Nik Turner and Youth: Pharaohs from Outer Space
Killing Joke bassist and producer Youth's new label, Painted Word, directly homages ECM's austere design and preference for “experimental ambient...
Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: September/2018
Joe Farrell: Joe Farrell Quartet
Chick Corea | Dave Holland | Jack DeJohnette | Jack Dejohnette | Joe Farrell | John McLaughlin
Re-releases of rare bona fide jazz classics don’t come around too often, so when they do grab them. This album...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2013
Oceans of Silver and Blood: Acetate
Joachim Nordwall | Mark Wastell
The two shimmering yet visceral improvisations on this mini-album were originally released on Nordwall's own imprint back in 2014. Sadly,...
Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: October/2022
Frank Zappa/The Mothers of Invention: Freak Out
As a result of the Zappa Family Trust regaining control of their album catalogue from Rykodisc, and signing a new...
Reviewed by Jon Newey in issue: November/2012
David Lyttle: Faces
David Lyttle began his career as a child performer with the Lyttle Family. Now (just) in his 30s, he has...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: July/2015
The Underflow
David Grubbs | Mats Gustafsson | Rob Mazurek
Though recorded live in Athens, Greece – at the Underflow Record Shop And Art Gallery, thus gifting the project its...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: April/2020
John Graas & Art Pepper: Complete Small Group Sessions
It's said that the French horn is frequently used in orchestral music to both soothe or lift the spirits –...
Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: July/2017
Mary Stallings: Songs Were Made to Sing
A celebration of a lifetime in jazz (including stints with Cal Tjader, Billy Eckstine, Dizzy Gillespie and the Count Basie...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: September/2019
Rez Abbasi Trio: Continuous Beat
John Hebert | Rez Abbasi | Satoshi Takeishi
Abbasi is nothing if not fecund. This is his ninth album, but at least his third in rapid succession...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: March/2013
Matthew Goodheart & The Broken Ghost Consort: Presences
Georg Wissel | George Cremaschi | Matthew Goodheart | Matthias Muche | Melvyn Poore
You don’t need a degree in electro-acoustic sound engineering to appreciate what’s going on here, but it probably helps.Goodheart’s piece...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: October/2021
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