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Xavier Gélard

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Article: 72 Jazz Thrillers

The Most Exciting Jazz Albums Since 1969: 2015-2017

Read "The Most Exciting Jazz Albums Since 1969: 2015-2017" reviewed by Robert Middleton


This week's thrilling albums are a rather obscure lot; four of them hail from Europe and one from Canada. But like all the thrilling albums that preceded them, they possess that elusive quality that keeps you engaged, offering a new discovery with each subsequent listen, ensuring their staying power and ability to seduce your soul over ...

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Spectral Music

Label: Cuneiform Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Parapente/Paraglider; Thoughtography/Toughtography; Odradek/Odradek; Le Mont Marsal/The Marsal Mount; A distance/A Distance; Spectral Music, 1/Spectral Music, 1; Vie de Wyatt Hopper/A Life of Wyatt Hopper; Spectral Music, 2/Spectral Music, 2; L'Autre Versant/The Other Side; Uchimizu/Uchimizu; Tumulte opaque/Opaque Uproar.

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Article: Album Review

Ghost Rhythms: Spectral Music

Read "Spectral Music" reviewed by Mark Sullivan


After the self-produced Imaginary Mountains (2020) French experimental collective Ghost Rhythms returns to Cuneiform Records with a sequel to Live At Yoshiwara (Cuneiform Records, 2019). With roughly ten pieces, it is a band with a wide range of tonal colors; the band's leaders, drummer Xavier Gélard and keyboardist Camille Petit, have resumed their compositional role (with ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Catching Up On Mostly 2020 Releases

Read "Catching Up On Mostly 2020 Releases" reviewed by Mark Sullivan


Lots of interesting albums piled up in the last few months, most of them released in 2020. Dusan Jevtovic If You See Me Self Produced 2020 Serbian guitarist/composer Dusan Jevtovic assembled a strong core band for this album, which was mostly recorded live in the studio: touch guitarist and ...

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Imaginary Mountains

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2020
Track listing: Path to Oyapock; Tumuc Humac; GR 1; Sierra de Tamuraque; Oayana Circles; GR 2; Horizontal Ascension; GR 3; Coudreau's Dream; Vie de Raymond Maufrais.

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Article: Album Review

Ghost Rhythms: Live at Yoshiwara

Read "Live at Yoshiwara" reviewed by Mark Sullivan


French ensemble Ghost Rhythms present their first live album, recorded in front of a small audience in their rehearsal space. While there is no real venue named Yoshiwara, there is an infamous Yoshiwara district in Japan, which in turn lent its name to the depraved red-light district and club in Metropolis, Fritz Lang's 1927 silent sci-fi ...


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