Laszlo Gardony
Close Connection (Sunnyside Records). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
Close Connection (Sunnyside Records). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
Live In Stuttgart 1975 (Mute). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
Guardrails. Review by Bob Pomeroy.
When An Electric Storm. (Educational Recordings) Review by Bob Pomeroy.
New Hymn To Freedom (The Leaf Label Ltd). Review by James Mann.
Compass (Nonplace). Review by Carl F Gauze.
Star Stuff (Company Records). Review by James Mann.
Impredecible (World Village). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
III (Glitterbeat). Review by James Mann.
Astral Planes Drifter (Rainbow Pyramid). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Heaven’s End/ Fade Out/ The World In Your Eyes/ A Gilded Eternity (Reactor/Revolver). Review by Matthew Moyer.
The Lost Tapes (Spoon/Mute). Review by James Mann.
Antelope Freeway/Equinox Express Elevator (Impulse! ). Review by James Mann.
Bokoboko (Nonplace Records). Review by Carl F Gauze.
Bardo Pond (Fire ). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Secret Rhythms 4 (Nonplace Records). Review by Carl F Gauze.
Adam Pierce, head mouseketeer in the rhythm-heavy, fuzz-laden collective known as Mice Parade, chats with Ink 19 about his process – and lack thereof.
Hawkwind Triad (Neurot). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Fans of cutting-edge electronic music most likely have Michael Rother to thank. Rother was one of the prime movers in a German music scene, dubbed krautrock, that still sets the standard for exciting, weird, and groovy music. Ink 19 had the pleasure of chatting with Rother, who seems as comfortable with creating new music as he is with being a careful archivist of the music and legacy of his previous bands.
Bob Pomeroy gets into four Radio Rarities from producer Zev Feldman for Record Store Day with great jazz recordings from Wes Montgomery, Les McCann, Cal Tjader, and Ahmad Jamal.
Bob Pomeroy digs into Un “Sung Stories” (1986, Liberation Hall), Blasters’ frontman Phil Alvin’s American Roots collaboration with Sun Ra and his Arkestra, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, and New Orleans saxman Lee Allen.
Roi J. Tamkin reviews A Darker Shade of Noir, fifteen new stories from women writers completely familiar with the horrors of owning a body in a patriarchal society, edited by Joyce Carol Oates.
Mandatory: The Best of The Blasters (Liberation Hall). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
Feeling funky this week, Christopher Long gets his groove on while discovering a well-cared-for used vinyl copy of one of his all-time R&B faves: Ice Cream Castle, the classic 1984 LP from The Time, for just a couple of bucks.
During AFI Fest 2023, Lily and Generoso interviewed director Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir, whose impressive debut feature, City of Wind, carefully examines the juxtaposition between the identity of place and tradition against the powers of modernity in contemporary Mongolia.
Juliana Hatfield Sings ELO (American Laundromat Records). Review by Laura Pontillo.
Ever-focused on finding (affordable) vinyl treasures, Christopher Long returns this week with his latest gem — a reasonably well-cared-for LP copy of The Glow, the 1979 studio classic from Bonnie Raitt.