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Live at Jazz Cava by Oriol Roca Trio & Lynn Cassiers

https://underpool.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-jazz-cava Genre: Avant-Garde Jazz Rating: Very Highly Recommended released February 11, 2023 Belgian jazz vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, and master of electronics, Lynn Cassiers, makes avant garde singing emotionally relatable on this exceptional album. At times, there’s a scented candle lava lamp vibe which might sound like I’m implying there’s a touch of the cliche in theContinue reading “Live at Jazz Cava by Oriol Roca Trio & Lynn Cassiers”

Glossover by Afternoon Bike Ride

https://afternoonbikeride.bandcamp.com/album/glossover Genre: Soft Rock Rating: ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ 4/5 Stars released February 10, 2023 Glossover sets out to be an intelligent but easy listen and ABR achieves that artistic goal. They borrow heavily from a lot of what’s best in recent musical trends and put together an album that’s sort of like if LanaContinue reading “Glossover by Afternoon Bike Ride”

486REVIVAL by 486 Paradise

Genre: Experimental Rating: Highly Recommended released February 10, 2023 It’s been a minute since I’ve checked out a new B O G U S // COLLECTIVE release but the glitch tag piqued my interest. Glitch music used to be high on my radar but suddenly I just started seeing less of it. I still enjoyContinue reading “486REVIVAL by 486 Paradise”

Entropy by Colin Bragg

https://colinbragg.bandcamp.com/album/entropy Genre: Experimental Rating: 🎸 🎸 🎸 🎸 🎸 5/5 Stars According to his BandCamp notes Bragg decided to pull out his old man’s guitar and created this excellent release in a couple days. The electronics remind me of Edgar Froese and the guitar playing Loren Connors. From what I’m seeing this music hasn’t reachedContinue reading “Entropy by Colin Bragg”

SHITSURAI / 室礼 by Meitei / 冥丁

https://meitei.bandcamp.com/album/shitsurai Genre: Ambient Rating: 🎹 🎹🎹 🎹 4/5 stars released February 4, 2023 Almost entirely solo piano with the exceptions being subtle sound effects this is certainly Meitei’s most minimalistic release. To be honest, if I wasn’t so taken with their previous releases I might have passed this over because there so many mellow soloContinue reading “SHITSURAI / 室礼 by Meitei / 冥丁”

cold by èvia

https://lillernetapes.bandcamp.com/album/cold Genre: Ambient Rating: ❄️ ❄️ ❄️ ❄️ 4/5 Recommended released January 19, 2023 Reminiscent of Pausal and Hakobune and clocking in at twenty minutes èvia wisely chooses quality on this outstanding ambient release. The texture of this music is dense and interesting and remains engaging on repeat while also serving as excellent background musicContinue reading “cold by èvia”

Éliane Radigue: Occam Delta XV by Quatuor Bozzini

https://collectionqb.bandcamp.com/album/liane-radigue-occam-delta-xv Genre: Contemporary Classical Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ plus (world heritage level) released January 24, 2023 This is such an important release that it’s really important to me to do it justice when writing about it. Now that Radigue has reached her nineties I’m starting to feel a reverence for her similar to how I felt aboutContinue reading “Éliane Radigue: Occam Delta XV by Quatuor Bozzini”

Remembered Present by Jacek Chmiel+Thomas Rohrer

https://scatterarchive.bandcamp.com/album/remembered-present Genre: Experimental Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 5/5 stars highest recommendation released January 30, 2023 This is the experience I want when I listen to experimental music. Engaging. Surprising. And cutting edge. The trend for artists to turn to field recordings is a great one. Especially when it’s done right. Remembered Present has all the electroacoustic musiqueContinue reading “Remembered Present by Jacek Chmiel+Thomas Rohrer”

Out Of Nowhereby John Edwards / Andrew Lisle / Dirk Serries / Colin Webster

https://rawtonkrecords.bandcamp.com/album/out-of-nowhere Genre: Improvised Music Rating: ⭐️⭐️ 2/5 Stars Dirk Serries is my favorite musician on this record and I wish he was the only one. I respect what the musicians are doing but at some point when there’s a 1000 records of a 1000 other people doing it as well or better it’s time forContinue reading “Out Of Nowhereby John Edwards / Andrew Lisle / Dirk Serries / Colin Webster”

Hypnagogia by MARTINA BERTONI

https://karlrecords.bandcamp.com/album/hypnagogia Genre: Drone Rating: Highly Recommended Released January 20, 2023 Just yesterday I was relaxing in my backyard reading science fiction and listening to electronic drone music mostly from the 70’s. One artist I was discovering new work from is Isao Tomita. Tomita is one of many, but still I felt very moved by howContinue reading “Hypnagogia by MARTINA BERTONI”

Reverie by Daou

https://lontanoseries.bandcamp.com/album/reverie Genre: Ambient Rating: 🌧️ 🌧️ 🌧️ 🌧️ 4/5 rain clouds Release date: 20/1/2023 Artists Personal Website: https://www.daou.info/ Basic Information C&P from bandcamp: Lᴏɴᴛᴀɴᴏ Series is a division of Rohs! Records. Est. 2018 – Berlin, Germany. The label is now located in Sardinia, Italy. My Review: Daou’s day job is being an architect. Anecdotally, I’veContinue reading “Reverie by Daou”

Tiga Bilangan by Rizky Argadipradja, Wahono

https://divisi62.bandcamp.com/album/tiga-bilangan Genre: Experimental Avant-Garde Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ 3/5 Release Date: January 19, 2023 The sound on this one is like 1940’s serial compositions but with a looser improvised feel rather than the austere feel of the written music from that era. The artists are a duo from Indonesia. The three stars are pretty much obligatory basedContinue reading “Tiga Bilangan by Rizky Argadipradja, Wahono”

Are You L33K5Perienced by The L33K5P1N Experience

https://l33k5p1n84574rd5.bandcamp.com/album/are-you-l33k5perienced Genre: Vapor Release Date: January 6, 2023 Rating: ✨ 🏙 🌃 🌆 ✨ Highest Recommendations I wish I could show off and announce all the samples since this is tagged as plunderphonics but the vibe is very Maggot Head Hot Buttered Soul and it’s a great reinterpretation of this sort of heavy psychedelic blackContinue reading “Are You L33K5Perienced by The L33K5P1N Experience”

Iggy Pop Surrounds Himself with the Wrong People on Every Loser

⭐️⭐️ 2/5 Stars Andrew Watt produces it and in a lot of ways he’s probably just as important as Iggy, himself. Iggy’s really old but so is (or were) Nick Cave, Johnny Cash, David Bowie, Scott Walker, Leonard Cohen, and several jazz musicians … there’s two paths to great late career records 1) Be aContinue reading “Iggy Pop Surrounds Himself with the Wrong People on Every Loser”

The Sad and Creepy Reasons for the Longevity of Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People

I read this about a year ago and my thoughts were mostly along the lines of everyone can see through this bullshit at this point. Almost 90 years have passed since Carnegie wrote this and it is wildly influential. One time, when I was in Japan, a really smart Japanese woman explained to me herContinue reading “The Sad and Creepy Reasons for the Longevity of Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People”

Mythos Of Cthulhu by The Great Old Ones

https://eighthtowerrecords.bandcamp.com/album/mythos-of-cthulhu Genre: Dark Ambient Rating: 4/5 released January 5, 2023 The Great Old Ones is the name Raffaele Pezzella (a.k.a. Sonologyst) uses for his two Lovecraft tributes. I’ll admit the idea of using the author’s work as a theme draws me to these recordings. Sometimes ideas like this will pull you into music you probablyContinue reading “Mythos Of Cthulhu by The Great Old Ones”

Top 25 of 2022

25 Two Centuries by Qasim Naqvi / Wadada Leo Smith / Andrew Cyrille original review: https://birdboyblizzard.music.blog/2022/12/07/two-centuries-by-qasim-naqvi-wadada-leo-smith-andrew-cyrille/ listen to it here: https://redhookrecords.bandcamp.com/album/two-centuries 24 No. 1 by 100-nka Gralak original review: https://birdboyblizzard.music.blog/2022/11/06/no-1-by-100-nka-gralak/ 23 涉水来世 / Wading in the Afterlife (Original Soundtrack) by 天火见 original review: https://birdboyblizzard.music.blog/2022/04/05/%e6%b6%89%e6%b0%b4%e6%9d%a5%e4%b8%96-wading-in-the-afterlife-original-soundtrack-by-%e5%a4%a9%e7%81%ab%e8%a7%81/ listen to it here: https://telepathtelepath.bandcamp.com/album/wading-in-the-afterlife-original-soundtrack 22 Feel safe by Alba LivContinue reading “Top 25 of 2022”

Lucid Offering by Light Dweller

https://totaldissonanceworship.bandcamp.com/album/lucid-offering Genre: Technical Metal Rating: Recommended for casual metal fans highly recommended for metal heads \m/>.<\m/ \m/>.<\m/ \m/>.<\m/ released June 21, 2022 Lucid Offering is a very solid complex and dissonant extreme metal album. The execution and the intensity is on par with more famous bands in the field. If you really love to metalContinue reading “Lucid Offering by Light Dweller”

Clarity Came With A Cool Summer’s Breeze by ARKHETH

https://i-voidhangerrecords.bandcamp.com/album/clarity-came-with-a-cool-summers-breeze Genre: Metal Rating: 2/5 two of five stars ⭐️ ⭐️ released September 30, 2022 It’s difficult not to poke fun at this music. There’s moments where it sounds like ok this has potential and then suddenly it turns into something so dorky it almost seems as if it’s intentionally self-destructive. Metal can successfully pullContinue reading “Clarity Came With A Cool Summer’s Breeze by ARKHETH”

Thandi Ntuli Blk Elijah & The Children of Meroë

https://on.soundcloud.com/9M8Gx6nSJqEmbkhx6 Genre: Sophisti-pop Rating: 4/5 ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ Release Date 7 July 2022 Blk Elijah & The Children of Meroë is smooth crossover South African pop jazz fusion that sounds to me as if it’s heavily influenced by both Stevie Wonder and Sade. The music constantly has a lot going on from this sevenContinue reading “Thandi Ntuli Blk Elijah & The Children of Meroë”

Nduduzo Makhathini: In the Spirit of Ntu (Blue Note Africa)

Genre: Contemporary Jazz Rating: 3/5 stars ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ Released May 2022 Nduduzo Makhathini is a South African jazz musician. I searched through the musicians on this release using discogs and didn’t discover much. The music is kind of in a spiritual jazz style popularized in the 1960’s. I don’t know if it’s the flavorContinue reading “Nduduzo Makhathini: In the Spirit of Ntu (Blue Note Africa)”

Dream Like A Dogwood Wild Boy by Binker Golding

https://binkergolding.bandcamp.com/album/dream-like-a-dogwood-wild-boy Genre: Contemporary Jazz Rating: 1/5 stars ⭐️ released June 17, 2022 Good God this sucks. This guy obviously has some excellent music in his discography and he’s welcome to explore the unexpected by being painfully mainstream but next time please use a trigger warning. Bland. Creatively negligent. The manager at the supermarket would sueContinue reading “Dream Like A Dogwood Wild Boy by Binker Golding”

In Tense by Harish Raghavan

https://harishraghavan-whirlwind.bandcamp.com/album/in-tense Genre: Nu Jazz Rating: 4/5 stars ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ released July 29, 2022 Raghaven, who has been touring and playing bass for the fantastic octogenarian jazz great Charles Lloyd (I really love the album Waves) has given us a fun and perfectly executed and very crisply produced jazz record. It reminds me ofContinue reading “In Tense by Harish Raghavan”

Micah Thomas – Piano Solo

Genre: Jazz Rating: 3/5 stars Released: September 2022 If you like solo piano and are looking for some pretty straightforward jazz this is a good record to check out. And I’m not saying this is the type of jazz that lacks an adventurous spirit. It’s not that at all. Thomas very competently navigates his wayContinue reading “Micah Thomas – Piano Solo”