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Album Review: Ferg’s Imaginary Big Band – ‘The New Atomic’: Full powered punk jazz dynamism that refuses to follow the script.

Why is Big Band jazz a proposition that many swerve? Is it seen as too close to trad, too much of a historically significant relic. In truth the Big Band…

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Album Review: Jeff Mills – The Trip To Vega

The Trip To Vega is about deep outer space odyssey that occurs in the process of traveling from Earth through the Cosmos to another “favorable” star system 25.3 light-years away.…

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Album Review: Column of Trout/ Partager – ‘Split/Lop’: A fulsome bundle of slow-core and avant-pop that dares to brush with convention.

Here’s the latest release from the ever-resourceful Lewes label Difficult Art and Music, the first in a series of what they describe as a deep dive into “the weirder side…

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Album Review: AMAS X Frithjof -Martin Grabner – SRDGN X LPZG

What happens when the mathematical rigor of Johann Sebastian Bach is stripped of its classical facade? With the album SRDNG x LPZG, the duo AMAS, together with double bassist Frithjof…

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Album Review: Near Minerals- ‘The Talking Castle’: A tantalising synth soundtrack to a shape-shifting novel.

Postcards, seed bookmarks, graphic novels, music scores, research magazines, a fully-working record player, a Perspex ice sculpture and an academic thesis have all been components of music released on the…

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Album Review: Penelope Trappes – ‘OPVS NOVUM: A Requiem Reworked’ : A stunning re-imagined collection that shapes its own cathartic soundscape.

Last year we were graced by Penelope Trappes ‘A Requiem’, an album of stunning intensity and gothic shadings which stood out amongst other electronic/ experimental releases because of its sheer…

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Album Review: Momen – ‘Sympathetic Resonance’: Enthralling merger of electronic, classical and jazz from new London-based duo.

In times of turbulence, we need music that keeps us centred and able to pause. That’s exactly what ‘Sympathetic Resonance’ the enthralling debut from London based duo Momen achieves. A…

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Album Review: Anenon – ‘Dream Temperature’: Enthralling, dream-state miniatures from the singular LA composer/instrumentalist.

‘Dream Temperature’, the second release on Tonal Union by saxophonist and composer Brian Allen Simon (aka Anenon), is an album of departures and returns. While 2016’s ‘Petrol’ captured the energy…

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News: Max Nemo Shines On Debut Album ‘Nexus’

Independent artist and producer Max Nemo has released her debut album, Nexus, a work that resists easy categorisation while quietly insisting on emotional clarity. Spanning Alternative, Experimental, Indie, and Cinematic influences,…

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News: Midival Punditz Release New Album Love & Machines

Midival Punditz have returned from a five-year hiatus in characteristically bold fashion, unveiling their latest album Love & Machines, a 13-track project that seamlessly threads cutting-edge electronic production with the…

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