Results for "Nick Blacka"

Nick Blacka

GGP/RMX

By GoGo Penguin

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Kora (Cornelius Remix); Atomised (Machinedrum Remix); Embers (Yosi Horikawa Remix); F Maj Pixie (Rone Remix); F Maj Pixie (Squarepusher Remix); Open (Nathan Fake Remix); Signal in the Noise (808 State Remix); Totem (James Holden Remix); To the Nth (Shunya Remix); Petit_A (Clark Remix); Don’t Go (Portico Quartet Remix).

Live from Studio 2

By GoGo Penguin

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Totem; Petit_A; Bardo; Atomised; F Maj Pixie; Kora; Protest.

GoGo Penguin

By GoGo Penguin

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: 1#; Atomised; Signal in the Noise; Open; F Maj Pixie; Kora; Totem; Embers; To the Nth; Don't Go.

GoGo Penguin: GoGo Penguin

by Geno Thackara
May 29, 2020

Calling GoGo Penguin a jazz group is sort of like calling Canada a big snowy place. Nobody would consider such a simple term adequate to describe the trio today, least of all the members themselves--bassist Nick Blacka explains that with album number five, GGP has “finally come to accept that we really just aren't a jazz ...

Ocean in a Drop

By GoGo Penguin

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: Time-Lapse City; Control Shift; Four Corners; Ocean in a Drop; Nessus.

GoGo Penguin: Ocean in a Drop

by Geno Thackara
October 19, 2019

While William Blake saw the world in a grain of sand, and the poet Rumi wrote that each person is not a drop in an ocean but rather the opposite, GoGo Penguin's ever-expanding sonic world hints at similar multitudes yet to be experienced. It rarely sounds like “just" piano, bass and drums in these hands, and ...

A Humdrum Star

By GoGo Penguin

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2018
Track listing: Prayer; Raven; Bardo; A Hundred Moons; Strid; Transient State; Return to Text; Reactor; Window.

GoGo Penguin: A Humdrum Star

by Geno Thackara
February 9, 2018

“Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people." -Carl Sagan GoGo Penguin's snappy-yet-offbeat name is a pretty good indicator of their personality—partly inspired ...

GoGo Penguin: A Humdrum Star

by Phil Barnes
February 8, 2018

If 2016's Man Made Object, their first for Blue Note, was an exercise in consolidating past triumphs while signposting potential ways forward, then there can be no doubt that with A Humdrum Star GoGo Penguin have stepped into a version of that future. Ostensibly the title is a self-effacing reference to a Carl Sagan TV series ...