https://lillernetapes.bandcamp.com/album/house-of-care-2 Genre: Ambient Rating: 5/5 released on bandcamp April 28, 2022 perila sticks to a winning formula that she delivers on better than all others. The ingredients are simple single instrument ambient compositions. Already from just this she creates an earthy ambience earthy in the Garden of Earthly Delights sense. The sound of Cambrian PeriodContinue reading “house of care by perila”
Category Archives: avant garde
8 years by Unleashed Cooperation
https://multikultiproject.bandcamp.com/album/8-years Genre: Jazz Rating: 5/5 released on bandcamp April 27, 2022 Unleashed Cooperation is a Polish jazz sextet. The music on 8 Years is very diverse in terms of tonality but it is never frenetic or chaotic. In fact, one of the most appealing aspects of this record is how smooth it is. It’s likeContinue reading “8 years by Unleashed Cooperation”
having you, halving me by thought refuge
https://thoughtrefuge.bandcamp.com/album/having-you-halving-me Genre: Ambient Rating: 5/5 released on bandcamp April 8, 2022 Clocking in at about 16 minutes, time is somewhat of an irrelevancy for this dreamy instrumental guitar centered ep. There’s two important things going on here and I’m going to reference Grouper and Guided by Voices to explain it to you. The Grouper partContinue reading “having you, halving me by thought refuge”
Feeding The Machine by Binker and Moses
https://binkerandmoses.bandcamp.com/album/feeding-the-machine Genre: Free Jazz Rating: 5/5 released on bandcamp February 25, 2022 Goddamn this is wild. This record does for free jazz what Spacemen 3 did for psychedelic rock. This record is the four minutes spent zooming on nitrous while you were already tripping on acid. Roots wise, the echo brings to mind Bitches BrewContinue reading “Feeding The Machine by Binker and Moses”
Stuutjes by Berlinde Deman & Rutger Zuydervelt
https://machinefabriek.bandcamp.com/album/stuutjes Genre: Experimental Rating: 5/5 released on bandcamp April 1, 2022 All I’m going to do is gush. I think sometimes people who take it on to themselves to review serious music like this feel embarrassed or think it’s childish to gush but when you’re confronted with greatness at the this level it’s a dutyContinue reading “Stuutjes by Berlinde Deman & Rutger Zuydervelt”
Vairagya by Mario Lino Stancati
https://unexplainedsoundsgroup.bandcamp.com/album/vairagya Genre: Experimental Rating: 4/5 released on bandcamp April 1, 2022 The distinction of borders are probably less important than they were in the 1960’s but there’s still a borrowing and building symbiotic relationship of artistic ideas among Italian and German composers. This one’s Italian and you can hear the space savore sanguino. Vairagya, I’veContinue reading “Vairagya by Mario Lino Stancati”
Breaking News by Hildegard Westerkamp
https://earsaymusic.bandcamp.com/album/breaking-news Genre: Electroacoustic Rating: I refuse to put a number on it. released March 25, 2022 “The pieces presented here were created between 1988 and 2012” I’m determined not to feel self-conscious about writing sentences like this next one. To me, this release is a sonic representation of what it is to be a livingContinue reading “Breaking News by Hildegard Westerkamp”
Malar by Uwalmassa
https://divisi62.bandcamp.com/album/malar Genre: Experimental Rating: 5/5 released on bandcamp January 5, 2022 Recently a few things have been coming out of Indonesia that’s likely to sit well with fans of western avant garde music. Developing an appreciation for Gamelan is a rite of passage for western music fans. Indonesians were working with complex microtonal percussive conceptsContinue reading “Malar by Uwalmassa”
Fertile Garden by Rob Brown / Juan Pablo Carletti
https://nobusinessrecords.bandcamp.com/album/fertile-garden Genre: Free Jazz Rating: 4/5 Brown and Carletti have created a laid back free jazz release consisting of two tracks that combine to make a little under an hour’s worth of solid music. Both tracks are credited to alto saxophonist Brown. I’m pretty sure the majority of the jazz I listen to the saxContinue reading “Fertile Garden by Rob Brown / Juan Pablo Carletti”
…for double bass & prerecorded electronics by Daniel Barbiero
https://shopendtitles.bandcamp.com/album/for-double-bass-prerecorded-electronics Genre: Experimental Rating: 5/5 released on bandcamp March 22, 2022 Sometimes I really feel pressure to get the right words out there. I’m pressed for time this morning but I want to get this review out. Two and half listens in, I’m telling you this is one of those that’s going to… let’s sayContinue reading “…for double bass & prerecorded electronics by Daniel Barbiero”
The Emerald Figurines by Biliana Voutchkova – Michael Zerang
https://relativepitchrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-emerald-figurines Genre: Experimental Rating: 4/5 released on bandcamp March 4, 2022 Not my usual starting point but I love the album cover. Y’all, this is straight up hard boiled no bullshit austere as fuck not fucking around avant garde music. The difference between hit and miss with stuff is razor thin. I’m partial to theContinue reading “The Emerald Figurines by Biliana Voutchkova – Michael Zerang”
Wagtail by Julius Schwing
https://isthmus-music.bandcamp.com/album/wagtail Genre: Avant Garde Rating: 5/5 released on bandcamp March 4, 2022 This one really took me by surprise and grabbed me by the nuts. Maybe this is as obscure as I think it is or maybe by admitting this is my first contact will get me laughed out of the blogosphere. I hope it’sContinue reading “Wagtail by Julius Schwing”
STUDY IN STILL LIFE by INCIPIENTIUM
https://idealrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/study-in-still-life Genre: Experimental Rating: 4/5 released on bandcamp March 10, 2022 Kall Savann AKA Incipientium has created one of those slow paced rumblers drone recordings. It lands somewhere in the jungles between what we’ve been calling drone lately and what we used to call industrial before the marriage to 808 State. To be clear there’sContinue reading “STUDY IN STILL LIFE by INCIPIENTIUM”
Hakons Ea by Daniel Thompson / Colin Webster
https://colinwebster.bandcamp.com/album/hakons-ea Genre: Contemporary Third Stream Jazz Rating: 4/5 released on bandcamp November 6, 2021 Webster on alto and Thompson on a steel string acoustic guitar. More info on Thompson can be found on his website here: https://www.danielthompsonguitar.com The music on this live recording borrows more from the serialists in the 1940’s than Ayler. I meanContinue reading “Hakons Ea by Daniel Thompson / Colin Webster”
Mani Mani by Pierre Berthet & Rie Nakajima
https://kohlhaas.bandcamp.com/album/mani-mani Genre: Experimental Rating: 3/5 released on bandcamp October 23, 2021 This a pretty straightforward experimental release that should appeal to fans of the genre. It consists of one thirty-six minute track that creaks and cracks and drips and drops and whistles its way into our bony labyrinth. It’s not aggressively intrusive noise music soContinue reading “Mani Mani by Pierre Berthet & Rie Nakajima”
Stolen Lighters by Marsha Fisher
https://falt.bandcamp.com/album/stolen-lighters Genre: musique concrete Rating: 4/5 released on bandcamp October 4, 2021 Like free jazz this is a genre that has been defined since the 1960’s Here the composer chooses to avoid non sequitur collages. It’s a strange forest but there is a path through it. It’s a bit like Ussachevsky except mercifully slowed wayContinue reading “Stolen Lighters by Marsha Fisher”
Joe Morris/Noah K Ignotum by Joe Morris, Noah K
https://glacialerratic.bandcamp.com/album/joe-morris-noah-k-ignotum Genre: Free Jazz Rating: 5/5 released on bandcamp September 23, 2021 Joe Morris actually plays drums on this one and quite competently as well. He’s not doing Buddy Rich imitations but he relates well to Noah K, who plays tenor and soprano. The music is very soulful and holds that alluring quality found inContinue reading “Joe Morris/Noah K Ignotum by Joe Morris, Noah K”
Rodney Chapman – Gnosis by Rodney Chapman
https://ericplaks.bandcamp.com/album/rodney-chapman-gnosis Genre: Free Jazz Rating: 5/5 released on bandcamp August 1, 2021 Another unfathomably great free jazz release from the genre that just keeps giving. Rodney Chapman is a new name in the jazz recording world. Or at he’s least new to me and has a modest web presence. He’s the band leader here andContinue reading “Rodney Chapman – Gnosis by Rodney Chapman”
Disfathom by Sissy Spacek
https://sissyspacek.bandcamp.com/album/disfathom Genre: Noise Rating: originally 4/5 updated to 5/5 released on Bandcamp May 3, 2016 Smashing in your face noise. Edit: I’m updating this on April 12, 2022. The original was from March 17, 2021. Originally, I felt like very brief reviews were adequate because wtf you see my rating, here’s where you can listenContinue reading “Disfathom by Sissy Spacek”
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