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...
Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou – Souvenirs
The piano style of Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou – a classically-trained violinist in her youth who became a nun at the age of twenty-one and spent the next decade living within a hilltop...
Fire! – Testament
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...
Tracks of the Week 17.02.24
For the follow-up to her Grammy-nominated debut album Fanm d’Ayiti, a celebration of the unheralded female singers of Haiti which was recited and performed in collaboration with Spektral Quartet, the Haitian American...
Nathalie Joachim – Ki moun ou ye
For the follow-up to her Grammy-nominated debut album Fanm d’Ayiti, a celebration of the unheralded female singers of Haiti which was recited and performed in collaboration with Spektral Quartet, the Haitian American vocalist...