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Antonio Poscic

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Various Artists

The Alien Territory Archives: A Collection of Radical, Experimental, & Irrelevant Music from 1970s San Diego

Featuring music by Pauline Oliveros, Harry Partch, Diamanda Galás, David Dunn and others, this compilation of experiments from 1970s Southern California is an essential collection, finds Antonio Poscic
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Caspar Brötzmann Massaker

It’s a Love Song

Recorded live earlier earlier this year in Dresden and Vienna, the first album from Brötzmann's power trio in decades is heavy in more ways than one
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Lyra Pramuk

Hymnal

Inspired by dancefloors and slime moulds, the latest album from the multidisciplinary American artist is as opulent and heady as the music mushrooms themselves might make, finds Antonio Poscic
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Ben LaMar Gay

Yowzers

The Chicago cornet player and composer smashes open contemporary jazz, pouring in a host of different styles, from samba to the blues
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Ash Fure

Animal

Award-winning composer strikes at the palpable physical presence of sound
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Pidgins

Refrains Of The Day, Volume 2

Mexico City’s Aaron With and Milo Tamez reverse Jon Hassell’s colonial gaze, creating a thrilling Fourth World music from below
Album of the Week

The End of the World: Revision by Fred Moten & Brandon Lopez is Our Album of the Week

On their third album together, the theorist-poet and the bassist-composer go beyond music towards a total reconsideration of the world
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Peter Brötzmann / John Edwards / Steve Noble / Jason Adasiewicz

The Quartet

The final concert of the late, great German saxophonist and clarinetist, recorded a year ago at London's Cafe Oto, makes for a truly remarkable swan song from an extraordinary artist
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James Brandon Lewis

Apple Cores

New York's most open-minded saxophonist pays tribute to Amiri Baraka and Don Cherry
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Being Strangers

Concrete Dreams Of Sound

Irish sound art Gerard Gormley sonifies the Brutalist confines of London’s Barbican Centre
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Han-Earl Park, Lara Jones and Pat Thomas

Juno 3: Proxemics

A visceral blast of non-idiomatic improvisation truly worthy of the name from the guitar-saxophone-piano (and electronics) trio
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Ayumi Ishito (feat. Kevin Shea and George Draguns)

Roboquarians, Vol. 2

Saxophonist Ayumi Ishito makes her horn sound like everything and anything – bar a saxophone, that is
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Marek Pospieszalski Octet & Zoh Amba

NOW!

Tennessee tenor sax player joins Polish bandleader for six cuts fusing composition and collective improvisation
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Tullis Rennie

Safe Operating Space

Free improv sessions get warped into booming, boundary-pushing electronica on the new album from the Hastings-based composer-producer-improviser-performer
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Jill Fraser

Earthly Pleasures

With a custom-built Serge synthesiser, Fraser re-imagines the revival hymns and choruses of the late 19th and early 20th century
Album of the Week

Back to the Future: Atlas of Green by Dialect

Andrew PM Hunt, of Ex-Easter Island Head, Outfit, and Land Trance, imagines far-flung worlds through glitches, whistles, and the chirruping of birds
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Laurence Pike

The Undreamt-of Centre

With warm electronics and thumping drums, the latest from the Australian drummer-composer is the post-Covid requiem mass you’ve all been waiting for
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Lia Kohl

Normal Sounds

Sounds from floodlights, car alarms and supermarket ambiance (augmented by cello, flute, saxophone and electronics) add up to an uncanny appraisal of the urban soundscape
Album of the Week

Physical Media: Max Ax by Sculpture

The latest from Dan Hayhurst and Reuben Sutherland is simultaneously high art concept piece and a tremendous bit of fun, finds Antonio Poscic
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Eyal Maoz and Eugene Chadbourne

The Coincidence Masters

Two guitarists improvising freely sound only rarely like guitars (and often quite comical), finds Antonio Poscic
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Rhodri Davies

WYTH

A box of eight great records from the almost irritatingly brilliant Welsh harpist
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Scanner & Neil Leonard

The Berklee Sessions

Short wave transmissions meet jazz fusion aesthetics on the latest addition to Robin Rimbaud's fascinating and multi-faceted catalogue
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d’Eon

Leviathan

Montreal's Chris d'Eon returns with more rococo digital psychedelia for those who like their deconstructed IDM with a cool slice of Bach
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Sisso & Maiko

Singeli Ya Maajabu

Striaght out of Dar Es Salaam, bringing the blistering 200 BPM Technicolor sounds of singeli to the extended Nyege Nyege Tapes family
Album of the Week

Put A Konk On It: Spectra Volume 2 By ||ALA|MEDA||

Polish experiementalists (Stara Rzeka, Innercity Ensemble, and Alameda 5) team up with South African trio Phelimuncasi in a burst of bubbling notes and sheer elation, finds Antonio Poscic
A Quietus Interview

Basic Exploration: An Interview With Apartment House

Apartment House leader Anton Lukoszieveze discusses 30 years of combining intricate compositions with a straightforward approach, the band’s performance of Nico’s The Marble Index at this month’s Bristol New Music, and the importance of beekeeping
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[Ahmed]

Giant Beauty

The music of late American bassist Ahmed Abdul-Malik provide a jumping off point for the improvising group on this five CD boxset of live material recorded at 2022’s Edition Festival in Stockholm
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Seán Clancy

Four Sections of Music Unequally Divided

Drawing on ideas from conceptual artist Sol Le Witt and minimalist composer James Tenney, the Irish composer makes music for piano, gamelan and synthesizers
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Alice Coltrane

The Carnegie Hall Concert

A live set from 1971, finds Coltrane – plus a band featuring Archie Shepp, Pharoah Sanders, Tulsi Sen Gupta and others – on inspired form, finds Antonio Poscic
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Ganavya

Like the sky I’ve been too quiet

A combination of English and Tamil, ambient and propulsive, Carnatic song and Appalachian folk, make for a deeply sentimental yet inventive record, finds Antonio Poscic
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divr

Is This Water

Arriving at post-rock by way of post-bop, the Swiss trio make jazz standards of classics by Radiohead and Broadcast
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GUSH

Afro Blue

A 1998 live recording with drummer Raymond Strid, and pianist Sten Sandell, finds Mats Gustafsson on crisp form channelling Coltrane on peals of sparkling, snakelike riffs
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