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Dave Foxall

Based in Barcelona, Dave is a freelance writer and lifelong music nerd for whom scribbling about sounds provides a relief and counterbalance to daytime commercial necessities. He will now stop writing about himself in the third person. I was seduced away from prog rock and heavy metal by gifts from friends and colleagues, including Hal Willner’s Weird Nightmare – Meditations on Mingus, Dolphy’s Out to Lunch and, more conventionally, Rollins’ Tenor Madness and of course Kind of Blue. Now teetering on the borderlands of free improvisation and pure sound, it’s been a strange journey, with no end yet in sight. I write about "jazz, free improvisation & cacophony", including the Barcelona scene, on my blog ajazznoise.com but penning reviews for JJ offers a connection to those much-loved jazz sounds, although I must confess to constantly leaning towards the Scandinavian and outré.

Snekkestad, Fernández, Guy: Louisiana Variations

While it may be convenient to have the music divided into six tracks – given the dynamic richness of the performance, the occasional signposted...

Josh Sinton’s Predicate Trio: Making Bones…

Sinton’s solo bass clarinet intro, Mersible, bubbles up from the depths, a brief fragmentary illumination that serves only to deepen the shadows of possibility....

Bright Dog Red: Means To The Ends

Starting as a jazz-meets-hip-hop jam band with a loosely-defined membership, Bright Dog Red has become a fixture on the NYC jazz and improvisation scene...

Atomic: Pet Variations

Unusually for the highly original Atomic, this is an album of "covers" (though the word doesn’t do these personalised pieces justice, including as they...
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Red Kite: Red Kite

Red Kite includes past members of Shining, Elephant9, and Bushman’s Revenge and the liner notes thank all three members of the Hedvig Mollestad Trio....

Anguish: Anguish

RareNoise, true to their name, specialise in bringing people together in fresh configurations and Anguish may prove to be one of the freshest and...