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Nabou: Indigo

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From the mid-90s through the early 2000s, a certain late-night vibe permeated the best music from Europe; it was 'chill,' but underneath the surface, there was restlessness and a simmering anxiety. From the claustrophobic pulse of Tricky's Pre-Millennium Tension to the glitchy beats and organic beauty of Four Tet's Rounds, the music worked because there was ...

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The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis: Deface the Currency

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The distance between the underground rock scene and the genre-bending free jazz movement of the 1960s is shorter than it appears. On their second full-length collaboration, Deface the Currency, The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis have managed to erase that distance by uniting the post-punk precision of the Washington D.C hardcore scene with the high-octane energy ...

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Danny Gatton: Danny Gatton and Funhouse - Live at the Holiday Inn 1987

Read "Danny Gatton and Funhouse - Live at the Holiday Inn 1987" reviewed by Kevin Poindexter


Danny Gatton is a guitarist more “heard of" than heard. A guitarist's guitarist, Gatton was known as “The Humbler," a nickname bestowed upon him by another fine guitarist, Amos Garrett. The story goes that Garrett would play his band a tape that he had of a live recording of Gatton and whenever he felt like his ...

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Tomasz Stańko: Polish Radio Sessions 1970-91

Read "Polish Radio Sessions 1970-91" reviewed by Kevin Poindexter


In post-World War II Poland, jazz served as an act of defiance against the state, a resistance to the cultural restraints imposed on society. With its improvised nature and swinging rhythms, it stood in direct opposition to the rigid structure of socialist society. Where jazz relies on individual improvisation as a form of expression, socialist society ...


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