Albums Selection

Whatever The Weather – Whatever The Weather II

Loraine James exists on her own frequency, to such an extent that it can often take some time to properly attune oneself to her sounds, which might seem amiable or even vaguely familiar but carry more than a trace of something deeper and tend to reward many repeated listens, over the crackle and sweep of seasons as days and months...

Joe McPhee – I’m Just Say’n

Free jazz is having a spoken word moment. Whether it's the result of contemporary political strife, a hangover from the enforced quietude of the pandemic, age with its scrawled pages of accumulated wisdom or something else afoot or at play, it seems like improvisational jazz and some of its bastions or associates are turning with real vigour and trenchant...

MARANATA – Ugly Euphoria

Speeding up the corrosive process or through slippier textures dousing intrepid waifs and strays in a consuming 'Petrol Haze', on their new album Ugly Euphoria the longtime Maranata duo of Dag Stiberg on alto and baritone saxophones and Jon Wesseltoft on electronics are joined by the searing saxophonist Martín Escalante, whose incendiary trio recording Katyusha a couple of years...

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