Results for "LoveMonk Records"

Blue To Red

By Chip Wickham

Label: LoveMonk Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Blue To Red; Route One; Interstellar; The Cosmos; Double Cross; Mighty Yusef.

Chip Wickham: Blue To Red

by Bruce Lindsay
April 29, 2020

It's not always easy to feel uplifted and optimistic these days, when reasons to be downhearted seem to overwhelm the reasons to be cheerful. When an album's title refers to a planet's descent from life-giving blue to the deadness of red (Mars, in this context, but British flautist Chris Wickham fears that Earth may be heading ...

Chip Wickham: Blue To Red

by Chris May
April 20, 2020

The marketing thrust accompanying Chip Wickham's third album emphasises an affinity between the disc and the late 1960s / early 1970s work of Yusef Lateef and Alice Coltrane. Certainly, Blue To Red ticks two boxes: Wickham puts aside his saxophone to play only flute and alto flute, whose seraphic tones were favoured by Lateef and Coltrane; ...

Shamal Wind

By Chip Wickham

Label: LoveMonk Records
Released: 2018
Track listing: Shamal Wind; Snake Eyes; Soho Strut; The Mirage; Barrio 71; Rebel No. 23.

Chip Wickham: Shamal Wind

by Chris May
June 1, 2018

British flautist and saxophonist Chip Wickham is a graduate of the fertile 1990s modal-jazz scene in the northern city of Manchester. It has produced some stellar talents, amongst whom saxophonist Nat Birchall and trumpeter Matthew Halsall shine most prominently. But while Birchall and Halsall, who guests on one track on Shamal Wind, have each notched up ...

La Sombra

By Chip Wickham

Label: LoveMonk Records
Released: 2017
Track listing: La Sombra; Sling Shot; Red Planet; The Detour; Pushed Too Far; Tokyo Slow-Mo; La Leyenda Del Tiempo.

Chip Wickham: La Sombra

by Bruce Lindsay
January 10, 2017

Twenty-five years into his career as a professional musician, saxophonist and flautist Chip Wickham has released his solo debut. La Sombra, recorded in Madrid with three excellent musicians from that city's jazz scene, is gorgeous. Wickham hails from Manchester, in north-west England. The area is home to some distinctive musicians, most notably trumpeter Matthew ...

Gone Down South

Label: LoveMonk Records
Released: 2011
Track listing: Truly; Cuanta Suerte; So Sweet; Tea Time; Amame, Mimame; You Can't Own Me; Mbira Bira; Holly Hollywood; Let's Say Tonight; The Love Monk; When I Work Up; Gone Down South.

Gecko Turner: Gone Down South

by Chris M. Slawecki
March 31, 2011

Gecko Turner is a globe-trotting Spanish musician and singer with a particular sweet spot for all the different aspects of American R&B and soul. While composing, arranging, and performing (on guitar, keyboards, percussion and more), Turner demonstrates a light and natural touch for mixing different soul and R&B styles--mostly from the US, but some from Latin ...