Results for "Laurence Pike"

Laurence Pike

Earth Patterns

By Jack Wyllie

Label: The Leaf Label
Released: 2022
Track listing: Exploding Upwards; New Universe; Garden; In The Moon House; Be A Pattern For The World; Willow Leaf Pear; Atomkerne.

Electric Fusions: Worldly and Wild

by Geno Thackara
September 12, 2022

As always, there are as many kinds of fusion as there are people to fuse things. This electrifying half-dozen from around the globe all bring a lot of electricity to jazz and rock and other things, though all in very different ways. Oli Astral From the Astral Multiple Chord Music 2022 ...

Szun Waves: Earth Patterns

by Gareth Thompson
August 10, 2022

The second Szun Waves album, New Hymn To Freedom (The Leaf Label, 2018), was a critical smash that united fans of Radiohead and Pharoah Sanders alike. Media types drowned in a torrent of adjectives such as gleaming, sparkling and rippling, as if the combo of brass and electronics could produce anything else. Unless, of course, it ...

Holy Spring

By Laurence Pike

Label: The Leaf Label
Released: 2019
Track listing: Mystic Circles; Daughter Of Mars; Dance Of The Earth; Transire; Drum Chant; Holy Spring; The Shock Of Hope; Taught By Spirits; Rites.

Laurence Pike: Holy Spring

by Gareth Thompson
May 9, 2019

Most artists in any medium have a need of sunlight, or at least the promise of it. Percussionist Laurence Pike is one third of Szun Waves, a jazzy crossover act whose emergence has been widely acclaimed. On his second solo album Pike is in thrall to spring, the harbinger of summer, though it feels as much ...

Distant Early Warning

By Laurence Pike

Label: The Leaf Label
Released: 2018
Track listing: Life Hacks; Distant Early Warning; Clouds And Wires; Hard Feelings; Cyber Bully; Corporate Memory.

Szun Waves: New Hymn To Freedom

by Gareth Thompson
August 23, 2018

Pythagoras had this notion that the Sun, Moon and planets all emit their own unique hum. Put simply, as these orbs travel through space they produce certain sound waves. Ever wondered what that might actually sound like? Wonder no more, for this second album from vanguard jazz trio Szun Waves is surely what Pythagoras had in ...

Laurence Pike: Distant Early Warning

by Gareth Thompson
April 3, 2018

Laurence Pike famously studied with jazz piano legend Mike Nock at Sydney's Conservatorium. The master and his apprentice then later worked together, both in concert and in the studio. But whilst the percussionist Pike may be shorn of his guru's input on this album, Nock's imprint is still tangible. Distant Early Warning was conceived ...