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jazz: the mystery lesson
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|      | 10-apr-09 the mystery lesson
Brand new heavy shnizzle from around the globe on The Mystery Lesson this month, including outrageous fire music, deep free jazz, misty field recordings and harsh electric rumblings. With a fireball of a featured album by Edwards/Wilkinson/Noble and newly reissued cosmic wanderings from Sun Ra. Man alive! | |
| | 06-mar-09 the mystery lesson
Here’s a bunch of hip stuff, including: hippy-jazz meditations from Portland, Oregon; neo-Prog noodling from Italy; country-drone-raga from Norway; tape collage weirdosity from Baltimore; and gonzoid free-jizz from right here in Brighton. Get involved! | |
| | 06-feb-09 the mystery lesson
Plenty of righteous out-jazz this month with The Thing doing harmolodics; reissued 1966 goodness from Don Cherry; and a horribly vicious featured album from snarling Finnish free-jazz behemoth, Mohel. And plenty more yadd-yadda, to boot. | |
| | 09-jan-09 the mystery lesson
Here’s a Janus-headed blast of bangers: flailing free-noise-rock; trance-stupour wibbles; grotty tape gunge; gonzo free-jizz; plus two white-hot gobbets of free jazz from this month’s featured album by The Thing. Heavy New Year. | |
| | 08-dec-08 the mystery lesson
Feast your neo-cortex on the heaviest of cosmo-spiritual jazz with this month’s featured album, William Parker’s new masterpiece ‘Double Sunrise Over Neptune.’ Plus newly reissued free jazz classics from Art Ensemble of Chicago and Paul Bley, and heavenly blessings on one and all from our friends of the Krishna Consciousness. BOOM SHANKAR! | |
| | 07-nov-08 the mystery lesson
How’s about this for a pick ‘n’ mix: bedroom sounds from the Brighton underground; scuzzy skronk-bombs; sloppy free-jazz; solo percussion workouts; noise-metal damage; newly reissued nuggets from ECM and ESP-Disk; and Dadaist sound-poetry from this month’s featured CD, ‘The Speech Organs’ compilation. Hup hup! | |
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| 17-oct-08 the mystery lesson
Show Description (guests, exclusives, themes etc): A right old row this month, including: Fluxus sound-art from Ludo Mich and Blood Stereo; garbled free-rock from Muscletusk; wyrd-improv geetar from James Beaudreau; Japanese post-kraut freak-outs from this month’s featured album by Nisennenmondai; plus reissues by Henry Grimes and Fripp & Eno. I love it when a plan comes together. | |
| | 12-sep-08 the mystery lesson
Right here we’ve got celestial free-jazz from Jeff Gauthier; big-band avant-swing from Szilard Mezei; eastern trance-groove from Ashtray Navigations; impossibly ‘out’ early New Thing stylings from an archival reissue by Giuseppi Logan; plus this month’s featured album: clatter-skronk noise histrionics from Original Silence. Have Mercy! | |
| | 15-aug-08 the mystery lesson
A right ragged affair this month. Moon-fried lunar blues from Dredd Foole; ethno-trance trippery from Bird Show; Suarasama’s Sufi-dance whirl; concrete-tough free-jazz from Paul Hession et al; plus this month’s featured album – steamy, fungus-fever, Amazon freak-out sounds from Sao Paulo Underground. Consider it a holiday in the comfort of your own home. | |
| | 11-jul-08 the mystery lesson
There’s a whole world o’ weird awaiting you this month: left-field New York jazz; Japano-Swedish psych folk; Congolese pagan trance ritual; preposterous UK jazz-prog; and blustering Norwegian prog-jazz. Plus epochal reissues from Sun Ra, Milford Graves and The Holy Modal Rounders and this month’s featured album, the latest slice of London free-music from Spring Heel Jack. That’s a busy hour. | |
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