Devon Welsh – Come With Me If You Want To Live
Devon Welsh has been searching for a sound ever since the breakup of Majical Cloudz, and whether it was the tremulous saxophone loops and strings of Dream Songs, the tenuous sparsity of True Love or...
Ava Mendoza & Dave Sewelson – Of It But Not Is It
When the baritone saxophone specialist and former Downtown stalwart Dave Sewelson and the visceral guitar virtuoso Ava Mendoza first conceived the idea of a duo album, the expectation was that they’d veer...
M.A. Tiesenga – Heavy Earth
Originally from Chicago and now based in Los Angeles, the interdisciplinary artist Marta Tiesenga is something of a polymath, whose practise includes musical performance and composition, printmaking, pen and ink drawing and...
Tracks of the Week 09.03.24
Great Britain likes to think of itself as the country which ended slavery, what with Thomas Clarkson and William Wilberforce and all that. Yet a few years ago a BBC documentary pulled...
Dave Harrington, Max Jaffe and Patrick Shiroishi – Speak, Moment
Three of the most intrepid improvisers in the game – the drummer Max Jaffe of the refracted art rock band JOBS and the James Brandon Lewis power trio, the Darkside guitarist Dave...
Kahil El’Zabar’s Ethnic Heritage Ensemble – Open Me, A Higher Consciousness of Sound and Spirit
Ten months on from his rhythmic tour de force Spirit Gatherer: Tribute To Don Cherry, the visionary percussionist and veteran bandleader Kahil El’Zabar celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of his Ethnic Heritage Ensemble...
Moor Mother – The Great Bailout
Great Britain likes to think of itself as the country which ended slavery, what with Thomas Clarkson and William Wilberforce and all that. Yet a few years ago a BBC documentary pulled...
Tracks of the Week 02.03.24
The mood is often the first thing to come over on a Julia Holter song, a bristling and tenuous warmth or a soft-hued light which stays for a moment between glimmering, on...
Tracks of the Week 24.02.24
There’s a bit of the Lizard King about ‘Work Song For A Scattered Past’, the opening salvo from the latest Fire! album Testament, with its souped-up swagger and whiskey-soaked, careening strut redolent...