I was going to call this week's list of unsung albums the post-holiday-chaos decompression edition, but then I looked over the selections and remembered that one human's Windham Hill is another human's Metal Machine Music. Either way, though, I hope you can breathe easy now.
JON BALKE & MAGNETIC NORTH ORCHESTRA
Diverted Travels
(ECM demi-classical new age jazz-fusion album)
MASKAJ BATOR
Collected Works 95-96
(Drag City Japanese psychedelic space-folk drone-rock reissue)
BLACK FOREST/BLACK SEA
Forcefields and Constellations
(Bluesanct semi-improvised dub-psychedelicized elevator trance-folk album)
DAHL/ANDERSON/HERAL
Moon Water
(Stunt import electronic-improvisation-embellished jazz album)
DIVINE MUSTACHE/EDDY ORINI
Musical Tribute to the Genius of Salvador Dali
(TCB import post-prog Dada-jazz album)
GOLD SPARKLE TRIO WITH KEN VANDERMARK
Brooklyn Cantos
(Squealer post-punk free jazz album)
O-TYPEWestern Classics
(Family Vineyard harmolodic ambient movie-score-covering metal-jazz album)
PHILADELPHY'S
Paint
(Extraplatte/Indies import free jazz album)
PRETZEL
Pretzel Jr
(jhaa351@yahoo.com avant-classical instrumental hip-hop CD-R)
REPLIKAS
Dadaruhi
(ADA Muzik Turkish psychedelic drone-rock album)
BALI: GAMELAN & KECAK
(Nonesuch Explorer '80s gamelan reissue compilation)
JAVA: THE JASMINE ISLE: GAMELAN MUSIC
(Nonesuch Explorer '60s gamelan reissue compilation)
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