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Ian King | Panic Grass And Fever Few

Just a few weeks after we reviewed the belated release of African Head Charge's latest, another, more recent gem from the always rewarding sonic laboratory of Adrian Sherwood arrives.
Fledg'ling (2010)
By GUSTAVO TURNER  |  March 19, 2010
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The Souljazz Orchestra | Rising Sun

We're living in the middle of a veritable renaissance of "Spiritual Jazz."
Strut (2010)
By GUSTAVO TURNER  |  February 26, 2010
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Bob Blank | The Blank Generation: Blank Tapes NYC 1975 - 1985

These days, Bob Blank spends his time in his Connecticut studio, producing profitable music for ads and ringtones for the likes of Susan Boyle.
Strut (2010)
By GUSTAVO TURNER  |  January 15, 2010
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The Doors | Live in New York

In 1970, Doors producer Paul Rothchild assembled a tight “live set” out of a bunch of different concert recordings from the band’s 1969/early-1970 shows and Elektra released it as the Absolutely Live LP.
Rhino (2009)
By GUSTAVO TURNER  |  December 11, 2009
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Various Artists | Panama! 3

If you purchase a copy of Soundway’s wonderful Panama! 3 — and you should — you get two things for the price of one. First, this is a carefully curated CD of “Calypso Panameño, Guajira Jazz & Cumbia Típica on the Isthmus 1960-75” that will keep you
Soundway (2009)
By GUSTAVO TURNER  |  November 27, 2009
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The Relatives | Don't Let Me Fall

Does the Devil really have all the best tunes? Go tell that to Bach, or the Sensational Nightingales, or Johnny Cash!
Heavy Light (2009)
By GUSTAVO TURNER  |  November 13, 2009
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Eno Moebius Roedelius | Cluster and Eno/After the Heat

Krautrock pioneers proved much more simpático musical partners than either the fractious Roxy Music or the British classical avant-garde milieu that thought of Eno as an untrained fanboy.
Bureau B (2009)
By GUSTAVO TURNER  |  September 25, 2009
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Review: Monty Python's Flying Circus: 30 Musical Masterpieces from the Infamous Television Series

Such is the legendary status and posthumous influence of the original run of Monty Python's Flying Circus on BBC One in the early '70s that it's easy to forget how low-budget British comedy production was in those days.
DeWolfe (2009)
By GUSTAVO TURNER  |  August 28, 2009
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Gesellschaft Zur Emanzipation Des Samples | Circulations

My friend Robbie and I once had a brilliant idea: we were going to put out a field-recording LP called Sounds of Guitar Center , 70 minutes of us walking around the monopolistic retailer with a microphone to capture the cacophony.
Faitiche (2009)
By GUSTAVO TURNER  |  June 05, 2009
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Mulatu Astatke and the Heliocentrics | Inspiration Information 3

The idea behind the Strut label's Inspiration Information series is simple: pair "modern artists and producers with their musical heroes"
Strut  (2009)
By GUSTAVO TURNER  |  May 01, 2009
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Various artists | Spiritual Jazz: Esoteric, Modal, and Deep Jazz from the Underground, 1968-1977

Apple-pie Mormon missionaries the Millers travel through Iran to spread the gospel of Joseph Smith among Muslims and Zoroastrians, and their kid discovers the glorious sound of the santur.
Jazzman (2009)
By GUSTAVO TURNER  |  April 24, 2009
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Review: Yasuaki Shimizu and David Cunningham | One Hundred

Imagine the kind of free jazz that would have developed in an alternate universe where mainstream classical music was defined by Michael Nyman's soundtracks to Peter Greenaway movies.
Staubgold
By GUSTAVO TURNER  |  February 24, 2009
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Slideshow: Succe$$

"Succe$$" was a challenge from the get-go.
 Succe$$ Finale
By KARL STEVENS AND GUSTAVO TURNER  |  January 06, 2009
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The last Succe$$ ever


Succe$$
By KARL STEVENS AND GUSTAVO TURNER  |  December 30, 2008
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2008 Listravaganza!

We are not at all sick of bands with animal names yet and seem to have a soft spot for Erykah Badu that we kept very hush about all year.
An absolute glut of cruelly reductive Top 10 lists from our dedicated staff of tirelessly enthusiastic writers
By BOSTON PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF  |  December 24, 2008
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Formerly Bank of America


Succe$$
By KARL STEVENS AND GUSTAVO TURNER  |  December 10, 2008
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Montreal, a year later


Succe$$
By KARL STEVENS AND GUSTAVO TURNER  |  November 19, 2008
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Meanwhile, in Mexico


Succe$$
By KARL STEVENS AND GUSTAVO TURNER  |  November 12, 2008
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The BBC Radiophonic Workshop | BBC Radiophonic Music & The Radiophonic Workshop

First released in 1971 and 1975, these reissued Workshop compilations provide a neat summation of the outfit’s heyday.
Mute (2008)
By GUSTAVO TURNER  |  November 05, 2008
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T is for Terror


A horror ride through Boston's underground
By K. BANKS  |  October 29, 2008
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Ike & Tina Turner | Sing The Blues

It’s unclear what love — or hate — has got to do with superior music, but chances are you’ll be spinning this long after you’ve forgotten your copy of “Private Dancer.”  
Acrobat (2008)
By GUSTAVO TURNER  |  October 28, 2008
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Bob Dylan Unboxed

This October, Columbia Records is releasing Tell-Tale Signs: Rare and Unreleased 1989-2006 , a collection of recordings by Bob Dylan that are different from recordings issued on the seven studio albums he released in that period.  
Everything you wanted to know about Tell-Tale Signs but were afraid to buy
By GUSTAVO TURNER  |  October 15, 2008
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MF Doom & Madlib | Madvillainy 2

Madvillainy 2, not the much expected follow-up to the groundbreaking Madlib + Doom 2004 collaboration but a radical remix of the original album.  
Stones Throw (2008)
By GUSTAVO TURNER  |  October 15, 2008

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