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Review: Ivan The Tolerable Quintet ‘Water Music’

4th September 20244th September 2024 Domenico 'Mimmo' Caccamo Ambient, Ivan The Tolerable Quintet, Jazz, Riot Season

The experimental, free-jazz-oriented album Vertigo from Middlesbrough’s eclectic multi-instrumentalist Oli Heffernan, released under the moniker of Ivan The Tolerable Quintet,

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Review: Ivan The Tolerable Quintet ‘Vertigo’

22nd August 20244th September 2024 Domenico 'Mimmo' Caccamo Ivan The Tolerable Quintet, Jazz, Kraut, Riot Season

The musical journey of Oli Heffernan, the experimental multi-instrumentalist from Middlesbrough, UK who performs under the moniker Ivan The Tolerable,

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Review: Mac Gollehon & The Hispanic Mechanics ‘Bite Of The Street’

28th September 202328th September 2023 Reza Mills Funk, Jazz, Mac Gollehon, Nefarious Industries

Mac Gollehon has done session work for some pretty major artists including Blondie, David Bowie, Chic, Grace Jones, Duran Duran,

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Review: Slutavverkning ‘Levande Charader’

4th September 202329th September 2023 Reza Mills Feral Cuts, Hardcore, Jazz, Noise-Rock, Punk, Slutavverkning

Since forming in 2018, Stockholm’s Slutavverkning have put out the three-part Arbetets Sorgemusik (The Song of Sorrow) series of EPs

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Album Premiere: Slutavverkning ‘Levande Charader’ – Drops This Friday via Feral Cuts

30th August 202329th September 2023 Lee Edwards Feral Cuts, Hardcore, Jazz, Noise-Rock, Punk, Slutavverkning

Stockholm’s Slutavverkning deliver what the band self-describe as ‘Swedish anti-capitalist jazz-punk fury’, which pretty much sums up their raucous sonic

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Review: Klidas ‘No Harmony’

21st June 202321st June 2023 Domenico 'Mimmo' Caccamo Bird's Robe Records, Jazz, Klidas, Prog, Psych

Klidas (a Czech word which translates to ‘Giant of Silence’), the amazing five-piece experimental post-rock band from Macerata, Marche, Italy,

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Review: Yakuza ‘Sutra’

9th June 20239th June 2023 Mark Hunt-Bryden Jazz, Metal, Prog, Svart Records, Yakuza

As someone who has read (and written) a lot of column inches about heavy music, one of the phrases that

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Video Premiere: Sarattma ‘Sciatic Haze’ – Taken From ‘Escape Velocity’ That’s Out Now

7th February 202316th March 2023 Lee Edwards Jazz, Nefarious Industries, Post-Metal, Prog, Sarattma

I think we could call this day of our dark lord Traumatic Tuesday. Why you ask? Well after watching the

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Review: Trevor Dunn’s Trio-Convulsant ‘Sèances’

1st November 202212th December 2022 Simon Brotherton Jazz, Pyroclastic Records, Trevor Dunn, Trevor Dunn's Trio-Convulsant

Eighteen years is certainly a long gap between releases and 2004’s Sister Phantom Owl Fish was the last time Trevor

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Review: Goat ‘Oh Death’

20th October 20229th February 2023 Emil Damgaard Andersen Goat, Jazz, Levitation, Psych, Rocket Recordings

There’s always been some kind of mystique involved when talking about Gothenburg-based Goat. They appear to be a very secretive

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Review: Mamaleek ‘Diner Coffee’

13th October 202217th December 2022 Richard Murray Jazz, Mamaleek, Metal, The Flenser

Mamaleek are two unknown brothers who weld black metal, trip hop, and jazz metal together. By masking the restrictions of

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