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Review: After Dinner is like one of those molecular gastronomy adventures, where dishes are both playful and highly complex, not necessarily revealing themselves until the very end. Done with talk of food? Let's just say this is a loose art collective led by a composer called Haco, who were concerned with taking musical plurality and splicing disparate elements together to create a kind of friendly Frankenstein's monster of sound.

And friendly it definitely is. Considered a true one-off of Japanese pop-art rock-avant garde, Paradise of Replica is jaunty, it's amusing, it's beguiling and, ultimately, incredibly immersive. There are moments where the clash of pianos plucked straight from a comedy of manners opera and rough electric guitars (to give one example of the juxtapositions) feel rather strange, but it doesn't take too long for you to get sucked right into the centre of this insane sonic universe.

Review: Joshua Abrams' Natural Information Society project has never been an easy thing to pin down. While rooted in jazz - both classical and contemporary - the ever-changing collective's output also heavily draws on what he calls "traditional musics" from around the World (and the instruments used to make it), psychedelia and more than a dash of far-sighted spiritualism. Since Time Is Gravity, Abrams' latest aural statement, continues this mixed-up, musically intoxicating approach, flitting between droning jazz ragas ('Immemorial'), bluesy folk-jazz ('Wane' and 'Wax'), densely layered psychedelic jazz ('Is'), dancefloor-ready, percussion-rich spiritual jazz ('Moontide'), and slow-motion Afro-jazz ('Gravity').

Review: Seikatsu K?jy? Iinkai's self titled long player documents the unique moment when the thriving NYC free jazz scene met the equally fertile Japanese free music scene. It was an exciting time in the 70s when a second wave of talented players began to emerge after the red hot 60s sound and brought plenty of fresh thinking to the traditional template. There are just three pieces on this record but they convey the magic of the outfit with the full-range of the keyboard, hitting hard bass keys and dancing rhythms. This reissued version of the record comes with linear notes and rare photographs from actor Alan Cummings.