Jazz Fusion Archives - The Sleeping Shaman

Psyche Bugyo ‘Psychedelic Judgeman Comes, He Has The Cherry Blossom On The Shoulder’ DD 2014

28th March 20143rd September 2019 Dave Bowes 2014, Dave Bowes, Digital, Improv, Janus Sounds Limited, Jazz Fusion, Prog Rock, Psyche Bugyo, Psychedelic Judgeman Comes He Has The Cherry Blossom On The Shoulder, Review, Tsuyama Atsushi

If there’s one band that pretty much defines ‘prolific’, it’s Acid Mothers Temple (Merzbow doesn’t count as there’s a sneaking

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The Dustman Dilemma ‘First Trip To The Roaring Plains’ CD 2013

20th December 20133rd September 2019 John Reppion 2013, CD, Experimental, First Trip To The Roaring Plains, Jazz, Jazz Fusion, John Reppion, Psych, Review, The Dustman Dilemma

Hailing from Caen in France, quintet The Dustman Dilemma blend mellow organ toned synth, sax honks, and sweet woodwind sounds

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Fontanelle ‘Vitamin F’ CD/LP 2012

5th November 20123rd September 2019 Chris Moore 2012, CD, Chris Moore, Experimental, Fontanelle, Jam, Jazz Fusion, LP, Review, Southern Lord, Vitamin F

“It’s like Mothers era Zappa having an affair with Isaac Hayes” That was how The Sleeping Shaman boss summed up

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The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation ‘Egor’ CD/LP 2012

25th June 20123rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2012, Ambient, CD, Dark, Denovali Records, Drone, Egor, Experimental, Instrumental, Jazz Fusion, LP, Paul Robertson, Review, The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble, The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation, TKDE

The experimental companion project to the ever-prolific The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble return with another in their line of dark, sprawling,

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Nooumena ‘Argument With Eagerness’ CD 2011

8th April 20123rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2011, Antithetic Records, Argument With Eagerness, CD, Experimental, Jazz Fusion, Nooumena, Paul Robertson, Progressive, Review

Somewhere on the cusp between sleeping and waking, reality and dreaming, sits the music of Nooumena. Beautifully slurred, haunting and

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A Death Cinematic ‘Your Fate Twisting, Epic In Its Crushing Moments’ CD 2011

25th August 20113rd September 2019 Tom McKibbin 2011, A Death Cinematic, Art House, Avant-Garde, CD, Instrumental, Jazz Fusion, Post-Rock, Review, Simple Box Construction, Tom McKibbin, Your Fate Twisting Epic In Its Crushing Moments

‘Your Fate Twisting, Epic in its Crushing Moments’, the latest release from mysterious one-man-band A Death Cinematic comes in some

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The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble – S/T – CD/LP 2011

11th April 20113rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2010, CD, Dark, Denovali Records, Experimental, Instrumental, Jazz Fusion, LP, Paul Robertson, Review, The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble, TKDE

The self-titled 2006 debut album from The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble gets a well-deserved re-release from the ever-wonderful Denovali Records, including

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The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation ‘Anthropomorphic’ CD/LP 2011

4th April 20113rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2011, Ambient, Anthropomorphic, CD, Dark, Denovali Records, Experimental, Instrumental, Jazz Fusion, LP, Paul Robertson, Review, The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble, The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation, TKDE

The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation are, for those unfamiliar, an improv sideline of members of The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble, coming

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Poison Deluxe ‘The Dead Tree Blues’ CD 2010

10th February 20113rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2010, Blues Rock, CD, Classic Rock, Go Down Records, Heavy Rock, Jazz Fusion, Paul Robertson, Poison Deluxe, Review, The Dead Tree Blues

Well, this is a nice change of pace and tone. Poison Deluxe play what I can best describe as psych-tinged

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Chrome Hoof ‘Crush Depth’ CD/2xLP 2010

8th June 20102nd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2010, Avant-Garde, CD, Chrome Hoof, Crush Depth, Experimental, Jazz Fusion, LP, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Review, Southern Records

I promised myself I’d try and get through this review without mentioning drugs. The effects of drugs, doing drugs, being

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Ehnahre ‘The Man Closing Up’ CD 2008

15th September 20083rd September 2019 Andrew Sloan 2008, Andrew Sloan, Atmospheric, CD, Death Doom, Doom, Ehnahre, Jazz Fusion, Post-Rock, Review, Sound Devastation Records, The Man Closing Up

Here we have a new collective from Boston’s musical underbelly (formed from ex-members of Kayo Dot and Forefedglass amongst others)