Jazz Articles about Nora Mulder

About Nora Mulder

Album Review

Boi Akih: From And To Infinity

Read "From And To Infinity" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson
August 7, 2024

Singer Monica Akihary and guitarist Niels Brouwer, the beating heart of Boi Akih, have been finding the common ground in Indonesian, Indian, African and European music traditions since the late 1990s. Indonesia in particular is a constant source of inspiration--with Akihary often singing in her father's endangered Haraku language--and it proves so once again on their tenth album together. The roots of this album go back to 2018 when Brouwer was invited to write music for the Molucca ...

Album Review

Orquesta del Tiempo Perdido: Traantjes

Read "Traantjes" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi
July 4, 2022

L'Orquesta del Tiempo Perdido è un visionario progetto dell'olandese Jeroen Kimman, che ha debuttato nel 2018 con l'album Stille ed ora riconferma tutto il suo eclettico e bizzarro universo stilistico con Traantjes (in olandese lacrime). In contraddizione con le nostalgiche illustrazioni della cover (ma anche qui si può discutere, vista la somiglianza con test proiettivi come il T.A.T., che fanno emergere l'inconscio), la musica assembla frammenti stilistici diversi, indulgendo sulle musiche popolari e bandistiche centroamericane e sul ...