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Antique Seeking Nuns - Mild Profundities, Double Egg with Chips & Careful! It's Tepid

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Antique Seeking Nuns has, for the better part of a decade been a joint side-project started by guitarist Joff Winks and keyboardist Matt Baber (later joined by drummer Paul Mallyon and bassist Brad...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 2010-07-01)

Amy X Neuburg & The Cello Chixtet - The Secret Language of Subways

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Putting cellos and Amy X Neuburg’s amazing voice together seems like a great idea, and by the end of the opening track, “One Lie,” I was hooked. On it Neuburg lays bare the lyrics...

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(Posted by Paul Hightower 2010-07-01)

Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO - Interstellar Guru and Zero

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I find it extremely challenging to keep up with this prolific band with their myriad lineups and bazillions of releases. This time around, the band is Tsuyama Atsushi (monster bass, tortoiseshell...

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(Posted by Henry Schneider 2010-07-01)

Sebkha-Chott - De la persistence & Niglah

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Sebkha-Chott is a band of wild and crazy young French musicians playing music that is so bizarre and unclassifiable that I do not know where to begin. I reviewed their second release...

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(Posted by Henry Schneider 2010-01-01)

Ancient Vision - Lost at Sea

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I'll hazard a guess that there aren't a lot of prog bands in Kansas City, Missouri, so that alone sets Ancient Vision in rarefied company. Their previous albums date from 1990 and 1995, so it's...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2010-01-01)

Runaway Totem - Manu Menes

Cover art Runaway Totem has always tended toward the out-there beyond-the-unusual side of avant-garde rock, and this sprawling 72-minute three-sided monster is no exception. Each of the three side-long cuts...  » Read more
(Posted by Peter Thelen 2009-07-01)

Robin Taylor - Isle of Black

Cover art Danish Guitarist Robin Taylor's adventurous endeavors continue forward on his tenth solo album in ten years with a markedly different slant. Opening cut, "Confessions," meshes old-style Frippertronics...  » Read more
(Posted by Jeff Melton 2009-07-01)

Robert Rich & Fayrus - Zerkalo

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Even before ambient – an often systems-obsessed form – became acknowledged as the music to ignore, drones had already and long allowed the listener to suspend or focus...

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(Posted by K. Leimer 2009-07-01)

Richie Havens - Nobody Left to Crown

Cover art If one hasn't listened to anything new by Richie Havens since the 60s or 70s, perhaps it’s time to listen again. If anything, this latest offering from the respected singer-songwriter is as good as...  » Read more
(Posted by Peter Thelen 2009-07-01)

Richard Pinhas and Merzbow - Keio Line

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Having redefined the scale of sonic monumentalism with the 2006 two-disc set Metatron, Keio...

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(Posted by K. Leimer 2009-07-01)
 

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