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Subconscious Demon Committee (atrocious adventures in LO-FI) vol. V [HysM?155], by Su.De.Co. (avant-garde, 3-track EP, released December 24, 2022, Italy)



Favourite track: Cacophony Domine

 

Macrogramma - Asphyxia
Asphyxia, by Macrogramma
Everyday life is often filled with many small anxieties that we deal with by simply pretending they do not exist.
Sometimes they thicken beyond the horizon of our field of vision, turning into a sense of impending danger, a floating leviathan, an immense bird of prey hiding in the clouds above the skyscrapers ready to grab us. Our only defence is to try to ignore it, hoping that oblivion will slowly devour it, relegating it to another plane of existence.

And sometimes, it is simply like dreaming of suffocating...

 

Daou - Reverie
Reverie, by Daou

“Reverie” portrays fragments of a memory of a penurious old lady who once lived beneath the watchtower, in an abandoned house with her cow. She was enslaved and mistreated by her siblings after her husband passed away a few years back. She led a life of misery and loneliness, but one cannot help but wondering about her past life and hoping that sometime in earlier years, she was happy and enjoying her days.

This is a tribute to this random human being whose life didn’t matter and whose memory is fading over the years. It’s a celebration of her life and a fiction of what could it be.

A fig tree stands up the hill, surrounded by a herd of cattle chanting melodies and playing the chimes.

 

Andrew McIntosh - A Moonbeam Is Just a Filtered Sunbeam (Another Timbre CD, 2021)

 

From Inside the House, by Equipment Pointed Ankh (avant-garde, full-length, vinyl LP available, released January 18, 2023, Louisville, Kentucky)



Favourite track: From Inside the House

 

Live at Montreux Jazz Festival, by Anna von Hausswolff (live recordings, new progressive music, full-length, physical CD & vinyl LP available, released January 14, 2022, Sweden)



Favourite track: Come Wander with Me / Deliverance

 

Angelo Petronella - Rimandi E Scoperte
I like the Zeit Composers Series on Die Schachtel. I think this is some of the most interesting concrete and electronic music since the classic GRM releases.

 

Master Perhaps VS Captain Maybe, by Thollem and Danny Frankel (improvised jazz / experimental, full-length, released January 11, 2023, San Francisco, California)



Favourite track: Moonset Manual For Peoples

 

I really wish I could have been there--Halvorson and especially Maneri are two of my favorite current musicians, and hearing them together would have been a real treat!

 

SECRET SAUCE, by ERIC GHOST (reissue, psychedelic jazz, full-length, vinyl LP available, released November 18, 2022, San Francisco, California)



Favourite track: ORANGELAND

 

So many great recordings on 577 records

Now playing Educated Guess volume 2

recorded live on 3/4/2020 at Cafe Oto

Dave Tucker - guitar & electronics
Pat Thomas - piano & keys
Thurston Moore - guitar
Mark Sanders - drums & percussion

2 pieces 16:34 & 20:13

CD of volume 1 on the way / even shorter but these recordings are perfect and the music is sui generis & stunning IMO. Despite the awesome power these dudes can generate, much of the strength of the performances are through restraint. The who knows who plays what is AMMish. One can figure it out but the listening is better when it is simply listened to.

 

Caught my first NY jazz show last night at the Village Vanguard... David Murray with Marta Sanchez, Luke Stewart and Kassa Overall. They sounded great. You guys who live near the city have so many incredible options for live music!

 

I bailed out on Ches Smith’s Octet that included James Brandon Lewis & Nate Wooley

More shows soon

glad you enjoyed it

 

I always enjoy the show reports that you post... Keep them coming!

 

Necropolis, by Bob Bell (archival release, free jazz / experimental fusion, full-length, vinyl LP available, released April 15, 2019, Vancouver, British Columbia)



Favourite track: Necropolis (Four Pieces)

 

These two above are hauntingly moving.

And this one is already a stone-cold classic!

 

At The Stone? There are recordings of all three nights of his stand there up on LL. I’m looking forward to checking them out in the next few days.

 

Great!!!

EDIT: urg, I can't sign in there. Now that I think about it I think I never got back on after the site went down last year? Is there some kind of trick to it?

 

Kali Malone - Living Torch

 

They have interesting releases but they need to say whether the release is CD or CDr. I've bought some of their CDs from Squidco and they turned out to be CDr. Not cool.

 

Yes

 

Mine are all CD’s

very limited production

 

Too Much Light For My eyes, by Lamp Of(f) (alternative jazz, full-length, physical CD available, released November 11, 2022, Groningen, Netherlands)



Favourite track: Kalil & Kalima

 

Voice & Strings & Timpani, by Strings & Timpani (psychedelic / experimental music, full-length, vinyl LP available, released November 6, 2020, Bergen, Norway)



Favourite track: FM4E

 

Greatest Hits, by Groupshow (improvisation trio / krautrock, full-length, vinyl LP available, releases January 27, 2023, Berlin, Germany)



Favourite track: I love, love, love, love it