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We went to see Rune Grammofon’s avantjazzmetal combo Shining yesterday night. I had heard that they pack a punch at their shows. They were very loud indeed. When the guitars kicked in during their opener Winterreise, I thought my ears were bleeding. The sound system was pretty loud as well and being on a wednesday [...]

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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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San Diego instrumental-prog rockers Sleeping People was one of the last real finds of 2007. Released on Temporary Residence the label, which also hosts Explosions in the Sky, Tarantel and Maserati and Grails among others, “Growing” is a straight forward instrumental rock album with trailing guitar riffs and rock solid drumming. Not as post-rock & [...]

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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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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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made in sweden performing “Our man” live.
Another one from the dusty cabinet, Snakes In A Hole is an LP from ‘69. Founded in ‘67, Made In Sweden trio was probably the first prog-rock band in Sweden and also one of the pioneering prog bands throughout the world, since prog-scene wasn’t so heavy until around 1970. [...]

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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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Image scanned from a French fashion magazine from 1977 by Martijn Konijn.
The first 4 months have gone by and indeed 2007 has been lucrative for music. As the collective memory is so low these days and there’s so much production and hype, I want to emphasize the better stuff once more. Here’s a short [...]

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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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