Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Peter Brötzmann/Keiji Haino Duo’s “The Intellect Given Birth To Here (Eternity) Is Too Young”

If any two guys have earned the acronym GOAT, it’s Peter Brötzmann and Keiji Haino. Both are titanic performers and

November 10, 2022 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Play Models Of Duration to the unprepared, and they won’t know what hit them. They’ll undoubtedly recognize that they’re facing

November 4, 2022 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Baba Commandant And The Mandingo Band achieves a classically elemental mix of sounds on its third album. The West African

October 27, 2022 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

The Bergisch-Brandenburgisches Quartett took its name from the two German land regions where its four members resided. Rüdiger Carl (reeds,

October 21, 2022 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

The guitar may be easily portable, but it is nonetheless freighted with all manner of baggage. In diverse locales around

October 14, 2022 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

“Shit Changes,” proclaims one of the tunes that bassist Michael Formanek wrote for Multicolored Midnight, but Thumbscrew persists. That’s pretty

October 7, 2022 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Marisa Anderson has spent most of the last four years angling away from the solo music she made during the

September 30, 2022 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania