Keiji Haino and Vashti Bunyan had a music baby. -Impose
Beru really raises the bar for haunting beauty and power at the intersection of exp. psych/folk! - Art for Spastics
Americana wrestles the glitch off the hill with time, and in the end, [Jessica] Collins appears more like a Samara Lubelski or Marissa Nadler for the dark. [...]

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…face slamming & horn honking mix of proton King Crimson like mettlics [sic], galloping grind-cored & punchy hard core rock, searing jazz attacks & the odd dip into more atmospheric & sleazed jazz/ rock work-outs. -Musique Machine
Mothguts settle into their own niche that can go from swing to drums barreling downhill amidst a super fast guitar [...]

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Heavy distortion, blasted reverb, thunderous, Cronenburg crackle. - Foxy Digitalis
You see that c76? That’s 76 fucking minutes of absolute destruction… I felt like I was being led around a barren, post-apocalyptic landscape on a head full of codeine with no end in sight. -Incomplete Tales of Several Journeys

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I Heart Lung “Axes Only”
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DWMTG “Untitled, No. 9″
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When the Ecstatic Jazz Duos LP series was first conceived in late 2007, I Heart Lung was the absolute first duo that came to mind. Both musicians are solid in their own right with [...]

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Vanessa Rossetto first knocked us out with a trio of CDrs on her own Music Appreciation label. Her violin/viola improvisations and compositions saw through drones in the way Tony Conrad conjures multiple waves of sound just from one instrument. And when accompanied by electronics, Rossetto uses feedback as a [...]

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With releases on Blackest Rainbow, Peasant Magik, Stunned and others, Vincent Caylet sculpts shamanistic psychedelic-drones. He records with the acid-folk-drone duo Monks of the Balhill and solo as “V,” but under this concurrent solo project, the Frenchman reflects a roughly hewn ambience as The Pistil Cosmos. The six untitled [...]

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Gay Africa is yet another Dark Meat offshoot, this time a foursome led by the long-haired nuke-jammer Jim McHugh. Bedded with the drone of an electronic raagini, Gay Africa completely improvises “Dream Cables,” a 20-minute raga-rocker recorded live at the 40 Watt in Athens, Geo., by Sloan Simpson. Jim’s [...]

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INTENSE INTENSE!! FREE-IMPROV 21ST CENTURY STYLE FROM THE NEW MONSTERZ ON THE BLOCK!! DEEP CLEANSING MUSIC, YO!!
Bassist/vocalist Gene Janas left this note about his new recording project with multi-instrumentalist Jeffrey Hayden Shurdut and I feel like there’s little left to say. Janas’ main gig with the fire-jazz unit Owl [...]

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… very well structured and considered, keeping to a subdued volume range but allowing things to fluctuate-and-hold in a very natural series of patterns, balancing between changes in timbre and (slow) pulse. - Brian Olewnick, Just Outside
… low in volume, high in quality. - Vital [...]

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… [captures] the beautiful, yet solemn tone of the winter months. -Incomplete Tales of Several Journeys
1. Scott Tuma “Mr. Beautiful Head” (MP3: Download Alternate Take)
2. The Instruments “Last Holiday” (Streaming now on Myspace)
3. Greg Davis “24 Hour News / Silent Night”
4. Fabio Orsi “Dead Leaves Christmas”
5. Susan Alcorn [...]

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