From Buh Records’ Bandcamp site: “Venezuelan composer Oksana Linde presents Travesías, her second album released by Buh Records, featuring pieces created between 1986 and 1994 in her private studio in San Antonio de Los Altos, Venezuela. These compositions belong to the same creative period as the works included in her Continue Reading
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Nightshade – Wired (2025 Remaster)
Though I’m not the greatest fan of metal music (with a few legendary exceptions), Switzerland’s Nightshade plays metal at full throttle. This album is 25 years old now, and the drum tracks, already brutal sounding, were reprogrammed using AI. Interesting, and given the quality of thundering loudness of the sound, Continue Reading
Kurt Elling – Passion World
I am a latecomer to the voice of Kurt Elling, and I now regret not exploring his catalog more deeply before. He has a phenomenal voice, rich and full of expression, and he truly excels at these jazz standards. This would be a great starting point if you have never Continue Reading
Various Artists – Murder tbs: Never Enough
From the Murder tbs Bandcamp site, this compilation serves as a good introduction to hard techno and post-Industrial dance music out of Tbilisi, Georgia, which looks to be my new home in the not-terribly-distant future: “After five years of existence, we are starting a new chapter with our most extensive Continue Reading
Tom Johnson – Organ and silence
From the ANTS Bandcamp site: “A music concerned for, as the author writes in the disc notes, “… the importance of silence in music…”. This work is conceived not “for organ” but, really, for “organ and silence”, as the silence is a fundamental part of it, and it’s not possible Continue Reading
Susan Alcorn – And I Await the Resurrection of the Pedal Steel Guitar
Susan Alcorn passed away in January of this year, leaving a gaping hole in the improv community. I believe it was Ian Nagoski of Canary Records who enlightened me to this recording being available, and it is gorgeously recorded. The pedal steel guitar is played sublimely by Alcorn, who uses Continue Reading
Ivo Perelman & Tyshawn Sorey – Parallell Aesthethics
This release pairs Ivo Perelman and Tyshawn Sorey, two of the leading lights of the improv jazz scene. From the Fundacja Słuchaj Bandcamp site: “This year we are celebrating the 10th birthday of our label. On this occasion, we have prepared a lot of surprises and very unique musical offerings Continue Reading
Jeff Gburek – Madhuwanti
Madhuwanti is a collection of guitar instrumentals played sublimely by Jeff Gburek. The title name itself comes from Hindustani music and can read about further here. The playing is as honey-like as the title implies. How, you ask? Let the good man explain further at his Bandcamp site: “Madhu means Continue Reading
Scanner & Nurse with Wound – Contrary Motion
It looks so strange to see these two names paired up together for the first time, yet it feels weird that they had never collaborated before (to my knowledge). Neither project should need an introduction as both Robin Rimbaud (Scanner) and Steven Stapleton (Nurse With Wound) have nearly four decades Continue Reading
MadMen Duo – Through the Night
Our dear friends at Mahorka Records continue to surprise and delight us. Their latest release features two musicians, the MadMen Duo (I don’t know where they are from, but they did record these tracks in Bulgaria if I understand correctly) whose music comes off as a wonderfully dark combination of Continue Reading