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Stoner, Psychedelic Rock, All Kinds of Rock

Amalgamation of elements of jazz tradition (especially free jazz and jazz fusion of 60s-70s) with instrumentation/concepts of avant punk rock (especially dissonant strains, no wave, grindcore, hardcore). Examples: John Zorn, Bill Frisell, Fred Frith, James Chance & the Contortions, Lounge Lizards. Roots of punk: Velvet Underground, Stooges, MC5. Roots of avant/free jazz: Albert Ayler, Archie Shepp, Roscoe Mitchell, Sonny Sharrock.

lighting the way since 2007 power pop * punk * emo * indie rock * shoegazer

With Citizen Boris (JDub Records), Golem ventures into new territory; still multilingual, the songs are about love, death, vacuum cleaners, and U.S. citizenship tests.

Clinical Archives is independent netlabel for eclectic and illogical music. The basic directions : abstract, avant-garde, alternative, indie, intuition improvisation, free improv, jazz fusion, electronic jazz, free jazz, funk rocktronica, jam band, live electronic, experimental, manipulation, neoclassicism, illbient, ambient, musique concrète, noise, tape music, minimalism, acousmatic music, sound sculpture, sound collage, electroacoustic, acoustic; drone, new wave, field recordings, microsound, montage, psychedelic, folk; quasi-folk; prog-rock; post-punk; trip-hop, soundscapes, sound art, spoken word, strange and other forms ... "Clinical Archives is about expanding the definition of music" All those works are released for free under Creative Commons Licences.

Ronald Shannon Jackson Cecil Taylor Vernon Reid Melvin Gibbs Byard Lancaster Sonny Sharrock Peter Brotzmann Bill Laswell Aiyb Dieng James Blood Ulmer Albert Mangelsdorff Joseph Bowie Wadada Leo Smith Larry Ochs George Adams Bad Plus Django Bates Han Bennink Ed Blackwell Ed Thigpen? Ernest Dawkins Scott Fields Mike Garson Charles Gayle Globe Unity Orchestra Joe Harriott Roy Haynes TheoJorgensmann Jeanne Lee Joe McPhee Medeski, Martin, + Wood Misha Mengelberg Kenny Millions don Pullen Sam Rivers Alexander von Schlippenbach David S. Ware Matthew Shipp Susie Ibarra William Parker Bill Dixon Craig Taborn loft jazz scene Fred Anderson Fred Anderson's Velvet Lounge Ken Vandermark David Boykin Aaron Getsug Jeff Parker Kevin Drumm Nicole Mitchell Karl E.H. Seigfried Tim Berne Tim Berne's Bloodcount Borbetomagus Lounge Lizards James Chance James Blood Ulmer Sonny Sharrock Diamanda Galas Bill Laswell Bill Frisell punk jazz Evan Parker Archie Shepp M-Base Hermeto Pascoal Kaoru Abe Sergey Kuryokhin Derek Bailey Art Ensemble of Chicago Muhal Richard Abrams Anthony Braxton Roscoe Mitchell Hamid Drake Fred Van Hove Steve Lacy Lol Coxhill Vinko Globokar Ray Anderson Henry Kaiser Chris Speed Tom Abbs Assif Tsahar Matana Roberts Conny Bauer Vyacheslav Ganelin Vladimir Tarasov Masayuki Takayanagi Ivo Perelman Milford Graves

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