Tag: María Isabel

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Confinement whets the appetite for wide open spaces, for propulsive movement and the vicarious thrill of collaboration. On the album On Our Own Clock, musicians from the United Kingdom, South Africa, and Senegal find kindred spirits despite having their meetup plans skewered by the pandemic. Portico Quartet find their groove on the hang drum and saxophone, in an uptempo...

Fashioned from vocal motifs first uttered in the cool caves of Java, recorded fifty kilometres north of Warsaw in the Modlin Fortress at the confluence of two rivers, on Lamunan the experimental artist Antonina Nowacka pulls nymphic choral music out of the dank and echoing surrounds. From Ho Chi Minh City, the restless creativity of Rắn Cạp Đuôi comes...

On 'Fur & Feather', the Australian-born Brighton-based Penelope Trappes dwells in a soundscape of dream pop and dense forestry, drawing from Celtic mythology to find her center even in the act of shedding her own skin. The pianist James Francies pays tribute to his hometown of Houston on his second album for Blue Note. And Sharon Van Etten celebrates...