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Happy Rhodes: Ectotrophia
by Jakob Baekgaard
Music is a sanctuary from the world, but it is also a connection to the same world that one would like to escape. While ordinary language can fail in expressing feelings, music when it's best becomes an extension of breathing, a way of being. This urgency in musical communication is felt in singer and songwriter, Happy Rhodes. Followers of guitarist William Ackerman might know Rhodes from her appearance on his album Hearing Voices (Windham Hill, 2001), but ...
read moreVarious Artists: Technicolor Paradise: Rhum Rhapsodies & Other Exotic Delights
by Jakob Baekgaard
Close your eyes and dream for a moment. There are beaches and palm trees. Long drinks are served with parasols and consumed while relaxing in hammocks to the distant sound of bird calls and bongo drums. There is no stress and the only adventure is the kind you seek for yourself when you go out into the jungle like a version of Indiana Jones. Of course, this is all fiction. But the point is that music can ...
read moreLaraaji: Vision Songs Vol. 1
by Jakob Baekgaard
In 2017, the Luaka Bop label released WORLD SPIRITUALITY CLASSICS 1: THE ECSTATIC MUSIC OF ALICE COLTRANE TURIYASANGITANANDA and at the beginning of 2018, the time has come to unearth another cosmic classic: Laraaji's album Vision Songs Vol. 1. It was originally released in 1984, four years after his formal breakthrough with the album Day of Radiance that came out as a part of Brian Eno's ambient series, subtitled Ambient 3. Indeed, Laraaji could be considered a ...
read moreJackie Shane: Any Other Way
by Jakob Baekgaard
The Chicago-based reissue label, Numero Group, has done much to resurrect musical gems of the past, especially in their acclaimed Eccentric Soul Series that has uncovered music released by forgotten labels like Capsoul, Deep City and Prix. The latest entry in the catalog is a musical monograph of the unsung soul singer, Jackie Shane, who finally gets her due with the box set Any Other Way (2017) that collects a large part of her musical output. On the surface, it ...
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