Tag: Angel Bat Dawid

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For roughly half of the year I listened to everything, almost or near enough. Then I wilted, or the opposite of that, for come the summer I perked up in my stool and began to listen to summer ambiances like the chirping of birds, the splashing of hose pipes and water pistols or the sizzling of a barbecue. As...

The opening track from Angel Bat Dawid and Naima Nefertari's big double album Journey to Nabta Playa finds the two musicians amid a sandstorm whose whorling winds are accompanied by their own impish aerophones and the scattered patter of rattling cans and clinking chimes. Grainy and buffeted on 'Neptune Desert Sounds', those chimes feel more hallowed and personal on...

The saxophonist Jorga Mesfin grew up in a house full of jazz records, immersed in the melodies of Duke Ellington, John Coltrane and the organist Jimmy Smith, the dolorous vocalist and krar player Kassa Tessema who was the focus of one of those Éthiopiques volumes which recuperated the efforts of Amha Records and Kaifa Records during the golden age...