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Dustin Krcatovich

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Carl Stone

We Jazz Reworks Vol. 2

Another win for the resurgent cutup composer, this time mining a Finnish jazz label's back catalog for source material

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Alvin Curran

Drumming Up Trouble

The veteran composer and noisemaker devotes himself to the beat of the drum, with pleasingly frenetic and silly results
Reissue of the Week

Reissue Of The Week: Thinking Fellers Union Local 282’s Admonishing The Bishops

One song by this cult San Francisco band had a hand in changing Dustin Krcatovich's life, sans any information about who the hell they were. He reviews a new reissue of their leanest and meanest statement almost 30 years on
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Anna Butterss

Activities

An album by the Los Angeles bassist is as sonically off the wall as it is intimate, according to Dustin Krcatovich
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Abronia

Map of Dawn

On this Oregon psychedelic sextet’s latest album, Dustin Krcatovich hears the natural splendour of the Pacific Northwest reflected in sound
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Avalanche Kaito

s/t

A meeting between a Burkina Faso-raised urban griot and two Belgian noise rockers yields something greater than the sum of its parts, says Dustin Krcatovich

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Fhunyue Gao & Sven Kacirek

Hoya

On this duo’s debut album together, Dustin Krcatovich hears these sonic experimentalists straddling musical lines with a deep-set sensitivity and physicality
Strange World Of...

The Strange World Of… ADULT.

On the eve of a new album and within spitting distance of 25 years as a band, ADULT.'s Nicola Kuperus and Adam Lee Miller join Dustin Krcatovich on a venture into the void of their back catalogue
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Cr-ow-Tr-io

Hold Music

The debut recording by this London experimental improv trio featuring Cath Roberts, Otto Wilberg and Tullis Rennie is both fun and focused, finds Dustin Krcatovich, though his mother might not agree
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Model Home

both feet en th infinite

A new album by the Washington DC-based noise/hip hop crew crisps up the sonics, but keeps a tight grip on the weird
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Irreversible Entanglements

Open the Gates

With their third fiery LP, this righteous quintet continue to show that they’re more than just another excellent Moor Mother project, finds Dustin Krcatovich
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SÁCCEA

Onyros

On this new EP, the Buenos Aires-based producer takes glitchy sound into less-explored, earthier landscapes
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Richard Youngs

CXXI

One hundred twenty-one releases in, Richard Youngs still has a knack for the unexpected
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Kristen Gallerneaux

Strung Figures

The Michigan artist has created a time-warping sonic collage with a beat you can dance to, finds Dustin Krcatovich
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Mamaki Boys

Patriote

A little-heard EP by this Nigerien ‘tradi-moderne’ hip-hop crew gets its first broad international release. Dustin Krcatovich can't wait to pretend he knew about it all along
Album of the Week

Health Is Wealth: Don Cherry’s Organic Music Theatre Revisited

A new multimedia programme gives context to the swirl of colour that was Don and Moki Cherry’s expansive 1970s experiments in “world fusion”
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Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt

Made Out of Sound

Two giants of post-whatever improv join forces for long-distance a set that is both measured and cathartic

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Only Now & Beneath The Ruins

Anamnesis

A collaboration between two disparate California musicians sometimes feels like just that, but it's not without high points of heavy, quasi-cinematic action
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Blood Music

Go Off, M8

Blood Music brings the drums to center stage, leaving everything else in the wings to fine effect

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Ashtray Navigations

Greatest Imaginary Hits

A fan-selected best-of set puts Phil Todd and Co's psychedelic languor and squall into a fresh, multidimensional perspective.

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Peter Brötzmann / Paul G. Smyth

Tongue in a Bell

An unsurprisingly roaring set by two improv veterans
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Maggi Payne

Arctic Winds / Ahh-Ahh

Two re-issues from electronic music pioneer Maggi Payne on Leuven's Aguirre Records leave Dustin Krcatovich thrilled and transfixed
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Charlemagne Palestine

Ffroggssichorddd

Wherein the oddball veteran composer and an exceptionally imaginative architect take the harpsichord to maths class
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Alvin Lucier

String Noise

The latest collection by the legendary minimalist composer, on Oren Ambarchi's Black Truffle label, finds him approaching old concerns from new angles
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Kate Carr

Where To Begin

With her newest piece, the London-based sound artist speaks to our current social distance, finds Dustin Krcatovich
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Sam Mallet

Wetlands

In the music of the late Mauritian-Australian composer Sam Mallett, Dustin Krcatovich hears an ambient, synth-led sound just made for these times
Remember Them…

You Can’t Buy No Respect: Remembering Daniel Johnston

Daniel Johnston's passing at age 58 was neither romantic nor the stuff myths are built from, but for Dustin Krcatovich and many others, this will make it no less deeply felt
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Sarathy Korwar

More Arriving

Sarathy Korwar's new album, More Arriving, is a remarkable meeting of jazz, hip-hop, Indian classical music, and radical politics, finds Dustin Krcatovich
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Jennifer Walshe

ALL THE MANY PEOPLS

The Irish-born experimental composer's new works are like a browser window open to the fifty most perfect tabs on the internet, finds Dustin Krcatovich
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His Name Is Alive

All The Mirrors in the House

A collection of purported juvenalia that's better than it has any right to be. So much so, in fact, that Dustin Krcatovich isn't sure that he buys the story

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Masayuki Takayanagi New Direction Unit

April Is The Cruellest Month

This unheralded monster of 1970s Japanese guitar noise has waited over four decades to see a proper vinyl release. At long last, Dustin Krcatovich takes a bath in its unrepentant squall
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Ekiti Sound

Abeg No Vex

With 'Abeg No Vex', the Nigerian producer forces Dustin Krcatovich to reckon with the insufficiency of his home stereo system
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