The LFD NCSE Mk. 3 integrated amplifier (website) has no remote control. Nor does it have XLR inputs or outputs, a home theater bypass switch, 12V trigger operation, a [...]
A recording of piano and vibraphone duos? I’m not sure how it gets any better. I’ve mentioned my love for “malleted instruments” many times before, [...]
Satoko Fujii and Natsuki Tamura’s Pentas (website) is a companion piece to Prickly Pear Cactus, the Ikue Mori album I reviewed a few weeks ago. Both CDs arrived the [...]
I’ve reviewed plenty of experimental albums, both jazz and electronica, that sound like little more than a collection of recorded noises. The real trick in evaluating [...]
There’s free jazz, and then there’s experimental jazz. Sand Storm from Kaze and Ikue Mori is definitely in the latter group. Free jazz is about an explosion of [...]