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Bertrand Loreau - Réminiscences

Bertrand Loreau is a French synthesist who has been composing and releasing music for the past 30 years. Listening to and learning from the masters Klaus Schulze and Vangelis, Loreau has an...

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(Posted by Henry Schneider 2011-06-01)

Bill Cutler - Crossing the Line

Bill Cutler arrived in San Francisco in 1970, spent the following decades producing other people’s records, and on his first album channels all those influences and experiences. His guitar...

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

Bittertown - Scenes from the Box

Dutch bassist Tom Janssen is the driving force behind this album, though his debut solo outing, Are You Surprised, dates back to 2004. For this concept album he’s enlisted aid from...

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(Posted by Paul Hightower 2011-06-01)

Blld - Materia Prima

This 20-minute EP is very tasty indeed. A meeting of Ric Byer (also known as 05Ric) and Markus Reuter would be expected to be a summit meeting of two original and remarkable players, but this...

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(Posted by Jeff Melton, Scott Steele 2011-06-01)

Blue Cranes - Observatories

Blue Cranes are from Portland, Oregon; led by two saxophones, one alto and one tenor. The band has a remarkable style, having heard Monk and Zorn but wanting to play straightforward rock melodies....  » Read more
(Posted by Jeff Melton, Scott Steele 2011-06-01)

Bone Cave Ballet - The Echo of Entropy

"Bone Cave Ballet" — what an evocative name. So many possible interpretations, all of them intriguing. The music itself has a similar quality, with lyrics that catch your imagination without lending...  » Read more
(Posted by Jon Davis 2011-06-01)

Brown vs Brown - Odds and Unevens

Rock vs. jazz; punk vs. art; complex compositions vs. raw improvisation. Brown vs. Brown encompasses all of this and much more, turning in seven long tracks of blistering raw energy for their...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 2011-06-01)

Brunnen - Swoon

<crickets> — that’s either the typical response to the question “Any Brunnen fans in the audience?” or an accurate description of the third track on this CD. Brunnen...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2011-06-01)

Bryan Ferry - Olympia

Bryan Ferry has noticeably become very particular when releasing new material under his own name. Reportedly this album was going to be a Roxy Music recording at one point, seriously re-worked and...

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(Posted by Jeff Melton 2011-06-01)

Cage - Secret Passage

There’s nothing new about a progressive rock band sounding a bit like classic Genesis, and unless you have a categorical dislike of bands that sound a bit like classic Genesis, Cage has a lot...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2011-06-01)

Carla Kihlstedt / Matthias Bossi / Shahzad Ismaily - Causing a Tiger

Here we have three principals of various Bay Area art-music assemblages of recent vintage creating something new and radically different from their usual endeavors. Most readers will know violinist...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 2011-06-01)

Carta - An Index of Birds

Carta hail from the S.F. Bay Area and currently consist of Kyle Monday (guitar), Sacha Galvagna (bass, keyboards), Ray Welter (guitar, keyboards), Gabriel Coan (drums, electronics), Jason Perez...

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(Posted by Paul Hightower 2011-06-01)

Cédric Vuille - Faire

Guitarist and multi-instrumentalist Vuille may be better known as a founder member of the Swiss Band L’Ensemble Rayé, and Debile Menthol before that. But with little to no recording activity from...  » Read more
(Posted by Peter Thelen 2011-06-01)

Celestial Oeuvre - This Mortal Coil

The story around this album is a sad one. New Yorkers Celestial Oeuvre had just finished work on the follow up to their 2004 debut Second Chance when keyboard player / bassist / guitar...

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(Posted by Paul Hightower 2011-06-01)

Chance:Risiko - Sleep Talking

The first thing I’d have to say about this four-piece from Bologna is that they really don’t sound Italian, which of course is an absurd thing to say, since a whole country can’t...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2011-06-01)

Christopher Froh / Christopher Burns - Triptych

So if a tryptich is an art work that has three parts, for example three panels in a hinged painting that opens up, how come this musical tryptich has five tracks? The answer is that two of them are...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2011-06-01)

Chuck van Zyl - MemorySpace

Van Zyl is probably best known for his Philadelphia based Stars End radio program, which he has hosted for over 30 years now, and his long running concert series The Gathering, which has...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 2011-06-01)

CJ Boyd - Aerial Roots

I previously encountered C.J. Boyd with his group Sexxxtet (reviewed last issue), and while this recording features him without the cellos, there are definitely some musical similarities. The...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2011-06-01)

Clogs - The Creatures in the Garden of Lady Walton

It's an actual place: Lady Walton's Giardini La Mortella acts as a foundation in memory of her late husband, the composer Sir William Walton, provides the setting for classical performances and –...  » Read more
(Posted by K. Leimer 2011-06-01)

Conqueror - Madame Zelle

Not much accompanied this promo – just a disc in an envelope. No booklet, tray card, or information. Normally my attitude is that if a label doesn’t care enough to send artwork or any...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 2011-06-01)