Albums

For more than three decades the saxophonist and bass clarinetist Andrew D'Angelo has been testing the boundaries or teasing the horizons of contemporary music. After moving to Boston he joined the big bands Orange Then Blue and the Either/Orchestra some of whose members proved lasting collaborators as D'Angelo continued to perform regularly alongside Cuong Vu, Matt Wilson and Jamie...

Ken Pomeroy took her sweet time following up her 2021 debut Christmas Lights in April. Raised in the tornado-stricken city of Moore in central Oklahoma, the Cherokee artist hustled to finish the tracks 'Pareidolia' and 'Cicadas' after sending in the raw demos to Sterlin Harjo, who used the songs in 'Elora's Dad' the penultimate episode of Reservation Dogs which...

In February of 1800 the great Prussian explorer Alexander von Humboldt headed inland from the coast of present day Venezuela with his travelling companion, the French botanist Aimé Bonpland. Their quest was to explore the course of the Orinoco River and its tributaries and to solve the long-rumoured question of a connection between the Orinoco and the Amazon. In fact...