Recommendations

Beatriz Miranda on a classic and a contemporary charmer

Jon Dale with a clutch of solo Tom Verlaine albums

Them, Komeda Quintet, Love, Mulatu Astatke, The Andrzej Trzaskowski Quintet and Jackie McLean from Nate Patrin, Astigmatic is really something else

Jeff Treppel on Puffy AmiYumi, Blue Öyster Cult, Gatecreeper, Fields of the Nephilim, Acid Bath, Focus, and the album that’s soundtracked my last couple of days, this polka-metal masterpiece

Philip Freeman on Fushitsusha, Full Blast, Caspar Brötzmann Massaker, Einstürzende Neubauten, Nohome and Peter Brötzmann

Ensemble Pamplemousse, Yarn/Wire playing James Diaz, John Williams, Louise Farrenc, and Cara Stacey & Camilo Ángeles from Sean Wood

Guides

Harold Heath on the wizards behind the T.O.N.T.O. synthesizer setup that underpinned Stevie Wonder’s classic 70’s run of albums, Malcolm Cecil & Robert Margouleff

Miles Marshall Lewis on Afrofuturistic music

Blaxploitation soundtracks by Harold Heath — Trouble Man is a longtime favorite, but Sheba, Baby was a real discovery for me