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Stephan Thelen: Fractal Guitar 3

by Mark Sullivan
January 12, 2023

Guitarist/composer Stephan Thelen presents the third installment of his Fractal Guitar series. Like the previous albums, the emphasis is on multiple guitars, layered in kaleidoscopic arrangements based on his compositions and guitar playing, but significantly colored by the contributions of his collaborators. This edition was also influenced by the other albums that he was working on ...

Tentacles

Label: MoonJune Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Tentacles; Ringtone; Company Of Ghosts; Danger In The Workplace; Satieday Night

Puzzlebox

Label: MoonJune Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Tabula Rasa; New Design; Plate; Shelter; As Tympani Melt In The Greek Heat; Fall From Grace; Belt & Braces; Triangles Circles And Squares; Oslo; Kicking The Wasps Nests; Lifeguard In The Rain; Tabula Rasa 2.

Fractal Guitar 3

By Stephan Thelen

Label: MoonJune Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Through The Stargate; Morning Star; Glitch; Ascension; Black On Electric Blue; Through The Stargate (Edit).

Clint Bahr: Puzzlebox

by Chris M. Slawecki
October 18, 2022

Puzzlebox is precisely that: A hard-cover box of musical curios arranged around an 11-minute improvisation ("As Tympani Melt in the Greek Heat") performed not by a band but by a rotating caravan of progressive jazz and rock musicians organized by multi-instrumentalist and composer Clint Bahr. Bahr's collaborators in this curious collection include pianist Marilyn Crispell, violinist ...

Freaks in Mayberry & the Boney Oscar Stomp

by Chris M. Slawecki
October 4, 2022

Giuseppe Paradiso & Meridian 71 Parallel Dimensions Ubuntu Music 2022 Parallel Dimensions steers the listener's imagination through a luxurious multicultural tapestry woven in music by drummer, vocalist, composer, arranger and producer Giuseppe Paradiso and his sextet. It explores broad musical horizons that can sound radiantly bright ...

Stick Men: Tentacles

by Dan McClenaghan
May 16, 2022

In the early 1960s, before every teenage rock band wanted to be the Beatles, many of them (especially in Southern California) wanted to be the Chantays (1963's “Pipeline"), The Surfaris' ("Wipeout" and “Point Panic," both from 1963) or Dick Dale and the Deltones ("Miserlou," 1962). Those days were the short-lived peak of surf rock, and it ...

Beledo: Seriously Deep

by Chris M. Slawecki
April 2, 2022

Beledo's second MoonJune release flows through the listener's ears like the cinematic adaptation of an epic novel, but in sound. Seriously Deep quite deliberately moves from scene to scene (song to song), building up and releasing tension in music that sounds much too powerful and deep to have been primarily created by only three musicians: Uruguayan ...

Stephan Thelen: Fractal Guitar 2 - Remixes

by Mark Sullivan
February 3, 2022

Guitarist & composer Stephan Thelen's experimental guitar-fest Fractal Guitar (MoonJune Records, 2019) was followed by Fractal Guitar Remixes And Extra Tracks (MoonJune Records, 2019), a substantially fresh look at the material, as well as an expansion. For the sequel Fractal Guitar 2 (Moonjune Records, 2021) Thelen produced an even more radical approach to contemporary guitar-driven music. ...

In the Electric Universe

Label: MoonJune Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Theme From P.D.; Cube; (((Sundog))); Psychic Police Force; Floral Flotilla (Sail To Me My Love In Your...); Octavio