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Kaolin - 2001

This Swiss five-piece has been around in one form or another for over eight years, but this five track 28 minute CD is their first release. Why it’s titled 2001 is a mystery, perhaps...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 2003-08-01)

King Crimson - Level Five

Initially a limited edition live CD, Level Five joins the set of other interim releases prior to The Power to Believe. The process for airing new King Crimson material again is to...  » Read more
(Posted by Jeff Melton 2003-08-01)

Mari Boine - Eight Seasons & Remixed

NorthSide’s releases of Wimme’s CDs have provided the most visible presence of Sami music in North America, but Mari Boine has been recording longer, and is fairly well known in the world music...  » Read more
(Posted by Jon Davis 2003-08-01)

Matthew Shipp, Spring Heel Jack & Others - Equilibrium, VisionFest, Good and Evil Sessions

Back in the late 80s, the style called acid jazz emerged, blending jazz with hip-hop elements, essentially bringing a modern groove to jazz, analogous to the incorporation of funk, soul, and rock...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2003-08-01)

Missus Beastly - Missus Beastly

Missus Beastly arose in Germany’s late 60s psychedelic, revolutionary underground scene which also produced the better-known Xhol and Embryo. As the extensive liner notes for this reissue of their...  » Read more
(Posted by Jon Davis 2003-08-01)

Nekropolis - Anubis Dance

Egypt has fascinated rock musicians to varying degrees over the years: Agitation Free, Nik Turner, Anubian Lights, Amenophis, Pink Floyd, Cosmic Jokers, Dissidenten, Gong, and Hawkwind to name a...

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(Posted by Henry Schneider 2003-08-01)

Out of Focus - Rat Roads

This is my first encounter with this classic German group, so knowing that the tracks are outtakes from their 1972 sessions for the album Four Letter Monday Afternoon didn’t tell me...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2003-08-01)

Ozone Player - E

Ozone Player is an electronic project created by Otso Pakarinen, but a real oddball one that doesn’t fit into any of the schools of electronic music. It’s not heavily sequenced,...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2003-08-01)

Pak & RonRuins - 100% Human Hair & Big Shoes

Ron Anderson is a musician, composer and improviser who has been involved in numerous projects over the years, including Rat At Rat R, The Molecules, Vacuum Tree Head, Guapo, Metal Eater and many...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 2003-08-01)

Peter Hammill - Clutch

You can count on the words to be insightful, sometimes bitter, and never trivial. The music always seems to serve the words, not the other way round. With many songwriters, you find lyrics that...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2003-08-01)

Rick Wakeman & The English Rock Ensemble - Live in Buenos Aires

One of Rick Wakeman’s several visits to South America gets the DVD treatment with this unique packaging of DVD and separate CD. Damian Wilson is Rick’s newest singer and his lead vocal captures...  » Read more
(Posted by Jeff Melton 2003-08-01)

Rik Wright - Isomorphism

Rik Wright is one third of Seattle’s Jackhammer Trio, and in this solo outing he is joined by various players in a decidedly jazzy context. Cohorts along for the ride include saxophonist Dan...

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(Posted by Jeff Melton 2003-08-01)

Round House - Jin.Zo-Ni.N.Gen & Wings to Rest

The Japanese five-piece Round House apparently never recorded a proper album during their existence in the late 70s, though two releases were cobbled together out of live tracks, demos, and some...  » Read more
(Posted by Jon Davis 2003-08-01)

Satoko Fujii - Bell the Cat!

Pianist Satoko Fujii has done more than pay her dues in her native homeland of Japan. In thirteen previous solo releases the performer has refined her combined style of free jazz interpolation as...

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(Posted by Jeff Melton 2003-08-01)

Satoko Fujii Quartet - Minerva

Fujii’s main Japanese quartet is spotlighted in this recent release. In contrast with her previous trio work, this collection of five pieces is a blistering workout of like minded players who...

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(Posted by Jeff Melton 2003-08-01)

Soft Works - Abracadabra

A lot of excitement surrounded the formation of this band, whose early performances did not bode well, in how they were described as rather tilted towards wayward soloing. Holdsworth is the one...

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(Posted by Mike Ezzo 2003-08-01)

Soft Works - Abracadabra

Any album that includes a Soft Machine connection and features players such as Hugh Hopper, Allan Holdsworth, and Elton Dean is due to attract quite a bit of attention. Abracadabra is a...

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(Posted by David Ashcraft 2003-08-01)

Soft Works - Abracadabra

Leave it to MoonJune Records executive Leonardo Pavkovic to unite former members of Soft Machine into a creditable improvising quartet. Rumors had been flying for almost two years prior as to who...

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(Posted by Jeff Melton 2003-08-01)

Spring Heel Jack - Amassed

Coxon and Wales are at it again! The results of their first attempts to assimilate free jazz into techno on their last album only fueled the fire for further attempts to create valid collages...

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(Posted by Jeff Melton 2003-08-01)

Steve Howe - Skyline

This solo release finds the Yes guitarist in a rather mellow mood, favoring light latin sounds with only sparse percussion. Paul Sutin’s keyboards and percussion provide relatively basic...  » Read more
(Posted by Jon Davis 2003-08-01)