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Spinifex: Beats The Plague
by Mark Corroto
Finally, a band of brothers retaliates against the coronavirus. The scientists and the anti-vax antipodes have had their day. Time for some partisan guerrilla action. Okay, maybe just a pipe dream, but these nine tracks by the Amsterdam based Spinifex deliver a much needed counterattack to this diabolical infective agent. Recorded in June of 2021, Beats The Plague is the band's seventh release. It follows Soufifex (TryTone, 2019) where the band looked East for inspiration from Sufi music. ...
read moreLive From Flanders: Bart Maris, Jasper Stadhouders, Joachim Badenhorst & Jan Devlieger
by Martin Longley
Bart Maris & Jasper Stadhouders Parazzar Bruges, Belgium July 17, 2020 The Dutch-speaking Flemish north of Belgium has its own scene, even though crossing over to a great degree with the central Brussels hub. In quaintly historic Bruges, the Parazzar bar/restaurant is a well-established joint with a pronounced devotion to jazz and freely improvised sounds. This summer, its governing force of Joeri Hostens and Peter Jonckheere have opened a pop-up art gallery ...
read moreElectric Barbarian: Barb Wire
by AAJ Italy Staff
La tessitura sonora messa insieme dagli Electric Barbarian cerca di unire, anche se non sempre con risultato avvincente e originale, l'approccio moderno del turntablism e degli inserti elettronici, suonati da DJ Grazzhoppa e DJ Lamont, con le ambientazioni sinistre della sezione archi e le melodie prodotte dalla tromba di Bart Maris. Un agglomerato di suoni e idee versatili, dove trova spazio la narrazione di poesie di Langston Hughes, voci preregistrate, andamenti prossimi al breakbeat e una serie di concatenazioni stilistiche ...
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