Tag: Jessica Ackerley

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'Where your attention is, that becomes lively' is just one of the quotes or aphorisms which David Lynch tends to fall back upon whenever he is asked to explain the nature of ideas or creativity or in his own inimitable helium-winged Midwestern way, the consuming happenstance of 'catching the big fish'. Lynch with his longtime collaborative partner Chrystabell are...

A chime introduces Jessica Ackerley's new album All Of the Colours Are Singing, like a sublimated elevator call or shop bell, and then a couple more sound out at a lower pitch through the rustling of what might be beaded curtains before in the manner of a morning mist or smoke rising from peat, the drone of a viola...

Allen Lowe's short bio says that the veteran saxophonist and guitarist 'spans the history of jazz in his music in a way that few have'. While sharing bebop idioms and offering an especially gritty take on the avant-garde, some of his earliest records incorporated not only roots music in the form of nascent jazz and blues but tango theatrics...