Jazz is going to some interesting places these days – whether your thing is spastic freakouts, angular electronic noise, or subtle, hushed tones, there’s something out there from the last couple years that will blow your mind. Today, I’d like to discuss one of my favorite […]
The latest from this psych duo-turned-trio is anither easy, heady winner. Electronic maestro Nicolas Jaar gets all his rock and jam tendencies out in this project with longtime collaborator (and rising guitar star) Dave Harrington, joined more recently by percussionist Tlacael Esparza. This record continues to […]
In the late 90s, legendary musician and composer Hermeto Pascoal wrote the “Sound Calendar.” 366 songs- one for each possible day of the year- composed and handwritten in the wizards inimitable style. There are plenty of recordings of selections from this wonderful trove of music. Hermeto […]
The second album by blog favorites Papangu finds their prog just as brutal as ever and still with plenty of jazz fusion influences. However the addition of more pronounced Brazilian sounds from both folk and pop traditions really elevates the whole sound. It’s a concept album […]
The most well known album by this celebrated Brazilian trio. An intimate group of woodwinds, vocals and guitar possessing a huge sound. Experimental art rock with touches of mpb, samba, funk, afrobeat, jazz and punk rock. All the players are prodigious and the playing is understated […]
This is an intricate but assertive psych pop album where dreamy vocals and drones are elevated by thunderous rhythms and bold riffs. It’s less chamber or dream pop oriented than its contemporaries, French or otherwise. Rather it demands to be played as loud so that you […]
A live record documenting one of the greatest noise/rock groups of all time. How heavy is it? It’s heavy enough to immediately stop your thoughts in their tracks and bludgeon them to death. It’s so immense that it reaches that trance-like place where the distortion envelopes […]
Right out of the gate, I have to say this record knocked me right on my back. High-octane doesn’t even begin to do it justice. Like all the best punk rock, it’s explicitly political and viciously uncompromising, practically bursting at the seams with unbridled ferocity and […]
Look, I get obsessed with records all the time. I write a column on an obscure music blog, it would be weird if I didn’t listen to a specific record multiple times in a day sometimes. This is one of those times. SQUANDERERS is a truly […]
Absolutely stunning work here from Ian Lynch, founding member of Irish experimental folk group Lankum. Inspired by various abandoned and “rediscovered” spaces throughout Dublin, these tracks are somber and occasionally harrowing, but for the patient listener, they resolve into utterly transcendent beauty, uplifting the soul and […]