Sloth Racket’s collective sound is dense and detailed, with heavyweight textures from the hugely satisfying twin saxophone plus guitar front Continue Reading
The Best Jazz & Noise of 2019…?
As a card-carrying pedant, of course this isn’t the “best” jazz and noise of the last year. It’s just what Continue Reading
RAIC – Häxan
The latest from the Richmond Avant Improv Collective and it’s a soundtrack… kind of. Häxan is the first in a Continue Reading
MPH – Taxonomies
Under the deceptive guise of easily absorbed melodies and rhythms, this is gently and subversively experimental. Subversive and submersive, this Continue Reading
Sgt. Elyas – Mountains of Powerless
Described as, “a fake-concept-album, where drums and guitar samples cohabit, fight, love and breed,” Mountains of Powerless is seven viciously Continue Reading
Anthony Osborne – An Unknown Animal
The dog’s not keen – too many eerie drones and unexpected distant noises – but I rarely take the dog’s Continue Reading
Kukangendai – Palm
From the first stuttering moment, as bass, drums and guitar gently jostle this is different. What is this so-called music? Continue Reading
Eiko Ishibashi – The Dream My Bones Dream
There was no 2018 end-of-year list for this writer, as Japanese songwriter Eiko Ishibashi’s The Dreams My Bones Dream put Continue Reading