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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

New #review today: "In the early 70s, #MarianneSegal emerged as the principal songwriter, vocalist, and guitarist for #Jade, one of the more cherished cult names of the British #ProgressiveFolk movement. The Gathering, originally released in 2007, found Segal surrounded by an unlikely but inspired cast that included members of the neo-medieval psych-folk ensemble #Circulus." #ExposeOnline #PsychedelicRock #PsychedelicFolk #SilverJade http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/marianne-segal-featuring-circulus-the-gathering-6.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: "Earthman is the first #FruitsDeMerRecords vinyl release by #ManAndMachine, the project of Scottish singer, guitarist, and songwriter #TomRoche. Familiar #PsychedelicRock and #ProgressiveRock reference points appear throughout, but they are arranged at improbable angles..." #ExposeOnline http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/man-machine-earthman-6.html

New #review today: "On their previous album, #AtsukoChiba augmented their sound with strings, brass, and woodwinds, but for their latest they go it on their own. This self-titled release is their fourth full-length album, and it features six tracks of moderate length. While the music exhibits a wide range of sound and influence, there’s a thread of #psychedelia running through it all no matter what the surface trappings may be." #ExposeOnline #PsychedelicRock #krautrock #PostRock http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/atsuko-chiba-atsuko-chiba-2.html

New #review today: " In fact this live #Discus album was available two years ago as a bonus disc in a Japanese box set of the band’s first two CDs, subtitled The Official Bootleg, but this is the first time it’s been available as a stand-alone disc; and regardless of that earlier subtitle, this is no bootleg — the recording quality and mix of the six tracks presented is nothing short of stellar, especially given the difficulty of recording some of the Indonesian acoustic instruments." #ExposeOnline #ProgressiveRock #IndonesianMusic http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/discus-live-in-switzerland-2005-3.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: "#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: "For a band like #MajorParkinson, writing songs about the apocalypse is, one way or another, kind of what they do. Certainly not all of their music, going back to when I first encountered them on Blackbox (2018), is specifically about the catastrophic end of civilization, but you could describe their emotional impact as apocalyptic, even when the lyrics are about some kind of internal personal crisis. So here they are with the second chapter of their Valesa epic, started with Velvet Prison (2022), and it’s called Viva the Apocalypse!" #ExposeOnline #ProgressiveRock #ArtRock #ConceptAlbum http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/major-parkinson-valesa-ii-viva-the-apocalypse-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: "#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: "The masters of German #PsychedelicFunk and #JazzRock #fusion are back with a new studio album of original material, the follow up to studio album Zoup a couple years back, and 55 years on from the band’s formation, now in your choice of CD, LP, or download." #Kraan #ExposeOnline #ProgressiveRock #PsychedelicRock http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/kraan-all-in-3.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: "Longtime #FruitsDeMerRecords band #SchizoFunAddict will release their first single from their forthcoming album Desolate Ecstasy as a 7-inch turquoise 1-sided lathe cut in March 2026, an extremely fun and addictive West Coast #PsychPop song enhanced by the double female vocals of Jayne and Ilona Virostek, evoking images of Michelle Phillips and Mama Cass." #ExposeOnline #PsychedelicRock http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/schizo-fun-addict-pasteline-dream-6.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: "#ChrisRussell’s intent on his fourth #SpottedPeccary release, is to illustrate light, which also encompasses shadow and color, in the form of sound, the light being both physical and direct, reflected light, and inner, spiritual light, perhaps at some point where they all converge. The eight tracks herein offer sculptures of sonic beauty that float freely in the aether." #ExposeOnline #ElectronicMusic #AmbientMusic http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/chris-russell-lumen-3.html

New #review today: "#ChrisRussell’s intent on his fourth #SpottedPeccary release, is to illustrate light, which also encompasses shadow and color, in the form of sound, the light being both physical and direct, reflected light, and inner, spiritual light, perhaps at some point where they all converge. The eight tracks herein offer sculptures of sonic beauty that float freely in the aether." #ExposeOnline #ElectronicMusic #AmbientMusic http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/chris-russell-lumen-3.html

New #review today: "#ChrisRussell’s intent on his fourth #SpottedPeccary release, is to illustrate light, which also encompasses shadow and color, in the form of sound, the light being both physical and direct, reflected light, and inner, spiritual light, perhaps at some point where they all converge. The eight tracks herein offer sculptures of sonic beauty that float freely in the aether." #ExposeOnline #ElectronicMusic #AmbientMusic http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/chris-russell-lumen-3.html

New #review today: "#ChrisRussell’s intent on his fourth #SpottedPeccary release, is to illustrate light, which also encompasses shadow and color, in the form of sound, the light being both physical and direct, reflected light, and inner, spiritual light, perhaps at some point where they all converge. The eight tracks herein offer sculptures of sonic beauty that float freely in the aether." #ExposeOnline #ElectronicMusic #AmbientMusic http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/chris-russell-lumen-3.html

New #review today: "#ChrisRussell’s intent on his fourth #SpottedPeccary release, is to illustrate light, which also encompasses shadow and color, in the form of sound, the light being both physical and direct, reflected light, and inner, spiritual light, perhaps at some point where they all converge. The eight tracks herein offer sculptures of sonic beauty that float freely in the aether." #ExposeOnline #ElectronicMusic #AmbientMusic http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/chris-russell-lumen-3.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: "About a year ago we reviewed an album Interdwell by the group #DarkSkyAlliance, something of an #ambient supergroup, a quartet with about a half dozen guests, on #SpottedPeccary. The protagonists of the collaboration at hand, #DavidHelpling and #EricTheTaylor comprise one half of the quartet Dark Sky Alliance. Taylor is a synthesist, bassist, and percussionist, and Helpling is a synthesist and guitarist..." #ExposeOnline #ElectronicMusic #AmbientMusic http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/david-helpling-eric-the-taylor-the-precious-dark-3.html

New #review today: "About a year ago we reviewed an album Interdwell by the group #DarkSkyAlliance, something of an #ambient supergroup, a quartet with about a half dozen guests, on #SpottedPeccary. The protagonists of the collaboration at hand, #DavidHelpling and #EricTheTaylor comprise one half of the quartet Dark Sky Alliance. Taylor is a synthesist, bassist, and percussionist, and Helpling is a synthesist and guitarist..." #ExposeOnline #ElectronicMusic #AmbientMusic http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/david-helpling-eric-the-taylor-the-precious-dark-3.html

New #review today: "About a year ago we reviewed an album Interdwell by the group #DarkSkyAlliance, something of an #ambient supergroup, a quartet with about a half dozen guests, on #SpottedPeccary. The protagonists of the collaboration at hand, #DavidHelpling and #EricTheTaylor comprise one half of the quartet Dark Sky Alliance. Taylor is a synthesist, bassist, and percussionist, and Helpling is a synthesist and guitarist..." #ExposeOnline #ElectronicMusic #AmbientMusic http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/david-helpling-eric-the-taylor-the-precious-dark-3.html

New #review today: "About a year ago we reviewed an album Interdwell by the group #DarkSkyAlliance, something of an #ambient supergroup, a quartet with about a half dozen guests, on #SpottedPeccary. The protagonists of the collaboration at hand, #DavidHelpling and #EricTheTaylor comprise one half of the quartet Dark Sky Alliance. Taylor is a synthesist, bassist, and percussionist, and Helpling is a synthesist and guitarist..." #ExposeOnline #ElectronicMusic #AmbientMusic http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/david-helpling-eric-the-taylor-the-precious-dark-3.html

New #review today: "About a year ago we reviewed an album Interdwell by the group #DarkSkyAlliance, something of an #ambient supergroup, a quartet with about a half dozen guests, on #SpottedPeccary. The protagonists of the collaboration at hand, #DavidHelpling and #EricTheTaylor comprise one half of the quartet Dark Sky Alliance. Taylor is a synthesist, bassist, and percussionist, and Helpling is a synthesist and guitarist..." #ExposeOnline #ElectronicMusic #AmbientMusic http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/david-helpling-eric-the-taylor-the-precious-dark-3.html

New #review today: "In March 1980, #Kraan was the quartet of #PeterWolbrandt (guitar, vocals), #HellmutHattler (bass), #UdoDahmen (drums), and #IngoBischof (keyboards), following the Tournee live album, which was recorded at various dates throughout 1979. Their sound, somewhat uncommon among German bands with a few exceptions, was a powerful funky jazz-rock laced with psychedelia..." #ExposeOnline http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/kraan-aladin-tapes-3.html

New #review today: "These two most recent releases from #RichHalley show him in two different settings. On Fire Within, he is joined by #MatthewShipp (piano), #MichaelBisio (bass), and #NewmanTaylorBaker (drums), the same quartet that recorded Terra Incognita (2019) and The Shape of Things (2020). As before, Shipp’s piano is a perfect foil for Halley’s edgy tenor sax..." #ExposeOnline #jazz http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/rich-halley-fire-within-dusk-dawn-2.html

New #review today: "#Vanderson is the nom de plume of #MaciejWierzchowski, a Polish synthesist, who started out in the early 90s as a DJ mixing music and composing non-commercial electro-pop and techno tracks, later performing at parties, TV shows and techno-clubs. Eventually his interests shifted to classic electronic music, and in 2007 he released his first album of 70s / 80s styled #BerlinSchool #ElectronicMusic..." #ExposeOnline http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/vanderson-2055-3.html