The White Birch – The Weight Of Spring (2015) review
The White Birch - The Weight Of Spring (Glitterhouse Records, 2015) Nine years ago this month (August), one of Norway’s finest psychedelic bands dissolved, leaving four remarkable albums...
Jeff Penczak
Dave Mihaly’s Shimmering Leaves Ensemble – Euro and Solo (2015) review
Dave Mihaly’s Shimmering Leaves Ensemble – Euro and Solo (Self-Released, 2015) Mihaly is a multi-instrumental percussionist with San Francisco’s prog-psych jazzbos Mushroom and this is his third release...
Cathode Ray Eyes – Eyes In The Melancholy Pond (2015) review
Cathode Ray Eyes - Eyes In The Melancholy Pond (Cardinal Fuzz, 2015) https://cful.bandcamp.com/album/cathode-ray-eyes-eyes-in-the-melancholy-palm CRE is the solo project of Cult of Dom Keller guitarist Ryan (if you’re the...
Shiggajon – Sela (2015) review
Shiggajon 'Sela' (El Paraiso Records, 2015) Listen: https://soundcloud.com/elparaiso/shiggajon-sela-excerpt/s-pfhvZ This Danish sextet (occasionally swelling to as many as 15 participants during live gigs) offers dissonant, polyphonic skronk that should appeal...
Demian Castellanos – The Kyvu Tapes Vol. 1 (1990-1998) (2015) review
Demian Castellanos "The Kyvu Tapes Vol. 1 (1990-1998)" (Cardinal Fuzz/Hands In The Dark, 2015) Listen: https://soundcloud.com/demian-castellanos Castellanos has been releasing some amazing music with his band The Oscillation...
Pretty Lightning – ‘A Magic Lane of Light and Rain’ (2015)
More crunchy, bluesy psych on the German duo’s fourth effort. The lo-fi recordings and minimalist approach (how much can you squeeze out of drums and a guitar?) may...
Jonas Munk – Absorb / Fabric / Cascade (2015) review
Jonas Munk “Absorb / Fabric / Cascade” (El Paraiso, 2015) For his second solo release, Causa Sui guitarist and El Paraiso lynchpin Munk eschews the six string for...
Yury Morozov – ‘Cherry Garden of Jimi Hendrix’
Morozov may be Russia’s most prolific artist, with estimates of more than 100 albums in his discography before his passing in 2006. This reissue of his 1973 masterpiece...
Papir – Live at Roadburn (2015) review
Papir - Live at Roadburn (El Paraiso, 2015) The Danish trio’s groundbreaking performance at the legendary Dutch festival in Tilburg last year was easily the festival highlight –...
You’re Smiling Now But We’ll All Turn Into Demons – Population IV (2015) review
You’re Smiling Now But We’ll All Turn Into Demons “Population IV” (Cardinal Fuzz, 2015) Despite the unnecessarily unwieldy moniker (quick – don’t look at the beginning of this...