As the world continues to crumble around us, 2023 nevertheless saw the release of a ton of fascinating sounds. Not Continue Reading
Among The Rocks And Roots – Pariah
This is heavy… an atmospheric, elegiac, yearning, defiant, soul-scrubbingly cathartic, harshly beautiful suite of doom, noise, metal and indie esoterica. Continue Reading
A.MAIAH – F(r)icciones
A.MAIAH is the nom-de-music of guitarist-composer Asier Pérez Basterra. Previously featured on aJN’s 12-ish Guitar (and-only-guitar) Albums In The Last Continue Reading
Koshiro Hino – GEIST II
Welcome to the electronic forest… I first found out about Koshiro Hino’s music through last year’s KAKUHAN duo with Yuki Continue Reading
Emily Rach Beisel – Particle of Organs
When I posted a track as a Daily Tune (26th May) I said that this album had taken the top Continue Reading
Brazilian free and experimental music – 6 labels, 16 albums, a starting point…?
Fate, chance and happenstance have put a lot of experimental and improvised music from Brazilian artists and labels in my Continue Reading
aJazzNoise picks of 2022…
Another year, another list – when will it all end?! Well, hopefully never, as long as my ears continue to Continue Reading
Old Believers – Old Believers
It opens with the slow calving of a rusty glacier. Or maybe it’s just your brain shearing in two. The Continue Reading