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Article: Live Review

Live From Old York: Thomas Truax, Chris Smither, Phil Beer, Huddersfield Immersive Sound System & The Chimera Ensemble

by Martin Longley
March 14, 2019

Thomas Truax The Fulford Arms January 26, 2019 Thomas Truax is an American one-man-band, a New Yorker residing in London, an oddball crooner, a nervy troubadour, and an inventor of visually and sonically imaginative musical instruments. Over the last decade, he's been a regular tourer around the UK and beyond, ...

Article: Live Review

Live From Old York: Maya Youssef, Vika Bull, Roy Wood, Blackbeard’s Tea Party & Ben Ottewell

by Martin Longley
January 14, 2019

Maya Youssef National Centre For Early Music October 12, 2018 This was a different group than the trio that your scribe saw in Birmingham around a year earlier, with Syrian qanun player Maya Youssef losing her pair of Iranian sidekicks and now joined by some new bloods. Instead of setar ...

Article: Catching Up With

Taz Modi: Submotion Orchestra is a unique blend

by Nenad Georgievski
April 14, 2018

Submotion Orchestra is a band from Leeds, UK, with a kaleidoscopic approach to making music. Since 2009, it has made music influenced by different strands of music, be it electronica, jazz, soul, pop or dub music. It's an interesting cocktail of sounds and influences that has yielded five albums to date with Kites (SMO Recordings, 2018) ...

Article: Live Review

Live From Old York: Taupe, Dr. K. Sextet, Leveret, 3*3, Kris Drever & Joan As Police Woman

by Martin Longley
March 17, 2017

Taupe The Basement March 3, 2017 Taupe is a colour that's ostensibly beige, but in reality seems to frequently inhabit a close-to-grey zone. Taupe is also the chosen name of this stripling prog-jazz trio from Newcastle-upon-Tyne in northern England. Puzzlingly so, as their compacted, nervous, twitching compositions suggest something brighter, ...

Article: Live Review

Live From Old York: Paolo Angeli, Derek Gripper, Geoff Lakeman, John Warren & Iain Dixon

by Martin Longley
March 2, 2017

Paolo Angeli/Derek Gripper The National Centre For Early Music February 16, 2017 On this double-billed evening, acoustic guitars were found in their extreme opposites states, spreading from purity to perversion. From South Africa, Derek Gripper plays a natural axe, amplified only modestly, direct into a respectfully- distanced microphone. From Sardinia, ...

Article: Interview

Jamil Sheriff: Helping shape a brave new jazz world

by Rokas Kucinskas
February 24, 2017

Jamil Sheriff is a jazz pianist, composer, and educator. About 20 years after finishing studies in Leeds College of Music, the pianist became the head of the jazz department in the same institution; today he is regarded as one of the top jazz educators in the UK. Among many things Sheriff teaches composition, aural awareness, and ...

Article: Live Review

Live From Old York: Laura Jurd, Annie Whitehead, Brooks Williams & Koshka

by Martin Longley
December 23, 2016

Laura Jurd's Dinosaur National Centre For Early Music November 11, 2016 Dinosaur are one of the UK's fastest rising new bands, although their recent re-naming hides a few years of history as the Laura Jurd Quartet. The London foursome still look even younger than their actual ages, thus qualifying as ...

Article: Live Review

Live From Old York: Kathryn Tickell, Tom Brosseau, Breabach & Loudon Wainwright III

by Martin Longley
November 27, 2016

Kathryn Tickell & The Side National Centre For Early Music October 17, 2016 Folk and chamber classical collide, but it's not always clear how to untangle the parts, or whether we even want to, as another entity entirely is created. The Side ensemble is a half-and-half meeting between Northumbrian piper ...

Article: Album Review

Flying Machines: Flying Machines

Read "Flying Machines" reviewed by Roger Farbey

by Roger Farbey
August 29, 2016

Flying Machines is the eponymous debut album by a group led by British guitarist Alex Munk whose late father Roger Munk was the inspiration for the project. Munk Senior was a leading figure in the design and construction of modern airships, otherwise known as Hybrid Air Vehicles. Munk Junior graduated in 2009 from Leeds College of ...

Article: Live Review

Live From Old York: The East Pointers, Bob Fox & Fairport Convention

by Martin Longley
March 13, 2016

The East Pointers The Black Swan February 4, 2016 Inexplicably, it seemed that around a third of the seats for this full-house gig was taken up by an all-female Norwegian posse. Even if they hadn't made this choice, it's highly likely that Canadian trio The East Pointers would have ...