Improv and Avant-Garde

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  Julianna Barwick Returns with New Album 'Healing Is a Miracle'

  PUBLISHED May 20, 2020

  Julianna Barwick has detailed her first full-length album in four years. Titled Healing Is a Miracle, the effort arrives July 10 through Ni...

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  Sloan Keyboardist Gregory Macdonald Shares Solo Synth Album as Cola Wars

  PUBLISHED May 20, 2020

  By Sloan's own admission, keyboardist Gregory Macdonald may be best known as "that un-lit bearded character in the back singing all the har...

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  Okkyung Lee Pushes the Cello to Its Limits on 'Yeo-Neun'

  PUBLISHED May 19, 2020

  Okkyung Lee has built a career out of mining the tonal depths of the cello. In solo work and in collaboration, she has mobilized that bundl...

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  Chelsea Wolfe and Jess Gowrie Join Forces as Mrs. Piss

  PUBLISHED May 14, 2020

  Longtime musical partners, Chelsea Wolfe and multi-instrumentalist Jess Gowrie, have announced their debut album together as Mrs. Piss. The...

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  Laraaji Announces New Album 'Sun Piano'

  PUBLISHED May 13, 2020

  Following his pair of 2017 albums Sun Gong and Bring On the Sun, Laraaji will continue to shine on a new full-length due out this summer....

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  Stereolab's Tim Gane Releases His Soundtrack to Peter Strickland's 'In Fabric'

  PUBLISHED May 12, 2020

  Out of nowhere, Stereolab hero Tim Gane has released his soundtrack for Peter Strickland's stunning 2018 film In Fabric. Yes, that movie ab...

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  Jim White and Marisa Anderson Pack Adventurous Sounds into a Small Package on 'The Quickening'

  PUBLISHED May 11, 2020

  Aside from his work with the instrumental trio Dirty Three, Jim White is one of indie rock's great go-to drummers, working with artists lik...

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  Neu!'s Michael Rother Pens Eulogy for Kraftwerk's Florian Schneider

  PUBLISHED May 11, 2020

  Ahead of forming Neu! in 1971, Michael Rother and Klaus Dinger were early members of Kraftwerk alongside Ralf Hütter and late co-founder Fl...