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Julian Lage – Scenes from Above

Albums
A chugging backbeat and twinkling keys herald 'Opal' and its shifting patchwork of colours, at once common and precious, an interplay of stunning rainbow iridescences with a more muted or earthy palette of sweet honeyed reds and yellows or Tiffany blues and milky greens. The song leads out Scenes from Above, the guitarist Julian Lage's fifth outing on Blue...

The Other Tracks of the Week 08.06.24

The Other Tracks of the Week
Playing a French double manual harpsichord at the head of an ensemble, like gummy sap Léo Dupleix shapes pure intervals into sweet melodic patterns and shimmering harmonic planes. The clarinetist Harry Skoler assembles a winning rhythm section with Joel Ross on vibes, Dezron Douglas on bass and Johnathan Blake on drums as Red Brick Hill revisits childhood haunts and...

Tracks of the Week 09.03.24

Tracks of the Week
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 back the drapes, revealing the names and circumstances of the 46,000 slave owners who received compensation when the Slavery Abolition Act was finally passed after decades of...