Post Tagged with: "Experimental Music"

Ari Lehtela - 'The Year the Earth Stood Still' (2021)

Ari Lehtela – ‘The Year the Earth Stood Still’ (2021)

Ari Lehtela’s album is a godsend of sanity in the year the Earth stood still, getting everything right when everything else just went wrong.

Ross Hammond and Kevin Corcoran - 'Music For Lighthouses 2' (2021)

Ross Hammond and Kevin Corcoran – ‘Music For Lighthouses 2’ (2021)

Pastoral psychedelic drones are the order of the day with Ross Hammond and Kevin Corcoran’s ‘Music For Lighthouses 2,’ minimalist renderings using Delta bluesmen tools of trade as a foundation.

The Fourth World Quartet - '1975' (2021)

The Fourth World Quartet – ‘1975’ (2021)

The Fourth Qorld Quartet’s ‘1975’ documents that brief time talented brothers and a colleague came together and really went for it blending free jazz, rock and modern classical.

Natsuki Tamura - 'Koki Solo' (2021)

Natsuki Tamura – ‘Koki Solo’ (2021)

Approaching his 70th birthday, trumpet maestro Natsuki Tamura made the very personal ‘Koki Solo’ with a youthful frivolity that belies his age and signals that he remains in his peak period.

Indigenous Lifeforms - 'Siberia Extreme' (2020)

Indigenous Lifeforms – ‘Siberia Extreme’ (2020)

Indigenous Lifeforms’ ‘Siberia Extreme’ captures the essence of spiritual, shamanic story-telling, combining very Western improvisation with soaring vocals.

Thollem - 'Thollem's Astral Traveling Sessions with Alex Cline + Susan Alcorn' (2021)

Thollem – ‘Thollem’s Astral Traveling Sessions with Alex Cline + Susan Alcorn’ (2021)

Wherever Thollem travels during an Astral Traveling Sessions jaunt like the ones he made with Alex Cline and Susan Alcorn, it’s a journey into the vast unknown areas of music that few dare to venture. But Thollem, he lives there.

Fred Frith + Ikue Mori - 'A Mountain Doesn't Know It's Tall' (2021)

Fred Frith + Ikue Mori – ‘A Mountain Doesn’t Know It’s Tall’ (2021)

This is obviously not music for all tastes but if you know about Fred Frith and Ikue Mori, then you know how good they are at making noise; for ‘A Mountain Doesn’t Know It’s Tall’ they make beautiful noise together.

Kuzu - 'The Glass Delusion' (2021)

Kuzu – ‘The Glass Delusion’ (2021)

Kuzu’s third album ‘The Glass Delusion’ continues this noise-jazz trio’s reputation for making some of the most individualistic and rewarding music of this genre.

Alister Spence Trio with Ed Kuepper - 'Asteroid Ekosystem' (2021)

Alister Spence Trio with Ed Kuepper – ‘Asteroid Ekosystem’ (2021)

For their newest album ‘Asteroid Ekosystem’, the adventurous Alister Spence Trio shook things up by inviting a guitarist — fellow Australian Ed Kuepper — to join them for the recording sessions. In Kuepper, Spence brought a real provocateur into the party.

Thollem - 'Thollem's Astral Traveling Sessions with John Dieterich' (2021)

Thollem – ‘Thollem’s Astral Traveling Sessions with John Dieterich’ (2021)

‘Thollem’s Astral Traveling Sessions with John Dieterich’ tingles your auditory senses because this is breaking new ground and they’re defining the whole dobro/synth genre as they go along. There might not be two musicians better equipped to be the first at doing that.