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David's lifetime average review-rating is 6.77
Fennesz / Daniell / Buck "Knoxville" Stellar live collaboration from three heavyweights... rated 9/10 (25 August, 2010)
Opponents "I Swarm With a Thousand Bees" A rather engaging listen... rated 7/10 (28 July, 2010)
Sparkling Wide Pressure "What Day It Is" Frank Baugh at his best... rated 9/10 (24 June, 2010)
Nate Wooley "Trumpet/Amplifier" Nice stuff... rated 7/10 (9 June, 2010)
Family Treasures / Hunted Creatures "split" Interesting but not mind-blowing... rated 6/10 (2 June, 2010)
Churchburners "Air Pudding" Errr... yeah... rated 3/10 (19 May, 2010)
Castanets "Texas Rose, The Thaw & The Beasts" Pretty middle of the road... rated 6/10 (21 April, 2010)
Ambarchi/Fennesz/Pimmon/Rehberg/Rowe "Afternoon Tea" Relevant and pretty damn essential... rated 8/10 (7 April, 2010)
Wet Hair "Glass Fountain" Solid follow-up to the excellent Dream... rated 7/10 (3 March, 2010)
Various Artists "OVER/BORED" Nothing mindblowing... rated 4/10 (17 February, 2010)
Mark Bradley "Absolution" Not his best... rated 5/10 (10 February, 2010)
Moth Electret "Tocasen" Some nice sounds here... rated 6/10 (10 February, 2010)
Uccello Project "Symmetria" Great art & packaging, mediocre music... rated 6/10 (10 February, 2010)
Erik Satie "42 Vexations (1893)" Quite wonderful... rated 8/10 (3 February, 2010)
Beat Circus "Boy From Black Mountain" Excellent album on Cuneiform... rated 8/10 (20 January, 2010)
latest features by David Perron....
Ernesto Diaz-Infante Since the mid-nineties, composer/guitarist Ernesto Diaz-Infante has been releasing some of the most boldly unclassifiable and uncompromising music that spans an unbelievably wide range of sounds... (8 September, 2010)
Donovan Quinn Donovan Quinn has already proven himself to be one of the more gifted folk-pop songsmiths of the past decade through his work with Verdure and The Skygreen Leopards... (18 August, 2010)
Mother of Fire Burn your guitars, Mother of Fire is on the move... (28 July, 2010)
Clang Sayne For their debut release, “Winterlands”, the London-based quartet Clang Sayne assembled a collection of unique songs that melded dreamy folk songcraft with an enlivened improvisational rock and jazz thrust. .. (24 June, 2010)
Moon Glyph The Moon Glyph label is quickly positioning itself amongst the leading lights of the burgeoning cassette underground... (16 June, 2010)
Yeti / Social Music Records & Tapes For almost ten years, issues of Yeti, a book-bound ‘zine, have been trickling out into the public and finding those with an interest in the cultural developments and histories from the margins – be it music, art, film, or literature... (2 June, 2010)
De Stijl Records For over a decade, the Minneapolis-based label De Stijl Records has been “dedicated to unearthing primo basement arcana”, re-issuing ultra-obscure LPs from the past alongside releases from current d.i.y./outsider artists, while unassumingly connecting the dots between various factions of the global underground... (28 April, 2010)
Father Murphy For the better part of the past decade, the Italian trio Father Murphy spent their time crafting a brand of whimsical, Syd Barrett-inspired psych pop that was somewhat comparable to the work of their Italian peers in Jennifer Gentle... (7 April, 2010)
Boring Machines Based in northern Italy, the Boring Machines label has quietly assembled an impressive catalog of releases in its four-year existence... (31 March, 2010)
Ghost to Falco Since 2001, Eric Crespo has been recording under the name Ghost to Falco with a rotating cast of contributors from Portland’s independent music community... (24 March, 2010)
el-g This past month, while laid up with that nasty flu bug, el-g’s recently re-issued “Tout Ploie” LP arrived in my mailbox from S-S Records and found its way to the turntable... (16 December, 2009)
Kraus An impulse purchase of several titles from the Foxglove (R.I.P.) catalog a few years back introduced me to the music of Kraus... (28 October, 2009)
Julian Lynch Julian Lynch recently caught my attention with his two contributions to the Underwater Peoples Summertime Showcase compilation... (16 September, 2009)
Amen Dunes Towards the tail end of 2006, needing a break from the rigors of living and playing music in New York City, Damon McMahon headed off to a remote cabin in the Catskill Mountains. .. (5 August, 2009)

latest blogposts by David Perron....
Soft Abuse on the radio Free Form Freakout, a weekly radio show on KMSU in Mankato, recently aired a one-hour feature on Soft Abuse Records... (31 January, 2010)
 
 
26 September, 2010
The New Foxy Digitalis Check out the new site.... feature :: by Brad Rose

8 September, 2010
Ernesto Diaz-Infante Since the mid-nineties, composer/guitarist Ernesto Diaz-Infante has been releasing some of the most boldly unclassifiable and uncompromising music that spans an unbelievably wide range of sounds... feature :: by David Perron

Horaflora Horaflora is San Francisco-based musician Raub Roy. .. feature :: by Mike Pursley

1 September, 2010
Bis auf’s Messer Berlin’s Bis auf’s Messer emporium has all bases covered. From two rooms in the Eastern borough of Friedrichshain, Robert and Stefan run a store and a mailorder operation, they organize gigs, and not one, but two labels... feature :: by Jan-Arne Sohns

Neon Marshmallow Fest Recap More so than perhaps any festival on the radar, the lineup itself was truly the draw of Chicago’s inaugural Neon Marshmallow Fest, the four-day cornucopia of experimental music of all stripes.... feature :: by Travis Bird
15 September, 2010
Lucky 13 Jani Hellén's 13,000,000th dream.. podcast :: by Jani Hellén

10 August, 2010
Early Women Composers A collection of tracks from some of the best female composers this century... podcast :: by Brad Rose

5 August, 2010
Hobo Cult #1 First set of tunes from the man behind Hobo Cult/Hobo Cubes... podcast :: by Frank Ouellette

15 July, 2010
LAFMS Podcast #1 A selection of tracks from the might Los Angeles Free Music Society.. podcast :: by Andrew Murdock Livingston

3 July, 2010
ALPHACAST A collection of songs from the mighty Colin Ward AKA Alphabets in celebration of the ALPHABOX release... podcast :: by Brad Rose
 
 
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