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Inc. Vs. Zu Spaceways Canicula You and Your Folks, Me and My Folks - Zu, Clinton We Travel the Spaceways/Space Is the Place - Zu, Ra, Sun   Peter E. Johansen (5 out of 5 stars) "I'm just shocked that no one has reviewed this yet. This has got to be one of the most unique sounding jazz / heavy rock hybrids I've ever heard. The first five tracks (Ken Vandermark with Zu) brings to mind Crescent-era Coltrane jamming with Black Sabbath, but with an avant-funk edge reminiscent of James "Blood" Ulmer's Revelation Music Ensemble. The baritone sax player Luca Mai deftly moves from taking the rhy...

Fact Mix 807: Yen Tech Share this: Fact Mix 807: Yen Tech Part emotional odyssey, part experimental radio play, the SVBKVLT artist holds up a fractured mirror to the absurdity of contemporary times. Yen Tech guides us through an extraordinary aural retelling of an alternative cultural history of the COVID-19 pandemic in his sprawling Fact mix, which weaves together text-to-script speech, AI language models and a breathtaking suite of experimental music, selected and compiled solely for its emotional heft. These are tracks that have provided strength and solace to the Shanghai-based producer a...

Tim Daisy; Matt Piet at the Hungry Brain pre-COVID Photos by Marek Lazarski and Morgan Ciesielski The COVID-19 pandemic has put tens of millions of Americans out of work, but even considering that bleak landscape, musicians have been hit especially hard—most of their jobs only barely exist now, and the infrastructure that might allow them to return someday is in danger of collapsing. Festivals have been canceled, larger concert halls closed, and smaller clubs...