For some reason even though undomondo readership has been fairly stagnant (about 10K people a month if you wonder) somehow the amount of PR material we get has increased exponentially. I try to keep up as well as I can but without the help of volunteers or interns a monthly/bi-monthly update is all I can [...]

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I normally can’t get my ass off the chair to go to a concert if I don’t know it a few days beforehand. Yesterday night though I had to act spontaneous as Marc Ribot was in town with his Spiritual Unity project playing Albert Ayler pieces. It was an intense show with little interaction between [...]

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The Thing with Ken Vandermark by Mizohu Yabe
We’ve been slacking on posting avantjazz for a while since I haven’t found anything notable to listen these days (care to help? comment pls.) so here’s 2006’s Action Jazz by Mats Gustafsson’s The Thingon Smalltown Supersound. Their eighth studio album is a chaotic tornado which defined Allaboutjazz summed [...]

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California’s Upsilon Acrux may not be as intense as grindcore bands in tempo and noise, but it’s complex oddtimed riffage and polyrhythmic drumming (and silly album names?) is quite correctly labeled as “brutal prog“.

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The Original Kocani Orkestar playing in the middle of the street @ yesterday’s springfest, more on this later.
* Holy shit how did I miss this? 4 tracks from Jazzanova DJ Dixon’s Body Language Vol.4 on Get Physical. Pure quality deep/urban house music, including remixes from Henrik Schwarz, and tracks from Denmark’s Owusu & Hannibal, Mari [...]

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I know I have been lacking on the avantjazz/freejazz front for some time although I’ve been listening to a few great albums I’ve picked up recently. And surprise they are not on Tzadik this time! :)

Gerry Hemingway Quartet’s latest album The Whimbler is on the Portuguese Clean Feed label that focus on creative jazz. [...]

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