Experimental
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You might know Portugal’s Jorge Queijo from his work with fellow Porto-resident Susana Santos Silva in SSS-Q. They’ve been presenting their special blend of free jazz-experimental-electronic music since 2012. Queijo’s solo output includes a new 16-minute cassette released at the end of November. Abstract Thoughts II is based on a separate partnership, with sculptor Sofia…
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No matter how adventurous your taste in music, there is something oddly unsettling about albums that feature multiple styles. You may be entirely comfortable pressing play on your old CD copy of Tom Waits’ Bone Machine right after your favourite Alice Coltrane record. But put both genres on the same disc, and we can’t get…
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There is a thing that happens when you prepare to start a family. Sometimes referred to as nesting, that’s really just a quaint term for the giant freak-out most of us undergo regarding the various preparations under way. Household finances become all-consuming. Suddenly you must be a grown-up, focused solely on the family’s accounts. There…
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Andrzej Nowak has been blogging about free improv music since the end of 2015 over at the Spontaneous Music Tribune. As often happens among those active in modern music circles, he decided to take a step further and release music independently. Nowak partnered with The Multikulti Project on a Spontaneous Music Tribune Series, a project…
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This September release from Hellscape Records comes with instructions: “It’s meant to straddle the line between self-help and guided meditation. It contains both peace and turmoil, as can be expected when attempting to bring forward the subconscious mind. We hope you understand that its purpose is greater than a mere collection of tunes or loops…
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Vienna’s Indafinsta Rec./ label has a new cassette release from Montreal envelope-pusher fxbip this month. François-Xavier Vigneault-Marcil’s latest is a six-track primarily electronic work that looks back fondly on the genre’s earliest days. That’s not a dig. At a time when so much electronic music is written to make you dance, it’s a treat to…
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