Jazz Articles
Our daily articles are carefully curated by the All About Jazz staff. You can find more articles by searching our website, see what's trending on our popular articles page or read articles ahead of their published dates on our Coming Soon page. Read our daily album reviews.
Sign in to customize your My Articles page —or— Filter Article Results
Diatonis (Diatonis/ MP3.com: The Convolving Universe
by John W. Patterson
If you enjoy spectrally ambient choirs and echoes of things unseen calling like Sirens, beckoning, breathing invocations of unknown delights and distant realities – then by all means sample this release!It is ten tracks of looped, processed, mixed, twisted, multiplied and layered experiences of sonic deepness. Sometimes dark and mysterious — then light-filled infusions of grace and light, Diatonis never fails to deeply satisfy that curious void that serious ambient space fans can never seem to fill.
Continue ReadingStephanie Sante (Sant: Immaculate Conceptions
by AAJ Staff
To see an artist’s progress and growth from one release to the next can be a truly inspiring event. Such is the case with Stephanie Sante’s 2001 Immaculate Conceptions release as compared to her earlier notable release. Sante’s newest creation is light years, infinite spaces, and billions of parsecs ahead of anything I have previously heard by her. The awesome sound-visions she has sculpted have propelled her, (in light of my well-trodden listening paths), upward to the hallowed ranks of ...
Continue ReadingDiatonis (Diatonis/ MP3.com: Landscape of a Dream
by John W. Patterson
Music reviewing, I confess, can be pure tedium – pop in the CD, open the liner notes, look at the press kit blurbage . . . yada, yada. You wait for the first track to cue up and you think to yourself, countless many times, “Here we go again,” and you let the music speak as you have before – but fortunately, you sometimes encounter “wonder and beauty” afresh. Such is Diatonis’ Landscape of a Dream.I found 110% ...
Continue ReadingDiatonis (Diatonis/ MP3.com: Landscape of a Dream
by John W. Patterson
Music reviewing, I confess, can be pure tedium – pop in the CD, open the liner notes, look at the press kit blurbage . . . yada, yada. You wait for the first track to cue up and you think to yourself, countless many times, “Here we go again,” and you let the music speak as you have before – but fortunately, you sometimes encounter “wonder and beauty” afresh. Such is Diatonis’ Landscape of a Dream.I found 110% ...
Continue ReadingStephanie Sante (Sant: Immaculate Conceptions
by AAJ Staff
To see an artist’s progress and growth from one release to the next can be a truly inspiring event. Such is the case with Stephanie Sante’s 2001 Immaculate Conceptions release as compared to her earlier notable release. Sante’s newest creation is light years, infinite spaces, and billions of parsecs ahead of anything I have previously heard by her. The awesome sound-visions she has sculpted have propelled her, (in light of my well-trodden listening paths), upward to the hallowed ranks of ...
Continue Reading
