instrumental Archive
10 Sep 2018
Album Review: Nick Ingman — Big Beat
Cratediggers and/or musical Anglophiles of a certain stripe will recognize the name DeWolfe Music. Established over a century ago, the British music production company carved out a unique and important […]
24 Jul 2018
Album Review: Klaus Schulze — La Vie Electronique Vols 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2
Over the years, there have been a number of massive archival releases that all but define the phrase “for the completist.” In 2011, the Grateful Dead went back to the […]
29 Jun 2018
Liner Notes News
I’ve been extraordinarily busy lately. After devoting a large chunk of 2017 to the writing of my first book, Reinventing Pink Floyd: From Syd Barrett to The Dark Side of […]
27 Jun 2018
Album Review: Tashi Dorji & Tyler Damon — Leave No Trace: Live in St. Louis
By its very nature, instrumental music is challenging for both musician and listener. The listener has to lend greater concentration to the music, since the absence of lyrics makes the […]
09 Jun 2018
Album Review: Disaster Relief — s/t
Nominally classified as jazz, the Detroit and Ann Arbor, Michigan-based Disaster Relief occupies a musical space halfway between Leeds and New Orleans. The Leeds connection is the band’s funky like-mindedness […]
02 Jun 2018
Album Review: Wulijimuren — Sun of UTC+8
Music truly is the universal language. A good example of this axiom is Sun of UTC+8, the new album from Mongolian-born guitarist Wulijimuren. There’s not much explicitly Eastern in the […]
23 Apr 2018
Album Review: Adi the Monk
In the current music marketplace – a world in which many of the barriers to entry have, for better and worse, been removed – it never hurts to have an […]
21 Apr 2018
Album Review: Joan Torres’ All is Fused — Of the Musical
The golden age of jazz-rock fusion was a relatively brief period; arguably it began with Miles Davis’ In a Silent Way, released in 1969. The new form enjoyed a number […]
18 Apr 2018
Album Review: Sun Ra — Standards
Jazz great Sun Ra (born Herman Blount) has an imposing reputation as the iconoclastic purveyor of wildly unusual and unconventional music. His influence is felt far beyond the confines of […]
01 Apr 2018
Hundred-word Reviews: New Releases
There’s quite a massive stack of new (or at least new-when-I got-’em) releases here at Musoscribe World HQ. Time to review them. 6-String Drag – Top of the World (Schoolkids […]