L’Olympia Bruno Coquatrix, Paris 2nd February 2017 While briefly communicating with the Earthlings present at the Magma Café OTO gig in London last year, Stella Vander informed us supplicants of a gathering of the tribes to be held at the…
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In recent times Scandinavia has established itself as the go-to place for heavy prog, and amongst the vanguard is Swedish instrumental behemoth Gösta Berlings Saga. A new album from this fine bunch of Viking renegades is always anticipated chez moi,…
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“Zhongyu” is Chinese for “Finally”, so explains the subtitle of this album, referring to much-travelled musician and writer Jon Davis’s long hoped for band fusing Western rock and ethnic Chinese music finally coming to fruition. In partnership with fellow Seattle…
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A year or so from their last full-length waxing, Show Me Where It Hertz, occasional noise terrorists Necromonkey are back twiddling knobs and hitting things in the name of auricular unsettlement with a short blast of cutting edge technofear by…
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A meeting of two fiercely independent-minded guitarists like Richard Pinhas and Barry Cleveland could go one of two ways, and thankfully Mu is very much a case of individual egos being left at the door for the good of the…
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Up in that Northern enclave of artistic agitation, aka Hebden Bridge, oddly and without rhyme nor reason also once home to The Wicked Witch’s Press Secretary, there lurks a one-man musical infinity engine by the name of Colin Robinson. Colin…
View More Jumble Hole Clough – This Salty Armada: music for imaginary puppet shows, volume one
Two years on from their initial sonic explorations into Alien/Abacadaver, Kent band Lapis Lazuli have developed their sound into a melange of wonderfulness wherein the listener can get lost deep in the thickets of the Garden of England, transported into…
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If you have never entered the alluring soundworld of American band Jack O’The Clock then you are in for a treat. Musical polymath Damon Waitkus has led his Americana-infused chamber pop orchestra through all manner of changes over the years…
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It’s been a while since I ventured into the experimental deep end of the pool, it’s been a struggle getting there past the wary learners and the middle distance swimmers, such is their ever growing number. An album by Killing…
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Stian Westerhus is a Norwegian guitarist and sound manipulator with a long and varied CV in esoteric avant jazz and electronica circles, and amongst many others has worked with Jaga Jazzist, Supersilent, and Motorpsycho. Stian has released many critically acclaimed…
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