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STERBUS Real Estate/Fake Inverno (2018) review
I feel like the luckiest person alive when I get possession of recordings like this. Simply one of the absolute best releases of 2018, and that is keeping company with a dozen or more…
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Progressive music, closely heard
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THE 180 Gs Singin' To God (2018) review
With unlimited skill and patience, David Minnick, the man who created this imaginary a capella vocal group The 180 Gs (the name came from a composition from the band Negativland, called 'A Big 10-8…
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Eclectic Maybe Band - The Blind Night Watchers' Mysterious Landscapes (2018) review
An outerlimits excursion by astro travelers and gifted musicians from several prized members (or former members) of Univers Zero, Pablo's Eye, The Wrong Object, Morton Fork Gang, and much more. You know this will…
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Six-Ring Circus - Six-Ring Circus (2018) review
From France, this highly inventive quintet has already spent three years in collaboration before releasing their debut recording. Winning prizes since 2015 (as best emerging band, best band in some events, etc), the group…
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Syrinx Call - The Moon On A Stick (2018) review
A gorgeous sophomore album by masters of expression Volker Kunke (who directed this project) and Jens Lueck (who did sound engineering and production). Both have worked together on many previous recordings other than Syrinx…
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Soft Machine - Hidden Details (2018) review
An ambitious ascendancy by a superior revolving free jazz, avant jazz, quirky jazz rock, classical jazz fusion, whatever you call it, jazz infused progressive music praiseworthy group. Fifty years ago, the birth of this…
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Dwiki Dharmawan - Rumah Batu (2018) review
From the initial moments, there is euphoric beauty with flute, piano, and floating percussion, followed by nimble eastern integration with a collision of Weather Report, Il Baricentro, Arti+Mestieri, and ECM polish. So tight, so…
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Dialeto - Live With David Cross (2018) review
A Bartok/Crimson/Cross smorgasbord performance that must have made grown men cry, and now everyone can cry, with joy. A powerful live concert that was actually recorded in 2017 to promote Dialeto's 'Bartok in Rock'…
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Bernadette Zeilinger - Acoustic Solo (2018)
Austrian born Bernadette Zeilinger creates pure magic with her techniques. This is the definitin of being inventive, in its highest form and on a most elevated plateau. This is a true to the word…
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Paul Steel - Carousel Kites : April & II (2018) review
A monster eccentric propagative art pop opus!!. Actually set up as a sequel to his 2007 'April & I' release, which was his last offering to the world as a solo artist named Paul…