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Burger / Ink – Las Vegas
Jorg Burger (The Modernist, Bionaut, Burger Industries) and Mike Ink (Love Inc., GAS, Vinyl Countdown) serve up an expanding tray of pleasant minimal techno pleasantries that will urgently knead your stressed forehead with…
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John Myers – John Myers’ Blastula
John Myers is an ethnomusicologist, composer, conductor and guitarist whose main claim to obscurity is joining fellow composer Glenn Branca’s ensemble of massed electric guitars. On his lone 1996 CD, John Myers’ Blastula,…
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The No-Neck Blues Band – Gitanjali
Good afternoon, freelance journalist. Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to review a 10″ vinyl record album titled Gitanjali by the musical group The No Neck Blues Band. As always,…
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Arcane Candy’s 2022 Favorite Releases
(In alphabetical order by artist name.) New Releases • Arnold Dreyblatt + Paul Panhuysen – Duo Geloso LP (Black Truffle) • Keiji Haino – My Lord Music, I Most Humbly Beg Your Indulgence…
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Pierre Jodlowski + Alexandre Babel – White Zero Corp
I’m not sure if White Zero Corp is the artist name on this CD or just the title, as it’s listed different ways on various web sites. Nevertheless, rest assured it is a…
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MC Maguire – Saturation Velocity
Not to be confused with the actor Tobey Maguire, MC Maguire “is a composer / producer who has created a very quirky post-modern hybrid that combines classical, pop, jazz, electro-acoustic, and world music…
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Jill Gocher – Secret Bali: Behind the Tourist Facade
The book Secret Bali: Behind the Tourist Facade is a trinket for tourists on the Indonesian island, just like a set of postcards or a keychain. This is ironic, as the subject matter…
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Balint Andras Vargas – Conversations With Iannis Xenakis
Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001) was a Greek composer, architect and mathematician who pioneered the use of mathematics in musical composition, participated in the development of early electro-acoustic and electronic music, and was among the…
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Spoils of War – The Spoils of War
Formed in 1967 in Champaigne / Urbana, Illinois, Spoils of War (named after one of Harry Partch’s self-built instruments) were an experimental psychedelic rock band that augmented their sound with a sawtooth wave…
