In the year of 2023 artists from Tyla, Bad Bunny and NewJeans to Vagabon, Tems and Sofia Kourtesis continued to redefine the borders of contemporary pop, while Cassandra Miller covered Beethoven’s ‘Heiliger...
It’s an old saw by this point to suggest that while the livelihood of the average working musician has never been more perilous, the curious listener has at the same time never...
Described as ‘a suite of sensual ambient jazz collages, designed to take the listener on a roadtrip through the subconscious’, for her debut release on Awe the composer and producer Laurel Halo...
In the fall of 2020 in the backyard of Chicali Outpost in Los Angeles, the drummer Daniel Villarreal was joined by the guitarist Jeff Parker and bassist Anna Butterss for the first...
‘The cock crows / But no queen rises’ begins ‘Depression Before Spring’ by the elliptical modernist Wallace Stevens, a silvery wisp of a poem full of bird call and nonsense syllables from...
With wry wit and a handful of orbiting factoids Ishmael Reed wonders what on earth we’d do without the moon, that star which spices up our sky, in the company of flautist...
With oblique references to ‘The Anchor Song’ and ‘Hyperballad’ plus the Georges Bataille favourite Story of the Eye, this week through the fanfare of retreating horns and a subterranean bass squelch Björk...
Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders, and the London Symphony Orchestra – Promises The generation-spanning album by the electronic producer Sam Shepherd, the legendary saxophonist Pharoah Sanders, and the London Symphony Orchestra carries a...
Confinement whets the appetite for wide open spaces, for propulsive movement and the vicarious thrill of collaboration. On the album On Our Own Clock, musicians from the United Kingdom, South Africa, and...