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GoGo Penguin have been internationally hailed as electrifying live performers, innovative soundtrack composers, and as a collective who channel electronic and club culture atmospheres alongside, minimalist jazz and rock influences to create music that pulses and flows from the dancefloor to meditative inner-worlds, transporting us into brand new realms. Their latest album GGP/ RMX (Blue Note Lab) is a brilliant, vivid, reimagination of their self-defining masterwork, GoGo Penguin and features an array of the world’s sharpest artist-producers and remixers, including remixes from Cornelius, Machinedrum, Yosi Horikawa, Rone, Nathan Fake, 808 State, James Holden, Shunya, Clark, Portico Quartet and Squarepusher. GGP/RMX was released May 7, 2021. GoGo Penguin are: Chris Illingworth (piano), Nick Blacka (bass), Jon Scott (drums). Plus Joe Reiser (sound production).
Hugues Kieffer: Marseille, Five Continents, One Jazz
by Silvia Papa
In its 26 years of existence, the festival Marseille Jazz Five Continents has evolved from an event aimed primarily at local audiences--offering Marseille residents the chance to hear some of the biggest names in jazz live--to a boundary-crossing festival that embraces the full richness and diversity of contemporary jazz. Today, it offers an immersive experience spanning ...
Hugues Kieffer: Tutto il mondo a Marsiglia
by Silvia Papa
In 26 anni di attività, il festival Marseille Jazz des Cinq Continents si è trasformato da rassegna rivolta soprattutto a un pubblico locale, cui offriva l'opportunità di ascoltare dal vivo grandi nomi del jazz, a festival trasversale che esplora tutta la ricchezza e la diversità del jazz contemporaneo, in un'esperienza immersiva che spazia fra influenze classiche, ...
Mammal Hands: Circadia
by David Bruggink
On their sixth full-length release, Mammal Hands moves from Manchester's Gondwana Records to the German jazz powerhouse ACT. The former indie label proved an excellent fit for their contemplative piano-saxophone-drums format, which draws from jazz, modern classical, and post-rock in a manner both sensitive and cohesive. ACT's association with the Esbjörn Svensson Trio (e.s.t.) makes the partnership ...
Mammal Hands: Circadia
by Neil Duggan
The album title Circadia reflects themes of renewal and change rooted in the cyclical patterns of life. For the English trio Mammal Hands, change is the keyword: this sixth release marks a significant step in their evolution. Their move to the Act Music label represents a notable shift, one that may broaden their visibility while giving ...
Necessary Fictions
By GoGo Penguin
Label: Sony Music
Released: 2025
Track listing: Umbra; Fallowfield Loops; Forgive the Damages; What We Are and What We Are Meant to Be; Background Hiss
Reminds Me of Rain; The Turn Within; Living Bricks in Dead Mortar; Naga Ghost; Luminous Giants; Float (Loi Krathong,
2003); State of Flux; Silence Speaks.
Geno Thackara's Favorites of 2025
by Geno Thackara
To look at the commentary on the year's big stars and famous releases, one would almost think 2025 had been a lackluster year in music. Lucky for us that the jazz world is constantly full of things much more interesting. Fergus McCreadie The Shieling Edition Records The breakout trio ...
GoGo Penguin: Necessary Fictions
by Geno Thackara
What exactly is the entity known as GoGo Penguin? After several recordings developing a niche they call “acoustic electronica"--an amorphous recipe of rock-and techno-oriented hooks played on jazz instruments in real time--one might have thought we had the answer to that question with the eponymous GoGo Penguin (Blue Note, 2020). Like many self-titled albums, it made ...
Fabienne Ambuehl: Thrive
by Neil Duggan
Swiss singer and pianist Fabienne Ambuehl emerged onto the jazz scene with her debut album Glitterwoods (Traumton) in 2015. She cultivated her musical skills at the Lucerne School of Music, also studying with Asaf Sirkis and Gwilym Simcock. Following a move to London, she releases her follow-up album Thrive. To help realise her evolving ...
Kraków Jazz Week: Seifert Competition & Jazz Juniors
by Martin Longley
Kraków Jazz Week Cricoteka/Hevre Kraków, Poland September 26th-October 3rd 2024 This was the second Kraków Jazz Week, but there is a much deeper history unearthed when studying the roots of this new event. Fundamentally, it involves the amalgamation of two long-running festivals: the Seifert Competition and Jazz ...
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