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Big ups to the bros in Yells at Eels and Dave Dove and his trio--including Jason Jackson on sax and Sonia Flores on jazz vocal--for bringing a joyful noise to the Fireside Gallery in Ft. Worth this past Sunday. Really hope shows like this become a regular occurrence in the art space, as it seems to have genuine potential for bringing together "avant-gardistas" throughout the DFWD area triangle for some truly interesting night flights in the coming weeks/months. This was my first time at the space, and the sights and sounds were warm and inviting to say the least. Also hope the above quintet (they played a super-combo-jam after the trio sets) comes together again some day soon.

I appreciate a good mythos around a band, especially when it's hard to tell how serious the group takes itself. A good example would be Telecult Powers. They explain themselves as being the house band for the Temple of Pei and they claim that they are opening spiritual gateways with their music. Throw in a handful of homemade synthesizers and you've got a recipe for a particularly flavorful head trip.

Analogue Africa is a German label that specializes in locating and legally licensing long lost gems from primarily West African artists. ?African Scream Contest? focuses on the 70?s music scene in Benin (officially the Republic of Benin) and Togo (the Togolese Republic). Both small French-speaking countries sandwiched between Nigeria and Ghana. The musical heritage of the area is rich and quite convoluted, due in part to the colonization/westernization of the area by the French. To the Western ear, the music on this disc can easily be referenced as a rock/funk/soul conglomeration, which has then been fused with a certain level of exoticism.

Foxy Digitalis readers will surely be familiar with the work of Canadian Tim Hecker. My first exposure was 2002?s ?My Love is Rotten to the Core?, his successful paean to Van Halen. After that I heard the following year?s excellent ?Radio Amor? on the influential Mille Plateaux label. Unfortunately, I got sidetracked and somehow missed out on hearing ?Harmony in Ultraviolet? (word is that it?s a keeper) and probably a few others too. That Hecker continues to make relevant records today and is still able to make such a splash in the listening community suggests that he?s one of the handful of recording artists active in the ambient and laptop worlds who rises above the fray. I suspect his name will be among those remembered as a leader in the field many years from now.

Australian artist Lawrence English's latest release is, as the title hints, a beautiful meditation on the season of autumn. This album represents an amazing mix of sounds, textures, and moods that is extremely varied in its execution, yet remains quite cohesive. The stated goal of "A Colour for Autumn" was to be "an invitation for the listener to consider their own localised transition of Autumn." Really, this seems like an apt way to describe the experience of the album's seven tracks. They're structurally compelling enough to remain thoroughly interesting, yet subtle enough to allow for listeners to find their own interpretations.