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Album Review

Mata Atlantica: Retiro e Ritmo

Read "Retiro e Ritmo" reviewed by Mark Sullivan

by Mark Sullivan
January 10, 2023

Retiro e Ritmo is a love letter to Mata Atlântica, the coastal rain forest of Brazil, and a call to help preserve and protect this beautiful habitat. The music supports that goal not by quoting or referencing Brazilian music directly, but by building a complex musical ecosystem that evokes it, obliquely creating a sense of place. The album is the brainchild of co-producer Mathias Derer, motivated by a 2017 Brazilian visit. Although he does not perform, he composed ...

Album Review

Mata Atlantica: Retiro e Ritmo

Read "Retiro e Ritmo" reviewed by John Ephland

by John Ephland
November 19, 2022

The coastal rainforest of Brazil, otherwise known as Mata Atlantica, and “its beauty and vivacity" are the inspiration for Retiro e Ritmo. It is an album frontloaded with a varied cast of characters from hither and yon. Maybe that casting is behind a project seeking to draw worldwide attention to the ongoing shit-storm that includes not only the Amazon but the whole planet. Retiro e Ritmo is deceptive, calling attention to a source of worldwide calamity all the ...

Interview

Gary Husband: The Gemini Dimension

by Mike Jacobs
August 23, 2022

Even if forced to count just one of the two musical associations he's most noted for--a 35-year long relationship playing with the late Allan Holdsworth, and a 15-year long (and counting) stint in John McLaughlin's 4th Dimension--Gary Husband would still easily make many people's musician watchlist. But with both to his credit, (each on a different instrument, no less), the drummer/keyboardist's resume taken as a whole reads like an embarrassingly rich litany of explorations that's hard to not marvel at. ...

Radio & Podcasts

Spandrel, Aurora Clara, Gilad Hekselman, The Trackers

by Len Davis
April 29, 2022

New releases from Spandrel with Phil Hirschi and Spencer Smith, Gilad Hekselman, and from Spain, Aurora Clara. Plus progressive rock from Animals as Leaders and more from The Trackers with Gary Husband. Playlist Spandrel “Habituation" from Spandrel (Self Produced) 00:00 Spandrel “Dark Energy" from Spandrel (Self Produced) 06:51 Gilad Hekselman “Fast Moving Century" from Far Star (Edition) 14:41 Stig Christensen-Tim Lefebvre “Heavy at Every Size" from Lo (SofaRevolution) 20:31 Animals As Leaders" Conflict Cartography" from Parrhesia (Sumerian) 27:20 ...

Radio & Podcasts

Gary Husband, John McLaughlin, Yang, Simon Phillips and Ben Matthews

by Len Davis
March 11, 2022

New releases from Gary Husband and Alf Terje Hana with The Trackers, John McLaughlin The Montreaux Years . Plus Yang with Designed For Disaster, LiveWyre from Ben Matthews and from There To Here. Playlist Gary Husband-Alf Terje Hana “Vaudeville" from The Trackers (Abstract Logix) 00:00 John McLaughlin “El Hombre Que Sabia" from The Montreaux Years (BMG) 07:18 Yang “Collision Course" from Designed For Disaster (Cuneiform) 14:37 Simon Phillips “The Long Road Home" from Protocol V (Phantom) 21:53 Greg ...

Album Review

John McLaughlin: Liberation Time

Read "Liberation Time" reviewed by Geno Thackara

by Geno Thackara
July 17, 2021

Perhaps the biggest success of Liberation Time is that its title feels sincere and not ironic. Such a sentiment could have easily come out as a cute bit of wishful thinking under the restrictions of pandemic life. Being who he is, though, John McLaughlin inevitably finds the value and positivity even in this strange state of affairs. “The wonderful thing about music is that you put the headphones on and you are all in the same room," he says in ...

Album Review

Gary Husband & Markus Reuter: Music Of Our Times

Read "Music Of Our Times" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
May 17, 2020

A tour of Japan was canceled. Some lag time ensued. So Leonardo Pavkovic—el jefe at MoonJune Records—set up some studio time for multi-instrumentalist (pianist here) Gary Husband and guitarist Markus Reuter. The result is Music Of Our Times. The set is spontaneously-composed. It is tranquil, moody and atmospheric. The first impression of the opening seconds of “Colour Of Sorrow," the opening tune, is that this was recorded in a cistern, a la Pauline Oliveros, or a cathedral. The ...