Cécile Schott the Parisian native instrumentalist whom I always thought “Colleen” was her real name, is back with a new album on her home Leaf. Yesteryear’s “Colleen et les boîtes à musique” could be labeled a concept album that satisfied her javanese love with a musical box, which was still good but not as engaging [...]

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Today is the day for unconventional indie bandnames!

Sorry No Ferrari’s The Get Down Syndrome is instrumental math-rock with complex riffs & sign changes, just the way we like our rock (and our math!). They’re a relatively young band from the USA (where else?) and these 2 songs are from their second EP released on StickFigure [...]

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Here comes the alleged Tzadik fanboy with a new and unfortunately the final release from The Cracow Klezmer Band. “Remembrance” released on Tzadik in March is a final testimony to the band with a terrific 2005 performance in Warsaw at the Polish National Radio concert studio. One thing the Eastern Europeans & Russians do is [...]

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Mike Gao seen here with his crew in 91!
I mentioned Chicago’s Galapagos4 Crew on Deejay Om’s lovely effort a few posts ago. This leftfield instrumental hiphop/beat crew has been on my playlist with their 2005 stuff for some time with artists like Mestizo, Denizen Kane, Royce, Meaty Ogre and Mike Gao. It’s a shame [...]

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The Matthew Herbert Big Band play Turning Pages
Woohoo a new Matthew Herbert album! “Score” is a compilation of his film scores (Vida Y Color, Manolete, La Confiance Regne, The Intended, the short films Indiscretion and Nicotine), a musical (Le Defi), and one ballet (Set Boundaries). Sadly I haven’t watched any of these films, hell [...]

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Whooo, it’s time to review one of my favourite CDs from 2007 just before it gets a regular western world release on Galapagos4, a leftfield hiphop label that slipped through my filters this year, with artists like Mike Gao and Mestizo. I’d like to introduce you to Deejay OM’s eclectic postmodern masterpiece “Reheated Naan and [...]

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Yes retroethnic!. A word I made up 5 minutes ago to describe today’s songs. The first song is by Tofig Guliyev, and it’s off the compilation, Jazz in Azerbaijan Anthology. I’m disappointed with the second CD of this compilation, which has lots of newage/midi drum stale jazz, but the first CD has this gem by 1917 born composer Guliyev which has a ripping guitar played like a tar on top of a 20s style big brass band joined by some accordeon and piano, very musical.

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Here’s an artist I’ve meant to feature here for some time, we’ve already played the same song on our radioshow respectively with error101, and this is the only song that’s been played in 2 shows (now that’s some statistic !). Kama Aina which means “Islander” in Hawaiian is the solo project of multi-instrumentalist Takuji Aoyagi [...]

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I felt pretty sorry that I forgot to add a traditional instrumental Irish jig to today’s radioshow, because it’s St. Patrick’s Day today. I don’t quite remember days like these but I have always felt some connection with Ireland perhaps because of the green fields or the beer/fight/curse culture, so I decided to unload some traditional stuff today for St. Paddy’s Day

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Portland’s psychedelic instrumental rock outfit Grails‘ new CD Burning Off Impurities, will be out on April 24 on Temporary Residence, in the meanwhile Important Records has the previously released Black Tar FrequenciesEP’s compiled onto a CD. The name of this gem fits the music very well, because most of the album is dark & fuzzy, [...]

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