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Joachim Kühn has spent more than six decades pursuing musical freedom, but the freedom in his playing has always been founded on discipline.

Born in Leipzig in 1944, he gave his first piano concert at six and grew up hearing jazz through his older brother, the clarinettist Rolf Kühn. After seeing the Chet Baker Quintet in West Berlin at eleven, he decided that music would be...

For most of their existence, the Japanese band Les Rallizes Dénudés left remarkably little official evidence behind them.

Their music circulated through copied tapes, bootlegs and incomplete live recordings, while Takashi Mizutani rarely gave interviews or explained the group’s work. As international interest grew, fact and speculation became increasingly difficult to separa...

Embark on a journey through the kaleidoscopic landscapes of sound, guided by the rhythms of the past and present, with The Night Tripper’s podcast.

Chat Pile- Deep Blue
Firefriend- Acid Rain High-Speed Clouds
Paint Thinner- Hidden Key
Birdstriking- I Hate Rock’n’Roll
Hey Colossus- How To Tell Time With Jesus
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Sister Double Happiness formed in San Francisco in the second half of the 1980s. Gary Floyd and Lynn Perko-Truell had previously played together in the Dicks, while guitarist Ben Cohen had been part of the Pop-O-Pies circle. With bassist Mikey Donaldson, they quickly found a sound that mixed blues, soul, rock and punk.

As Cohen says in the following interview, “It’s just wha...

In a four year span between May 1968 and April 1972 San Francisco psychedelic rock band Quicksilver Messenger Service released seven albums on Capitol Records.

Cherry Red Records, UK has compiled all seven albums complemented by live tracks, single sides and demo recordings in a new seven disc box set issued on the Esoteric Recordings imprint.

Discs one through three...