Jeff Penczak

Like many folks, I enjoy my volunteer work much more than my day job (information analyst and technical writer for online help systems). Hobbies include gigs as an internet DJ and writing reviews/interviews for Foxy Digitalis, the UK music journal Ptolemaic Terrascope and Terrascope Online (for which I had the pleasure of interviewing our illustrious editor-in-chief). John Peel is my hero and mentor, the man who taught me that anything in the Top 40 is probably not worth listening to.

latest reviews by Jeff Penczak....
Jeff's lifetime average review-rating is 7.35
Steve Cropper & Felix Cavaliere "Midnight Flyer" Short & sweet... rated 6/10 (28 July, 2010)
Vaus "The Floating Celebration" Good stuff... rated 7/10 (30 June, 2010)
Various Artists "Psych Bites Volume 2" Better than the previous volume... rated 6/10 (30 June, 2010)
Maple Mars "Galaxyland" Fourth album from this LA band... rated 8/10 (30 June, 2010)
Mathew Carefully "Community Balloon" Some good stuff here... rated 7/10 (24 June, 2010)
Harold Nono and Hidekazu Wakabayashi "Harold Nono / Hidekazu Wakabayashi" Dreamy... rated 7/10 (24 June, 2010)
Various Artists "Speaking In Code " Amy Grill's documentary on techno subculture... rated 8/10 (16 June, 2010)
Lisa o Piu "Behind The Bend" Quite lovely indeed... rated 7/10 (2 June, 2010)
Swamp Baby "All Fours" Righ the fuck on... rated 9/10 (2 June, 2010)
Trembling Bells "Abandoned Love" Sophomore effort on Honest Jon's is a winner... rated 8/10 (2 June, 2010)
The Third Eye "Awakening…" Solid reissue... rated 7/10 (7 April, 2010)
Captain Marryat Solid reissue... rated 7/10 (31 March, 2010)
Sarah June "In Black Robes" Quality release on the Silber label... rated 8/10 (31 March, 2010)
Carta "An Index of Birds " Killer new album on Silber... rated 9/10 (3 March, 2010)
Damin Eih, A.L.K. and Brother Clark "Never Mind" Real nice stuff... rated 8/10 (3 March, 2010)
latest features by Jeff Penczak....
Ananda Shankar Fallout concludes their impeccable reissue series of the rare albums from the late Ananda Shankar..... (14 November, 2007)
Silence Music Silence Music in Sweden has been documenting outsider folk and such from the land of Three Crowns for years. Their latest batch of reissues focuses on the music of Bo Anders Persson (Träd, Gräs och Stenar, International Harvester, etc)... (11 December, 2006)
Sunbeam Records Sunbeam Records is a new UK-based reissue label co-founded by Steven Carr and music journalist Richard Morton Jack. Tremendous music enthusiasts both, they are dedicated to scouring the nooks and crannies of the musical world to reincarnate screamingly rare, criminally underappreciated rock, folk, and psychedelic albums, along with exciting new releases that other labels have overlooked…until now!.. (2 July, 2006)
Strange Attractors Strange Attractors.. (1 July, 2006)
Folklore of the Moon Part 2 An extended look at the three latest volumes on Hand/Eye's impressive and sprawling Folklore of the Moon series of CD-Rs, dedicated to the old names of the full moons. These are some of the year's best... (31 October, 2005)
Delaney Parisienne singer Delaney is somewhat of an anomaly in the world of single-named musicians. Unlike Melanie, Madonna, Sade and others, she prefers to go by her surname. .. (24 October, 2005)
Folklore of the Moon Part 1 An extended look at the first four volumes (and two bonus CD-Rs) on Hand/Eye's impressive and sprawling new Folklore of the Moon series of CD-Rs, dedicated to the old names of the full moons... (18 July, 2005)
sublime frequencies According to their website, Seattle’s Sublime Frequencies “is a collective of explorers dedicated to acquiring and exposing obscure sights and sounds from modern and traditional urban and rural frontiers.. .. (12 June, 2005)
 
26 September, 2010
The New Foxy Digitalis Check out the new site.... feature :: by Brad Rose

8 September, 2010
Ernesto Diaz-Infante Since the mid-nineties, composer/guitarist Ernesto Diaz-Infante has been releasing some of the most boldly unclassifiable and uncompromising music that spans an unbelievably wide range of sounds... feature :: by David Perron

Horaflora Horaflora is San Francisco-based musician Raub Roy. .. feature :: by Mike Pursley

1 September, 2010
Bis auf’s Messer Berlin’s Bis auf’s Messer emporium has all bases covered. From two rooms in the Eastern borough of Friedrichshain, Robert and Stefan run a store and a mailorder operation, they organize gigs, and not one, but two labels... feature :: by Jan-Arne Sohns

Neon Marshmallow Fest Recap More so than perhaps any festival on the radar, the lineup itself was truly the draw of Chicago’s inaugural Neon Marshmallow Fest, the four-day cornucopia of experimental music of all stripes.... feature :: by Travis Bird
15 September, 2010
Lucky 13 Jani Hellén's 13,000,000th dream.. podcast :: by Jani Hellén

10 August, 2010
Early Women Composers A collection of tracks from some of the best female composers this century... podcast :: by Brad Rose

5 August, 2010
Hobo Cult #1 First set of tunes from the man behind Hobo Cult/Hobo Cubes... podcast :: by Frank Ouellette

15 July, 2010
LAFMS Podcast #1 A selection of tracks from the might Los Angeles Free Music Society.. podcast :: by Andrew Murdock Livingston

3 July, 2010
ALPHACAST A collection of songs from the mighty Colin Ward AKA Alphabets in celebration of the ALPHABOX release... podcast :: by Brad Rose
 
 
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