Album Review: Jupiter and Okwess – Kin Sonic
For all its poverty and deprivation, the Congo, as a land whose people are largely considered worthless to the global market, offers the musicians who…
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Album review: King Crimson – Red
Despite the usual narratives about “raw” music, it is in fact the very technical proficiency that King Crimson bring to their instruments that gives Red…
Album review: Ludwig van Beethoven/Bruno Walter – Symphony No. 6
The Sixth Symphony may never escape the shadow of the Third, Fifth, and Ninth, but is still a taboo-breaking, musically innovative landmark that helped bury…
Album review: It’s a Beautiful Day – s/t
Producers are parasites. Not electronic music “producers”–for the most part, those are musicians, giving themselves a more authoritative-sounding title (though the lack of self-worth in…
Album review: Funkadelic – Standing on the Verge of Getting it On
Parliament-Funkadelic in their mid-’70s heyday were brimming with paradox—patent absurdity juxtaposed against a surprisingly profound spiritual worldview, danceable rhythmic grooves providing the foundation for dense…
Album review: Fritz Reiner/Chicago Symphony Orchestra – The Reiner Sound
A multi-course feast of death. Genre: Classical (late Romantic) Country: United States Release date: 1958 (reissued 2014) Label: RCA Victor (reissued on vinyl by Analogue…