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A chime introduces Jessica Ackerley's new album All Of the Colours Are Singing, like a sublimated elevator call or shop bell, and then a couple more sound out at a lower pitch through the rustling of what might be beaded curtains before in the manner of a morning mist or smoke rising from peat, the drone of a viola...

Allen Lowe's short bio says that the veteran saxophonist and guitarist 'spans the history of jazz in his music in a way that few have'. While sharing bebop idioms and offering an especially gritty take on the avant-garde, some of his earliest records incorporated not only roots music in the form of nascent jazz and blues but tango theatrics...

On the opening song 'Stella Maris' from his debut long play, the artist and composer Allan Gilbert Balon offers a cloistered procession of organ and voice which feels both evocative and utterly self-contained. The music of the piece bears comparison with the sustained notes and partial tones of works for organ and carillon by Charlemagne Palestine, but where the...