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Sue Rynhart: Say Pluto
by Ian Patterson
Traditionalist or avant-garde provocateur? Singer or poet? Dubliner Sue Rynhart is all these things and more, and therein lies her appeal. Her debut, Crossings (Songs For Voice And Double Bass) (Self Produced, 2015), an alluring duo recording with Dan Bodwell, earned Rynhart broad critical acclaim for its hybrid folk, indie pop, spoken word and jazz/improvised spirit. Signals (Mrsuesue Records, 2017) added new textures to similar ingredients, with mbira, recorders, zither and Francesco Turrisi's lute and frame drum ornamenting Rynhart's strikingly ...
Continue ReadingHuw Warren: Choro Choro Choro
by Chris May
The Welsh pianist Huw Warren is not a household name--though he ought to be--so a little background to Choro Choro Choro is appropriate, just in case the album is taken to have effervesced out of nowhere. In the 1990s, Warren was co-leader of the singular London quartet Perfect Houseplants. The group's half-dozen albums positioned them approximately as the small-group inheritors of the unpredictable mantle of the city's maverick 1980s big band Loose Tubes, of which the Houseplants' ...
Continue ReadingHuw Warren: Global Music from a Local Perspective
by Jakob Baekgaard
Welsh pianist and composer, Huw Warren, has been an important voice on the British jazz scene for many years. With a seemingly endless appetite for music, Warren has both been delving into Brazilian music with singer Maria Pia de Vito and played ethereal folk-inspired jazz music with another singer, June Tabor, in the trio Quercus. He has also worked as Tabor's musical director for many years. Aside from his many gigs as a sideman, Warren is teaching ...
Continue ReadingQuercus: June Tabor - Iain Ballamy - Huw Warren
by AAJ Italy Staff
Anche se non nuova alla cosa, solo alla ECM poteva venire in mente una scelta che apparirebbe superflua ma che ovviamente a nessun produttore discografico viene mai in mente: far incontrare il delicato mondo del folk storico britannico con i sapori del jazz minimalista e da camera. Il risultato? E come dovrebbe essere se non emozionale, intenso, sensibile, appassionato, spontaneo, espressivo, rispettoso, avvolgente, poetico, creativo... ho raccolto in una riga le più usate aggettivazioni con le quali diversi colleghi della ...
Continue ReadingJune Tabor / Iain Ballamy / Huw Warren: Quercus
by John Kelman
Awaiting release for more than seven years, Quercus is not the first time ECM has branched into the realm of traditional British music combined with jazz improvisation. Unlike the rawer and more unfettered freedom of producer Steve Lake's inspired pairing of singer Robin Williamson with improvisers including violist Mat Maneri, bassist Barre Phillips and Swedish traditionalist Ale Möller on recordings like The Iron Stone (2007), however, Quercus is a more refined, elegant and dark live recording that pairs renowned British ...
Continue ReadingJune Tabor, Huw Warren, Iain Ballamy: Quercus
by John Eyles
June Tabor has been superb for so long that it is easy to take her for granted as England's finest female traditional folk singer. Despite holding that status for many years, she has never seemed to rest on her laurels. Alongside the traditional folk songs on which she built her reputation, Tabor has a repertoire broad enough to include John Lennon's “In My Life," Lou Reed's “All Tomorrow's Parties," Elvis Costello's “Shipbuilding" and Joy Division's “Love Will Tear Us Apart," ...
Continue ReadingHuw Warren: Hermeto +
by AAJ Italy Staff
Huw Warren è un pianista gallese già noto anche alle nostre latitudini per l'importante recente collaborazione accanto a Maria Pia De Vito in un progetto dedicato ai linguaggi etno-musicali planetari chiamato Diálektos (Parco della Musica Records). Curioso ed onnivoro, il suo nuovo lavoro è un omaggio al grande Hermeto Pascoal, fisarmonicista, pianista, sassofonista, chitarrista, cantante fra i più conosciuti e apprezzati degli ultimi 50 anni di musica brasiliana. La strabiliante forza creativa di Pascoal, sicuramente evidente più dal punto di ...
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