avant garde – Page 2 – Warmth Highest

No. 1 by 100-nka Gralak

Genre: Free Jazz Rating: Very Highly Recommended released July 30, 2022 Everyone and everything about this record is powerful and effective. My heart is warmed by this continuation of the greatest musical tradition ever. Honestly, I just want to say thank you for being so fucking awesome. The tracks range from mournful and spiritual toContinue reading “No. 1 by 100-nka Gralak”

Teufelskeller by Teufelskeller

https://wvsorcerer.bandcamp.com/album/teufelskeller Genre: Free Jazz Rating: 🎷 🎷 🎷 🎷 🎷 5/5 Highest Recommendations Released Oct 7 2022 This harkens back the early days of Russian and other Eastern Europe free jazz (not that it went anywhere). I don’t know if this is really a problem or not but I worry that Russian artists are sufferingContinue reading “Teufelskeller by Teufelskeller”

Corpses As Bedmates – Babaa & Scheibel = 69

https://youtu.be/Ed-vurfExxo Genre: Freak Folk Rating: ☠️ ☠️☠️☠️☠️ 5/5 highest rating 1984 You can find different information about who made this and what they went on to do elsewhere. I just want to write about the music and my relationship with it. Two of my closest friends were really into it at first. We all livedContinue reading “Corpses As Bedmates – Babaa & Scheibel = 69”

Infinite Winter by Tears ov Blood

https://gondolinrecords.bandcamp.com/album/infinite-winter Genre: Dungeon Synth Rating: 🪦 🪦🪦 🪦 Recorded in 1994; Released 2022 No other genre brings home how talented a person can be and still go unrecognized. Nerd creates a brilliant album in his bedroom and no one cares. Then bandcamp comes along and a few people care. A community forms on social media.Continue reading “Infinite Winter by Tears ov Blood”

This by Crash Worship

https://youtu.be/TA2P4HEGZJ8 Rating: World Treasure Crash Worship are widely known for their live shows and I had the good fortune to see four times that I can remember. The best was in an art house theater. They somehow got all the lighs turned off, even the exit signs. Pitch black. They went from the sound ofContinue reading “This by Crash Worship”

Cataclysmic System Binding Loss by Carbon In Prose

https://carboninprose.bandcamp.com/album/cataclysmic-system-binding-loss Genre: Experimental Rating: Highly Recommended released October 24, 2022 Unlike a lot of the ambient drone releases this one offers different moods and approaches. CIP doesn’t limit the sound sticking with a uniform format. There’s nothing remotely mainstream about it, and ultimately the feeling is sad. The music doesn’t always explicitly sound melancholy butContinue reading “Cataclysmic System Binding Loss by Carbon In Prose”

Call and Response by Stefan Goldmann

https://ashinternational.bandcamp.com/album/call-and-response Genre: Experimental Rating: Highly Recommended As the title hints at Call and Response is the artistic expression of reverberation. If the machines have any sentience perhaps they feel like slaves and chain gang workers from the past. Musically this also calls on more modern traditions. A 2022 release like this with this sound isn’tContinue reading “Call and Response by Stefan Goldmann”

I tell you everything, just not out loud.by .Sue Ann Harkey

https://sueannharkey.bandcamp.com/album/i-tell-you-everything-just-not-out-loud Genre: Freak Folk Rating: World Treasure I wish I were a better writer so I could really give this the review it deserves. My first exposure to this was in 1987. It came along with an issue of the cassette culture zine Sound Choice. It soon became one of my favorite records of allContinue reading “I tell you everything, just not out loud.by .Sue Ann Harkey”

screen time by Thurston Moore

https://thurstonmoore1.bandcamp.com/album/screen-time-2 Genre: Experimental Rating: 📖 📕 📚 📑 💻 Released in 2021 feels like thurston fired up a fatty put on some loren mazzacane connors and thought goddamn i need to do some of this often i think we think our idols of yesteryear shouldve been killed and we ignore too much with this releaseContinue reading “screen time by Thurston Moore”

Transient Signalling At A Distance by Tom Ward

https://rawtonkrecords.bandcamp.com/album/transient-signalling-at-a-distance Genre: Free Jazz Rating: 🎷 🎷 🎷 🎷 🎷 When and Where: Track 1 recorded by Tom Ward at Two Ships, The Nest, Hastings on 16th July 2022 Tracks 2,4,5 recorded by Tom Ward at SET Lewisham on 1st August 2022 Tracks 3,6 recorded by Tom Ward at SET Lewisham on 20th June 2022Continue reading “Transient Signalling At A Distance by Tom Ward”

Starlight And Still Air by Starlight Assembly

https://starlightassembly.bandcamp.com/album/starlight-and-still-air Genre: Art Pop Rating: 🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌 released on bandcamp October 22, 2021 Other reviews and hype: https://www.forcedexposure.com/Catalog/starlight-assembly-starlight-and-still-air-cd/BNSD.062CD.html https://www.fluid-radio.co.uk/2021/10/starlight-assembly-starlight-and-still-air/ https://lineamasondixon.it/en/2021/10/27/starlight-assembly-2/ The vocal arrangements sort of remind me what can be heard in contemporary opera compositions. And unfortunately I typically find that style annoying, soulless, and simply poorly done. But there’s always room for me to learnContinue reading “Starlight And Still Air by Starlight Assembly”

Good To Be Back In Reality by Colin Webster / Matthew Grigg

https://colinwebster.bandcamp.com/album/good-to-be-back-in-reality Genre: Free Jazz Rating: 🎷 🎷 🎷 🎷 🎷 released on bandcamp August 20, 2022 Webster and Grigg have released a free jazz record that pushes into the realm experimental noise. Resting somewhere on the horizon bringing to mind earlier pioneers like Borbetomagus and Keith Rowe. The tracks bubble with abstract unfolding sounds. TheContinue reading “Good To Be Back In Reality by Colin Webster / Matthew Grigg”

Preserves by Street Tentacle

https://balancepointacoustics.bandcamp.com/album/preserves Genre: Free Jazz Rating: 🎷🎷🎷🎷🎷 Released on Bandcamp August 8, 2022 It’s been a minute since I’ve heard any new free jazz releases banging like this one. There’s the joke about jazz is anything with a saxophone. While that may not be true, it is true that saxophonist Jeff Chan is actually the onlyContinue reading “Preserves by Street Tentacle”

Tilting Irons by TONGUE DEPRESSOR

https://tonguedepressor.bandcamp.com/album/tilting-irons Genre: Experimental Rating: 🐍🐍🐍🐍 released on bandcamp February 15, 2022 Two tracks by this avant garde duo. Sounds like a spelunking expedition in Lee Ranaldo lock grooves. Neither musician seems to have any desire to show off. They just hop into very peculiar patterns and slowly warp and bend what starts out warped andContinue reading “Tilting Irons by TONGUE DEPRESSOR”

construída 2 by May HD, Mariana Carvalho, Em Extinção, Taticocteau

Genre: Experimental Rating: 5/5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ released on bandcamp July 25, 2022 Unrecognizable national anthems brought forth from decimated vinyl to protest the repulsiveness of life in Brazil during the reign of Jair Bolsonaro. As an American, and further as a Floridian, I get it. This is a not a noise release but it is anContinue reading “construída 2 by May HD, Mariana Carvalho, Em Extinção, Taticocteau”

loosies by contron

Genre: Folk Rating: 5/5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ released on Bandcamp July 29, 2016 Going by discogs and bandcamp release dates best I can figure, Contron, who just popped into my bandcamp feed with a new single was most active in 2013 and then again in 2019. He’s a lofi folk musician somewhat in the vein of Smog.Continue reading “loosies by contron”

A NU MYSTIC TRAJECTORY by HKE

https://dreamcatalogue.bandcamp.com/album/a-nu-mystic-trajectory Genre: What Pop Music Should Be Rating: 5/5 ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ released on bandcamp July 7, 2022 First off, praise. AOTY list maker. All that. Fucking brilliant. So goddamn great. It’s really burdensome to try to describe. First and foremost, fuck my review, just listen to it. It’s sad music. In aContinue reading “A NU MYSTIC TRAJECTORY by HKE”

January 7, 2022 by Kenneth Kirschner

https://kennethkirschner.bandcamp.com/album/january-7-2022 Genre: Contemporary Rating: 5/5 ⭐️ ⭐️⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ Kirschner captures the style of composition of the mid twentieth century two or three degrees out from Schoenberg perfectly. The slow unfolding of notes crawling around diminished scales into to the nether of atonality never to find resolution piano style is delicately plated. He’s fantastic atContinue reading “January 7, 2022 by Kenneth Kirschner”

passage by Nicholas Maloney

https://unfathomless.bandcamp.com/album/passage Genre: Ambient Rating: 5/5 ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ released on bandcamp June 20, 2022 This one really surprised me. It’s ambient music in the purest sense in that it cooperates fully with your actual surroundings. So subtle as to be almost unnoticeable for the first few minutes then the birds came and IContinue reading “passage by Nicholas Maloney”

Vibraphone Improvisations by Will Redman

https://willredman.bandcamp.com/album/vibraphone-improvisations Genre: Avant Garde Rating: 5/5 ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ released on bandcamp March 29, 2022 This one is an austere, no gimmicks, no bullshit, no show off flash – vibraphone improvisation. It’s the right instrument done the right way. I’d be comfortable calling this third stream jazz just based off of the instrumentContinue reading “Vibraphone Improvisations by Will Redman”

Pink Dolphins by Anteloper

https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/pink-dolphins Genre: Space Rock Jazz Fusion Rating: 5/5 ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ released on bandcamp June 17, 2022 First off, thanks to the band for making this available for free. It seems like every record that comes up on my bandcamp feed is missing half the record. Some of these musicians are so obscureContinue reading “Pink Dolphins by Anteloper”

Kazumoto Endo/Blood of Chhinnamastika- The Goddess of Mercy by Aberrant Recordings

https://aberrantrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/kazumoto-endo-blood-of-chhinnamastika-the-goddess-of-mercy Genre: Noise Rating: 5/5 released on bandcamp March 22, 2022 If you’re up for all this strap in. It’s brutal noise at its brutalist. Although this is directly more aggressive track four, Trauma Based Mind Control by the second half of the split by Blood of Chhinnamastika with its human voice tape cut-ins madeContinue reading “Kazumoto Endo/Blood of Chhinnamastika- The Goddess of Mercy by Aberrant Recordings”

Khimaira by Child of Illusion

https://susanasantossilva.bandcamp.com/album/khimaira Genre: Free Jazz Rating: 5/5 releases May 13, 2022 Chris Pitsiokos – alto saxophone Susana Santos Silva – trumpet Torbjörn Zetterberg – double bass To me, Silva is golden. I treat everything she does with awe and respect. Put it this way, I get as excited about her releases as I do anyone’s inContinue reading “Khimaira by Child of Illusion”

Form Less Ness by Andy Cartwright

https://seabuckthorn.bandcamp.com/album/form-less-ness Genre: Ambient Rating: 4/5 released May 6, 2022 Andy Cartwright, whose best work is the bowed-guitar centered alias Seabuckthorn, has thrown his hat in the very crowded arena of ambient music. I’ve exhausted my free listens on bandcamp so it definitely kept pulling me back. He has a special way of using both foundContinue reading “Form Less Ness by Andy Cartwright”