Albums Selection

In recent years Bill Nace, no doubt best known for his stellar work as an experimental guitarist, has been steadily making the two-string taishōgoto his instrument of choice. That was partly the case on his last effort for the North Carolina label Three Lobed Recordings, an album titled 43/80 where Nace played astride his longtime collaborator Samara Lubelski as...

Despite her reflective nature and the restraint of her musical palette, a stirring and textured yet still relatively spare combination of piano and synths, the new album OTONOMA by Midori Hirano takes a good while to unwind, slowly unburdening itself along a series of walkways and brief detours before finding a sense of rest and repose and finally then...

The collaboration between Natsuki Tamura and Satoko Fujii is almost beyond parallel in the history of jazz as they have played in close proximity on what is approaching 150 records since the mid-nineties. While many of those collaborations have involved their respective orchestras or quartets and their shared band Gato Libre, even as a duo - from their debut...