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Ahead of the All That Dust launch gig for their latest batch of releases on Sunday, I thought I'd dig out one from their last batch.

Anthony Pateras - celeste, harpsichord
Erkki Veltheim - viola, mandolin

The title is a reference to the fact these are secondary to their main instruments of piano and violin.

 

Went to Cafe Oto last night to see one of those occasional bands that meet up and record seldom but are always required listening when they're around. And this was on sale so of course I had to take it home...the last time they were at Oto, it produced their previous album also on 577. Superb performance last night.

Rachel Musson - Tenor sax
Pat Thomas - Piano
Mark Sanders - Drums / Percussion

 

Your Own Personal Abyss, by PECULATE (avant-metal, full-length, released October 18, 2021, USA)



Favourite track: Bury the False God

 

Luke Stewart & Jarvis Earnshaw Quartet
2021, No Quarter

This is fantastic... I end up loving just about everything that Luke Stewart is involved in.

 

Sascha Rosemarie Höfer - Le Traviate



Höfer uses different sound sources and recording processes. One of his focus points is the collection of sounds and noises, which he predominantly records analogue and very rudimentary on tape, various voice recorders and microphones he holds dear. Höfer is collecting sounds indoors or in the field. Usually en passant.

“I like to listen if something interesting catches my ear, but not obsessively. I collect sounds, when I feel like it, not because a certain sound may be extraordinarily exquisite, making me want to trace it. I would regard that as a disruption of the moment, something I generally want to avoid. All works are related in one way or another. That is a desired and progressive feature that generally runs through my artistic work.“

For „Le Traviate“ he used sound images and single tracks from old recordings partly of former projects that haven’t been finished or (officially) released yet. He cut out instruments, modified and arranged them with material from dictaphone recordings, added noises and did some collages till he had created something new out of the old. The aged recordings and former compositions had given up their carved way, they have lost it if you will say so, and finally found their home years later in a completely different musical environment.

 

Recorded in April 1990 in performance in Zurich and Basel, this would appear to be Lou Gare's last outing with AMM and his first since the performance at the Unity Theatre in 1975 that was issued on To Hear and Back Again.

Guitar, Electronics – Keith Rowe
Percussion – Eddie Prévost
Piano – John Tilbury
Tenor Saxophone, Violin – Lou Gare

 

And I'm off to see Irreversible Entanglements tomorrow night in London...second time I've seen them, the first being at Cafe Oto where Pat Thomas sat in.

 

Apparently I need to just suck it up and move to London.

 

Cecilia Lopez / Joe Moffett - Caprichos
2021, Tripticks Tapes

 

Irreversible Entanglements - Open the Gates
2021, International Anthem

This is incredible! I think it's my favorite album of theirs to this point. Wow.

 

Um die Hälfte zu viel, by GIGER (avant-jazz, full-length, physical CD available, released October 29, 2021, Germany)



Favourite track: OT2

 

Positively crazy.

 

Come Hang, by Come Hang (avant-jazz / soundscape, full-length, vinyl LP available, released March 30, 2020, Brussels, Belgium)




Favourite track: Come Hang

 

Episode 1, by DEEBBBB (rock-in-opposition, full-length, released November 11, 2021, Moscow, Russia)



Favourite track: Episode 1.2

 

Betadynn, by Betadynn (rock-in-opposition, full-length, released November 3, 2021, Poitiers, France)



Favourite track: Derril Torquil - dark home her home evening wind

 

Γριέντζω, by Gryenjo (avant-rock, full-length, released October 14, 2021, Athens, Greece)



Favourite track: A Bump

 

Let's Go To Hell, by Simon Steensland (experimental rock, full-length, physical CD available, released October 29, 2021, Transubstans Records)



Favourite track: Schrödinger's Friend

 

Back Alive!, by Flairck (avant-folk, full-length, released October 9, 2020, Sint Niklaas, Belgium)



Favourite track: Sick Muse (The Flower)

 

INCIDENTI-Lo Schianto, by NichelOdeon/InSonar & Relatives (avant-garde chamber rock, full-length, physical CD available, released September 11, 2021, Milan, Italy)



Favourite track: Fantasmi ad Argun (Senza Valore #8)

 

Alive At The Pine Box, by Radio Free Tibet (rock-in-opposition, live recording, full-length, released September 18, 2021, New York, New York)



Favourite track: The Drunken Spy

 

First Tale, by Nebulous Sun (avant-rock, full-length, physical CD available, released July 12, 2021, Ernée, France)



Favourite track: First Tale