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Freq Reviews A roundup of reviews published at Freq over the last week. Mattias De Craene | Black Koyo – Mattias De Craene | Black Koyo — reviewed by Mr Olivetti Hilary Jeffery – Green Prism: Music By Keith Tippett — reviewed by Mr Olivetti Ferg’s Imaginary Big Band – The New Atomic — reviewed by…

Interview with Abul Mogard Source: 15 questions. Abul Mogard's music defines relationships between the mind and imagined spaces. In them, everything is transient and very little is solid, sound travelling from distant shores to reach the ear as whispers at the threshold of audibility. There's…

RIP Abdullah Ibrahim South African pianist, composer, and bandleader Abdullah Ibrahim has died at 91, according to reports from The Guardian, Reuters, AP, and South Africa’s Mail & Guardian. Born Adolph Johannes Brand in Cape Town in 1934, he first became known as Dollar Brand and helped form the…

Acousmatic Crossings: The Sounds Had Other Ideas Source: Metapsychosis. The latest installment of Acousmatic Crossings on the Metapsychosis Journal features two remarkable works that could hardly be more different. Amanda Stuart's Oceana begins in an imagined Antarctic seascape built from…

All About Jazz Reviews A roundup of reviews published at All About Jazz over the last week. Quinsin Nachoff – Patterns from Nature (Whirlwind Recordings) — reviewed by Glenn Astarita, June 14, 2026 Krokofant – 6 (Is It Jazz?) — reviewed by Glenn Astarita, June 13, 2026 Alexander Hawkins – No…

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…

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 /…

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…

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: 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,…

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…

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…

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.

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…

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.

A roundup of reviews published at Freq over the last week. Mattias De Craene | Black Koyo – Mattias De Craene | Black Koyo — reviewed by Mr Olivetti Hilary Jeffery – Green Prism: Music By Keith Tippett — reviewed by Mr Olivetti Ferg’s Imaginary Big Band – The New Atomic — reviewed by Mr Olivetti Swallow – Blown — reviewed by Michael Rodham-Heaps Hytta Trio – Vindespel — reviewed by Mr Olivetti

Source: 15 questions. Abul Mogard's music defines relationships between the mind and imagined spaces. In them, everything is transient and very little is solid, sound travelling from distant shores to reach the ear as whispers at the threshold of audibility. There's almost nothing here – and yet, you can't turn away.

A roundup of reviews published at All About Jazz over the last week. Quinsin Nachoff – Patterns from Nature (Whirlwind Recordings) — reviewed by Glenn Astarita, June 14, 2026 Krokofant – 6 (Is It Jazz?) — reviewed by Glenn Astarita, June 13, 2026 Alexander Hawkins – No Nation but Imagination (Intakt Records) — reviewed by Kevin Poindexter, June 12, 2026…

Source: Metapsychosis. The latest installment of Acousmatic Crossings on the Metapsychosis Journal features two remarkable works that could hardly be more different. Amanda Stuart's Oceana begins in an imagined Antarctic seascape built from transformed recordings of Orca whales and Ross seal calls, carrying listeners through a world of continual emergence and change. Andreja Andric's Trashscape (II) starts with the sounds of refuse and machinery, only to reveal something far stranger hidden within the apparent chaos.

South African pianist, composer, and bandleader Abdullah Ibrahim has died at 91, according to reports from The Guardian, Reuters, AP, and South Africa’s Mail & Guardian. Born Adolph Johannes Brand in Cape Town in 1934, he first became known as Dollar Brand and helped form the Jazz Epistles, whose Jazz Epistle Verse One is widely cited as the first full-length jazz album by Black South African musicians.