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LOUIS SICILIANO, Ancient Cosmic Truth

Usually, it’s the creative visionaries in the new age and ambient arena who take the mantle of musical exploration of the universe and...

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STEVE TINTWEISS SPACELIGHT BAND, Live at NYU: 1980

A still active figure specializing in super-galactic, ever-evolving and super inventive free jazz for over five decades, five string...

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JASON KAO HWANG & J.A. DEANE, Uncharted Faith

Listening to any of the intricate, brilliantly crafted avant-garde recordings by violin master and sonic visionary Jason Kao Hwang poses...

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JONATHAN KANE AND DAVE SOLDIER, February Meets Soldier String Quartet

Good thing Jonathan Kane (drums, guitar, bass) and Dave Soldier (violin, strings) let their fascinating, multi-faceted, trippy and...

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MICHAELA STEINHAUER, Changes and Choices

Fusing a lyrical and melodic jazz-inflected showtune sensibility with whimsical free-form vocal and instrumental improvising, German...

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BEN ZUCKER, Fifth Season

The Biblical expression “To every thing there is a season” is a spot-on way to dive into Fifth Season, the remarkable...

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MYRA MELFORD/ZEENA PARKINS/MIYA MASAOKA, MZM

Sometimes the best pathways to understanding the intention and necessity for innovative artists to make experimental/avant-garde/purely...

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ROBERT DICK/JOELLE LEANDRE/MIYA MASAOKA

In his fascinating liner notes for Solar Wind, a trippy, offbeat and purely improvised avant-garde collection combining the collective...

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SMOMID, Pyramidi Scheme

No amount of aural preparation or immersion into weird offbeat electronic sounds can quite prepare you for the trippy, ear and...

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PEARRING SOUND, Nothing But Time

Ah, sweet cacophony! The wild and wacky, breakneck sonic adventure Nothing but Time is the second offbeat offering by improvisational...

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