Tag Archives: 2025

Merry Christmas Mr. Linton: Fluid Japan And Jan Linton Team Once More For Cover Of “Forbidden Colours”

Jan Linton + Fluid Japan: Forbidden Colours – HK/US – DL [2025] Last winter we enjoyed the crystalline beauty of Fluid Japan’s cover of Ryuichi Sakamoto’s “Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence,” where Fluid Japan, working with a piano recording by Reiko … Continue reading

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Bob Gaulke Still Maxing Out His Credit Cards – With Shriekback’s Help This Time On A Trio Of Releases [pt. 3]

[…continued from last post] Bob Gaulke: When Are These Not Difficult Times? – US – CD-R [2025] Bob Gaulke released a third disc concurrently with “(S)words” and “(detail)” last summer on June 6th. Like “(S)words,” it featured Hans [The Dutch] … Continue reading

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Bob Gaulke Still Maxing Out His Credit Cards – With Shriekback’s Help This Time On A Trio Of Releases [pt. 2]

[…continued from last post] Bob Gaulke: (S)words – US – CD-R [2025] “Our Tiny Struggle” began with the emphatic piano rhythm courtesy of Mr. Barry Andrews boring a hole in our brain that wouldn’t let go as Gil Olivera on … Continue reading

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Bob Gaulke Still Maxing Out His Credit Cards – With Shriekback’s Help This Time On A Trio Of Releases [pt. 1]

Bob Gaulke is an interesting guy! He’s a very busy musician with 34 releases in the last decade. Nine of those were released in 2022 alone! I happened to really get to know Bob on the occasion of his tribute … Continue reading

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Sparks Got “Mad!” and “Madder!” In 2025 [pt. 2]

[…continued from last post] I was immediately enraptured by the formalist fortissimo of “I-405 Rules.” An almost Rococo, orchestrally driven expansion of their “L’il Beethoven®” ethos as resulting in a paean to their local Interstate highway. The subtlety of the … Continue reading

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Sparks Got “Mad!” and “Madder!” In 2025 [pt. 1]

While it’s true Sparks new album, “Mad!” was released on May 23rd, I was hung up on the domestic issues I struggled with on a daily basis this year. I did not actually buy their new CD until August 10th, … Continue reading

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Sorry We Weren’t Here Before Full EP “Forest Lights” Balanced Melody And Intensity To Hit A Post-Punk Target

Last June we enjoyed the debut single of Berlin’s Sorry We Weren’t Here Before and have been waiting for the full EP which was released late October on Germany’s Agoge Records label. The trio have once more plowed deeply into … Continue reading

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