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Jack o' the Clock - All My Friends

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This Northern California ensemble plays an off-kilter mix of a number of styles with enough originality to make what they do hopelessly unclassifiable, yet beckoning on a number of levels. There...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 2013-12-12)

Salim Ghazi Saeedi - namoWoman

Cover art While the electric guitar is Salim Ghazi Saeedi's primary instrument, namoWoman doesn't sound like a guitarist's album so much as chamber music with electric guitar and (sometimes) drums....  » Read more
(Posted by Jon Davis 2013-12-11)

She Owl - She Owl

Cover art There's something to be said for the simplicity of a songwriter just sitting at a piano and singing his or her songs. When it works, the directness and intimacy can be very affecting. Of course, if it...  » Read more
(Posted by Jon Davis 2013-12-10)

Taylor's Universe - Evidence

Cover art This latest offering by Robin Taylor’s band is a bit different than the previous two releases, perhaps more introspective and contemplative. The brooding and pensive fifteen minute opener...  » Read more
(Posted by Peter Thelen 2013-12-07)

The Knells - The Knells

Cover art Some music seems to exist in a world of its own, a place where it came into being spontaneously because it had to exist. The Knells sounds like that to me, music that is somehow not quite...  » Read more
(Posted by Jon Davis 2013-12-06)

Sonar - A Flaw of Nature

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One look at the cover and the magic square that adds up to 15 in any direction, and one might get the idea that math is a big part of this music, and they would be right. But it’s actually a...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 2013-12-06)

Chrome Hoof - Chrome Black Gold

Cover art This will rank as one of the most eclectic releases of the year… heck, maybe even the decade, and a definite bizarre twist from what one would normally expect from Cuneiform. Not being well versed...  » Read more
(Posted by Peter Thelen 2013-12-05)

Beyond-O-Matic - Relations at the Borders Between

Cover art The last time I heard Beyond-O-Matic was with Sonic Reclaimator back in 1998. One thing that's changed in the intervening years is that the music is no longer completely improvised. While...  » Read more
(Posted by Jon Davis 2013-12-04)

Faust - Rien

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Rien is the first new Faust studio release in over twenty years and they have lost none of their humor over the decades. Rien is French for Nothing and that word sums up...

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(Posted by Henry Schneider 2013-11-26)

Xing Sa - Création de l'Univers

Cover art Just based on the record label — Soleil Zeuhl — most zeuhl fans will open their wallet and trigger the purchase. And indeed, fans of that style will not be disappointed, even though as a trio of...  » Read more
(Posted by Peter Thelen 2013-11-24)
 

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