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Shining: Live Blackjazz
Liberteer: Better to Die on Your Feet Than Live on Your Knees
Jono El Grande: The Choko King -
The wait is over! A year in the works, ALARM Press' collection of color-driven musicians and visual artists is finally here.
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The Book of Knots: Garden of Fainting Stars
Bosco Delrey: Everybody Wah
Arkona: Stenka na Stenku Erik Friedlander: Bonebridge
Marissa Nadler: s/t The Dear Hunter: The Color Spectrum -
Son Lux: We Are Rising
Graviton: Massless
NOW Ensemble: Awake
Agoraphobic Nosebleed / Despise You: And On and On...
Bill Frisell: Sign of Life (Music for 858 Quartet) -
John Vanderslice with The Magik*Magik Orchestra: White Wilderness
Phil Manley: Life Coach
Andre Afram Asmar: Harmonic Emergency
Bruce Lamont: Feral Songs for the Epic Decline
Monotonix: Not Yet
Talib Kweli: Gutter Rainbows -
Among the thousands of under-appreciated or under-publicized albums that were released in 2010, hundreds became our favorites and were presented in ALARM and on AlarmPress.com. Of those, we pared down to 100 outstanding releases, leaving no genre unexplored in our list of this year's overlooked gems.
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Ben Goldberg's infatuation with the clarinet inspired him to combine traditional Jewish klezmer music with jazz to create a wild, modern sound -- but his work with the adventurous Tin Hat chamber ensemble might be his most challenging yet.
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Killing Joke: Absolute Dissent
Gangrene: Gutter Water
Fred Frith: Eye to Ear 3
Agalloch: Marrow of the Spirit
Brandt Brauer Frick: You Make Me Real -
Led by multi-instrumentalist Julian Curwin and buoyed by a healthy sense of humor, The Tango Saloon is a Western-, Gypsy-, and jazz-inflected tango juggernaut.
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Instrumental avant-rock group Ahleuchatistas has less in common with mathematicians than mad scientists, tinkering with song structure and timbre to achieve desired results.
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Given identifiable credits such as Faith No More, Tomahawk, and Mr. Bungle, the words “Patton” and “incognito” don’t seem to follow each other. But Mike Patton's newest project, Mondo Cane, stems from just such a union — with Patton disguising his American accent and assimilating to a new culture.
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Even after several decades of cross-pollination between the worlds of rock and jazz, it could be argued that a true (or at least natural-sounding) hybrid has yet to be invented. Ironically enough, one of the most well-blended combinations of the two genres has recently arrived in the form of drummer Ben Perowsky’s Moodswing Orchestra.
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Tristan Perich: 1-Bit Symphony
Dave Douglas & Keystone: Spark of Being: Expand
Pale Sketcher: Jesu: Pale Sketches Demixed
James Blackshaw: All is Falling
The Sword: Warp Riders
Imbogodom: The Metallic Year -
Wu Fei's work is a marriage between the East and West. Using traditional Chinese instruments such as the guzheng and erhu in unconventional ways, Fei strays from the strict, painterly elegance of the instrument's usual genre, instead introducing improvised and experimental elements.
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After releasing music under names such as Foetus, Manorexia, and Steroid Maximus, composer/producer J.G. Thirlwell only recently has released under his own name -- while maintaining his distinctive genre-mashing concoctions.
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Ratatat: LP4
Mastodon: Jonah Hex / Revenge Gets Ugly
Eternia & MoSS: At Last
Steel Train: s/t + Terrible Thrills Vol. 1 -
Strip down, way down, the layers of the moody energy of Brooklyn post-rock metal trio Dysrhythmia’s fifth album, Psychic Maps, and you can hear an indication of the agility responsible for the band’s deep intensity.
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The Dillinger Escape Plan: Option Paralysis
J.G. Thirlwell: Manorexia: The Mesopelagic Waters
Autechre: Oversteps
John Zorn/The Dreamers: Ipos: The Book Of Angels vol. 14 -
ALARM leaves no genre unloved in our round-up of 50 albums that didn't receive enough attention in 2009.
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Heavy Trash: Midnight Soul Serenade
Themselves: CrownsDown
Minamo: Kuroi Kawa: Black River
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Cave In: Planets of Old EP
John Zorn: O'o
Bill Frisell: Disfarmer
Sax Ruins: Yawiquo -
Dave Douglas & Brass Ecstasy: Spirit Moves
Rock Plaza Central: ...at the Moment of our Most Needing or If Only They Could Turn Around, They Would Know They Weren't Alone
Masada Quintet featuring Joe Lovano: Stolas, The Book of Angels Vol. 12
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Sunn O))): Monoliths & Dimensions
Khanate: Clean Hands Go Foul
Grizzly Bear: Veckatimest
Sir Richard Bishop: The Freak of Araby
Master Musicians of Bukkake: Totem One
Vieux Farka Toure: Fondo -
Kylesa: Static Tensions
Les Claypool: Of Fungi and Foe
Mastodon: Crack the Skye
Melvin Gibbs' Elevated Entity: Ancients Speak
Bonnie "Prince" Billy: Beware
Chicago Afrobeat Project: Off the Grid EP
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John Zorn: Film Works XXIII: El General
Mountains: Choral
Rob Mazurek Quintet: Sound Is
Steven Wilson: Insurgentes
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Omar Rodriguez-Lopez: Old Money
Jamie Saft: Black Shabbis
Diagonal: s/t
Ephel Duath: Through My Dog's Eyes
Cotton Jones: Paranoid Cocoon
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Our list of favorites from last year includes devastating dub metal, organ-fueled psychedelic grind, a re-released classic-rock gem from nearly four decades ago, an international assemblage of punk-infused field recordings, and an Indian/surf/metal take on John Zorn's Masada material.
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John Zorn: The Crucible
Last Step: 1961
Impure Wilhelmina: Prayers and Arsons
Charles Gorczynski: Oblivion and (sight)
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Wu Fei: Yuan
Colorlist: Photographs
The (International) Noise Conspiracy: The Cross of My Calling
John Zorn: Filmworks XXII: The Last Supper
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Squarepusher: Just a Souvenir
Zakarya: The True Story Concerning Martin Behaim
O'death: Broken Hymns, Limbs, and Skin
Akimbo: Jersey Shores
Huntsville: Eco, Arches & Eras
John Zorn: Filmworks XXI: Belle de Nature / The New Rijksmuseum
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Orange Tulip Conspiracy: s/t
Burst: Lazarus Bird
John Zorn: Filmworks XX: Sholem Aleichem
Soundgarden: Badmotorfinger [ecopak]
Fight the Big Bull: Dying Will Be Easy -
Scott Rosenberg of P.A.F. fame brought together a motley crew of musicians to form Pink Mountain. What resulted was something no one could have expected: a sprawling twelve-song marriage of psych, prog, krautrock and freeform jazz that is fueled by a synergistic array of influences.
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