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Ruth Goller

Hailed by the Guardian for her “thunderous bass-guitar hooks”, Ruth Goller is a bassist, vocalist, composer, environmentalist and now solo artist.

Goller helped lay the foundation for the UK’s jazz renaissance, from her years on stage with Acoustic Ladyland and Melt Yourself Down, to more recently Let Spin and Vula Viel, whilst performing and recording with the likes of Shabaka Hutchings, Mercury-Award nominee Kit Downes, Sam Amidon, Bojan Z, Marc Ribot, Rokia Traoré, and Paul McCartney.

On ‘Skylla’, Goller in some ways returns to the pure untaught instincts that drove her as a teen punk musician. Working with different tunings for each song, Goller composes instinctively based on what she hears in every moment. As Goller puts it, “at that point muscle memory doesn’t work anymore so I have to trust my ear completely”. While predominantly a solo work, Goller is aided on ‘Skylla’ by accomplished and celebrated vocalists Lauren Kinsella and Alice Grant. The final contribution is from Kit Downes with the post-production and mixing of the record.

Finding Ways

By Sebastian Rochford

Label: Edition Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Maybe; People Say Stuff, Don't Be Disheartened; Being Outside; Who's Your Person?; Ashley; Keeping the Love Alive Again; ComMUnity; What You Hold In Your Heart; Don't Know Where It's All Leading To.

Kinesis

By Danny Keane

Label: MVKA
Released: 2026
Track listing: "Running" "Passing Time" "Cathartic Chaos" "Somnolent Stomp" "A Major Minor Waltz" "Time To Go"

Brilliant Corners 2026

by Ian Patterson
March 23, 2026

Brilliant Corners 2026Black Box/Various VenuesBelfast, N. IrelandFebruary 27-March 7, 2026 Few events signpost the time of year quite like a city's flagship contemporary music festival. For one week every March, as winter gradually recedes, Belfast's aptly named Brilliant Corners illuminates jazz--and jazz-adjacent music--in many of its myriad forms. Inevitably, some of the more outré ...

Rites & Revelations

By Laura Jurd

Label: New Soil
Released: 2025
Track listing: Offering; Step Up To The Altar; Praying Mantis; Lighter & Brighter; Life; You Again; St James Infirmary; Bide Your Time; What Are You Running Towards?; Back To Life.

Sebastian Rochford: Finding Ways

by Neil Duggan
November 1, 2025

Finding Ways is the first chapter in a major project for British drummer and composer Sebastian Rochford. He is one of the most versatile drummers working today, as evidenced by his work with his band Polar Bear and collaborations with major artists as diverse as David Byrne, Herbie Hancock, Adele, Kit Downes and Brian Eno.

Felix Henkelhausen, Ochs / Morris / Downs & German Jazz Prize Nominees

by Maurice Hogue
April 14, 2025

Listening to a tune by German bassist Felix Henkelhausen while traveling in the car led me to check out what he was up to; I discovered he's been nominated for a 2025 German Jazz Prize in the Album of the Year category for Deranged Particles. Soon I was exploring other nominees and that led to incorporating ...

Brilliant Corners 2025: Days 5-8

by Ian Patterson
March 16, 2025

Brilliant Corners 2025 Black Box/Various Venues Belfast, N. IrelandFebruary 28-March 8, 2025 If the first four days of Brilliant Corners 2025 leaned towards long-form contemporary composition and free improvisation, the music of the last four days had a more spiritual tone, and a more heavily African-accented character. Many would say that ...

Brilliant Corners 2025: Days 1-4

by Ian Patterson
March 13, 2025

Brilliant Corners 2025 Black Box/Various Venues Belfast, N. IrelandFebruary 28-March 8, 2025 Thirteen is young for most things, smartphones, cars and your average household pet aside. Thirteen is young for jazz festivals too, but as jazz festivals go, Brilliant Corners qualifies as a precocious youth. Its programming, whilst musically inclusive and ...

Skyllumina

By Ruth Goller

Label: International Anthem Recording Company
Released: 2024
Track listing: Below My Skin; Reach Down Into The Deepest White; Of Snowhere; Next Time I Keep My Hands Down; All The Light I Have, I Hand To You; She Was My Own She Was Myself; How To Be Free From It; From Breaks To Shreds, It’s A Short Path; Don’t Follow Me; I Have For You.