If you've seen Merzbow perform live, a question you probably wouldn't ask is, "How can we make that louder?" Well, the answer comes in the f...

I don't know who "Breadwoman" really is, or what she represents. But in a short documentary made by RVNG Records for their 2016  reissue of...

As outlined in Friday's Fang / Goldstein / Wiens review, there are improvisations that are highly cooperative. Then there are those, like to...

Me: Hmmm. According to the program a Russian guy named Alexey Tegin formed Phurpa after an early stint in industrial music, and he adopts mu...

Confronted with the prospect of listening to an hour-long concert of solo bagpipes, a certain look of apprehension might creep across your f...

Julia Ulehla and Aram Bajakian, the husband and wife centre of Dálava, sing and play their way through the cabaret seated crowd on their way...

Fitness rock. Technirock. Steroid minimalism. I'm hoping to coin a new genre name that best describes the type of music a certain segment of...

An evening of Japanese music at FIMAV kicks off with a double bill by Phew (Hiromi Moritani), and Saicobab, a trio led by Boredoms founder a...

Closing out the festival's evening of Japanese music, and capably saving it from slight disappointment, were Oni and Pika, collectively know...

NYC jazz icon / bass player William Parker returns to FIMAV with his long-running project, "In Order to Survive," now in its 25th year of ex...

"Who gave this possessed woman a viola and set her loose in this 150-year-old church?" Not a question I literally heard, but surely one on t...