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Circe Link & Christian Nesmith - Arcana

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I’ve lost count of how many albums I’ve heard that use Tarot cards as a theme or concept. Just recently we had one from

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2025-03-31)

Circu5 - Clockwork Tulpa

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Circu5 is a relatively new band, another entry into the area of melodic prog-inflected rock. Their music isn’t based around lengthy epics or vintage keyboards, but there are enough proggy...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2025-03-29)

Erik Wøllo - Where the River Widens

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This wondrous 44-minute tour de force seems to simmer with breathtaking beauty, an album that was composed in the valley of Skåbu, Norway, in the summer of 2024 during...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 2025-03-28)

Kryptograf - Kryptonomicon

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The mighty Kryptograf is back with another tasty slab of heavy psychedelic rock. This isn’t the only band out there taking the sound of early Black Sabbath (first four albums, say) and...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2025-03-27)

Jean-Pierre Llabador - Treasure 3.33 Hunt

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Kind of an odd title for an album, isn’t it, until you realize that six of the eight tracks clock in at around three minutes 33 seconds, give or take a few seconds, and the longest is just...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 2025-03-26)

La Nouvelle Musique - Time Ticks Slowly

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The London duo of Joanna Beck (vocals and bass) and Ian de Silva (guitars and piano), AKA La Nouvelle Musique, is a new band to join the Fruits de Mer Records roster. As their initial foray into...

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(Posted by Henry Schneider 2025-03-25)

Rich Halley - Fire Within & Dusk and Dawn

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These two most recent releases from Rich Halley show him in two different settings. On Fire Within, he is joined by Matthew Shipp (piano), Michael Bisio (bass), and Newman Taylor Baker...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2025-03-24)

Pietro Zollo - April, Fragmented Patterns & Abstraction

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Pietro Zollo is a composer of ambient / electronic / drone / minimalist music from Italy with nearly a dozen albums to his credit, though the three under review here represent releases from 2023 to...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 2025-03-23)

Fifth Daughter - Stellar Season

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There is a new band on the Fruits de Mer label, Fifth Daughter, the duo of Nicholas Whittaker (Diagonal) and James Howarth (Running Dogs, The KLF, and Martin “Youth” Glover). Whittaker...

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(Posted by Henry Schneider 2025-03-22)

Joe Fonda Quartet - Eyes on the Horizon

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Nearly every jazz musician readily credits other musicians as their inspiration, and sometimes that relationship takes the form of actual mentorship, either formal or not. It’s often true...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2025-03-21)

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