Results for "Jah Wobble"

Jah Wobble

Jah Wobble: Memories

by Geno Thackara
June 28, 2026

Reworking a classic album, even partially, always risks turning into a nostalgia exercise and/or a misguided attempt to experiment. The prospect is even trickier with something impossible to recapture, such as the lightning-in-a-bottle chaos of Public Image Ltd's landmark Metal Box (Virgin, 1979). Nonetheless, the inimitable Jah Wobble threaded that needle a few decades later with ...

The Flame: Towards The Flame Vol 1

by Mike Jurkovic
May 24, 2023

Three of Europe's most acclimated and proven improvisers--pianist Robert Mitchell (Steve Coleman, Greg Osby), bassist Neil Charles, and drummer/percussionist Mark Sanders (Jah Wobble, Rachel Musson)--band together as The Flame for the first time and emerge from pandemic isolation, and the forever wars and broken civics that accompanied it, with a hypnotic performance captured absolutely live on ...

Stephan Thelen: Fractal Guitar 2 - Remixes

by Mark Sullivan
February 3, 2022

Guitarist & composer Stephan Thelen's experimental guitar-fest Fractal Guitar (MoonJune Records, 2019) was followed by Fractal Guitar Remixes And Extra Tracks (MoonJune Records, 2019), a substantially fresh look at the material, as well as an expansion. For the sequel Fractal Guitar 2 (Moonjune Records, 2021) Thelen produced an even more radical approach to contemporary guitar-driven music. ...

Citadelic 2021

by Martin Longley
December 2, 2021

Citadelic Citadelpark Gent, Belgium August 16-18, 2021 Your scribe took a three-day slice out of the six-day Citadelic festival, which had returned to its accustomed Citadelpark following a switch of location in 2020. He arrived for the second half of this 14th edition, catching three or four acts ...

Evan Parker

by John Eyles
September 11, 2017

In his biography of Robert Wyatt, Different Every Time (Serpent's Tail, 2015), author Marcus O'Dair describes Evan Parker as “perhaps the finest British free-jazz saxophonist of his generation." The only words in that phrase that seasoned Parker followers might take issue with are “perhaps," “British" and “free-jazz," preferring just to describe him as the finest improvising ...

Sola Rosa Debut Their Arty Clasic for "Love Alone"

November 17, 2011

Acclaimed New Zealand combo Sola Rosa are bringing their special blend of hip hop, reggae, jazz, Latin, soul and funk to lucky US audiences for the first time later this month, but first, they have a special treat for us all. The group's second US debut video for “Love Alone" premiered on Baeble Music. The stellar ...

Acclaimed Kiwi Funk Sensations, Sola Rosa, Set To Bring The Funk (Plus the Jazz, Hip-Hop, Reggae, Latin, & More) To The US

October 28, 2011

Acclaimed New Zealand combo Sola Rosa will bring their groovalicious blend of hip hop, reggae, jazz, latin, soul and funk to lucky US audiences for the first time later this year, via a series of tour dates just announced. Starting November 29th, frontman Andrew Spraggon will take the stage alongside Spikey Tee (Jah Wobble, Mr. Scruff, ...