Entries from March 2013
Maurizio Minardi: The Cook, The Clown, The Monk And The Accordionist
It’s not the snappiest album title ever, but The Cook, The Clown, The Monk And The Accordionist, by the UK-based Italian musician Maurizio Minardi, is one snappy album. This is a standout recording, full of atmospheric music that combines immediately engaging hooks with sweeping narrative and emotional depth…
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·Jonathan Suazo: Extracts of a Desire
Albums by bassist m: Joan Torres ( Before, self-produced, 2012)) and guitarist m: Gabriel Vicens (Point in Time, self-produced, 2012) give every indication of a burgeoning jazz renaissance in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Marked by technical proficiency, these players have matter-of-factly eschewed New York and set about to build a scene in San Juan…
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·Under The Psycamore: I
One of the more satisfying and alluring progressive rock releases of 2012 is presented by the Swedish duo of Jonathan Greiff and Carl Blomqvist with cellist Tora Greiff Bergstrom. They must have been doing something right to garner the attention of album producer; revered Warr guitarist, composer and stylist Trey Gunn (King Crimson, Invisible Rays)…
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·Mummu: Mitt Ferieparadis
m: Mummu is a new Norwegian musical collective comprised from the female duo of low-frequency noise-musicians SKRAP and the male trio of punk improvisers m: Ich Bin N!ntendo . This outfit began to explore heavy amplified drone music and soon settled on chaotic and noisy improvisations, referencing diverse influences, beginning with Indian vocal master Pandit Pran Nath, the pioneer minimalist experiences of La Monte Young that drew inspiration from Pran Nath and the walls of repetitive, distorted sounds A la post-punk Swans…
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·kahden miehen galaksi: Um Jepa
Buying a CD is more of an act of commitment nowadays than ever. One may be motivated by acquisitional zeal or by dedication to an artist, and opening up the wrapper brings one a little closer to the creative source regardless of any future pleasure from its consumption. The cover in question is as surrealistically appealing as it is tantalizing, rather like the music on this first CD by the Finnish duo Kahden Miehen Galaksi/Two Man Galaxy. As the name implies, the artistic scope of two human minds is as endless as our concepts of space allow
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·Jeffrey Gimble: Beyond Up High
With the plethora of female vocalist producing new albums these days, it is indeed refreshing to hear a new male voice sure to make an impact in the jazz world, and that’s just what L.A. singer Jeffrey Gimble is certain to accomplish with his stunning debut Beyond Up High. An actor raised in the Texas blues country, Gimble’s love for jazz comes from his saxophone-playing dad and, while he initially turned to the theatre to pursue the arts, his love for jazz has now, ironically, steered him from his previous base in New York to the capital of the acting world to launch his singing career…
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·Chris Biscoe Profiles Quartet: Live At Campus West
British multi-instrumentalist Chris Biscoe began playing the alto saxophone in 1963, just one year before the death of m: Eric Dolphy . On Live At Campus West Biscoe and his Profiles Quartet pay tribute to Dolphy’s legacy with new arrangements of tunes associated with Dolphy as a composer and player, drawing on music from the American’s brief but stellar career and once again placing it firmly center-stage…
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