free jazz
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After all these years, Captain Beefheart’s Trout Mask Replica still stands as one of rock’s most challenging and boundary-pushing albums.
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Judging from this track, Brain Tentacles are about to put out the most insane avant-garde jazz-metal album you’ll hear in all of 2016. The trio’s self-titled debut will be released September 30 via Relapse.
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Prime by Dead Neanderthals Get ready for the most pummeling 40 minutes of music in 2014. Prime is the latest release from Holland jazz trio Dead Neanderthals, and the band pulls absolutely no punches on their album posted above, which is just one immense free jazz track. It’s a
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XDhz5kanYk First off, be sure to heed that NSFW label up there: this will almost certainly be the most disturbing music video you’ll see all year. For You’re Dead! cut “Ready Err Not,” Flying Lotus enlisted the talents of Salad Fingers creator
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Fire Keeper by The Daniel Rosenboom Quintet Digging on some fiery jazz rock from this new Daniel Rosenboom Quintet album, Fire Keeper. The kinetic energy in the performances on this thing is m-a-s-s-i-v-e. The production is a little flat at times, but the performances are just stellar throughout.
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With September’s “Don’t smoke in bed,” Xiu Xiu gave us our first glimpse at its upcoming Graveface Records debut Nina, a collection of 11 Nina Simone covers done in the style of free jazz. Since then, the band has shared two more tracks from the project, “Just Say
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Internal Combustion by Tony Falco & Josh Sinton A series of free jazz odysseys on this new collection of tracks from percussionist Tony Falco and saxophonist Josh Sinton. While Falco and Sinton don’t create the most relentless or chaotic improvisations, they do get quite noisy and freakish. Stream it
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Śmierć w miękkim futerku by Niechęć Polish alternative jazz outfit Niechęć has its new album streaming via the widget above, and it ‘s a pretty nice blend of improvisation, aggression, and a driving rock sensibility. Though I wish the recording felt a bit more, well, organic and natural, these guys
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Matana Roberts’ latest project and album, Coin Coin Chapter One: Gens de couleur libres, is a dense and experimental dive into the worlds of jazz, spoken word, noise, and chance music. The album’s been kind of teasing me ever since I got a promo of it earlier this year.
