Tag: Immanuel Wilkins

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In the best way the borders feel ever more porous when it comes to contemporary jazz. Beyond the infusion of Latin American and West African rhythms or European chamber music into martial airs, piano rags and hard blues grooves - aspects of jazz which are scarcely modes but for many decades now constitutional parts of the form - it...

Already this year Mary Halvorson has starred alongside Sylvie Courvoisier for the spellbinding and spine tingling Bone Bells where she trifled whimsically with flamenco strums and dove headlong into grungy riffs round and about her familiar circuitous matter while Courvoisier on her piano rose steeply or dashed off runaway keys. Widely experimental, meditative and even moving amid all of...

From 'Old Shep' and 'Old King' to 'Cracker Jack' and Campfire Songs with its crackling ode to an aeriform doggy, the small corpus of music about losing a pet has tended to focus on old Caninae, yet the Heligoland vocalist and experimental musician Karen Vogt bears a more feline persuasion. For the second release on Penelope Trappes' new Nite...