Improv and Avant-Garde

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  Badge Époque Ensemble Return with New Album 'Clouds of Joy'

  PUBLISHED Jun 13, 2022

  Badge Époque Ensemble have detailed a new album. The group will share Clouds of Joy on September 9 via Telephone Explosion, marking the lab...

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  NEU! Announce 50th Anniversary Reissue and Tribute Album with the National, Mogwai

  PUBLISHED Jun 8, 2022

  In 1971, Klaus Dinger and Michael Rother left one formative German krautrock outfit in Kraftwerk to form another, dubbing themselves NEU!....

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  Electric Eclectics Gets ZONES, Lee Paradise, DEBBY FRIDAY, shn shn for 2022 Edition

  PUBLISHED May 30, 2022

  Heralded by VICE as "Canada's weirdest experimental music festival," Electric Eclectics Festival of Experimental Music and Sound Art is bac...

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  SUUNS' Ben Shemie Announces Solo LP 'Desiderata,' Shares Cerebral New Track

  PUBLISHED May 26, 2022

  Montreal's Ben Shemie, of SUUNS fame, has announced the release of his solo LP, Desiderata — and has today lifted new single "The Eye" off...

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  Kee Avil to Play Canada on Spring 2022 Tour

  PUBLISHED May 19, 2022

  Montreal's Kee Avil is riding the wave the release of her debut album Crease by mapping out a spring tour, with a few Canadian stops planne...

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  BEAK> to Make Canadian Debut on 2022 North American Tour

  PUBLISHED May 19, 2022

  Years after they were forced to cancel a performance that would have marked their Canadian debut, BEAK> — the experimental rock trio of Por...

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  Matmos Unite Polish Avant-Garde with the Present on 'Regards​ / Ukłony dla Bogusław Schaeffer'

  PUBLISHED May 17, 2022

  Even the most understated Matmos release requires a Robert J. Waldinger-level of research to decode its elaborate context. But what makes a...

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  Ryuichi Sakamoto and Alva Noto Treat 'Vrioon' to Expanded Reissue

  PUBLISHED May 13, 2022

  Ryuichi Sakamoto and Alva Noto first collaborated on 2002's Vrioon, which brought the Japanese composer's piano-playing together with the G...