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"Chromanatron consists of Nurse With Wound's collages of no less than five albums by the mythical German band Sand from the late '60s and '70s. These five experimental psychedelic krautrock albums include their first oddity, Golem, which has long been a great source of inspiration for Nurse With Wound. A hallucination on the music of Sand by Andrew Liles and Steven Stapleton, with Ian Hinton-Smith, guitar; Rick Tomlinson, French horn; and Matt Waldron, atmospheric grooves. Recorded at The Bear Den, West...

"The discovery of the music of Leadbelly was transformative for young Adam Nussbaum. The only child of artistic parents in Norwalk, Connecticut, Nussbaum was exposed to many recordings, from classical and folk to jazz and blues. It was the image of Huddie Ledbetter on the original Folkways 10-inch record covers that fascinated the five year old. The celebrated blues and folk musician's music seared itself into his ears, as it does in young listeners, informing the future drummer's musical approach for....

Frank is known to us in the rock world for leading the avant-rock band Hardscore, but he is equally at home in the 'modern classical' world. This is an album of solo pieces in a sort of post-Bartokian vein. There's tons of great melodies as well as some great dissonances to keep it from getting boring.
Until the new age piano explosion completely destroyed the genre in the mid/late 1980s, solo piano music was some of my favorite stuff to listen to and Bela Bartok's piano music is one of my top 5 ...

I've been a big fan of 'minimalist' composer Michael Nyman since seeing him and his ensemble in 1977. He has a very distinctive voice as a composer, even though he is obviously influenced by Terry Riley, Philip Glass, Steve Reich; you know, the usual...


I'm hardly a cinephile, but I found Peter Greenaway's films unusual and unusually odd art films of the 80s and 90s to be really great and fascinating. And, of course, Michael Nyman's wonderfully insistent, personal take on minimalism fueled all of...

Atle Nymo sax, bass clarinet
Mats Eilertsen bass
Michaela Antalova drums, percussion

Atle is the leader of the Scandanavian free-jazz supergroup, I.P.A., who have one release out on Cuneiform and another coming in 2020.

“Solo for Trio is Atle Nymo’s first album under his own name, and at the ripe age of 42, the leader at first glance may appear as a late bloomer, a young veteran or possibly something in between. The truth, however, is slightly different.
Blowing his way onto

A sublime late 60s singer/songwriter album. But what great, great songs!

"Although New York Tendaberry was nearly as strong a record as its predecessor, Eli and the Thirteenth Confession, it wasn't as accessible. In large part that's because, unlike her first two albums, it didn't have three or four songs that would become instantly recognizable hits in the hands of other artists. But it was also because the mood of the record was considerably darker and the production quite a bit starker. It...

A sublime late 60s singer/songwriter album. But what great, great songs!

"Nyro peaked early, and Eli and the Thirteenth Confession, just her second album, remains her best. It's not only because it contains the original versions of no less than three songs that were big hits for other artists: "Sweet Blindness" (covered by the 5th Dimension), "Stoned Soul Picnic" (also covered by the 5th Dimension), and "Eli's Comin'" (done by Three Dog Night). It's not even just because those three songs are so...

Excellent quality radio broadcast sonics.

“Laura Nyro was still only 29 when, in February 1976, she released her sixth album. Called Smile, the record caused fans to do just that, as it broke a five-year silence during which Nyro had retreated from the music industry, in part as a protest against the way she felt her music was being marketed. Demand for her songs had only grown in her absence, and this show, recorded for radio broadcast on 31 March that year, finds her in full command of the...

“Following the release of the album ‘Drastic Plastic’ and a subsequent tour, Bill Nelson disbanded Be Bop Deluxe. Aware of the emergence of the so-called New Wave artists and out of a desire to continually evolve and progress as a musician, he announced the formation of a new band, Red Noise. In hindsight Nelson’s new venture can be seen as taking up the musical baton from where he left off with ‘Drastic Plastic’.
Working with co-producer John Leckie, Bill recorded a new wave masterpiece, a record...