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Paula Rae Gibson/Sam Leak: Permission
by Chris Mosey
Paula Rae Gibson is a London-based artist who expresses the emotional pain she feels through poetry, photography and--in this collaboration with pianist Sam Leak--music. Music? Well, there's rhythm of sorts and plenty of heavy, dark chords to underpin a multitude of heavy, dark words. Gibson's grainy, distorted sepia photos on the cover appear to show someone in the throes of either a nervous breakdown or an extremely dire hangover. Or both at the same time. Her songs ...
read moreJohn Law: Goldberg
by Jakob Baekgaard
J.S. Bach's The Goldberg Variations is one of the most famous works in the literature of the piano and an endless source of inspiration for pianist around the world -and not only classical pianists. Bach's music simply transcends genres and his ability to develop and sculpt variations on a theme remain unsurpassed. It is no coincidence that the legendary saxophonist Coleman Hawkins, himself a master in the art of thematic variation, deeply admired Bach. In the informative ...
read moreJohn Law's New Congregation: These Skies In Which We Rust
by Jakob Baekgaard
One of the things that is characteristic about British pianist John Law is that he does not stand still. He keeps on studying music and constantly adds new sounds and expressions to his vocabulary. So far, his career has included many highlights, among them, a series of solo piano albums influenced by plainchant and his tetralogy The Art of Sound Vol. 1-4 (33 Records, 2007-2009). The double-CD These Skies In Which We Rust is ...
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