Back to our usual programme, here’s a review I promised you before our holiday break, the new effort by Marc Ribot’s power trio Ceramic Dog, “Party Intellectuals” out on Pi Recordings. The left handed avant/jazz/punk/rock guitar mammoth Marc Ribot teams up with Shahzad Ismaily and Ches Smith from Secret Chiefs 3, to give another taste [...]

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If you remember a few days ago I told that, “So Embarrassing” the second album by Philadelphia rock band Capillary Action deserves a bit more pondering. Anyone who frequents this blog knows that we love eclecticism as long as it’s used in the authentic form of the word, “drawing upon multiple theories, styles, or ideas“. [...]

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Here’s the third installment of the “What the mailbox brought in” series, that’s selected from emails sent by groups and labels to undomondo.
“The sound of The Autumn Project is something of a familiar one, reminiscent of Godspeed You Black Emperor!, Isis and Mogwai but still original, fresh and unadulterated. Dynamics, melody, and emotion are [...]

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Another day another Tzadik release, this time by the eccentric percussion guru Cyro Baptista. I’ve known him from the Electric Masada ensemble and also I’ve listened to his track Matan on the wonderful Dichotomy of Epiphany mp3blog a few months ago. His percussion and dance ensemble released their second album on Tzadik in 2005. Cyro [...]

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Hey, I’m nowhere near completing my top list for 2006, so once again I’m postponing it to next week, and go to a festival in Istanbul to enjoy some open air.
Banabila is Rotterdam based composer Michel Banabila, a well-known ambient-downtempo musician. Although he’s released lots of stuff, I only listened to his collab with [...]

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