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Album Review

Julia Úlehla And Dàlava: Understories

Read "Understories" reviewed by Neri Pollastri

by Neri Pollastri
September 18, 2025

Album molto particolare, questo della cantante, compositrice e artista multidisciplinare Julia Úlehla, oggi residente a Vancouver, studi in molti paesi del mondo (Italia inclusa), ma origini morave che qui mette a frutto in modo davvero singolare. Il programma prevede infatti in prevalenza rielaborazioni di canzoni popolari del paese della Moravia slovacca di cui era originaria la bisnonna della Úlehla, Marta, e che furono trascritte dal marito, Vladimir Úlehla, e poi pubblicate in una raccolta uscita poco prima della ...

Album Review

Sick Boss: Businessless

Read "Businessless" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May
February 10, 2024

This bracing sophomore album from Vancouver's improvising sextet Sick Boss resonates with the beyond-genre territory of the late Jaimie Branch's Fly Or Die quartet. At a surface level there is the shared use of trumpet and cello, but deeper than that, Businessless embraces the riot grrrl abandon so beloved of Branch. Echoes of Fly Or Die often crop up: the brief melodic motif of opener “Useless Genius 1" is something Branch might have written, as are episodes on other tracks, ...

Album Review

Gordon Grdina: Night's Quietest Hour

Read "Night's Quietest Hour" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
September 17, 2022

Gordon Grdina might be proof of the saying “you can't keep a good man down." With Night's Quietest Hour he turns his attention once again to traditional Iraqi and Arabic folk music. This release by his small big band Haram follows Her Eyes illuminate (Songlines, 2012) and includes a guest appearance by Marc Ribot. Much like Ribot's forays into Cuban music with his Los Cubanos Postizos and Frantz Casseus' Haitian compositions, Grdina aspires for musical authenticity without being patronizing. And, ...

Album Review

Gordon Grdina: Safar-E-Daroon

Read "Safar-E-Daroon" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
April 22, 2020

Safar e Daroon germinates from its dark, submerged interiors immediately and immediately brings you into the light. But a light of what? A lover's lamp? A hushed arena? An Australian wildfire? Take your pick and let your mind go. It's all going to happen and does so in spades on oudist Gordon Grdina's second go-round with his associates, The Marrow. As it has been on recent releases such as Gordon Grdina's Nomad Trio> (Skirl, 2020) with pianist Matt ...