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Zoöphyte: Galapagos

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by Ian Patterson
August 22, 2023

Zoöphyte is a ten-piece pop band boasting some of London's finest jazz musicians. Its debut album, Signs Of Life (Howlin' Werewolf, 2020), was a pleasing hybrid of uber-catchy grooves, ear-bending psychedelia and sizzling jazz virtuosity. How could it be otherwise for a band that cites influences as diverse as Canterbury progressives Soft Machine and Caravan, psychedelic ...

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Tortugas

By Chris Allard

Label: Perdido Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Fellini's Waltz; Use Your Imagination; Waltz for Libby; Jive Coffee; Critter; Willow Weep for Me; Tortugas; See the Pyramid; Luiza; Grand Lament.

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A View with a Room

By Trish Clowes

Label: Greenleaf Music
Released: 2022
Track listing: A View with a Room; The Ness; Amber; Morning Song; No Idea; Ayana; Time; Almost.

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Two Masterful Duos (Night and Day)

by Geno Thackara
July 20, 2022

Sachal Vasandani and Romain Collin Still Life Edition Records 2022 While the first year of COVID-19 turned the world upside down, Sachal Vasandani and Romain Collin turned sudden isolation into figurative gold. The simple duo album Midnight Shelter (Edition, 2021) was a rich sleeper that proved to continue getting better with ...

Article: Six Picks

April 2022

by Pat Youngspiel
April 13, 2022

Remboato Remboato Nagalu 2022 After pianist Koichi Sato's Embryo—praised in a recent Six Picks issue not only for its musical excellence but also for the elaborate packaging and presentation that Shinya Fukumori's Nagalu label offers— Remboato is the Japanese label's second outing of the year and features a remarkable acoustic ...

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Rainbow Over Kolonaki

By Tali Atzmon

Label: MoonJune Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Rainbow Over Kolonaki; If I Should Lose You; She Moved Through the Fair; I’m a Fool to Want You; Greensleeves; Perdita; Time Runs Out; Scarborough Fair; When Apollo Smiles; I’ll Be Seeing You.

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Signs of Life by Zoöphyte

By Peter Jones

Label: Howlin' Werewolf
Released: 2020
Track listing: Los Retablos; Füsun; Stone Cold Killah; House on the Corner; Olive, Butterfly & Stork; (Feel Like I'm) Chained to a Rock; The Caribou; What's Your Favourite Planet?; My Dreams Are All in Black and White; Füsun (alt take)

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MY IRIS Live!

By Trish Clowes

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2020
Track listing: Amber; I Can’t Find my Other Brush; Shirley; Eric’s Tune; Abbott & Costello; Free to Fall.

Article: Album Review

Zoöphyte: Signs Of Life

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by Ian Patterson
July 14, 2020

A zoophyte is the ancient Greek term for an invertebrate animal resembling a plant. So, an odd name for a band, perhaps. Mythical zoophytes, like the plant that grew sheep as its fruit, were commonplace in Medieval herbals--tomes describing the culinary, toxic, hallucinatory, aromatic, and magical qualities of plants. These were, in less scientific times, attempts ...

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MY IRIS: MY IRIS Live!

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by Ian Patterson
April 30, 2020

Unable to undertake its scheduled April tour due to COVID 19, MY IRIS, the quartet led by saxophonist Trish Clowes, releases this live recording culled from gigs in Belfast and Galway in October 2019. Captured on Zoom recorder, Clewes has done an admirable job in producing a presentable sound on this digital-download, Bandcamp release. More importantly, ...