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Review: 75 Dollar Bill is Rick Brown's experimental foray into jam-based material, where a stripped back sound allows the nuance of the respective players to come through in stark honesty. Originally released in 2020 as a digital offering, Power Failures is a compilation of sorts which pulls together assorted material from disparate sessions, sometimes left raw and sometimes embellished with surprising overdubs. The over-arching sentiment is one of transcendence through meditative repetition, locking into grooves which sometimes take cues from Malian desert blues or elsewhere slip into disjointed free improvisation, reliably brilliant whichever direction their nebulous sessions head in.

Review: .Schneider TM is the multidimensional music project of Dirk Dresselhaus, and over recent years has been increasingly focused on freeform electronic compositions, conceived and constructed in the moment. This improvisation technique is hard to hear, with the producer seemingly capable of crafting these dense soundscapes that feel painstakingly constructed over time and space. Ereignishorizont, or Event Horizon is the latest case in point. Informed by science fiction, ideas around the unknown, dark matter, black holes and such phenomena at the very limits of human understanding, at times it feels like we've stepped through the portal and wound up on the other side of the dimensional scales. Performed using electroacoustic guitars - some of which he made himself - and effects fed into tube amps, taking a lead from modular synthesis, it's powerful, intriguing and, at times, oddly playful.