Articles by Glen Hall

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  Jim O'Rourke

  I'm Happy, And I'm Singing, And A 1, 2, 3, 4

  PUBLISHED Jun 8, 2009

  A re-release of Mego's out-of-print, influential I'm Happy, this double disc set contains some of the prodigiously eclectic O'Rourke's most...

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  Calle Debauche

  Calle Debauche

  PUBLISHED Jun 8, 2009

  Instrumental art rockers from Tucson, Calle Debauche sure know how to have fun. They write happy music that's a delightful mash-up of Balka...

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  Simeon Abbott

  Zebra Wood: Prepared Electric Guitar Improvisations

  PUBLISHED Jun 8, 2009

  Zebra Wood is a CD-R collection of solo prepared guitar tracks multi-instrumentalist/composer Simeon Abbott recorded over months of introsp...

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  Gordon Allen / Frank Martel / Michel F. Côté

  All Up In There

  PUBLISHED May 24, 2009

  This is riveting improvising from start to finish. This 32-minute, three-track CD of a Suoni per il Popolo Festival live performance in Mon...

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  Schweizer Holz Trio

  Love Letters to the President

  PUBLISHED May 24, 2009

  Three horn players in a free-improv setting far too often overplay at the expense of each musicians' musicality. That's why Love Letters to...

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  The Toronto Jazz Orchestra

  The Path

  PUBLISHED May 24, 2009

  Tight, swinging and passionate, the TJO have clearly spent their time rehearsing these demanding charts to make them sing. Even the high re...

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  Andromeda Mega Express Orchestra

  Take Off!

  PUBLISHED May 12, 2009

  Wacky and hugely fun, this 20-piece German outfit rip through their zany material with energy and effervescence to burn. Reed player Daniel...

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  Nichelodeon

  Cinemanemico

  PUBLISHED May 12, 2009

  Milan-based Nichelodeon make music to be staged and dramatically acted to. Maurizio Fasoli plays piano in a grand declamatory style. It set...