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Matthew Halsall: An Ever Changing View
by Geno Thackara
Whatever view Matthew Halsall is sharing here, it is drawn from life and correspondingly picturesque--not just always changing, but always colorful and fascinating. This View comes partly from the sea-and-sky vistas he enjoyed while creating it, splitting time between England and Wales. Partly, it also comes from a couple of years collecting a trove of percussive ...
Penguin Cafe: Handfuls Of Night
by Mark Sullivan
Penguin Cafe continues in the tradition of the Penguin Cafe Orchestra, producing individualistic minimalist music using acoustic instruments. Previous album The Inconstant Sea (Erased Tapes Records Ltd, 2017) dabbled in dance music, with versions of Simian Mobile Disco and Kraftwerk tunes. This time the theme is the Antarctic: Greenpeace commissioned composer Arthur Jeffes to write four ...
California Guitar Trio + Montreal Guitar Trio: In a Landscape
by Geno Thackara
The musical territory of In a Landscape doesn't take very long to cover, yet somehow still feels vast. There's a lot of exploring behind everything these two trios do, which is only fitting in light of their globe-spanning origins, not to mention the collective miles they've racked up on the road over the decades. So it's ...
Trio S: Somewhere Glimmer
by Stefano Merighi
Un piccolo ma delizioso disco, questo, del Trio S ovvero Doug Wieselman, Jane Scarpantoni e Kenny Wollesen, sodalizio di downtown New York che ogni tanto si incontra per produrre musiche di serena dolcezza, a metà strada tra un folk dei ricordi e una quieta improvvisazione. Il trio ha messo a punto in particolare una ...