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Article: Album Review

Max Richter: Three Worlds: Music From Woolf Works

Read "Three Worlds: Music From Woolf Works" reviewed by Nenad Georgievski

by Nenad Georgievski

Since his debut record Memoryhouse, composer Max Richter has consistently delivered music of unquestionable beauty and depth. Over the years, he forged a unique path that saw him melding classical contemporary music with electronic and the result to that was always an engaging progression of various works that went back and forth between the familiar and ...

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Article: Album Review

John Tilbury, John Lely, Dirar Kalash, Christian Wolff: Seaside

Read "Seaside" reviewed by John Eyles

by John Eyles

Bearing catalogue number at100, Seaside marks another important milestone for Another Timbre--the one hundredth release on the label's main imprint, some nine years after its first releases. To mark the event, Simon Reynell has issued music of which he is particularly proud, played by John Tilbury, John Lely on electronics and the Palestine-born, Hague resident Dirar ...

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Article: Album Review

Veryan Weston: Discoveries on Tracker Action Organs

Read "Discoveries on Tracker Action Organs" reviewed by John Eyles

by John Eyles

This new solo album from keyboardist Veryan Weston was recorded in May 2014 on tracker action organs in seven churches located around England. The recordings here document some of the preparatory research that Weston did ahead of a tour of churches with tracker action organs. That tour involved Weston plus violinist Jon Rose and cellist Hannah ...

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Brian Eno: Reflection

Read "Reflection" reviewed by Nenad Georgievski

by Nenad Georgievski

Composer and producer Brian Eno's ambient record Reflection truly goes to the mind and the heart in a quiet and seductive way. This hour long intriguing and captivating tapestry of carefully interwoven sounds conjures up landscapes of internal emotions that reflect the warmth and quiet of the first day of the new year when it was ...

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Onno Govaert / Marcelo dos Reis / Luís Vicente / Kristján Martinsson: In Layers

Read "In Layers" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto

You might assume the recording In Layers is another vehicle in Luís Vicente's meteoric rise to the top of improvisational music. If you guess this you are both wrong and somewhat right. While the Portuguese trumpeter has distinguished himself in the Twenty One 4Tet with John Dikeman and Wilbert De Joode, in Chamber 4, Fail Better!, ...

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Article: Album Review

Evan Parker / Mark Nauseef / Toma Gouband: As The Wind

Read "As The Wind" reviewed by John Eyles

by John Eyles

Evan Parker's Psi label was once a flourishing concern, releasing up to ten albums a year in its peak years between 2004 and 2011, but activity has tailed off recently. After releasing five albums in 2012, neither 2013 nor 2014 brought anything, leading to fears that no more would be heard from Psi. Thankfully, since then ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Weekertoft Hits Its Stride…

Read "Weekertoft Hits Its Stride…" reviewed by John Eyles

by John Eyles

As Weekertoft approaches its first anniversary, its teething troubles seem over as it is settling down into a pattern of releasing music regularly. Of the label's two latest releases, one is on CD, the other a download, a balanced approach that seems likely to become the norm. The download release is significant for two connected reasons: ...

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News: Recording

Japan And Porcupine Tree Keyboardist Richard Barbieri Set To Release New Studio Album Planets + Persona Via Kscope On March 3, 2017

Japan And Porcupine Tree Keyboardist Richard Barbieri Set To Release New Studio Album Planets + Persona Via Kscope On March 3, 2017

London- Legendary Japan and Porcupine Tree keyboardist Richard Barbieri releases his most sonically expansive work to date, with a brand new album entitled Planets + Persona. It is the third Barbieri solo album, but the first to feature such a wide pallet of instrumentation. Vintage analogue synthesizers combine with acoustic performances and jazz elements. Twisted voices ...

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Article: Take Five With...

Take Five with Tom Harrison

Read "Take Five with Tom Harrison" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff

Meet Tom Harrison: For alto saxophonist/composer Tom Harrison, the art of jazz is far more than mastery of the instrument, fluency in the repertoire and respect for the tradition. For Tom, the real undertaking is to connect with that which inspired the immortals of jazz, and to cultivate it within his own work. Born ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Emanem Tidies Up

Read "Emanem Tidies Up" reviewed by John Eyles

by John Eyles

As well as releasing contemporary recordings of improv, Martin Davidson's Emanem label has played a vital role in documenting the history of the music by releasing, re-releasing or re-curating recordings that are decades old. In the process, Davidson has sometimes worked tirelessly to improve the sound quality of recordings that were never intended for release, and ...


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