Results for "Gilgamesh"

Gilgamesh

Who Do You Think We Are?

by John Kelman
September 5, 2021

Trying to find a distinct definition of what has come to be known as “The Canterbury Sound" is as elusive as attempting to describe what, in the jazz world, has become an overused epithet for the German ECM Records label and “The ECM Sound." Attempts to do so usually fail short because, rather than being actual ...

Peripheral Vision: Sheer Tyranny Of Will

by Dave Wayne
April 9, 2015

One must wonder what chance a group of relatively unknown Canadian jazz musicians playing complicated original tunes has for any sort of recognition or commercial success in the US. If musical quality was the sole determinant, Peripheral Vision, the relatively unknown Canadian band in question, would be celebrities, set for life. They've unleashed a corker of ...

Gilgamesh: Another Fine Tune You've Got Me Into

by John Kelman
January 7, 2015

Gilgamesh Another Fine Tune You've Got Me Into Charly 1978 Today's Rediscovery pays tribute to a musician who has been dead for over 30 years but whose brief body of work remains a seminal part of the British Canterbury scene that included groups like Soft Machine, Caravan and Hatfield and The ...

Canterbury e dintorni secondo Ferdinando Faraò

by Claudio Bonomi
June 30, 2014

Fasano, solare cittadina pugliese in provincia di Brindisi, è da 17 anni teatro di un festival jazz eterodosso e controcorrente che, oltre a valorizzare talenti locali e a tenere alta la bandiera del jazz italiano (nel corso degli anni la rassegna ha ospitato, tra gli altri, Franco Cerri, Antonello Salis, Roberto Ottaviano, Franco D'Andrea, Stefano Bollani, ...

Cuneiform Records: Growing Progressive Music for 27 Years

by Mark Redlefsen
November 14, 2011

Twenty seven years is a long time for a niche progressive music label such as Cuneiform Records not just to survive, but to remain inventive and, in the best sense, ambitious. Steve Feigenbaum founded Cuneiform back in 1984, and with his wife, Joyce, runs it from Silver Springs, Maryland. Hosting bands such as Universe Zero, digging ...

Another Fine Tune You've Got Me Into

By Gilgamesh

Label: Esoteric Recordings
Released: 2009
Track listing: Darker Brighter; Bobberty / Theme For Something Else; Waiting; Play Time; Underwater Song; Foel'd Again; T.N.T.F.X.

Another Fine Tune You

By Gilgamesh

Label: Esoteric Recordings
Released: 2009

Gilgamesh: Another Fine Tune You've Got Me Into

by Nic Jones
July 20, 2009

British bass guitarist Hugh Hopper's recent death in the summer of 2009 throws this reissue into some sad relief. Recorded and originally released some 31 years ago, the fare is fusion of an order made rare by the fact that it's played with a measure of diffidence and an absence of empty technical fireworks. In short ...

Soft Heap: Soft Heap

by Nic Jones
July 16, 2009

None of the four gentlemen pictured standing on a London street in the booklet for this one are with us anymore, but their brand of music is a perfect antidote to somber reflection. Recorded in 1978 by a quartet of stalwarts from the likes of Soft Machine, Hatfield And The North and Gilgamesh, the music is ...