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Live at Abbey Road

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2016
Track listing: Branches Break; Gbfisysih; Initiate; Ocean in a Drop.

Album

Man Made Object

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2016
Track listing: All Res; Unspeakable Word; Branches Break; Weird Cat; Quiet Mind; Smarra; Initiate; Sbfisysih; Surrender to Mountain; Protest.

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Article: Extended Analysis

GoGo Penguin: Man Made Object

Read "GoGo Penguin: Man Made Object" reviewed by Phil Barnes


Its stick or twist for GoGo Penguin as they release this, their Blue Note debut and the first of a reputed three album deal. Do they push ahead, expanding their palette of electronica seen through the prism of acoustic jazz, or retreat a tad in deference to their new paymasters by emphasising the more traditional jazz ...

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Article: Live Review

GoGo Penguin at Riverbank Arts Centre

Read "GoGo Penguin at Riverbank Arts Centre" reviewed by Ian Patterson


GoGo Penguin Riverbank Arts Centre Newbridge, Ireland October 31, 2015 With the Curragh Racecourse just a few furlongs away, Newbridge is more famous for horse racing than for its bridge that spans The Liffey. However, the independent Riverbank Arts Centre--just forty minutes from Dublin--is doing its bit to broaden the ...

Album

V2.0

Label: Gondwana Records
Released: 2014
Track listing: Murmuration; Garden Dog Barbecue; Kamaloka; Fort; One Percent; Home; The Letter; To Drown in You; Shock and Awe; Hopopono; Break; In Amber; Wash.

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Article: Extended Analysis

Nat Birchall: Live In Larissa

Read "Nat Birchall: Live In Larissa" reviewed by Phil Barnes


This limited double vinyl and download collection is a wonderful document of two nights that Birchall and his band played at the Duende Jazz Bar in Larissa during May 2013. The trip appears to have made an enormous impression on Birchall who commented shortly after returning that “I think our visit will become one of the ...

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Article: Album Review

Nat Birchall Quintet: Live In Larissa

Read "Live In Larissa" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay


Two shows on the tiny stage of the Duende Jazz Bar in Larissa, Greece, in May 2013, form the basis for the Nat Birchall Quintet's Live In Larissa: a live album that provides a welcome and impressive addition to Birchall's discography.Birchall, a master of soprano and tenor saxophones who's based in the north west ...

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Article: Album Review

GoGo Penguin: v2.0

Read "v2.0" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay


So what do we have here? An album by Manchester trio GoGo Penguin. The minimalist front cover gives nothing away, no band name, no album title. The somewhat prosaic title, v2.0 is actually rather more informative--for this is the band's second album, performed by its second lineup. Pianist Chris Illingworth and drummer Rob Turner both appeared ...

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Article: Album Review

Nat Birchall: World Without Form

Read "World Without Form" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay


In a world that often seems bereft of any sense of spirituality it's good to know that performers like saxophonist Nat Birchall are still true to the spirituality of music. Birchall, based in the northeast of England, continues to create beautiful, soulful, music on his fifth album as leader, World Without Form, in the company of ...


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