Niandra LaDes is a mystifying work of tortured beauty
Blue has created a song-cycle that reflects his intensely melodic and free piano
Lyrically Smith sets the goals high
the advances Herbie Hancock made with them still sound exciting today and would propel him into further inventive territory with future jazz-funk project The Headhunters
and we collectively come to terms with the shortcomings of the liberal embrace of identity politics
Brunhild Ferrari & Christoph Heemann - Stürmische Ruhe LP general Niandra LaDes is a mystifyingAfter her stunning collaboration with Jim ORourke (Le Piano Englouti, BT055), Brunhild Ferrari returns to Black Truffle with Strmische Ruhe, her first duo with Christoph Heemann. A legendary figure in underground music, Heemann has quietly produced a unique body of work since his beginnings with the absurdist cutups of H. N. A. S. in the mid 1980, including collaborations with Merzbow, Organum and Nurse With Wound, the eerie psychedelia of Mirror