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AMN Reviews: Colin Webster / Balázs Pándi / Matt Cargill – Chewed Up And Spat Out (2026; Raw Tonk Records) Drummer Balázs Pándi has been off my radar for a few years. Previously, he had been a core participant of several improvising sessions involving Lee Ranaldo, Jim Jarmusch, Marc Urselli,…

Coming to Chicago Listings drawn from Now-Is, Elastic Arts, Constellation, Hungry Brain, Frequency Festival, and University of Chicago/Renaissance Society event listings. Saturday, June 13 Mwata Bowden's One Foot In/One Foot Out EnsembleConnect Gallery, 1451 E 53rd1:30 PM Whitney Johnson, Lia…

New 2026 Releases from Intakt Records James Brandon Lewis Quartet announces Omni, out June 26 on Intakt. The quartet features Lewis on tenor saxophone with Aruán Ortiz on piano, Brad Jones on bass, and Chad Taylor on drums. OM returns with Südpol, out June 19 on Intakt. The current lineup is Urs…

Orynx Improv Reviews Orynx has published a new roundup of reviews covering several recent free jazz, free improvisation, and experimental releases. Included are Cecil Taylor Unit feat. Andrew Cyrille, Jimmy Lyons & Sam Rivers – Fragments: The Complete 1969 Salle Pleyel Concerts (Elemental Music /…

Newsbits: Stearns and Rich / Kim Gordon / Orcutt and Fratti Michael Stearns and Robert Rich announce Reunion of Breath and Waves, their first collaboration, scheduled for release June 21. Rich has also posted a trailer for A Conversation with Michael Stearns & Robert Rich, with excerpts from a…

AMN Reviews: Anna von Hausswolff – ICONOCLASTS (2025, YEAR0001) Anna von Hausswolff’s ICONOCLASTS continues her journey between art rock, gothic atmospherics, drone, and contemporary composition, but does so on a larger scale than much of her earlier work. The pipe organ remains central to the…

A Closer Listen Reviews A roundup of reviews published at A Closer Listen over the last week. William Selman – Sanctioned Departures (Critique of Everyday Life, 2026) — reviewed by Richard Allen June 13, 2026 Émile Zener – Sumatra Method (Critique of Everyday Life, 2026) — reviewed by Richard…

The Squid’s Ear Reviews A roundup of reviews published at The Squid's Ear over the last week. Steve Beresford / Pierpaolo Martino / Mark Sanders – Be S-Mart (Confront) — reviewed by Andrey Henkin Melaine Dalibert / David Sylvian – Vermilion Hours (Ici dailleurs) — reviewed by Brian Olewnick Agusti…

Coming to Downtown Music Gallery Source: Downtown Music Gallery. Downtown Music Gallery has announced three upcoming in-store events, including the continuation of the Gauci-Music Series, a Tuesday evening of improvised music, and the next installment of the Relative Pitch Series. On Saturday,…

Jazzword Reviews A roundup of reviews published at Jazzword since last time. Brandon Seabrook – Hellbent Daydream (Pyroclastic Record PR 45) Alexander Hawkins/Taylor Ho Bynum – A Near Permanent State of Wonder (Rogueart ROG-144) Lucerne – Live Marianischer Saal (Creative Works Records CD CW 1085)…

Drummer Balázs Pándi has been off my radar for a few years. Previously, he had been a core participant of several improvising sessions involving Lee Ranaldo, Jim Jarmusch, Marc Urselli, Merzbow, Mats Gustafsson, Thurston Moore, Keiji Haino, Jon Wesseltoft, and others. This meeting with saxophonist Colin Webster (Dirk Serries, Andrew Lisle, Martina Verhoeven, and many more) and Matt Cargill (Sly and the Family Drone) on electronics is fitting on paper and even more so in practice.

Listings drawn from Now-Is, Elastic Arts, Constellation, Hungry Brain, Frequency Festival, and University of Chicago/Renaissance Society event listings. Saturday, June 13 Mwata Bowden's One Foot In/One Foot Out EnsembleConnect Gallery, 1451 E 53rd1:30 PM Whitney Johnson, Lia Kohl, Macie StewartThe Renaissance Society, Cobb Hall, 4th Floor, 5811 S Ellis Ave4:00 PM…

James Brandon Lewis Quartet announces Omni, out June 26 on Intakt. The quartet features Lewis on tenor saxophone with Aruán Ortiz on piano, Brad Jones on bass, and Chad Taylor on drums. OM returns with Südpol, out June 19 on Intakt. The current lineup is Urs Leimgruber on soprano saxophone, Christy Doran on electric guitar and devices, Bobby Burri on double bass, Gerry Hemingway on drums, and Tony Buck on drums and percussion.

Orynx has published a new roundup of reviews covering several recent free jazz, free improvisation, and experimental releases. Included are Cecil Taylor Unit feat. Andrew Cyrille, Jimmy Lyons & Sam Rivers – Fragments: The Complete 1969 Salle Pleyel Concerts (Elemental Music / INA), a two-CD archival release documenting Taylor’s Unit in Paris in 1969; Chris Abrahams / Mark Wastell – Two Thousand Sacred Steps…

Michael Stearns and Robert Rich announce Reunion of Breath and Waves, their first collaboration, scheduled for release June 21. Rich has also posted a trailer for A Conversation with Michael Stearns & Robert Rich, with excerpts from a discussion of the album and related ambient-music history. Kim Gordon’s exhibition Count Your Chickens remains on view at Amant in Brooklyn through…

Anna von Hausswolff’s ICONOCLASTS continues her journey between art rock, gothic atmospherics, drone, and contemporary composition, but does so on a larger scale than much of her earlier work. The pipe organ remains central to the album’s sound, though it is now accompanied by synthesizers, guitars, bass, drums, percussion, saxophone, clarinet, strings, and electronics, creating a dense ensemble sound. The opening pieces establish the album’s approach - slow-building song structures and a dramatic vocal presence that shifts between lament and fervor.

A roundup of reviews published at A Closer Listen over the last week. William Selman – Sanctioned Departures (Critique of Everyday Life, 2026) — reviewed by Richard Allen June 13, 2026 Émile Zener – Sumatra Method (Critique of Everyday Life, 2026) — reviewed by Richard Allen June 12, 2026 Garling Wu and Jessie Leov – Earthworks (2026) — reviewed by Richard Allen June 11, 2026…

A roundup of reviews published at The Squid's Ear over the last week. Steve Beresford / Pierpaolo Martino / Mark Sanders – Be S-Mart (Confront) — reviewed by Andrey Henkin Melaine Dalibert / David Sylvian – Vermilion Hours (Ici dailleurs) — reviewed by Brian Olewnick Agusti Fernandez / Artur Majewski / Albert Cirera / Ramon Prats – Som-hi! (Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!))

A roundup of reviews published at Jazzword since last time. Brandon Seabrook – Hellbent Daydream (Pyroclastic Record PR 45) Alexander Hawkins/Taylor Ho Bynum – A Near Permanent State of Wonder (Rogueart ROG-144) Lucerne – Live Marianischer Saal (Creative Works Records CD CW 1085) Angelika Niescier – Chicago Tapes (Intakt CD 446) Durant/Gallio – Cha tug e ach dà fhichead biadhna (Emptybirdcage Records EBR 015) Simon Rose/Nicola L. Hein – Moon (Confront Core 55)

Source: Downtown Music Gallery. Downtown Music Gallery has announced three upcoming in-store events, including the continuation of the Gauci-Music Series, a Tuesday evening of improvised music, and the next installment of the Relative Pitch Series. On Saturday, June 13, the Gauci-Music Series continues with three sets. At 6:30 PM, drummer Ken Kobayashi, alto saxophonist Jeff Pearring, guitarist Jeff Miles, and bassist Evan Crane perform.