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Haiku Funeral - Assassination in the Hashish Cathedral & If God Is a Drug

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At hand we have the second and third releases by Haiku Funeral. The nine tracks of Assassination in the Hashish Cathedral explore dark grotesque soundworlds, laced with disturbing gothic...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 2011-06-01)

Half Past Four - Rabbit in the Vestibule

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This is Toronto quartet Half Past Four’s first full-length album that isn’t a movie score (2007’s The Mad). A variety of genres are melded here, including art,...

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(Posted by Pam Thompson 2011-06-01)

Hanggai - He Who Travels Far

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Since their 2008 debut CD, this band from Inner Mongolia (currently resident in Beijing) has become a world music festival favorite, playing WOMAD, among others. That release blended the earthy...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2011-06-01)

Happy Birthday Secret Weapon - Ground Floor Coming Up

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This Seattle-based band takes an interesting turn away from standard guitar power trio sounds. Certainly more complex (especially rhythmically) than your standard rock fare, they haven’t...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2011-06-01)

Harley Gaber - I Saw My Mother Ascending Mount Fuji

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Gaber’s 65-minute piece for “multi-track violin, processed alto flute and tape” is, to get metaphorical (which is about the only way to really describe music), an abstract...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2011-06-01)

Henry Gwiazda - Claudia and Paul

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This audio-visual work is constructed from hyper-realistic depictions of populated and empty urban landscapes. Repeated stills with captions and numerals or replays of simple events seem like a...

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(Posted by Alan K. Lipton 2011-06-01)

Hey Marseilles - To Travels and Trunks

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Seattle may be most famous for its noisy rock, but there seems to be a crop of bands with expanded instrumentation and more melodic intentions. Case in point: Hey Marseilles. Their brand of...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2011-06-01)

Holloway - Illusions

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Holloway is a new band from Michigan, currently operating as a quintet, though the band that recorded this debut was just the threesome of Ross Morgan (guitar, vocals, drums), his brother Josh...

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(Posted by Paul Hightower 2011-06-01)

Hualun - Asian River

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For their second release, this Wuhan post-rock crew has stepped up a few notches from their debut, Silver Daydream (

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2011-06-01)

Hypnos 69 - Legacy

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It’s been a a few years since we reviewed this Belgian band’s previous effort, The Eclectic Measure, but this latest release Legacy (also available as a double-LP) is...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 2011-06-01)
 

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