"Debut album by Akane, a new bedroom solo project by Tenerife's Carolina Machado - best known for her role as drummer and singer in space rock psychedelic outfit Gaf y La Estrella de la Muerte. Cooked and slowly matured over the last couple of years, Carolina opens up ...
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"Ellen Arkbro's fourth album, Nightclouds, collects five improvisations for solo organ, recorded across Central Europe in 2023-24. Nightclouds is more unabashedly Romantic and introspective than her previous efforts, though it remains firmly rooted in the rigor and ...
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"Adult Guitar is a startling anthology of twenty unreleased tracks from Noël Akchoté's first twenty-one years of recording. Adult Guitar (it is twenty-one years, after all) is the first record to attempt to represent the breadth of Noël's music. The project began ...
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"The Japanese guitarist Tetuzi Akiyama performs an improvised set as a duo with Canadian percussionist Jeffrey Allport on July 1, 2006. Performed live at a sold-out Western Front, Vancouver's oldest and most significant artist-run venue, Akiyama and Allport propose a ...
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"Akiyama deep blues guitar playing melts perfectly together with Kahns smooth percussion and sythesizer sounds. On 'Till We Meet Again' you will find five duo pieces and two solo pieces of each of them." (label info)
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"There are plenty of albums which would greatly benefit from being edited to fit on a 3" CD, but not many 3" CDs which would improve for being expanded to album length. A happy exception to the rule is this intercontinental guitar trio's teasingly short debut, a 19 ...
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listen on bandcamp***"777 is a new 7inch single by Al Chem, the solo moniker of Alexander Christou of Berliner Ring and Berlin electro rock outfit Elecdrones. Where his 2017 Weird Fiction album on Art Yard was a murky and mercurial northern European descent into dub, ...
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"A tour guide down Memory Lane of 1930's style american folk, a collection of clever songs filled with witty play on words about Moonshiners, criminals, loners and even more shadowy figures emerge and head on up to the barn dance. Played on banjo, kazoo, guitar, musical ...
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