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Rory Gallagher: Calling Card
by Ian Patterson
Rory Gallagher Rory Gallagher: Calling Card Dearg Films/Strange Music LimitedDirector: Brian Reddin 2024 If street signs named after an artist are any indication of their cultural status then there is no doubting the importance of Rory Gallagher. Streets in at least three cities, including Paris, and a Dublin square, ...
Bassekou Kouyaté At Regional Cultural Centre
by Ian Patterson
Bassekou Kouyaté Earagail Arts Festival Regional Cultural Centre Letterkenny, Ireland July 27, 2024 Few West African musicians have done as much as Bassekou Kouyaté to take the ngoni, an ancient West African string instrument, to the wider world. Born in Garana in 1966, Kouyaté first wowed ...
Izumi Kimura, Barry Guy, Gerry Hemingway: Six Hands Open As One
by Ian Patterson
It should come as no surprise that three of contemporary music's great improvisers should obliterate the boundaries between composed and improvised music. This is the second collaboration between pianist Izumi Kimura, double bassist Barry Guy and drummer/percussionist Gerry Hemingway following Illuminated Silence (Fundacja Sluchaj, 2019), a visceral live document where improvisation played out within conceptual compositional ...
Boubacar Traoré At Regional Cultural Centre
by Ian Patterson
Boubacar Traoré Regional Cultural Centre Earagail Arts Festival Letterkenny, Ireland July 14, 2024 Letterkenny's Regional Cultural Centre is not the biggest of venues, but a full house is a full house. Malian singer-songwriter and guitarist Boubacar Traoré has been packing them in around the world since the early '90s, though ...
Liv Andrea Hauge Trio: Ville Blomster
by Ian Patterson
Some musicians toil for years to deliver a debut album, perhaps because composing does not come easily. A lack of confidence, or simply the financial burden of recording can also be inhibitors. Other musicians seem to hit the ground running. Liv Andrea Hauge, a pianist and composer from northern Norway belongs in the latter category. Just ...
Next Experiment: Next Experiment
by Ian Patterson
Without musical ideas a band's shelf-life as a vital entity is usually limited--that is a given. Commitment is perhaps a more underrated quality. Pianist Leopoldo Osio and bassist Peter Erdei have bags of that, steering the Dublin band formerly known as CEO Experiment through the choppy waters of a key member leaving, followed by the long ...
James Blood Ulmer: Family Affair
by Ian Patterson
Nobody does blues, funk or jazz quite like singer/guitarist James Blood Ulmer. “Family Affair," from Black Rock (Columbia, 1982), is a slow-grooving, soulful delight. Vocalist Irene Datcher's honeyed tones combine with Ulmer's gravelly blues to wonderful effect, while the guitarist's inimitable knotty playing growls and sparks over Amin Ali's churning bass ostinato and drummer Calvin Weston's ...
Phil Robson Organ Trio At Flowerfield Arts Centre
by Ian Patterson
Phil Robson Organ Trio Flowerfield Arts Centre Portstewart, N. Ireland June 29, 2024 Is there an ideal time to catch a band on tour? At the start, when the musicians are fresh and there is the excitement of material still being shaped, or at the end when there may be ...
Northern Expo 2024
by Ian Patterson
Northern Expo 2024 Various venues Bodö, Norway June 13-15, 2024 The organizers of Northern Expo, a showcase for musical talent from Northern Norway, do not do things by halves. Why stop at Oslo, the logical meeting point for the 50 music industry delegates flown in from various points on the ...
Amy Gadiaga: All Black Everything
by Ian Patterson
Hailing from the Parisian suburbs, though based in London, bassist, composer and dancer Amy Gadiaga has steadily carved out a name for herself since graduating from Trinity Laban Conservatoire in 2023. Early neo-soul singles “Everything I Do" (2022) and “Nephi" (2023) introduced Gadiaga's appealing vocals and her socially conscious writing. Pleasant, stylish tunes, they held the ...
