The number of recordings that combine electronics with acoustic instruments and sounds picked up in the field (whatever that field might be) is proliferating by the day. Yet, as it could be expected, it is always a hit and miss affair, often depending on the ability of the artists involved to make a musical combination that actually works in a manner that all those sounds involved create the result all involved are set to create and something that listeners can actually relate to.
The combination of Ben Seretan & John Thayer goes for such a concept on the duo’s joint offering Sunbeam of No Illusion in an attempt to reverse the concept described as “machine in the garden,” something attributed to American Transcendentalists, a 19th-century…
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BODY SOUND brings frequent collaborators 
1. Miles Davis – When Lights Are Low
When 
Joe Jackson has spent nearly half a century not staying in one place too long. Through highlights (1979’s new-wave-meets-bar-band debut, Look Sharp!) and lowlights (the 1997 classical concept LP Heaven & Hell), the British singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist has crossed genres as frequently and effortlessly as the contemporary he’s most often compared to, Elvis Costello.
The excellent quintet 
The basic elements of 
…On their earliest recordings, 
In the 1990s, during Japan’s second psychedelic revolution, three players with an insatiable appetite for epic aural freakouts were working overtime together in two simultaneous supergroup trios. When they weren’t busy with their regular bands, 
Despite the fact that it includes the track “Winter, Don’t Let Go,” For Those Who Stay is very much an album of spring. More specifically, it’s about the emergence into spring after a long winter, which has been chronicled month by month, track by track by 
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Heights Prospection, the debut album by Swiss saxophonist 
Michael Dease, widely admired as one of the world’s foremost jazz trombonists but rather less-known as an educator, dons his professorial garb on Spartan Strong, supervising a splendid session by a special corps of undergrads (and students in his trombone studio) who together comprise the MSU (Michigan State University) Jazz Trombones, 23 members in all when one counts Dease and the group’s half-dozen bass trombones.
Less than a year after her luscious solo debut, Pacífico Maravilla,