Tag: Mabe Fratti

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When a celebrated figure tries their hand at a new field only to prove a resounding success, do we simply throw up our hands and toast the latest multi-hyphenate or do we wonder - perhaps with a stench or residue of bitterness if the thought is expressed aloud - whether they might in fact have missed their true calling? On...

'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...

After a fulsome embrace of jazz and roots music on her Blue Note debut The Omnichord Real Book - where she laid down her spear and traded sweet grooves with the likes of Joel Ross, Jeff Parker, Ambrose Akinmusire and Brandee Younger while the distinctive chimes of her harp-like instrument also stretched in the direction of seventies go-go and strung-out...