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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…
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White Noise – An Electric Storm
Founded in London, England in 1968, White Noise was initially an experimental electronic music trio comprised of Delia Derbyshire (a sound technician at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop who was best known for arranging…
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The Music of Tony Conrad
Tony Conrad and Alex Gelencser, 1998. The early bird, I mean minimalist catches, I mean gets the worm, I mean word in edgewise–or actually a lot of words in every direction–all over the…
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The Crazy People – Bedlam
Rumor has it that the album Bedlam by the Crazy People was actually the brainchild of one person: American jazz trumpeter, producer, and musical entrepreneur Johnny Kitchen (real name Jack Millman), who assembled…
