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Fjieri - Endless & Stefano Panunzi - A Rose

Italian music can range from the worst, unlistenable mainstream to the most elegant and stimulating avantgarde. Concerning the latter, a case in point is talented Roman composer / keyboardist...

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(Posted by Alessandro Michelucci 2011-07-01)

Flood - Tales from the Four Seasons

Flood is a one man band who plays all the instruments (acoustic guitar, keyboards and clarinet, among others) on this CD which gives us four tunes, one for each season. The entire CD is a tranquil...

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(Posted by Dan Marsh 2011-06-01)

Fra Fra Sound - Dya So

It’s a big world, and many people are free to move around it, so something like a “Dutch Afro-Caribbean” jazz band shouldn’t be too unexpected, I suppose. And given this...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2011-06-01)

French TV - I Forgive You for All My Unhappiness

This is the tenth album by bassist Mike Sary and company, which this time (for the most part) includes ex-Boud Deun / current Prester John guitarist Shawn Persinger, drummer Jeff Gard, Adam Huffer...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 2011-06-01)

Frequency Drift - Personal Effects (Part Two)

Frequency Drift is primarily the effort of German keyboardist Andreas Hack, though he’s joined by a large group of supporting players that includes three female vocalists, three guitar...

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(Posted by Paul Hightower 2011-06-01)

Frogg Café - Bateless Edge

New York’s Frogg Café has released one of the most interesting albums of the year with Bateless Edge. This is a 77-minute CD with eight songs ranging from five to 14 minutes, three of...  » Read more
(Posted by Dan Marsh 2011-06-01)

Garaj Mahal - More Mr Nice Guy & Discovery

Garaj Mahal takes some of the classic elements of 70s fusion and makes them work in today’s musical climate. While the music is sometimes on the funky side of rhythm, the jazz feel always...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2011-06-01)

Gary DiBenedetto - Twin Towers

Gary DiBenedetto is an electro-acoustic composer from New York and Twin Towers is his effort to present a compilation of radical and controversial sonic collages designed to imply...

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(Posted by Henry Schneider 2011-06-01)

Gary Husband - Dirty & Beautiful Volume 1

The idea of Jan Hammer and Allan Holdsworth playing together on a single recording (likely a fantasy of fusion fans everywhere) has come to pass on this new album from Gary Husband. Husband’s...

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

Godsticks - Spiral Vendetta

Beginning with the obvious, Darran Charles, Godsticks' singer and principal songwriter, wants to be Adrian Belew. His high tenor perfectly mimics those eccentric, fluid melodies with emphasis through...  » Read more
(Posted by Alan K. Lipton 2011-06-01)

Goldbug - The Seven Dreams

Seven bopping tunes of a highly improvisational nature are gathered together on this recording by the sterling quartet of Theo Travis on saxophones and flute; Tim Motzer on guitar, keyboards,...

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(Posted by Scott Steele 2011-06-01)

Gong Global Family - Live in Brazil 20 November 2007

November 20th, 2007 is the date, one of three shows in Brazil that year. Daevid Allen and Josh Pollock (University of Errors) are joined by a number of Brazilian musicians (members of the Invisible...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 2011-06-01)

Govea - Danza Urbana

This Mexican trio is led by keyboard wizard Salvador Govea, who also handles most of the compositions and arrangements. He is joined by bassist Luis Arturo Guerrero and drummer Victor Baldovinos, the...  » Read more
(Posted by Peter Thelen 2011-06-01)

Gunda Gottschalk / Xu Fengxia - Youlan

Here we have a set of live improvisations with Gunda Gottschalk, a German violinist, and Xu Fengxia, a Chinese guzheng player; both of them also provide vocal sounds. The guzheng is an ancient...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2011-06-01)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)