Osamu Kitajima - Benzaiten (Merlins Nose Label Group) Listen/buy link: https://merlinsnoserecords.bandcamp.com/album/benzaiten World music and ethno sounds with an obvious Japanese origin meet progressive rock and psyche. The result...
Doug Tuttle - It Calls on Me (Trouble In Mind, 2016) Calling the musings of Doug Tuttle a hybrid of the genre he set out to prefect with...
When discussing the most unique free form bands emerging from the psychedelic '60s, it is almost impossible not to mention Nihilist Spasm Band. They were so ahead...
So many influential musicians have died this year. It seems like every other week there’s sad news of another cherished artist’s passing. One such death that affected...
Russia’s Messer Chups is an act whose evocative titles tell you a lot about their sounds and sensibilities. Albums with names like Surf Riders From the Swamp Lagoon,...
Hashish - A Product Of (LP/CD on Subliminal Sounds/Woah Dad!/2016) A new slice of Swedish psychedelia that borrows equally from such diverse influences as funk, soul, prog, cinema...
Absolutely, Positively the Definitive "Shazam"! "Shazam" by The Move (Esoteric Recordings, 2016) Released nearly two years after The Move's eponymous debut LP, "Shazam" finds a band maturing and...
Hedvig Mollestad Trio - Black Sabat Mater (Rune Grammofone, 2016) I don’t know where Hedvig Mollestad Thomassen finds time to breathe – or sleep or eat or.... As...
Hard Working Americans - Rest in Chaos (Melvin Records, 2016) Has the new working class American hero just walked into the room or what? Rest In Chaos...
Trio Mandili - With Love (Merlins Nose Records, 2016) Listen/buy link: https://merlinsnoserecords.bandcamp.com/album/with-love This is the debut album of a trio of young ladies from Georgia in the Caucasus...