GETATCHEW MEKURIA - "And His Saxophone" LP If there’s been a downside

If there’s been a downside to this otherwise excellent reissue series

THE WEB:Steve Good - clarinet

“Making Appts” takes those sideways electronics steps that Parquet Courts occasionally indulges in and teaches it the proper dance protocols

Robb and Fairbrother return to the work-shed where they left off on 2013's well-received "Rock 'N' Roll Rorschach

hunting them down is akin to finding an application to an avant ballet on the rings of Saturn”

GETATCHEW MEKURIA - "And His Saxophone" LP If there’s been a downsideGetatchew Mekuria And His Saxophone LP (Heavenly Sweetness, 2021) Recent repress of idiosyncratic early '70s afro jazz fire from Ethiopian saxophonist (and later The Ex collaborator!) Getatchew Mekurya. Fantastic stuff "Effortlessly, non intentional avant garde, not as it comes out of Gtatchw Mkuryas sax and his band, but as soon as the sound hits the western music laden ear, it rings as an almost imperceptible coup of spontaneous intertextuality."