Entries from July 2014
sPacemoNkey: sPacemoNkey: The Karman Line
According to Wikipedia, the KA rmA n Line …”lies at an altitude of 100 kilometres (62A mi) above the Earth’s sea level, and commonly represents the boundary between the Earth’s atmosphere and outer space.” It’s as good a name as any for the debut album from sPacemoNkey, a collaboration by two of N…
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Pharoah and The Underground: Spiral Mercury
With Pharaoh and the Underground we have two generations of musicians whose common bond is their greatness. Tenor saxophonist m: Pharoah Sanders –heir to his friend and colleague m: John Coltrane –and m: Rob Mazurek , the most inventive cornetist since {{m: Louis Armstr…
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Yosvany Terry: Yosvany Terry: New Throned King
m: Yosvany Terry is part of the new wave of young Cuban players who have come to these shores during the last decade and established a solid presence based on their artistry and virtuosity. What has distinguished Terry from his counterparts, however, is that while most of the Cubans are…
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Roger Davidson: Temple Of The Soul: Rhapsodies and Meditations For Solo Piano
Pianist Roger Davidson isn’t a fan of repeating himself. With each album he’s shined a light on a different facet of his artistry, marrying a classicist’s outlook and touch with a fascination for anything and everything musical. He’s looked at the sounds of Brazil from different perches, explored th…
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Tamara Obrovac: Ulika Revival
In 1998 singer and songwriter Tamara Obrovac, from Istria in Croatia, released Ulika (CBS), an album dedicated to her grandmother. Ulika Revival revisits a dozen songs from that album, presenting new renditions informed by the 15 or 16 years that lie between the two releases. The revival is a great…
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Karen Mantler: Business is Bad
It’s been nearly two decades since Karen Mantler last released an album under her own name on the XtraWATT label belonging to her similarly coifed mother, pianist/composer m: Carla Bley , but she’s been anything but idle. Work on Bley albums like Appearing Nightly (Watt, 2008), recordings…
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Otomo Yoshihide and Paal Nilssen-Love: Otomo Yoshihide and Paal Nilssen-Love
The musical bond between Japanese guitarist and sound sculptor m: Otomo Yoshihide and Norwegian powerhouse drummer m: Paal Nilssen-Love was solidified through previous successful collaborations. First with Nilssen-Love Scandinavian power trio m: The Thing ‘s Shinju…
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