For some reason I’ve skipped Xaphan from The 2nd Masada Songbook on Tzadik. I thought this year’s invincible Bar Kokhba Sextet release was the first one yet indeed Trey Spruance’s madmen Secret Chiefs 3 were the first to step up to that holy task of getting 16 bar sheets of music from John Zorn and crafting them into their own creations.

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Beirut : Watching your city get bombed, how earth shattering.
Here’s #16 of our radioshows played by me last week. Starts off slow with a soundscape by SF artist Jefre-Cantu Ledesma, which has an Afghani love song sung on top. I don’t know why I felt so multicultural last week but I did, a little bit [...]

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Chosen from incoming submissions to undomondo recently.
The first one you should get is Passage by Liberation Prophecy. A chaotic orchestra of 9 musicians led by Jacob Duncan. Lots of orchestration beautiful vocals by Amber Estes who replaced the now forld famous Norah Jones. Many influences can be listed like Zappa’s orchestra, free jazz, world [...]

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Here’s a lame haiku:
Another myspace feat
Everybody is making music now
Let’s listen to some

Stonefridge or Fridgehenge? you decide.
Micusnule. 4 piece band from France led by Mr. Christophe Micusnule himself who plays ukulele and guitars. This is hyperactive electronic pop music with orchestral elements in songs. Silly melodies abound, kinda like the early DAT Politics albums [...]

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I know I sound like a Tzadik fanboy sometimes because half of the shit we feature on here is from Tzadik, but I really admire their constant output of noteworthy stuff. Koby Israelite’s new album on Tzadik’s Radical Jewish Series is a genre breaker. In his bio he mentions that he likes music that [...]

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