Articles by Nilan Perera

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  Hellhorn

  Hellhorn

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2004

  This band’s bio looks like it was written by a left handed crack head writing with his right hand using a leaky marker. They also sent a sh...

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  John Oswald

  Aparenthesi

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2004

  The thing about John Oswald’s music that has always impressed me is that it is, quite simply, masterful. The sheer completeness of his indi...

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  Who Trio

  The Current Underneath

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2004

  Ever hear the joke "jazz isn’t dead, it just smells funny”? This is fundamentally a jazz album. That being said, it’s one of the few curren...

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  Marty Ehrlich

  The Long View

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2004

  Ehrlich is one reed player that kept cropping up in my collection as a sideman to some very heavy new jazz icons (John Carter and Muhal Ric...

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  Vinny Golia

  Music For Like Instruments — The E flat Saxophones

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2004

  Vinny Golia is an American West Coast reedman whose work spans nearly three decades. He is also the founder of the seminal Nine Winds label...

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  Cooper-Moore/Assif Tsahar

  America

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2004

  Cooper-Moore (piano, diddley bow, banjo, drum skins and cymbal) and Assif Tsahar (tenor sax, bass clarinet, classical guitar) manage to avo...

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  Marty Ehrlich

  The Long View

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2004

  Ehrlich is one reed player that kept cropping up in my collection as a sideman to some very heavy new jazz icons (John Carter and Muhal Ric...

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  Various

  Electricities

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2004

  This is a sampler of Canadian electro-acoustic music that spans almost 50 years. A pretty amazing statistic in itself, especially consideri...