PARASITE JAZZ - "S/T" LPParasite Jazz Parasite Jazz LP (Disques de la Spirale, 2023) "French non jazz trio overflowed by Simple Music Experiences funders Tamara Goukassova, Tho Delaunay & Alexandre Larcier, offering a 40mn of non simple music madness, and navigating between a dozen of etiquettes from undecided space rock to motorik infused dub, medieval folk, cartoon trance; everything under the seal of psychedelia and half improvisation. Built from drums, violin, springs,

Lone studio album from the ashes of 812 Faculty (now Soulja'z -- a trio comprised of Short Capone

They naturally gravitated towards extended dubs of songs -- full of strange mistakes and echoing backing tracks -- instead of the better-known vocal versions

As with his other LPs and projects

no one ever actually wins

but it's touching similar hauntological territory in its evocation of the ghosts of its protagonist's life

"Taking in sultry synth-pop gemz

around that same time

faithfully reissued in its entirety for the first time as part of slow to speak’s ‘CORE’ series

Siren could have been easily labeled as the British answer to Canned Heat

and out of the halls of education

and Peabody brought it to life using real feathers and chicken bones

a repeating and evolving synth line and drum machine combo holding things together while modulating synths and a pitched-vocal sample come in and out of the mix