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Review: Captured on this record is the first ever performance from Organic Music Theatre, which was a collaboration between American trumpet player and free jazz pioneer Don Cherry and Swedish visual artist and designer Moki Cherry. It was performed at the 1972 Festival de jazz de Chateauvallon in the south of France and has been remastered from the organ tapes used during the live TV Broadcast. It marked the start of Don become a mystic figure and shining his legacy as a jazz great and is filled with spiritual jazz sounds, organic percussion, and because it was performed in an outdoor amphitheatre, the sounds of dozens of adults and children are also on the recording.

Review: Shadow Ring frontman Graham Lambkin recorded most of the music on Aphorisms during the start of the winter time back in 2022. He did so across locations in post-pandemic New York and post-Brexit London and in doing so captures the sound of daily life and reworking it into haunting and intimate soundscapes. It is his first real album in some seven-odd years and serves as an extended "transatlantic meditation" that focuses on processing that move back to the UK after almost 20 years living stateside. It's fragile and hypnotic and beautiful and another great work from this modern maestro.

Review: Shadow Ring were an enigmatic force throughout the decade of their existence. They operated on the international musical underground and had a shambolic post-rock sound that reflect the rag-bag group of rowdy teenagers who made it. The self-released pre-Shadow Ring tape The Cat & Bells Club came in 1992 and is getting its first ever vinyl pressing, as is the group's sophomore record Put the Music In Its Coffin. It is a more dark and sinister album that collides low-fidelity rock, noise, gauzy guitars and plenty of grit and sleaze. It has a dark and unsettling ambiance throughout and remains a truly unique record.