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I got my copies of Exposé #35 this morning, and it's chock full of interesting music. Check out this list, and if it seems like your kind of thing, head over to the web site and do something about it.

Articles:
Festival review of French RIO event: Salle Gaveau, ZAO, Nebelnest, Present (acoustic and electric), Peter Blegvad (Trio +1), Faust, Guapo, Mats Morgan Band, and Magma. Whew!
Larry Coryell interview
La Maschera Di Cera interview
Craig Padilla (aka Sound Explorer) interview
Ian Bruce-Douglas (Ultimate Spinach, Alzbrax etc.) interview
Tony Harn interview
Murat Ses (Mogollar etc.) interview
John Hackett interview
Secret Oyster interview
Paul Sears (The Muffins, Thee Maximalists) interview
Ritual (the Swedish one) interview
Ken Golden (The Laser’s Edge) interview

Roundtable reviews:
The Mahavishnu Project, Black Bonzo, Porcupine Tree, Upsilon Acrux, Deluge Grander, Alec K. Redfearn and the Eyesores, Mawwal, Far Corner, Cast (the Mexican one), Six Gun Lullaby

New releases:
Margarita Botello, Jose Luis Fernandez Ledesma, Cold Fairyland, Electric Kompany, Cedric Vuille, Uzva, Lindsey Boullt, Simakdialog, Minoke?, James Sudakow, The Claudia Quintet, Nels Cline, Edward Ka-Spel, Jim Cole & Spectral Voices, Yeti Rain, Bill Holt, Janet Feder + Fred Frith, David Torn, Coryell Bailey White, Elton Dean, Bennie Maupin, Jakko Jakszyk, Birdsongs of the Mesozoic, Hail, Crime In Choir, Psicotropia, 33 Dao (33島), Öresund Space Collective, My Sleeping Karma, Saturnia, Causa Sui, Fit & Limo, Alison Faith Levy, Mushroom, Green Milk From The Planet Orange, Oki Hikoki, Tor Lundvall, Forrest Fang, Carl Weingarten, K. Leimer, As Lonely As Dave Bowman, David Sylvian, Robert Fripp, Steve Roach, Deborah Martin, J. Arif Verner, Alpha Wave Movement, Klaus Schulze, Xcross, David Helpling, Jon Jenkins, Ilitch, Taproban, Arti E Mestieri, White Willow, Goad, Periferia del mondo, Anekdoten, Gösta Berlings Saga, Alex Carpani, Villebråd, Lazuli, Van der Graaf Generator, Amarok, Steve Hackett, Peter Hammill, Porcupine Tree, Ritual, Puppet Show, Mar de Robles, Ezoo, Claudio Cordero, Dino Brassea, Starcastle, The Flower Kings, Pendragon, Time’s Forgotten, The Pineapple Thief, Steve Thorne, Squonk Opera, Phideaux, Baku llama, STUCKEY & MURRAY, Steve Peters, Mad Juana, Cathedral & Rum, Iona, Hoven Droven, Ranarim, Metaphor, The Mother Hips, Gravity Tree

Archives:
G.F.Fitz-Gerald, Lol Coxhill, Graham Collier, Robert Wyatt, Pam And Gary Windo, Matching Mole, Hatfield and the North, Edward Ka-Spel, Baby Grandmothers, Thierry Müller, Gigi Venegoni, Dark Sanctuary, Lasting Weep, Trance to the Sun, Rajna, Tearwave, N.R. Hills, Maneige, Magenta, Lady Lake, Odin

Reissues:
Pink Floyd, Nazz, Coxhill/Miller, Ray Russell, Egg, Mother Gong, Henry Cow, Heiner Goebbels, Alfred Harth, The Work, Secret Oyster, Ken Hyder’s talisker, The Microscopic Septet, The Blitzoids, Nurse With Wound, Guru Guru, Faust, Os Mundi, Zweistein, Holger Czukay, Rolf Dammers, Amon Düül II, Epitaph, Eroc, Novalis, Morse Code, Bregent, L'Engoulevent, Rare Bird, James Tom Rivest, Dizrhythmia, Chris Squire, Trees, Jan & Lorraine, Jem Targal, Moby Grape

50. Aluk Todolo - Descension
Primitive black metal krautrock noise mind-fuck.


49. Marc Ribot - Asmodeus: Book Of Angels, Vol. 7
Raw improvised rock based around Zorn’s Masada songbook.


48. solar fire trio - Rise Up
Free jazz dual-sax freakouts.


47. Tom Carter & Christian Kiefer - A Rather Solemn Promise
Acoustic improvised goodness from two underground gods.


46. Wooden Wand & The Sky High Band - From the Road, Vol. 7: Wasteland of the Free
Awesome full-band renditions of lots of Wooden Wand songs, including an amazing version of “The Pushers.”


45. Paul Bley - Solo in Mondsee
Solo piano offering from the living jazz legend.


44. Wilco - Sky Blue Sky
Mellow alt-country goodness with sweet Nels Cline guitar work.


43. Hassay/DeChellis/Nakatani - Hassay/DeChellis/Nakatani
Engaging free jazz with great sax work and interesting, unorthodox percussion.


42. la otracina - Tonal Ellipse of the One
Psuedo-improvised space-rock freakouts with oddly structured jams
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41. Transitional Phase - Transitional Phase
Cool improve spaced-out stuff from members of Sub-arachnoid Space.


40. Thurston Moore - Trees Outside the Academy
Great solo album from the Sonic Youth main-man.


39. Keijo & The Free Players - Touching Together
Kinda krautrock-ish Finnish improvised rock with sweet guitar playing.


38. original silence - The First Original Silence
Balls-to-the-wall noise rock featuring members of Sonic Youth and the Ex.


37. Ultralyd - Conditions for a Piece of Music
Really polished improvised rock from Scandinavia. Very cerebral and well-produced.


36. Astro Can Caravan - 21st Century Drifting Episode
Big-band, butt-shaking psych-jazz from Finland.


35. Plain Ride - Strange Trial
Nice, somewhat straight-forward indie rock from Finland.


34. Mushroom With Eddie Gale - Joint Happening
Cool space rock band with the legendary jazzer. This band backs Daevid Allen under the name University of Errors.


33. Sunburned Circle - The Blaze Game
Collaboration between Sunburned Hand of the Man and Circle. Really strange, freaky improvised drone/rock.


32. polytoxicomane philharmonie - Drosophila Road
Second offering from this German space-rock monster.


31. Titan - A Raining Sun of Light & Love For You & You & You
Cool organ-driven krautrock from NYC.


30. Badgerlore - We Are All Hopeful Farmers, We Are All Scared Rabbits
Super-group improv rock with a really ethereal, almost ambient feel.


29. Sir Richard Bishop - While My Guitar Violently Bleeds
Three long pieces from the virtuoso guitarist and Sun City Girls member.


28. Six Organs of Admittance - Shelter from the Ash
Lastest acid folk offering from Mr. Chasny.


27. Massacre - Lonely Heart
One of the greatest improv rock bands in the history of music doing what they do best.


26. James 'Blood' Ulmer - Bad Blood in the City: The Piety Street Sessions
Bad-ass blues from the blues capital of the world from the former free-jazz guitarist.


25. Oxbow - The Narcotic Story
Confrontational hard rock that’s really hard to describe.


24. Supersilent – 8
Awesome semi-electronic improvised music. Also hard to put into words.


23. Sunburned Hand of the Man - Earth Do Eagles Do
An out-and-out rocker from Sunburned, more traditionally structured jams than most of their stuff.


22. PJ Harvey - White Chalk
Haunting, beautiful, piano-driven pops songs. Absolutely wonderful.


21. Omar Rodriguez-Lopez & Damo Suzuki - Please Heat This Eventually
Something like a less-meandering Mars Volta being fronted by Can-man Damo.


20. The Necks - Townsville (Live)
Amazing live recording from a improvised show. Hypnotic, ambient jazz. This band rules.


19. Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock, Jack DeJohnette - My Foolish Heart: Live at Montreux
One of the best piano trios in the world whipping out mind-blowing track after mind-blowing track.


18. Eberhard Weber - Stages of a Long Journey
Compositions from throughout Weber’s career performed by a talented cast and backed by a full orchestra.


17. Ghost - In Stormy Nights
Another colossal, multi-genre, psych folk masterpiece from Japan’s finest.


16. Baikal – Baikal
Two really long, really heavy jams from what is essentially Bardo Pond.


15. Assemble Head In Sunburst Sound – Ekranoplan
Great Cali psych rock in the vein of Comets on Fire and Mammatus, only not as long-winded.


14. Robert Wyatt – Comicopera
This man is a fucking legend.


13. Suishou No Fune - I Throw A Stone into the Endless Depths
Sweet “dream” music from Japan. Improv space-rock bliss.


12. Ocean/Conifer - Split LP
Two of Maine’s doomiest doomers sharing an LP.


11. Boris with Michio Kurihara – Rainbow
Japanese hard rockers turn things down a bit


10. Cato Salsa Experience and The Thing with Joe McPhee - Two Bands and a Legend
A free jazz band, a garage rock band, and a psycho. Loud, proud, and rockin’.


9. Wooden Wand - James and the Quiet
Great singer-songwriter stuff from the former leader of the Vanishing Voice.


8. Soft Mountain - Soft Mountain
Two members of Soft Machine, two of Japan’s greatest rock musicians, two long improvisations that blow most other music out of the water.


7. Akron/Family - Love is Simple
These guys do whatever the hell they want, and it’s usually pretty awesome.


6. Nels Cline Singers - Draw Breath
Great avant-jazz offering covering a lot of different sub-genres, and all with Cline’s amazing guitar playing.


5. Magnolia Electric Co. - Black Ram
Dark, reverby alt-country goodness.


4. Dungen - Tio Bitar
Scandinavian one-man psych rock beast.


3. Earthless - Rhythms from a Cosmic Sky
Long psychedelic jam sessions. This band rocks so hard it hurts.


2. Circle – Tower
Swirling, nearly formless synth and percussion. This + headphones = boner.


1. Louis Sclavis - L'imparfait des Langues
Amazing avant-jazz that mixes great melodies with some rock structures and weird improv.

Reissues & Compilations

7. Sly & The Family Stone - There's A Riot Goin' On
6. Jeff Buckley - So Real
5. Up-Tight - Early Years
4. Circle - Arkades
3. Baby Grandmothers - Baby Grandmothers
2. Peter Brötzmann Octet - The Complete Machine Gun Sessions
1. Flower Travellin' Band - Satori

Sunglasses at night is the psychedelic radio show that has been going on since the beginning of last summer on Radio 1190 in Boulder, CO. I cohost it with by buddy Will, aka UglyKinski. If you want to listen, just tune in to www.radio1190.com from 7-9PM Mountain Standard Time on Friday nights. I'm starting to catalogue playlists on Last.fm, but for a comprehensive history of the show view our Myspace blog.

1. The Shadows of Knight - I'm Gonna Make You Mine
2. Pärson Sound (With an umlaut on the "a") - Sov Gott Rose-Marie
3. Wicked Lady - War Cloud
4. Deuter - Krishna Eating Fish and Chips
5. Nisi Period - Echo of Suggestion
6. Kousokuya - Shadow of a Dream
7. Full Grown Spiders - They Must Tumble Freely
8. Karuna Khyal - Alomony 1985, Pt. 1
9. Baby Grandmothers - Opus 1: Ascending
10. Kennelmus - Cloud of Lead
11. Braen's machine - Gap

This show went really well. Props to Kris Thompson from The Lothars, Abunai!, Jasmine Love Bomb, Concord Ballet Orchestra Players, and probably some other bands I'm forgetting (and the BeyondWithin Project last.fm group) for recommending many of the artists for tonight. If you have any recommendations for next week, give me a shout.