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Tracks of the Week 04.05.24

Tracks of the Week
From Paul Robeson, Otis Redding, Joni Mitchell and Simon & Garfunkel to Tyla, TLC and Boyz II Men there is hardly a shortage of songs which evoke water, literal or figurative, from still pools and rolling rivers to gushing precipices, from contemplative docks to collapsible bridges and from vaporous mists to the muggiest sweats. The parlance of jazz with...

Goran Kajfeš Tropiques – Tell Us

Albums
Making waves around the We Jazz offices and Digelius record store in Helsinki ever since the release of the album opener 'Unity In Diversity' back in February, the Swedish quartet behind Goran Kajfeš Tropiques excel in their own idiosyncratic form of hypno-jazz which might summon equally the cascading spiritual glissandos of Alice Coltrane, the saxophone squalls of Pharoah Sanders,...

Tracks of the Week 24.02.24

Tracks of the Week
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 of everything from the 'Alabama Song' and 'Back Door Man' to 'Wild Child', the 'Roadhouse Blues' and 'Been Down So Long' which serves as a loaded riposte...