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
The latest from the Richmond Avant Improv Collective and it’s a soundtrack… kind of. Häxan is the first in a Continue Reading
In their bio and liner notes, RAIC claim various genres – noise, post rock, classical, black metal, free jazz, avant Continue Reading
Samuel Goff – drums, percussion, bowed dulcimer, vocals, electronics Abdul Hakim Bilal – bass, percussion Erik Schroeder – alto saxophone, Continue Reading
This is heavy… an atmospheric, elegiac, yearning, defiant, soul-scrubbingly cathartic, harshly beautiful suite of doom, noise, metal and indie esoterica. Continue Reading
How best to approach a review of a new album by Abdul-Hakim Bilal? For any other reviewer facing this conundrum Continue Reading
Caveat: Whatever you read here, however long I ramble on, it’s unlikely I will be doing this album justice. Rich Continue Reading
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