislands.bandcamp.com/album/another-entrance Genre: New Age Rating: 4/5 released on bandcamp October 22, 2021 Artist Sean Conrad cites Bert Jansch as an inspiration in the bandcamp notes and that doesn’t necessarily mean he saying he’s mimicking that style. The track Serpent in the Sky comes the closest in my mind but I’d say it’s closer to NickContinue reading “Another Entrance by Channelers”

Ultimately, Mayor Sylvester Turner. Turner immediately told CNN, “We’re not going to leave any stone unturned.” Instead of looking under stones Turner needs to look in the mirror. Houston has a clear hierarchy regarding who’s tasked with public safety at large events and at the top of that food chain is the mayor. This isContinue reading “Who’s Culpable for the Astroworld Disaster?”

https://jazzinbritain1.bandcamp.com/album/ken-wheeler-some-gnu-ones Genre: Third Stream Jazz Rating: 5/5 released on bandcamp November 1, 2021 An homage to Kenny Wheeler, a British avant-garde trumpeter and flugelhorn player who died at 84 in 2014. Wheeler has a fantastic resume and a prolific discography that includes, among many other things, appearances on pivotal Anthony Braxton records from the 1970’s.Continue reading “Ken Wheeler: Some Gnu Ones by Chris Laurence”

https://tribetapes.bandcamp.com/album/tangerine-but-with-no-pith-part-i Genre: Experimental Rating: 4/5 released on bandcamp November 5, 2021 Tangerine, But With No Pith (Part I) is about 70 percent sound collage and about 30 percent instrumental improv. Unlike a lot of collage sound art of the past this doesn’t startle with jarring discontinuities. Instead, this is pleasantly logical. It’s well composed andContinue reading “Tangerine, But With No Pith (Part I) by He Wields A Sword, But Alas, He’s Addled”

https://lontanoseries.bandcamp.com/album/le-traviate Genre: Ambient Rating: 4/5 Le Traviate is an ambient record that leans more towards the melodic and logical song structures and progression over simplistic minimalism or abstract experimentalism. There’s faint echos of glitch and in some ways it reminds me of Pink Floyd’s The Endless River – an underrated record relative to the restContinue reading “Le Traviate by Sascha Rosemarie Höfer”

https://nyx-edc.bandcamp.com/album/deep-england-the-sacred-tape Genre: Experimental Rating: 4/5 released on bandcamp October 29, 2021 Based largely on beautiful and rich and powerful female vocals this is both politically engaged and spiritually enlightened music. It borrows from Eastern European vocal traditions and indigenous North America instrumentation. It might not be influenced by female vocal Korean trad but there’s definitelyContinue reading “Deep England: The Sacred Tape by Gazelle Twin & NYX”

https://forestkids.bandcamp.com/album/e-m-p-t-y Genre: Experimental Rating: 5/5 released on bandcamp October 31, 2021 Artistic genius Paul G. Marchesani’s musical universe Forest Kids Collective member RANDEL .the ghost released a creepy record on Halloween. What Marchesani has created is something that is agonizingly obvious after the fact. That’s what a purely revolutionary musical or any artistic idea is.Continue reading “E M P T Y by RANDEL .the ghost”

https://combat-astronomy.bandcamp.com/album/shamanic-insurgency Genre: Experimental Metal Free Jazz Fusion Rating: 4/5 released on bandcamp October 22, 2021 Instrumental metal that falls somewhere between Gorguts and Judas Priest and horns that land stylistically in the realm of Jaime Branch this is intense music but not necessarily an exercise in extremes. This is really good. 4/5 good but I’mContinue reading “Shamanic Insurgency by Combat Astronomy”

https://ozymandiasdream.bandcamp.com Genre: Chillhop Rating: 5/5 released on bandcamp October 2, 2021 I’ve been listening to this on shuffle and the same thought keeps coming back to me: Is it really this consistently fantastic? It’s just one home run after another. I wasn’t really thinking chillhop until I saw the tag. The closest relative in termsContinue reading “Woe is Me, Woe are My Monsters by Ozymandias’ Dream”