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Chunk

Label: Diatribe Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Worn Key; If Not; Chunk; Tea For Two; RoJa; Steamm Thaw; And Much; The Song Is You; Cicaplast.

Article: Album Review

Back for even more fun, Irish stalwarts Matthew Jacobson and Sam Comerford follow up their EP Insufficient Funs (Self Produced, 2016) with their debut album, Chunk. Insufficient Funs gigs have been intermittent in the intervening decade. Still, drummer Jacobson and saxophonist Comerford have kept their collaborative fires burning in both Ingo Hipp's AERIE and Chris Guilfoyle's ...

Article: Live Review

Brilliant Corners 2025: Days 1-4

by Ian Patterson
March 13, 2025

Brilliant Corners 2025 Black Box/Various Venues Belfast, N. IrelandFebruary 28-March 8, 2025 Thirteen is young for most things, smartphones, cars and your average household pet aside. Thirteen is young for jazz festivals too, but as jazz festivals go, Brilliant Corners qualifies as a precocious youth. Its programming, whilst musically inclusive and ...

Article: Album Review

Niwel Tsumbu: Milimo

by Ian Patterson
January 10, 2025

Congolese-born, Ireland-based guitarist Niwel Tsumbu admits that it took some plucking up of courage to make a solo album. Since moving to Cork in 2004 Tsumbu has always played in collaborative settings encompassing, jazz, rock, classical and folk. Partial credits include Sinead O'Connor, Buena Vista Social Club, Nigel Kennedy, Steve Cooney, Dave Flynn, Baba Maal, the ...

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Milimo

By Niwel Tsumbu

Label: Diatribe Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Rubato; Milimo; Tirizah; Étude I; Masta; Polyphony; Gracias Paco; Étude II; Afrique Moderne; Tears of Joy; Étude III; The Silence Within; To Be Continued.

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Lost Bees

By Lauren Kinsella

Label: Diatribe Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Lost Bees; 5th Neck of the Woods; Fairy Tale; Shore; Haiku; Suspensions; Water; The Answer; In The Same Sphere.

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The Return Of The Prodigal Son

By Chris Engel

Label: Diatribe Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: The Introduction; Us 5; Enlight; Beyond Reasoning; Bucket List; Alice in Wonderland; The Return Of The Prodigal Son.

Article: Album Review

Roamer: Lost Bees

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by Ian Patterson
November 11, 2022

Roamer is vocalist Lauren Kinsella, drummer Matthew Jacobson, bassist/guitarist Simon Jermyn and saxophonist/flautist Matthew Halpin--four of Ireland's most lauded creative musicians. Formed in 2016, the quartet's activities have been frustratingly intermittent in the interim, though it is hardly surprising given that its members are based in London, Cologne, Berlin and Dublin. One early highlight came in ...

Article: Interview

BigSpoon's Chris Engel: Intention... And Spontaneity

by Ian Patterson
September 14, 2022

So much goes into a debut album—a lifetime of learning, experiences and myriad influences. The music that springs forth is also often shaped in subtle and unfathomable ways that are sometimes not entirely clear even to the composer. Some musical reference points may appear obvious, others much less so, and so it is with ...

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BigSpoon: The Return Of The Prodigal Son

Read "The Return Of The Prodigal Son" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson
September 14, 2022

South African saxophonist Chris Engel has been a ubiquitous figure on the Irish jazz/improvised scene since arriving in Dublin in 2011. Whether in Chris Guilfoyle's modernist Umbra, Cote Calmet's Afro-Peruvian-inspired Phisqa, Italian guitarist Julien Colarossi's quartet or the Weather Report tribute band, Plaza Real, Engel's commitment is total, his fierce technique matched by a fearless improvisatory ...