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Article: Live Review

Festival International de Jazz de Montreal 2017

by John Kelman
July 7, 2017

Part 1 | Part 2 Festival International de Jazz de Montréal 2017 Montréal, Canada June 29-July 3, 2017 It's always a thrill to return to Le Festival International de Jazz de Montréal (FIJM). Deemed the biggest jazz festival in the world by the Guinness World Book of Records, it only ...

Article: Album Review

Theo Travis: Open Air

by John Kelman
June 2, 2017

It's been a very busy decade for Theo Travis. The British reed/woodwind multi-instrumentalist has appeared, to varying degrees, on literally every album that Steven Wilson has released since turning to a solo career in 2009--from Insurgentes and 2011's Grace for Drowning (Kscope), through 2013's best-selling The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories), 2015's commercial ...

Article: Extended Analysis

The Man Who Changed Guitar Forever!

by John Kelman
April 17, 2017

In a time when album sales are a challenge being mitigated, at least to some extent, by the release of deluxe editions and box sets, it's still more necessary than ever to grab potential listeners with imagery and words; the title of a box set can have, especially for those less than intimately familiar with the ...

News: Recording

Blackfield Feat. Steven Wilson Release Lyric Video For "From 44 To 48" From Forthcoming New Album "Blackfield V"

February 26, 2017

Ahead of the release of their new studio album Blackfield V on March 17th through Kscope, Blackfield, a collaboration between Israeli songwriter and musician Aviv Geffen, and British musician and producer Steven Wilson, have released a new lyric video for the song “From 44 to 48”. Steven Wilson comments on the song “Even though I don't ...

Article: Interview

Tim Bowness: Ghost Lights and Life Sentences

by John Kelman
February 19, 2017

As much as it's something most would prefer to avoid, when a pair of musicians share a lengthy musical history together it's difficult not to compare and contrast the work they do when apart. Beyond contributing added clarity to their individual work, it helps to articulate what each of them bring to the table when they're ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Tim Bowness: Lost in the Ghostlight

by John Kelman
February 19, 2017

It's a somewhat hidden truth that a sizeable percentage of any musician's fan base believes that the music their favorite artists make is a direct reflection of their tastes. While an artist's music ought, indeed, be a reflection of what moves them, it's another truth that, more often than not, their listening habits run much farther ...

News: Recording

Chicago II The Steven Wilson Remix Available Now From Rhino

February 19, 2017

More than 40 years after its debut, Chicago II still sounds like nothing else. Released in 1970, Chicago's second album brims with confidence and inspiration as it draws on everything from orchestral music to heavy rock. Although it never affected the record's popularity—it peaked at #4 on the album chart and spawned a trio of Top ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Chicago II (Steven Wilson Remix)

by John Kelman
February 12, 2017

It's rare that an opportunity presents itself to directly compare a high resolution remaster with a high resolution remix, but with last year's Quadio (Rhino) box set containing Blu Ray Audio versions (at 24-bit/192KHz) of its first nine studio recordings (including, curiously, a completely superfluous, early Greatest Hits package) and the recent, single-disc reissue of Chicago ...

Article: Rediscovery

Greg Lake & Keith Emerson: Their Best Work Together

by John Kelman
December 31, 2016

While it should come as no surprise that musical heroes from across all genres are beginning to die off, some of the highest profile losses are, in particular, in the rock/pop world, where many of its biggest stars are now in their mid-to-late sixties...or older. Few would disagree that one of the years biggest losses happened ...

Article: Album Review

Dewa Budjana: Zentuary

by John Kelman
December 25, 2016

In retrospect, all paths have truly led to this. Four increasingly impressive recordings for Moonjune Records have brought Dewa Budjana together with a variety of high profile, top-drawer jazz musicians from the American west and east coasts. Each successive album, from 2013's Dawai in Paradise through to 2015's Hasta Karma, have found the Indonesian guitarist raising ...