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Erik Skov: Liminality
by Jack Bowers
Liminality is defined as “occupying a position at, or on both sides of, a boundary or threshold." Guitarist Erik Skov had a good idea: infuse his debut album with a certain amount of liminality (ambivalence) in the form of eight long-form compositions designed to lend his able sextet weighty meat on which to chew.
Penguin Cafe: Handfuls Of Night
by Mark Sullivan
Penguin Cafe continues in the tradition of the Penguin Cafe Orchestra, producing individualistic minimalist music using acoustic instruments. Previous album The Inconstant Sea (Erased Tapes Records Ltd, 2017) dabbled in dance music, with versions of Simian Mobile Disco and Kraftwerk tunes. This time the theme is the Antarctic: Greenpeace commissioned composer Arthur Jeffes to write four ...
Helen Sung: Sung with Words
by Angelo Leonardi
Solidamente collocata in area mainstream dagli anni del suo esordio, agli inizi del millennio, la texana Helen Sung s'è fatta apprezzare per il brillante pianismo e la guida di vivaci formazioni con eccellenti partner. L'estetica di fondo del nuovo disco non è diversa dai lavori precedenti ma aggiunge un'interessante relazione con la poesia, ispirata ...
Joe Armon-Jones: Turn To Clear View
by Serena Antinucci
Le dita di Joe Armon-Jones sono dieci. Che ovvietà, direte voi. Forse, ma non è così semplice la questione. Le sue dita sono un prolungamento istintuale, potente, reazionario sulla nuova scena jazz inglese. Sembrerebbe affetto da una specie di “morbo musicale di Parkinson," il tastierista inglese. Una convulsione di movimenti che procede verso ...
Nick Grondin: A View Of Earth
by Ljubinko Zivkovic
As a guitarist, nowhere are you more exposed than in jazz, particularly if you aim for that clean, Wes Montgomery, Kenny Burrell, Grant Green sound; elsewhere, particularly in pop and rock, the riffs, add-ons, the band, even studio wizardry can cover the lack of skill or mistakes. And then, unless it is a solo guitar album, ...
Fleurine: Brazilian Dream
by Angelo Leonardi
L'amore per la musica brasiliana di Fleurine Verloop era ben chiaro in Meant to Be, il debutto del 1995 della cantante olandese. Una fiamma insita nel suo background (una linea familiare è portoghese e lei parla fluentemente la lingua lusitana) che è sempre rimasta accesa, come dimostrano quasi tutti i suoi album (in particolare San Francisco ...
Keith Oxman: Glimpses
by Neri Pollastri
Disco nato da un'incontro, cercato ma in parte anche fortuito, tra Keith Oxman, eccellente tenorsassofonista e didatta di Denver, e Dave Liebman, che per Oxman è sempre stato un dichiarato modello. La registrazione ha preso corpo dopo un breve periodo di lavoro comune, che ha permesso di cementare un'intesa peraltro non difficile da trovare, grazie alla ...
Ruben Machtelinckx: Sualme
by Mark Sullivan
As a local resident, Belgian musician Ruben Machtelinckx was asked to contribute to Kunst en Zwalm (Art and Zwalm) 2019, a contemporary art festival that happens every two years in Zwalm, a small village on the Belgian countryside. Machtelinckx settled on a sound diary format, taking a digital recorder and instruments he could bring with him ...
Miriam Makeba: Pata Pata
by John Eyles
Originally released on Reprise in 1967, Pata Pata was Miriam Makeba's first album for the label, after a period recording for RCA. She had written the title song in 1956, when she still lived in South Africa, and recorded it with the Skylarks, the vocal harmony girl group of which she was a member. The Reprise ...
AP6C: Layers
by Mark Corroto
Have you been wondering lately, where all the thoughtful music has gone? Today we have universities teaming with technical wunderkinds who can flawlessly navigate “Giant Steps" or “Cherokee," and recordings that are showcases of dexterity and complexity, but much of it is devoid of the essence of meaning, in other words, soul. That is, until you ...
