Well known quotable curmudgeon, scatological juvenile humourist, and sometime genius musician Frank Zappa once said of music journalism: “Writing about music is like dancing about architecture”. Emmett Elvin, purveyor of keyboard goodness for Knifeworld and Guapo, is nothing if not…
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Guy Segers is best known as a founder member of the only original Rock In Opposition band still working, Univers Zéro, although they seem to be on hiatus at present. However, one look at his Bandcamp page shows there is…
View More Eclectic Maybe Band – Reflection In A Mœbius Ring Mirror
Before the usual suspects get their knickers in a twist, the adjective of this website is “progressive”, and that’s exactly what this album is. Anyone who thinks that progressive is a word confined to a certain type of rock music…
View More Flying Lotus – Flamagra
I suppose some of you might see this album as “difficult music”, but I don’t see it like that at all, having a penchant for a feral racket or two, which this may well be, who knows? I just see…
View More PoiL – Sus
Quite a while ago, I noticed that the quite wonderful London based chamber rock group North Sea Radio Orchestra plus guests were performing a live version of Rock Bottom, the 1974 first post-accident solo album from the now British National…
View More North Sea Radio Orchestra with John Greaves & Annie Barbazza – Folly Bololey: Songs from Robert Wyatt’s Rock Bottom
You called…? Hey Weirdo! is the strangely gentle and gently strange second album from multi-national outfit Loomings, now based in Strasbourg. The album arrives a mere four years after their debut, which was on the now seemingly sadly defunct AltrOck…
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The download version of this comes with a 40-minute bonus track! Jeez… anyway, we’ll get to that later. Comparisons are pretty lame, and an easy cop-out for the amateur scribbler, but I have to say that on first listen, at…
View More Henry Kaiser / Anthony Pirog / Tracy Silverman / Jeff Sipe / Andy West – Five Times Surprise
In this update we feature: > Scott Lawlor – Atom Heart Mother > Cykada – Cykada > Thorsten Quaeschning – Cargo Original Soundtrack > Albion – You’ll Be Mine > Fernando Perdomo – Out To Sea 2 > Neutral Sons…
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Krautrock – Part 1 is the fourth musical documentary film from Zeitgeist Media, and a long-running labour of love for its founders, writers, and directors Adele Schmidt and José Zegarra Holder. I have always been slightly uncomfortable using the term…
View More Romantic Warriors IV – Krautrock Part 1
There are few if any bands that made such a significant contribution to the nihilistic and dizzily creative first wave of post-punk experimentalism as Cleveland’s Pere Ubu, the mighty PiL apart, of course. Like most Brits, my first exposure to…
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