EQUIPMENT POINTED ANKH - "Downtown!" LPEquipment Pointed Ankh Downtown! LP (Torn Light, 2023) "Welcome to the eternal now of Equipment Pointed Ankh, whose instrumental, electronics squishing avant rock future jazz will baffle and delight your earholes for years to come. Set your cruise controls in the direction of a fun, beer chugging midwestern American version of the tightly buttoned Euro adventurousness found on that sparkly Recommended Records 2xlp comp. Equipment Pointed Ankh are from

Spider Bags - A Celebration of Hunger (Sophomore Lounge

not being fixed on an end goa

played in live clubs between Oregon

Graham Lambkin (b

Their live show exemplifies the band’s radically communal approach

in a country where orchestral traditions doesn't exist

) vocal insanity from David Tholfsen of the criminally unheralded SF downer-country trio U

death rock

collecting posters and T-shirts and conducting extensive interviews

and wander

Milford Graves-esque wall of thunder

still the most amazing slice of OTT freak to come out of the Netherlands in the late 1960s: a project masterminded by four far-out poets -- Simon Vinkenoog