15 Battles - Mirrored (Warp Records) : Everybody’s been talking about “Mirrored” this year, and they kind of deserve it for getting their oddtimed dissonant music to find strange acclaim from mainstream circles as well as mathheads.
14 Deejay OM - Reheated Naan and Curry (Galapagos4) : A fine hybrid of Indian samples mixed with beats. [...]

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Cuneiform never fails to impress us with a steady supply of brilliant albums. Here’s a new album, by the band that I still haven’t been able to pronounce correctly : Ahleuchatistas. The North Carolina power trio belongs to the increasing number of brilliant progressive math rock albums that I’ve been listening to this year, full [...]

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A new discovery on my part, Raymond Scott is a composer, orchestra leader, pianist, engineer, recording studio maverick, and an electronic instrument inventor. I first heard him in J Dilla’s Donuts with the track “Lightworks” and the cartoony playfulness of early electronics instantly called upon me to seek for more. Here are some interesting facts, [...]

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After the Fanga review, I’ve been contacted by our trustworthy reader Henri Tournyol du Clos as he tipped me about The Budos Band, a few listens later a guest review was scheduled. He’s a funny chap and hopefully we’ll see him write for undomondo once in a while, no?

The Budos Band by Meghannmarco
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Shining by Matt Calico
Another freejazz variant that I’ve been watching since a long time ago is Shining, once again hailing from Scandinavia. I guess the libertarian social atmosphere must help creativity flourish in the north of Europe. Formed by Norwegian sax player and former Jaga Jazzist guy Jørgen Munkeby in 1999, Shining is a 4 [...]

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Tied & Tickled Trio live from Immergut Festival by Ilovethatsound.
We’re back home from Radar Live after a successful appearance (at least we think so :)) and getting straight down to business I wanted to inform you about Tied & Tickled Trio’s second effort on Morr Music called Aelita. Tied & Tickled Trio is [...]

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You have to remember Andrew & Emiko’s rendition of the traditional Japanese song Otemoyan. Well guess what, I’ve found the lyrics and an instrumental 70’s sax version of it from the by Teruo Yoda, which has been on repeat since that day.
The French collective Sayag Jazz Machine has a jazz laden breakbeat album featuring [...]

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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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Rock music is converging more and more into jazz & electronic music, with unconventional compositions & song structures and thank God MTV has not delved into this territory yet. Manufactur is a Swiss 4 piece that wrestles formulaic music with their own homebrew jazzy math-rock. Trumpeter Werner Hasler, Electronician Oli Kuster, Bassist Urban Lienert and [...]

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We’re living in this silly little modern world, where indie is the new pop, folk is the new black and prog is the new alternative. The fact for instance, that an old song by Mogollar (Les Moguls) is the official Playstation 3 ad shows how people are returning to roots more and more each day. [...]

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