Après 6 ans d'existence et 4 démos autoproduites, Mr Bungle profite du succès de Faith No More, groupe dans lequel officie leur chanteur Mike Patton, pour enfin décrocher un contrat avec une maison de disque et enregistrer ce premier album avec le sa...
"Making noise" was UK duo Milo Cordell and Robbie Furze's initial remit, with Furze's former alliance with Berlin techno-punk 'terrorist' Alec Empire hinting at a possible template. So The Big Pink's wall-of-sound pop classicism over synchronised, st...
In his previous groups, Henry Threadgill has demonstrated a penchant for unusual instrumental combinations -- tubas, accordion, harmonium, harpsichord, cellos, etc. -- but in this newest version of Make a Move, he opts for a relatively conventional l...
Faust was always a weird lash-up of incongruous experimentation bordering on triumphant success and noble failure, as this welcome 1973 reissue demonstrates.
Emphasising feel over instrumental virtuosity, there are times when it threatens to fall apa...
Cass McCombs' worldview can be nailed by his pithy response to being asked what he'd like on his tombstone: "Home at last." The comment, worthy of Tony Hancock or Spike Milligan (who, when asked the same question, chose "I told you I was ill!") has e...
Rob Mazurek may now be residing in South America, but he still has strong ties to his native Chicago. This new album by his quintet is unmistakably the product of the Windy City, containing as it does healthy doses of avant jazz, hard bop and, of cou...
