Category Archives: Reviews

Reviews

Urszula Dudziak – Urszula 12” LP

Urszula

Another bombshell from the Dudziak! Actually the best from her solo career if you ask me & recorded on Arista in 1975. So more psycho-frolicking cute, kitsch, skits, deranged, cartoon-cuckoo-calenture, amateur/professional, animal-kingdom-mimicry & high-energy super-oestrogen spear-headed vocal-expostulation lallation backed-up by hard-Funk & Fusion. I have already pretty much depleted my Urszula Dudziak description-dictionary in the previous Michal Urbaniak “Fusion” LP post, but she takes high-pitched acutely Continue reading Urszula Dudziak – Urszula 12” LP →

Reviews

Michal Urbaniak – Fusion 12” LP

Michal Urbaniak-Fusion LP

1973! Fusion as a genre has yet to totally degrade itself & is still on the crest of an immensely expansive & exciting musical progression. This splendiferous masterpiece of an album & debut for the daring Warsaw born violin crank – Michal Urbaniak & his posse of eager & unorthodox upstarts is definitely’ definitely one of my favourite Fusion albums ever & an massively singular stand-out in the Fusion context. Continue reading Michal Urbaniak – Fusion 12” LP →

Reviews

Sunny Murray – Shandar 12” LP

Sunny Murray

It’s another flurry a’ Murray! This obscure cut originating from, for me, probably his greatest stint (fall of the late 1960’s) on the Shandar record series. Shandar was a French initiative, i believe a series of live concerts (or at least the label that released material from these concerts) which I know included other pressings by Cecil Taylor & Sun Ra (good shit!). The four tracks on the LP were captured live in 1968, & thus sit adjacent to his two riotously cataclysmic cacophonic classics that were issued by the cult Actuel editions (there were actually x3 on Actuel but one was a dud) during the same aeon.

Continue reading Sunny Murray – Shandar 12” LP →

Reviews

Jack Dejohnette – Cosmic Chicken LP

JD- Cosmic Chicken

The ol’ Jackeyboard! On fine form with this largely lucid (of sorts) Fusion-Jazz-Avant elixir from 1975 with John Abecrombie on electric guitar, Peter Warren on electric & up-right bass & Alex Foster on alto & tenor saxophone. Never re-issued, its another of DeJohnette’s concealed marvels from his earlier career (not that 1975 was very early for Jack). The opening title track of the LP (Cosmic Chicken) is a real stormer. Continue reading Jack Dejohnette – Cosmic Chicken LP →

Reviews

BOLLOCK SWINE / PSEUDOKU Split 7”

Bollock Swine-Pseudoku

2014 – LOFI OR DIE REX

So you are into fucked up music, right? You are an ‘outsider’ as a listener beside your cool friends and you are constantly mocked about this? Well then, next time you feel like shit after trying to talk to your (so called) “friends” about “good music”, go home and put this record in your player, Player. Continue reading BOLLOCK SWINE / PSEUDOKU Split 7” →

Reviews

Jack Dejohnette – Sorcery

Sorcery

A classic & courageous melding of offbeat-Fusion & unconventional Jazz, further elaborating under strong Avant/Free themes. Dejohnettes early work as a leader was some of his most adventurous & distinctive with a circle of brilliant musicians. They embraced Fusion consummately, but with a very personalized & distinguished mannerism that resists many of the genres stereotypes. Continue reading Jack Dejohnette – Sorcery →

Reviews

Hamiet Bluiett – Resolution CD

Hamiet Bluiet

I took a bit of a nap on Hamiet! Not all his material is maniac, so I think I was deterred by a straighter outing in an earlier examination, as I reverse-devour in depth the Avant-Jazz lineage with unthwarted esurience. It’s always majorly thrilling to find “someone else” & start cruising through their releases & history. Continue reading Hamiet Bluiett – Resolution CD →

Reviews

Wombat Simogató Hapsik – S/T Cassette

WSH

Every 12-17 months or so, the rare delicacy, seldom stimulated … sheds it’s dust-jacket & “beholds” the super secretive rogue Gunk, No-Skool-Noyzcore, allo Anti-Listener Cyber Torikowashi anomaly by some distant nomadic wandering mutant that ambles in from treacherous landscapes & overgrown wildernesses with new treasures to add to this barely plausible genre. Continue reading Wombat Simogató Hapsik – S/T Cassette →

Reviews

Cadaver Inc – Discipline CD

Cadaver Inc

Here lies a semi-hidden acme in the “off-the-fuckin’-rails” limit-smashing extremity elite. Under the guise of another Black/Death crossover from Norway comes something much’ much more spectacular & indelible. There’s much to be said that distances this effort from it’s opposition, but let’s just address the most potent feature…the fuckin’ drummer! This guy (going under the pseudonym Czral) is one of the fastest & most ferocious motherfuckers you will ever hear across Continue reading Cadaver Inc – Discipline CD →

Reviews

Blank Verse – Karelia Ingria CDR EP:

Blank Verse

Highly original & character-rich Noise from the Industrial Experimental fringe. The first two tracks of the EP, encompassing about fifteen minutes of material between them, are some of the most stunning tribulation I have heard from the Noise spectrum in some time. Richly dynamic with a poly-phonic approach that has multiple devices deployed & interchanging, this is diverse & non-binary with progressions, moderations to mood & mode along with shifting instrumentations.

Continue reading Blank Verse – Karelia Ingria CDR EP: →