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New #review today: "For those unfamiliar with #JohnHoward, the British #SingerSongwriter first emerged in the mid-70s with the now highly regarded Kid in a Big World. Although commercial success eluded him at the time, his work has enjoyed a remarkable revival in recent decades, leading to a steady stream of new recordings and reissues. His latest release, Overnight Bags, is a deeply personal collection of eleven songs." #ExposeOnline #ThinkLikeAKeyRecords http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/john-howard-overnight-bags-6.html

New #review today: "For those unfamiliar with #JohnHoward, the British #SingerSongwriter first emerged in the mid-70s with the now highly regarded Kid in a Big World. Although commercial success eluded him at the time, his work has enjoyed a remarkable revival in recent decades, leading to a steady stream of new recordings and reissues. His latest release, Overnight Bags, is a deeply personal collection of eleven songs." #ExposeOnline #ThinkLikeAKeyRecords http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/john-howard-overnight-bags-6.html

New #review today: "For those unfamiliar with #JohnHoward, the British #SingerSongwriter first emerged in the mid-70s with the now highly regarded Kid in a Big World. Although commercial success eluded him at the time, his work has enjoyed a remarkable revival in recent decades, leading to a steady stream of new recordings and reissues. His latest release, Overnight Bags, is a deeply personal collection of eleven songs." #ExposeOnline #ThinkLikeAKeyRecords http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/john-howard-overnight-bags-6.html

New #review today: "For those unfamiliar with #JohnHoward, the British #SingerSongwriter first emerged in the mid-70s with the now highly regarded Kid in a Big World. Although commercial success eluded him at the time, his work has enjoyed a remarkable revival in recent decades, leading to a steady stream of new recordings and reissues. His latest release, Overnight Bags, is a deeply personal collection of eleven songs." #ExposeOnline #ThinkLikeAKeyRecords http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/john-howard-overnight-bags-6.html

New #review today: "#EllingUlvestad is a songwriter from the Planet Earth who leads a band called #Molo. Several years ago, I wrote about the album Earthsongs, and now we have the band’s second album, This Is Earth. The primary feature of the new album is that the quality of the songwriting remains at the same high level — these are just good songs presented with relatively few extraneous frills." #ExposeOnline #ApollonRecords #SingerSongwriter http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/molo-this-is-earth-2.html

New #review today: "#EllingUlvestad is a songwriter from the Planet Earth who leads a band called #Molo. Several years ago, I wrote about the album Earthsongs, and now we have the band’s second album, This Is Earth. The primary feature of the new album is that the quality of the songwriting remains at the same high level — these are just good songs presented with relatively few extraneous frills." #ExposeOnline #ApollonRecords #SingerSongwriter http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/molo-this-is-earth-2.html

New #review today: "#EllingUlvestad is a songwriter from the Planet Earth who leads a band called #Molo. Several years ago, I wrote about the album Earthsongs, and now we have the band’s second album, This Is Earth. The primary feature of the new album is that the quality of the songwriting remains at the same high level — these are just good songs presented with relatively few extraneous frills." #ExposeOnline #ApollonRecords #SingerSongwriter http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/molo-this-is-earth-2.html

New #review today: "#EllingUlvestad is a songwriter from the Planet Earth who leads a band called #Molo. Several years ago, I wrote about the album Earthsongs, and now we have the band’s second album, This Is Earth. The primary feature of the new album is that the quality of the songwriting remains at the same high level — these are just good songs presented with relatively few extraneous frills." #ExposeOnline #ApollonRecords #SingerSongwriter http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/molo-this-is-earth-2.html

New #review today: "#EllingUlvestad is a songwriter from the Planet Earth who leads a band called #Molo. Several years ago, I wrote about the album Earthsongs, and now we have the band’s second album, This Is Earth. The primary feature of the new album is that the quality of the songwriting remains at the same high level — these are just good songs presented with relatively few extraneous frills." #ExposeOnline #ApollonRecords #SingerSongwriter http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/molo-this-is-earth-2.html

#ThrowbackThursday review from 1995: "A Dutch quartet of guitar, bass, drums and woodwinds, this is #Blast's second release (the first being the hopelessly obscure Puristsirup from 1993), and the first for #CuneiformRecords. While their music is ostensibly rock based, they seem to pull more than their share of influence from the more recent proponents of #ChamberRock' the early abstractions of #HenryCow..." #ExposeOnline #AvantProgressive http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/blast-wire-stitched-ears-3.html

#ThrowbackThursday review from 1995: "A Dutch quartet of guitar, bass, drums and woodwinds, this is #Blast's second release (the first being the hopelessly obscure Puristsirup from 1993), and the first for #CuneiformRecords. While their music is ostensibly rock based, they seem to pull more than their share of influence from the more recent proponents of #ChamberRock' the early abstractions of #HenryCow..." #ExposeOnline #AvantProgressive http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/blast-wire-stitched-ears-3.html

#ThrowbackThursday review from 1995: "A Dutch quartet of guitar, bass, drums and woodwinds, this is #Blast's second release (the first being the hopelessly obscure Puristsirup from 1993), and the first for #CuneiformRecords. While their music is ostensibly rock based, they seem to pull more than their share of influence from the more recent proponents of #ChamberRock' the early abstractions of #HenryCow..." #ExposeOnline #AvantProgressive http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/blast-wire-stitched-ears-3.html

#ThrowbackThursday review from 1995: "A Dutch quartet of guitar, bass, drums and woodwinds, this is #Blast's second release (the first being the hopelessly obscure Puristsirup from 1993), and the first for #CuneiformRecords. While their music is ostensibly rock based, they seem to pull more than their share of influence from the more recent proponents of #ChamberRock' the early abstractions of #HenryCow..." #ExposeOnline #AvantProgressive http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/blast-wire-stitched-ears-3.html

#ThrowbackThursday review from 1995: "A Dutch quartet of guitar, bass, drums and woodwinds, this is #Blast's second release (the first being the hopelessly obscure Puristsirup from 1993), and the first for #CuneiformRecords. While their music is ostensibly rock based, they seem to pull more than their share of influence from the more recent proponents of #ChamberRock' the early abstractions of #HenryCow..." #ExposeOnline #AvantProgressive http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/blast-wire-stitched-ears-3.html

New #review today: "#Chafouin (translation: Sly) is a French experimental noise-pop-rock trio (though sometimes a duo and sometimes a quartet), but when the band leader #lAustral decided to expand to an octet, he rechristened the band #ChafouinOrchestra, and this is their self-titled debut. Any listener who dares is in for some kind of wild ride!" #ExposeOnline #AvantProgressive #minimalism http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/chafouin-orchestra-chafouin-orchestra-3.html

New #review today: "#Chafouin (translation: Sly) is a French experimental noise-pop-rock trio (though sometimes a duo and sometimes a quartet), but when the band leader #lAustral decided to expand to an octet, he rechristened the band #ChafouinOrchestra, and this is their self-titled debut. Any listener who dares is in for some kind of wild ride!" #ExposeOnline #AvantProgressive #minimalism http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/chafouin-orchestra-chafouin-orchestra-3.html

New #review today: "#Chafouin (translation: Sly) is a French experimental noise-pop-rock trio (though sometimes a duo and sometimes a quartet), but when the band leader #lAustral decided to expand to an octet, he rechristened the band #ChafouinOrchestra, and this is their self-titled debut. Any listener who dares is in for some kind of wild ride!" #ExposeOnline #AvantProgressive #minimalism http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/chafouin-orchestra-chafouin-orchestra-3.html

New #review today: "#Chafouin (translation: Sly) is a French experimental noise-pop-rock trio (though sometimes a duo and sometimes a quartet), but when the band leader #lAustral decided to expand to an octet, he rechristened the band #ChafouinOrchestra, and this is their self-titled debut. Any listener who dares is in for some kind of wild ride!" #ExposeOnline #AvantProgressive #minimalism http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/chafouin-orchestra-chafouin-orchestra-3.html

New #review today: "#Chafouin (translation: Sly) is a French experimental noise-pop-rock trio (though sometimes a duo and sometimes a quartet), but when the band leader #lAustral decided to expand to an octet, he rechristened the band #ChafouinOrchestra, and this is their self-titled debut. Any listener who dares is in for some kind of wild ride!" #ExposeOnline #AvantProgressive #minimalism http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/chafouin-orchestra-chafouin-orchestra-3.html

New #review today: "Back on their 2012 album A Little Bit of Big Bonanza, #BushmansRevenge covered #SonnySharrock’s “As We Used to Sing,” and that gives us a good idea where they get their idea of jazz from. On Ah, les Vaches! they carry on in the same basic vein they’ve been mining for as long as I’ve been aware of them. At one end of the spectrum, they play loose, noisy #jazz in Sharrock’s idiom, and at the other, they drift off into effects-laden atmospheric haze." #ExposeOnline #AvantJazz #KarismaRecords #IsItJazzRecords http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/bushmans-revenge-ah-les-vaches-2.html

New #review today: "#FergusQuill spans the whole range of #BigBand history with his #ImaginaryBigBand (which does seem to actually exist), now at their third album." #ExposeOnline #Jazz #FergsImaginaryBigBand http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/fergs-imaginary-big-band-the-new-atomic-2.html

New #review today: "Sometimes you have to give up trying to make sense of the world and just accept things as they are. For example, why is there a band called #HoneyRideMeAGoat? I don’t know why they’re called that, but I do know that they’re a really interesting band, so I suppose they need a name. The group’s origins go back to 2000, when some students at Canterbury College bonded over a shared love of Captain Beefheart, Black Sabbath, and Soft Machine." #ExposeOnline #AvantJazz #AvantRock #AvantProg http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/honey-ride-me-a-goat-horns-hooves-2.html

New #review today: "#MarkWirtz remains one of pop's great outliers. Best known for the unfinished #ATeenageOpera project, he spent the late 60s pushing studio pop toward increasingly elaborate forms, then somehow carried that vision into 1973 long after the rest of popular music had moved on. #ThinkLikeAKeyRecords' new reissue pairs his two obscure Capitol albums, Balloon and Hothouse Smiles, restoring both LPs to their original configurations and adding the non-LP B-side "Nothing to Do." The first thing to know is that these albums don't sound much like 1973. They're rooted in #BaroquePop, music hall traditions, film-score orchestration, and #Beatles-inspired studio craft." #ExposeOnline #ArtPop #PsychedelicRock #PsychedelicMusic http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/mark-wirtz-the-70s-albums-balloon-hothouse-smiles-6.html

New #review today: "For their fifth full-length release, #LetSpin moves to #DiscusMusic, which is a very reasonable fit for their music. It’s a combination of #jazz, #funk, and noise that blends composition and improvisation seamlessly." #ExposeOnline #AvantJazz http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/let-spin-i-am-alien-2.html

New #review today: "Within Seattle’s community of experimental and boundary-pushing artists, the three responsible for Gefühlswallung are certainly in the top ranks. #AmyDenio is well known around the world and here at Exposé; #GregCampbell is one of the area’s top drummers; and #HeatherBentley’s cello and viola have appeared in many settings and collaborations with other artists." #ExposeOnline #ExperimentalMusic #ImprovisedMusic #RightBrainRecords http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/the-hegramatics-gefuhlswallung-2.html

New #review today: "#PhillipGolub is a Brooklyn-based pianist, improviser, and composer who has assembled an impressive cast of musicians for Partisan Ship, an instrumental exploration of #microtonal composition loosely depicting a crew of partisans on a quest toward a utopian future." #ExposeOnline #Jazz #MicrotonalMusic #ExperimentalMusic #AvantJazz http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/phillip-golub-partisan-ship-6.html

New #review today: "#LukeBainbridge is a London-based drummer and composer, and Petstep is his sophomore release, following his debut Surface Tension by five years. There is no question about it, this quartet is steeped in the #jazz idiom, driven by odd grooves and asymmetrical funkiness." #ExposeOnline #AvantJazz http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/luke-bainbridge-petstep-3.html

New #review today: "#HilaryJeffery is a composer, arranger, teacher, and multi-instrumentalist, born in suburban England in 1971, though he is currently based in Berlin. The material on Green Prism consists of arrangements of music written by #KeithTippett in the latter part of his career, mostly drawn from a suite titled Winter’s Welcome in 2018." #ExposeOnline #DiscusMusic #AvantJazz #jazz http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/hilary-jeffery-green-prism-music-by-keith-tippett-3.html

New #review today: "Most of the recent #DiscusMusic label releases by #PaulDunmall that we have reviewed here featured expansive groups of six or more players: Bright Light A Joyous Celebration was a sextet, Red Hot Ice was a nonet, and the most recent, Away with Troubles and Anxieties from 2025, was an eleven-piece; one would figure from that trajectory that the next one would be a fifteen piece band, but instead he’s dialed Afraid to Speak back to a quintet for all but the closing track, which features six." #ExposeOnline #Jazz #AvantJazz http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/paul-dunmall-afraid-to-speak-3.html

New #review today: "Between #JoBergerMyhre's bowed double bass, eight string bass, and extended guitar techniques, plus the Iranian percussion, there is a diverse array of unusual sounds coming together across these seven tracks, such that it puts it far outside the standard #jazz idiom, in fact it’s often closer to electric chamber music." #ExposeOnline #RareNoiseRecords #AvantJazz #ChamberJazz http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/jo-berger-myhre-penta-3.html

New #review today: "#DiegoPiñera is a #jazz drummer originally from Uruguay, though he’s been based in Berlin for some time now, and his music certainly takes after those European artists who incorporate Classical influences into their jazz. This is especially true on Romanian Dance, where #BélaBartók is the primary reference." #ExposeOnline #AvantJazz #ChamberJazz #JohnPatitucci #DavidKikoski http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/diego-pinera-romanian-dance-evidence-2.html

New #review today: "We have previously encountered cellist #JanelLeppin as half of #JanelAndAnthony, as leader of #EnsembleVolcanicAsh, and as a member of Skullcap, but she’s got a lot more going on than just those releases. 2026 sees Cuneiform releasing a pair of albums under her name: Slowly Melting is a true solo effort, while Pluto in Aquarius is another album with Ensemble Volcanic Ash." #ExposeOnline #AvantJazz #AvantRock #ExperimentalMusic #AnthonyPirog #CuneiformRecords http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/janel-leppin-slowly-melting-pluto-in-aquarius-2.html

New #review today: "#LeviFuller is a Seattle guitarist who uses the name #PassengerPigeon for his experimental solo work. Another New Low presents about an hour of improvised sounds centered around the guitar, which is played in both conventional and unconventional ways and modified by various electronic means." #ExposeOnline #ExperimentalMusic #RightBrainRecords http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/passenger-pigeon-another-new-low-2.html

New #review today: "#EdgarFroese, #ChristopherFranke, and #PeterBaumann may not be associated with #TangerineDream any longer, but the current incarnation of the ground convened at The Barbican in London on 7 October 2024 to pay homage to the classic album." #ExposeOnline #ElectronicMusic http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/tangerine-dream-50-years-of-phaedra-at-the-barbican-2.html

New #review today: "#StephanThelen’s Fractal Guitar series is now at its fourth installment, and it follows in the illustrious footsteps of its predecessors with eight tracks of unusual grooves and stellar textural guitar work." #ExposeOnline #AvantJazz http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/stephan-thelen-fractal-guitar-4-2.html

New #review today: "We’ve encountered #DaveWilley on a couple dozen albums by such groups as #HamsterTheatre, #ThinkingPlague, #3Mice, and others along with guest appearances on albums by #FalterBramnk, #MikeJohnson, The Gatekeepers, and more. Whorl is credited to #BeaTheSleuth, and features Willey along with experimental guitarist #MichaelJONeill." #ExposeOnline #ExperimentalMusic #ImprovisedMusic #RightBrainRecords http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/bear-the-sleuth-whorl-2.html

New #review today: "#FabioAnile is known as a pioneer of looping and field recording experiments going back to the mid-90s, participating in the #LoopersDelight Community and other groups, and also released a couple digital albums on the Laverna label between 2011 and 2017. A collaboration with #StephanThelen appeared as a privately released CD in 2023, but Minutiae is his first ever solo release on physical medium." #ExposeOnline #AvantRock #AvantJazz http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/fabio-anile-minutiae-3.html

New #review today: "The last two releases by #BrandonSeabrook featured a fairly large ensemble and Seabrook completely on his own. Hellbent Daydream falls in between, with the leader joined by #HenryFraser (bass), #EricaDicker (violin), and #EliasStemeseder (piano and synthesizers). The absence of drums and percussion lends the album a feeling of being #ChamberMusic—really weird chamber music." #ExposeOnline #AvantGarde #AvantJazz http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/brandon-seabrook-hellbent-daydream-2.html

New #review today: "#Taupe is a trio based in Glasgow that is exploring the area between #jazz and #AvantGarde electronics, tossing in #MathRock as a bonus. The result on Waxing / Waning is a joyful mess of wild saxophone, freaky guitar, and drums that are spastic and stuttery one moment and rocking heavily the next." #ExposeOnline #AvantJazz #ExperimentalMusic http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/taupe-waxing-waning-2.html

New #review today: "I wasn’t sure what to expect from this trio led by #JérémieTernoy, one of the founding members of #TOC, a group that mostly dwells in the realms of improvisation. Surprisingly, most of the six tracks herein seem fully composed, with a loose enough feel to make them appropriate for the #jazz idiom." #ExposeOnline #AvantJazz http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/jeremie-ternoy-trio-survol-a-basse-altitude-3.html

New# review today: "It is an unfortunate quirk of fate or timing that only now are we covering a release by #KrisDavis under her own name. Her 2019 album Diatom Ribbons is exceptional and should be in the collection of anyone who likes boundary-pushing jazz. Run the Gauntlet sees her leading a trio with #RobertHurst (bass) and #JohnathanBlake (drums), and there is no hint of cocktail #PianoTrio #jazz here." #ExposeOnline #AvantJazz #StringQuartet #LutosławskiQuartet http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/kris-davis-run-the-guantlet-the-solastalgia-suite-2.html

New #review today: "For Umwelt, #DenmanMaroney reconvened his quintet about a year after releaseing The Air-Conditioned Nightmare, and it’s another set of fascinating and unconventional tunes that use a #jazz quintet to play music that has more in common with experimental 20th Century composition than the blues or the standard songbook." #ExposeOnline #AvantJazz #ChamberMusic http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/denman-maroney-quintet-umwelt-2.html

New #review today: "With Burning Wick, #SatokoFujii’s Quartet roars once again, following the excellent Dog Days of Summer with another set of unpredictable #jazz. As with the previous release, Fujii (piano) is joined by #NatsukiTamura (trumpet), #TatsuyaYoshida (drums), and #HayakawaTakeharu (bass), and as I’ve written before, this combination of musicians is particularly explosive and appealing." #ExposeOnline #AvantJazz http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/satoko-fujii-quartet-burning-wick-2.html

New #review today: "Here we have #TrioOfBloom, with #NelsCline (guitar), #CraigTaborn (keyboards), and #MarcusGilmore (drums). This is by far the most improvisational of the bands, as you might expect from having Cline on board, and he’s in full out-there mode for most of this album." #ExposeOnline #ExperimentalMusic #AvantJazz #PyroclasticRecords #jazz http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/trio-of-bloom-trio-of-bloom-2.html

New #review today: "Time really flies; it seems like just a few years ago that #Zhongyu released their debut album "Zhongyu" Is Chinese For "Finally" on #MoonjuneRecords, but in truth it’s been a full nine years. During that time the band has shrunk from a quintet to a trio — though in fact “Super Z Attack Team” was used as the band name any time they would play live in a trio configuration." #ExposeOnline #RightBrainRecords #ProgressiveRock #AvantProg #MathRock http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/zhongyu-super-z-attack-team-3.html

New #review today: "#PaulWilliams’ interests with #ChurchOfHed lie in relating real-world experiences and concepts into music, and like Rivers of Asphalt, which followed the old Route 66, and The Father Road, which took the listener on a coast-to-coast journey on the old Lincoln Highway, Under Blue Ridge Skies takes another #RoadTrip, though a much shorter one, on the Blue Ridge Parkway." #ExposeOnline #ElectronicMusic http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/church-of-hed-under-blue-ridge-skies-3.html

New #review today: "We last encountered percussionist #BradDutz with Oktet, which was brought to us by the letter O and featured eight musicians. The release at hand, Sarek Seemed Satisfied, is obviously sponsored by the letter S and involves a septet (minus two, as explained below)." #ExposeOnline #AvantJazz #RightBrainRecords http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/brad-dutz-sarek-seemed-satisfied-2.html

New #review today: "#CurtisHasselbring’s latest project is dubbed the Curhachestra, and from the name you might expect a large ensemble. It is in fact only a quartet featuring #AdamMinkoff (bass), #DanRieser (drums), and #RaphaelMcGregor (lap steel guitar); there are also guests #NelsCline (guitar) and #LisaParrott (baritone sax) on one track each. Hasselbring takes advantage of the unusual lineup’s available tonalities..." #ExposeOnline #jazz http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/curtis-hasselbring-curhachestra-2.html

New #review today: "The French #AvantProg band #JackDupon is now the trio of Thomas Larsen (drums, vocals), Arnaud M’Doihoma (bass, vocals), and Gregory Pozzoli (guitar, vocals), and I have found it difficult to listen to and review their new album Toucan. Toucan is definitely an album for the discerning musical palate." #ExposeOnline #ProgressiveRock #ArtPunk http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/jack-dupon-toucan-6.html

New #review today: "#MotherMallard was different than other electronic artists of the era, three skilled players with minimalist compositions in search of a tool to bring them to life, and that tool ended up being the modular Moog synthesizer, with #BobMoog being a big supporter of the group." #ExposeOnline #ElectronicMusic #ExperimentalMusic #CuneiformRecords #DavidBorden #MotherMallardsPortableMasterpieceCompany http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/mother-mallards-portable-masterpiece-company-make-way-for-mother-mallard-50-years-of-music-3.html