Though this isn’t the first time Cousin Silas and Øystein Q. Jørgensen have collaborated on an album, this one stands out for bringing together Tangerine Dream-like ambience with a touch of The Orb. It’s an impressive one-track work.
Orchestra Baobab – Made In Senegal
Perhaps the greatest band West Africa has ever produced has a new album coming out on October 23, 2026. Orchestra Baobab has a storied 50-year history blending all the styles native to Senegal and other parts of West Africa along with rhumba, jazz, and even bits of funk here and Continue Reading
Earth, Wind & Fire – September
There will be no reviews today due to a full school schedule, so for now, I leave you with the Earth, Wind & Fire classic, September, even if I missed the 21st by two days.
Edward Ka-Spel – Eyes China Doll
Legendary Pink Dots frontman Edward Ka-Spel has a catalog of music so vast that I don’t think anyone has managed to track all the releases yet. This is one of his solo efforts: a weird, psychedelic experiments that borders on post-industrial music, Krautrock, psychedelic rock, and apocalyptic folk.
Love Unfold the Moon – Hidden Promises In Joined Terrains, Apex Emerging
My old friend Mustafa Stefan Dill, a man whose work I once compared to a more metallic John McLaughlin (I still stand by that, and even more so these days) has a new project he is working with. Love Unfold The Moon is his latest band, with him on flamenco Continue Reading
Compassionizer – The Faithful of the Land
The band Compassionizer is the experimental/chamber/avant-prog project created by Ivan Rozmainsky of Roz Vitalis. Though I generally love most forms of progressive rock music, bands influenced by Rock-In-Opposition and avant-progressive are my favorites, and Ivan and company do a sterling job at making this album sound profoundly deep, whimsical, and Continue Reading
Various Artists – Death Is Not The End: In Search of Revolutionary Voices: Mexican Wax Cylinder Recordings, 1900-1910
Death Is Not The End is a magnificent archive label based in Bristol, England, that also releases some amazing reggae, dub, and experimental music. These recordings are archival pieces from the Mexican Revolutionary period. Though the sources are quite old, the label has done a fine job bringing out the Continue Reading
Ton de Leeuw – The Electronic Works
Ton de Leeuw was a microtonal composer who passed away in 1996. The Netherlands has produced an amazing array of composers and improvisers, but for all their wealth, such luminaries as de Leeuw rarely get promoted. Thankfully, the Dutch Oscillation Series, headed by the legendary Jos Smolders, is rectifying this Continue Reading
Costas Gadinis – We Seek Freedom: Western Macedonian Greek Clarinetist in New York ca. 1942-48
From the great Canary Records Bandcamp site: “A catalog published by Asllan in the ’40s gave Gadinis the honorific “The Greek Benny Goodman.” A story circulates that Dave Tarras took Goodman, who was both the most popular clarinetist of the 1930s-50s and one of the most popular and respected musicians Continue Reading
No Post Today
I will be holding a series of classes and am preparing for a trip to Russia. You will see posts again tomorrow!