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MICHAEL FRANKLIN & TIMOTHY FRANKLIN – Anahata

June 2, 2023

Solar Music 2023 Unhurt, unstruck and unbeaten, a nuclear American fraternity aims to hit their audience’s heart chakra – and do so in style. Despite the Franklin brothers’ impressive resumés, in the recent years Michael has primarily been renowned for … Continue reading

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HUGH HOPPER – Jazzloops / The Stolen Hour

May 19, 2023

Burning Shed 2003 & 2004 / Explore Rights Management 2023 A veteran of avant-garde endeavors ventures on a voyage into a Möbius band and back again. To suggest that Hugh Hopper was just a bassist would seem to be a … Continue reading

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ANDERSON, CHUTE, EASLEY – Adventures Of The Moss Bear

April 14, 2023

ACE 2022 Vibrantly invigorating, if finely nuanced, jazz trip from a freshly formed trio of intrepid spirits. Although these three players seem to have pedigrees so dissimilar there’s hardly any common ground for them do dance on, it’s live improv … Continue reading

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MIKE KENEALLY – The Thing That Knowledge Can’t Eat

February 27, 2023

Exowax 2023 Prog polymath fathoms the frontiers of his fantasies and pushes their envelope to enforce a breach into the great unknown. There are more things in Heaven and Earth than are dreamt of in our philosophy, yet the wisdom … Continue reading

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BRIAN TARQUIN & HEAVY FRIENDS – Brothers In Arms

February 19, 2023

BHP 2023 There’s no glory without hope: venerated American multi-instrumentalist and his kindred spirits pay tribute to veterans. It may seem so easy to dismiss this platter as another star-strewn concept, in which some artists specialize, with a rather trite … Continue reading

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