Tag: Tujiko Noriko

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It's an old saw by this point to suggest that while the livelihood of the average working musician has never been more perilous, the curious listener has at the same time never before had access to such an abundance of quality music, from nagging earworms to the experimental margins and everything in between. In a year that saw bubbling...

Capping a long association with Peter Rehberg and Editions Mego, which stretches all the way back to the release of her melodic breakthrough Shojo Toshi in 2001, this week Tujiko Noriko labours in crepuscule over a series of silvery synth fantasies which manifest her shift into the cinematic form, evoking everything from the Eduard Artemyev score to Tarkovsky's furtive...

Overlooked at the time, following a handful of sessions on Blue Note which marked his debut as a leader, between 1952 and 1954 the pianist Thelonious Monk cut a series of records for Prestige, some of the earliest and greatest of which were collected under the title Thelonious Monk Trio. Intense, improvisational, and virtuosic as Monk played accompanied by...