Month: May 2023

  • Various Artists – Sabroso Go Go

    Various Artists – Sabroso Go Go

    Spain’s Munster Records has a legendary reputation for putting out some amazing garage rock albums, including a lot of prime reissues.  This compilation covers some lost gems from the Venezuelan Discos MAG for your enjoyment.

  • William Ryan Fritch – Cohesion

    William Ryan Fritch – Cohesion

    William Ryan Fritch’s lastest disc is the, “second in a three-part series reflecting on the many calamitous water crises affecting life on this planet.”  Cohesion is a bit darker than the previous album, Polarity, but there is a more organic feel to it. From Fritch’s Bandcamp site: “In contrast to ‘Polarity,’ which was largely created…

  • Arturo Stalteri – Flowers 2

    Arturo Stalteri – Flowers 2

    Italian progressive rock legend Arturo Stalteri presents a brand new album filled with interpretations of works by Frederic Chopin, Franz Liszt, Richard Wagner, Sigur Rós and, surprisingly, King Crimson’s In The Court of the Crimson King done in sublime fashion.

  • Why make music when nobody cares?

    Why make music when nobody cares?

    It’s a brutal question to ask, especially for my friends who publish non-commercial music.  Venus Theory gives us a rather poignant reason to keep making music even if the Universe conspires against you.

  • Jeff Gburek – The Art of Prepared Guitar Volume One

    Jeff Gburek – The Art of Prepared Guitar Volume One

    Jeff Gburek’s recent instrumental guitar album is a a wonderfully disjointed trip around his sonic weapon of choice.  It’s a truly wild work, but Jeff weaves his vast musical influences together with hints of a broken kind of blues, free jazz, improvisational skronk and psychedelic rock. In Jeff’s words, which you can read in full…

  • Rest Day

    Today is a rest day as I’ve not had a day’s break since returning to Beijing. Back to posting tomorrow.

  • Various Artists – Meticulous Midgets 2023

    Various Artists – Meticulous Midgets 2023

    Our beloved friends at Russia’s finest indie music magazine, Meticulous Midgets, has released their annual compilation of weird experimental, lo-fi and avant-garde music. Featured artists include Russia’s own Assembly of Honey, the Italian ambient sound sculptor Marco Lucchi and Latvia’s Ш​у​м​и​л​о​в Б​о​р (Shumilov Bor) among a host of talent worldwide.

  • Golden Age Of Music

    Golden Age Of Music

    Arjen Lucassen’s Supersonic Revolution – Golden Age of Music Arjen Lucassen is peerless in the Dutch progressive rock scene. His latest album is yet another conceptual opus with not only the sound that made his ban Ayreon legendary, but you can hear influences of peak-era Deep Purple as well.

  • black (w)hole – something new, something old

    black (w)hole – something new, something old

    This has to be one of the cooler psychedelic folk albums I’ve heard in a while.  There’s something Balkan in black (w)hole’s music structure, where I can imagine the Incredible String Band jamming with old Greek or North Macedonian shepherds in the hills.  Brilliant.

  • Brìghde Chaimbeul – Carry Them With Us

    Brìghde Chaimbeul – Carry Them With Us

    A big and hearty thanks goes out to my dear friend and brother in music, Hubert, for turning me on to this album.  Brìghde Chaimbeul plays smallpipes, a wonderful instrument criminally neglected in comparison to its more famous cousin, the Highland pipes.  These smallpipes have a more ethereal sound to them, and in the hands…