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The Man Who Laughs: Deep Song

by Chris May
October 18, 2010

On Deep Song, London based singer Fumi Okiji and looped up guitarist Stefano Kalonaris--recording under the auspices of the experimentally inclined, but historically literate, musicians' collective F-IRE--offer a noir-ish, digital-age spin on jazz standards and the Great American Songbook. Okiji has explored similar material with the Portrait Bellevue trio featuring cellist Ben Davis and pianist Zac ...

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Robert Mitchell's Panacea: The Cusp

Read "The Cusp" reviewed by Alex J Watson

by Alex J Watson
October 16, 2010

Robert Mitchell's Panacea presents The Cusp, its third album, and debut release for Edition Records. This collection of ten highly arranged original compositions by Mitchell, combines complex rhythmic writing with contemporary vocal jazz. The recording is delivered with a squeaky-clean production sound that can only be a reflection of the leader's attention to ...

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Carlos Lopez-Real's Mandorla: Mandorla

by Chris May
April 27, 2009

Among the otherwise quite disparate assembly of musicians which makes up London's F-IRE collective and label, a shared sense of playfulness runs deep. Leading lights such as saxophonists Ingrid Laubrock and Finn Peters, guitarist Jonny Phillips, trumpeter and flugelhornist Tom Arthurs, cellist Ben Davis and drummer Seb Rochford--all seriously adventurous musicians--bring refreshing degrees of fun to ...

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Dim Lit

By Polar Bear

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2004
Track listing: Heavy Paws On The Purple Floor; Not Here, Not Near; Eves Apple; Polar Bear Standing And Ready; Urban Kilt; Snow; Underneath You Can See Too Much; The Shapes In The Clouds Aren't Always Happy; New Dark Park; Wild Horses.