Arising from the charred remains of the superbly monikered American RIO exponents Sleepytime Gorilla Museum comes Free Salamander Exhibit, who after many years of toil unleashed this defiant racket on an unsuspecting world at the end of last year. Comin’…
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Esoteric Recordings continue their trawl along the Marianas Trench of what was simply known as the “underground” music scene of the late ’60s and early ’70s with this album by a band so obscure, even I had never heard of…
View More 9:30 Fly – 9:30 Fly
There seems to be a few really good and genuinely progressive rock bands fronted by female singers coming out of the North American sub-continent at the moment. You’re probably all aware of Bent Knee, and maybe Half Past Four, and…
View More iNFiNiEN – Light at the Endless Tunnel
If there’s an award for album title of the year, this wins it, surely? Arising like a mutant bastard love child of Guru Guru and Acid Mothers Temple from the putrid swamp at the mouth of the River Mersey, Zen…
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Another band following in the currently popular minimalist jazz fusion tradition, the Swiss group AKKU Quintet make music that is at one and the same time glacial and precise, yet human and emotional. The plaintive conversation between piano and guitar…
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Nooumena, with their odd name derived from Greek philosophy, hail from Caen in France and Controlled Freaks is their second album, the first, Argument With Eagerness, came out in 2011. They have close connections to fellow Caen avant-prog band Rhùn…
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Way back in 2010, one of MoonJune Records’ many Indonesian guitarist discoveries gave us his band Ethnomission’s first glorious outing Save The Planet. Released on 1st January 2017 comes this second offering from Ethnomission HQ, the superbly exploratory Mata Hati.…
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“Mother, he’s got in again…you know what that means, don’t you?” “Oh Gadzooks, Henry! Not the attic again…I swear to Jehosephat I hid the key well!” “He always finds it, you know that. How, I don’t know.” “The pink medicine…
View More Nick Prol & the Proletarians – Loon Attic
The Barbican Theatre, London 8th April 2017 A beautiful and warm spring day in the capital glossed over a visit to a rather lacklustre Italian eatery near Dean Street, prior to a convoluted saunter on the Tube the wrong way…
View More Irmin Schmidt & The London Symphony Orchestra / The Can Project
It would be easy to say of any new release from Norwegian sonic pioneers Ulver “Well, that wasn’t what I was expecting!”, but I have long come to realise that it is far easier to leave all expectations at the…
View More Ulver – The Assassination of Julius Caesar