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Casserley / Illvibe / Morgan / Sjostrom: Live At The Club Polnischer Versager

Read "Live At The Club Polnischer Versager" reviewed by Robin B James


Four musicians, two songs, one clocking in at 32:06 minutes and the other at 23:39 minutes. The action takes place deep in outer space, the club is located in Berlin and the physical event was recorded in 2016. The four musicians had never before played together, but they are all professional players so the chemistry is profound. They were each born in very different places and times. Harri Sjöström was born in Finland in 1952, played piano and guitar in ...

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Jeffrey Morgan: Quasar-Mach

Read "Quasar-Mach" reviewed by Robin B James


Stark, electronic, space-age, experimental jazz by Jeffrey Morgan and friends, a gift from the 1980s when the left field was exuberant, loud and sometimes harsh. In those halcyon days, when you saw that a musician played more than one instrument on a tune, there was no multitracking, each musician would have an array of instruments laid out before them and while the event was going down they would pick up and play whatever was called for in the arrangement. Each ...

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Morgan & Casserley: Exoplanets

Read "Exoplanets" reviewed by Robin B James


Exoplanets is an album which explores the darkness that is all around us. Is it all catastrophe and despair? Clearly not, because science transcends emotions, and happiness survives negative emotions. Each of the track titles refers to a planet, the sound is experimental and cosmic, from the “free jazz" school of expression. In our local galaxy, there are between 100 and 400 billion stars, and probably at least 100 billion planets. Around 3,500 exoplanets, planets that orbit stars other than ...


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