Articles by Nilan Perera

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  Waxed Oop

  Fast and Bulbous: The Captain Beefheart Project

  PUBLISHED Dec 14, 2009

  Captain Beefheart's monumental slabs of Dadaist Americana challenged not only the culture at large but the very musicians that created with...

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  Ambarchi / Fennesz / Gough / Rehberg / Rowe

  Afternoon Tea

  PUBLISHED Dec 14, 2009

  This release brings to light one of the most significant and groundbreaking works of abstract music mutation involving laptops and guitars....

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  Barry Guy / Mark Sanders / Ken Vandermark

  Fox Fire

  PUBLISHED Dec 14, 2009

  Ken Vandermark (reeds), Barry Guy (contrabass) and Mark Sanders (drums) serve up a double-CD set of full throttle virtuosity on Fox Fire, r...

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  Norscq

  Gelatinosa Substancia

  PUBLISHED Dec 14, 2009

  A more pastiche-driven morass of Eurotrash/musique concrète psychedelia has never been visited on human ears. This is the music that...

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  The Stellari String Quartet

  Gocce Stellari

  PUBLISHED Dec 14, 2009

  The string quartet are one of those European musical conventions that have as much to do with the classical music identity as the symphonic...

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  Supersilent

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  PUBLISHED Dec 14, 2009

  No drummer, no trumpet, but four Hammond organs and the accompanying Supersilent. With this CD, this band have finally reached the point wh...

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  Taylor Ho Bynum and the Spidermonkey Strings

  Madeleine Dreams

  PUBLISHED Dec 14, 2009

  The term "magic realism" has been used with works of literature, art and film to sometimes describe the incursions of dream into the world...

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  Bill Dixon

  Tapestries For Small Orchestra

  PUBLISHED Dec 14, 2009

  This release marks Bill Dixon's 84th year in a life creating and developing one of the most singularly identifiable and personal visions in...