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JASON KAO HWANG/CRITICAL RESPONSE, Book of Stories
Even in this day where streaming is dominant and packaging is slightly less valued, liner notes in the jazz realm play an important role...
Jonathan Widran
Jun 27, 2023


LOUIS SICILIANO, Ancient Cosmic Truth
Usually, it’s the creative visionaries in the new age and ambient arena who take the mantle of musical exploration of the universe and...
Jonathan Widran
Feb 13, 2023


STEVE TINTWEISS SPACELIGHT BAND, Live at NYU: 1980
A still active figure specializing in super-galactic, ever-evolving and super inventive free jazz for over five decades, five string...
Jonathan Widran
Dec 1, 2022


JASON KAO HWANG & J.A. DEANE, Uncharted Faith
Listening to any of the intricate, brilliantly crafted avant-garde recordings by violin master and sonic visionary Jason Kao Hwang poses...
Jonathan Widran
Nov 16, 2022


JONATHAN KANE AND DAVE SOLDIER, February Meets Soldier String Quartet
Good thing Jonathan Kane (drums, guitar, bass) and Dave Soldier (violin, strings) let their fascinating, multi-faceted, trippy and...
Jonathan Widran
Mar 9, 2021


MICHAELA STEINHAUER, Changes and Choices
Fusing a lyrical and melodic jazz-inflected showtune sensibility with whimsical free-form vocal and instrumental improvising, German...
Jonathan Widran
Nov 18, 2020


BEN ZUCKER, Fifth Season
The Biblical expression “To every thing there is a season” is a spot-on way to dive into Fifth Season, the remarkable...
Jonathan Widran
Oct 19, 2020


MYRA MELFORD/ZEENA PARKINS/MIYA MASAOKA, MZM
Sometimes the best pathways to understanding the intention and necessity for innovative artists to make experimental/avant-garde/purely...
Jonathan Widran
Mar 25, 2020


ROBERT DICK/JOELLE LEANDRE/MIYA MASAOKA
In his fascinating liner notes for Solar Wind, a trippy, offbeat and purely improvised avant-garde collection combining the collective...
Jonathan Widran
Mar 25, 2020


SMOMID, Pyramidi Scheme
No amount of aural preparation or immersion into weird offbeat electronic sounds can quite prepare you for the trippy, ear and...
Jonathan Widran
Aug 26, 2019


PEARRING SOUND, Nothing But Time
Ah, sweet cacophony! The wild and wacky, breakneck sonic adventure Nothing but Time is the second offbeat offering by improvisational...
Jonathan Widran
Aug 6, 2019
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