Results for "Mushroom Hour Half Hour"
Umdali
Label: Mushroom Hour Half Hour
Released: 2021
Track listing: Senzo seNikosi; Umkhumbi kaMa; Ntate Gwangwa’s Stroll; Life Esidimeni; Moshe.
Ludovico Granvassu's 2021 Sonic Delights
by Ludovico Granvassu
Jazz is not a competitive sport and “Best Ofs" are misnomers. End of the year listicles have no bearing on the artistic standing of the albums they include, or on those they neglect, just like a five star review doesn't make the album it graces any better than it already is. But, apparently, humans ...
Malcolm Jiyane Tree-O: Umdali
by Ian Patterson
Umdali may be the debut as leader of South African trombonist and visual artist Malcolm Jiyane (Tree-O is the name of his band), but one listen to the music--somber and uplifting in turn, gossamer soft and rousing at the poles--is sufficient to recognize his singular talent. Recorded in Johannesburg at the tail end of 2018 with ...
SPAZA
By SPAZA
Label: Mushroom Hour Half Hour
Released: 2019
Track listing: Magwinya, Mangola neWhite Liver; Sunlight, Glycerine, 2 loose draws; Five Rand Airtime nama-
eveready – 4000 degrees; Tigerbalm nobuhlebakho (interlude); Ice Squinchies / Waiting for
You; Invocations (interlude); Stametta Spuit – Invocations.
SPAZA: SPAZA
by Patrick Burnette
SPAZA, the debut from an improvisational collective based in Johannesburg, South Africa, may be the most surprising and gratifying album you hear this year by a group you've never heard of before. (The collective itself happens to be named—you guessed it--SPAZA.) The press materials note that the music was “completely improvised" and that SPAZA is part ...
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