You got to come on, man, and take a piece of Mr. Nathan Parker Smith’s band.

‘The Signal’ is bold, personal and completely lucid audio art from Elizabeth Shepherd. It wouldn’t be overstating it at all to assert that this is the most important vocal jazz record of 2014.

Webber laid bare her compositions, leaving it in a few, capable hands and in doing so, made them flourish.

It doesn’t matter if the experimental music is being rendered by electric guitar or banjo, Seabrook uses technology, virtuosity and a deviously fertile mind to blow the minds of anyone who comes across these recordings. ‘Sylphid Vitalizers’ expands the world of what is possible with a banjo. And guitar, too.

“Revolution 9” remains as big a mystery today as it was the moment it appeared on the Beatles’ 1968 self-titled album.

This doesn’t often sound like big band music, as Fujii draws from every impulse at her disposal.

They gathered for five days at this countryside studio in Finland, plugging in and recording whatever happened. You May Also Like: Projekt Gemineye, “Sacred Sons” from ‘In the Year 3073: Book II’ (2020): One Track Mind Los Lobos – ‘Native Sons’ (2021)

He’s had the idea for decades. Finally, technology has caught up.

The Only Way To Go Is Straight Through begins like a train grinding to a sparks-throwing stop — except it never stops. It just keeps throwing sparks, keeps getting louder, and brighter, and closer. You May Also Like: Tom Abbs and Frequency Response – Hawthorne (2018)

Longtime readers of SER, if such an animal even exists, know that some of us like to indulge in noisy, nonsensical and just plain weird-assed music. Once in a while, we’ll encounter something from the margins that’s so beyond the pale it makes even hardened avantists like us do aRead More