LA Weekly’s Inches reviews the latest in the Ecstatic Jazz Duos series:
The experimentally inclined pairing of guitarist Chris Schlarb and drummer Tom Steck typically records for Asthmatic Kitty, but here the group indulges its more chaotic side, eschewing the sprawling beauty that marked 2008’s acclaimed Interoceans LP (which featured an appearance from Nels Cline) for [...]

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Well, really, the title says it all, but here’s what Gregory McGreevy writes on Impose Magazine:
I’m a sucker for avant-folk females, so when Jessica Collins made what sounded like the music baby of Keinji Haino and Vashti Bunyan, well yeah, I was done from the start.
Purchase the cassette here.

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by Lars Gotrich
How many insanely limited edition cassettes come out in a year? It hurts my head thinking about it. Hell, I can’t keep up with (nor desire to keep up with) the edition-of-12 c40s clamming up the Troniks board. No, sir, these are just the cassettes I heard and thought were pretty awesome in [...]

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by Lars Gotrich
Let’s keep this simple, shall we? Here are 10 — make that 11 — phenomenal performances that I saw in 2009. Major props to Baltimore and Richmond for bringing some of the most memorable, many of which aren’t listed below.

1. Margarida Garcia, bass; Hans Grusel, electronics; Paul Neidhardt, percussion, friction; Morten Olsen, [...]

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It’s time for a sale! Every catalog release is marked way down as well a few distro items. Lars needs $$$ for a new laptop because some douchebag stole it, Thor’s Rubber Hammer needs to clear storage space for 2010 and you need some prime Thor goodies.
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Foxy Digitalis reviews the I Heart Lung/DWMTG- Ecstatic Jazz Duos LP, available here.
Ecstatic Jazz Duos is a robust split of two diverse, non-idiomatic duos. DWMTG represents all that is wonderful about control and skillfully employed emphasis… Bassist Tony Gordon’s (Zandosis) fretwork is busy but precises, while percussionist Dale Miller is a testament to careful listening, [...]

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