Jean-Louis Matinier/Kevin Seddiki: Rivages
Jean-Louis Matinier | Kevin Seddiki
Space, texture and balance are three crucial components in the output of the duo formed by accordionist Jean-Louis Matinier and...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: June/2020
Black Flower: Abyssinia Afterlife
Filip Vanderbril | Jon Birdsong | Nathan Daems | Simon Segers | Wouter Haest
Snaky melodies on alto sax; a walking bassline with swing and swagger; crashing drums, quirky effects and horns, horns, horns…...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: May/2015
Han Bennink/Jaak Sooäär: Beach Party
This live meeting between seasoned Dutch jack-in-the-box drummer, Han Bennink, and the younger Estonian guitarist, Jaak Sooäär fairly sizzles with...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: August/2013
Perhaps Contraption: Mud Belief
A multitude of genres are carefully cross-stitched by these pseudonymous musicians, from New Orleans marching bands to Coventry ska ones,...
Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: August/2016
Dominique Pifarély Quartet: Tracé Provisoire
Antonin Rayon | Bruno Chevillon | Dominique Pifarély | François Merville
This album was recorded in the south of France last summer, but it would be misleading to say that it's...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: September/2016
Maria Grapsa Sextet: Life
With a solid grounding in such contemporary ensembles as Tomorrow’s Warriors Female Frontline, Colectiva and the Nu Civilisation Orchestra, and...
Reviewed by Peter Jones in issue: March/2024
Lonnie Liston-Smith: Visions Of A New World
This album, cut in the slipstream of the iconic Expansions has aged very well, consolidating any claim Smith might want...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: November/2015
David Birchall: Dusk
Conor Chaplin | James Copus | Jason Brown | Tom Cawley
These solo improvisations on nylon-string guitar find David Birchall in a decidedly mellow aspect. Nowhere to be found the cacophonous...
Reviewed by Spencer Grady in issue: August/2020
Art Lande/Jan Garbarek: Red Lanta
Greeted with faint praise in the Penguin Guide and Grove, and omitted completely in several other reference books, Lande is...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: November/2019
Andre Canniere Group: Forward Space
Andre Canniere | George Fogel | Hannes Riepler | Jon Scott | Ryan Trebilcock
Whirlwind Records is run by the bassist and promoter Michael Janisch, an American expat who knows how to make things...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2012
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