instrumental Archive
10 Feb 2016
Album Mini-review: Endless Tapes — Brilliant Waves
File next to: Brian Eno, Lunatic Soul, *Low-era David Bowie Considering the pedigree of the better-known half of this duo, one might expect Brilliant Waves to lean in a muscular […]
08 Feb 2016
Album Review: Craig Leon et. al. — Bach to Moog
During a press conference held amidst the April 2014 Moogfest – the last time that festival would be held in Asheville, NC, home of Moog Music and the adopted hometown […]
27 Jan 2016
Hundred-word Reviews January 2016: Blues and Jazz
My week-long march through my backlog continues today with quick looks at five new albums in the jazz and/or blues idioms. No! Wait! Come back! Seriously, these are way cool. […]
03 Dec 2015
Ahleuchatistas’ Arrebato: Wordless Tributes to the DIY Aesthetic
Even in the fertile musical ground of WNC, Asheville isn’t really known as a hotbed of avant-garde musical adventures. But the two-man group Ahleuchatistas are nothing if not sonic explorers. […]
27 Nov 2015
Holiday Music Roundup 2015
Imagene Peise — Atlas Eets Christmas Let’s get a few things out of the way right up front about this holiday-themed release. First there is no Imagene Peise; despite a […]
21 Oct 2015
Ozric Tentacles: Thirty Years and Still Underground
Ozric Tentacles is that rare group that appeals to fans of trance/rave, techno, jam, psychedelic, and space/progressive rock. Founded in Somerset, England – they currently make their home in Colorado […]
06 Oct 2015
Patrick Moraz: MAPping Out the Future, Part Two
Continued from Part One… Bill Kopp: Speaking of Moog, the K2000 dates from the period when Dr. R.A. (Bob) Moog was doing work for Kurzweil; he actually created many of […]
05 Oct 2015
Patrick Moraz: MAPping Out the Future, Part One
Quick: name a famous Swiss rock musician. Okay, a few of you might be able to name-check Celtic Frost, Brainticket, or Yello. But for those who aren’t hopeless music nerds, […]
24 Aug 2015
Concert Review: Jaga Jazzist — Asheville NC, 23 June 2015
Demonstrating yet again that – more than sixty-odd years after the dawn of rock’n’roll – popular music idioms remain fertile ground for experimentation and cross-fertilization, Jaga Jazzist combines rock, jazz, […]
17 Aug 2015
Album Mini-review: Jaga Jazzist — Starfire
File Next to: Dungen, Zero 7 With their fifth album, 2010’s One-Armed Bandit, Jaga Jazzist seemed to have distilled their multifarious sound into a cohesive synthesis of downtempo, trip-hop, electronica, […]