Tag Archives: avant-garde

DAVE SCHOEPKE – Tessellated Resonance

October 20, 2020

Dave Schoepke 2020 Milwaukeean percussionist tunes into environmental patterns to embroider silence with a barely-there groove to get under one’s hardened skin. Dave Schoepke is no stranger to noise, laying down melodious racket on-stage with the likes of , which … Continue reading →

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MARKUS REUTER with MANNHEIMER SCHLAGWERK – Sun Trance

September 26, 2020

MoonJune 2020 Reaching for the light, interdisciplinary collective invite a kindred spirit to show them the way. Traditionally perceived as a prog player, Markus Reuter has much more strings to his talent than the eye meets on the fretboard this … Continue reading →

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GARY HUSBAND & MARKUS REUTER – Music Of Our Times

June 18, 2020

MoonJune 2020 Coronavirus-enforced burst of creativity from in-the-moment masters results in purest sensory rapture. Here’s an album that could have never existed if not for circumstances which made its appearance inevitable. Surprisingly, it’s the first Gary Husband and Markus Reuters’ … Continue reading →

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DAMO SUZUKI & LAPIS LAZULI – Live At The Ramsgate Music Hall 21.09.2019 / Louis Padilla’s Muzak Uzi

January 26, 2020

Lapis Lazuli 2020 Improvising on-stage and in the studio, Canterbury modernists rope in CAN warbler for a joint jaunt to face audience and fly free. It’s an oxymoron yet “intrepidly cautious” might well be LL’s MO, because they don’t seem … Continue reading →

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CRYSTAL BETH – Push Thru

December 18, 2019

7D Media 2019 Flying high above lo-fi, Seattle artiste cleanses one’s soul through primal scream and pacific dream. Classical training can either hamper or unhinge musicians’ avant-garde leanings, yet they complement each other to a great effect in Beth Fleenor’s … Continue reading →

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