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Sound & Vision
Recently discovered free jazz gems from Los Angeles and Berlin, orchestral free jazz spiked by West African grooves, folk-jazz tracing the history of indigenous North American Wabanaki people, and dynamic dice-and-splice free jazz assemblages from LA are featured in Peter Margasak’s latest round up of jazz and improvised music.
On its 40th anniversary, Eden Tizard explores The Fall’s Perverted By Language, an album where Mark E. Smith turns his focus to the suburbs and its inhabitants. A key record in The Fall saga, featuring a group at a crossroads, on the hunt for a new mode of attack
In a special, British bands-only summer edition of his punk and hardcore round-up, Noel Gardner surveys superb new releases from Chain Of Flowers, Yfory and more, as well as a highly-reccomended new compilation of classic anarcho punk. Homepage photo: Fashion Tips
Brilliant film director Peter Strickland has long flown the flag for psychedelic, eccentric and disconcerting European music but on latest film Flux Gourmet he put his money where his mouth was by including his own very curious group, The Sonic Catering Band. Will Salmon celebrates a singular soundtrack and vision