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Sons of Kemet at Black Box, Belfast
by Ian Patterson
Sons of Kemet Black Box Belfast, N. Ireland April 7, 2016 The finer points of ancient Egyptian religion might not have been the chief topic of discussion among the Black Box crowd as it waited for Mobo Jazz Award winners Sons of Kemet to take the stage in. Yet music ...
Sebastian Lexer + Steve Noble: Muddy Ditch
by John Eyles
In a similar manner to the simultaneous Fataka release by Evan Parker and Seymour Wright, Muddy Ditch successfully pairs a long-established member of the London improv scene with a player who emerged from Eddie Prevost's weekly workshop --drummer Steve Noble and pianist Sebastian Lexer, respectively. But in Noble and Lexer's cases, the descriptions “drummer" and “pianist" ...
Gregory Porter At The Ulster Hall, Belfast
by Ian Patterson
Gregory Porter Ulster Hall Belfast, N. Ireland March 31, 2016Though Gregory Porter has played Ireland several times, it's unlikely that any of the previous venues to welcome the Californian singer-songwriter have quite the history--or indeed the character--of Belfast's Ulster Hall. In its one hundred-and-fifty-year history this handsome Victorian music hall has ...
Album Launch For UK's Leading Gypsy Swing Ensemble, Trio Manouche
Sting, KT Tunstall and Suzy Klien (BBC) will be amongst Trio Manouche’s fans that’ll be eagerly anticipating the long awaited first album Now What? Now What? is the debut album, following the successful EP released back in 2012, for Trio Manouche, the UK’s most original and leading Gypsy swing band, and this debut will be launched, ...
Evan Parker / Seymour Wright: Tie the Stone to the Wheel
by John Eyles
The five tracks on Tie the Stone to the Wheel were recorded at two duo gigs which saxophonists Evan Parker and Seymour Wright played in London and Derby, on consecutive Sundays in October 2014, at the Kernel Brewery and the Derby Theatre Studio. Remarkably, at the Derby gig, it was revealed that when Parker had played ...
Sanguine Hum: What We Ask Is Where We Begin - The Songs for Days Sessions
by John Kelman
Few groups in the history of music can be credited with having come up with something as wonderfully absurd (yet, somehow, totally making sense) as Sanguine Hum. On its last album, the two-CD concept album Now We Have Light (Esoteric Antenna, 2014), the group told the story of a Dystopian future where our hero, Don (just ...
Howard Riley and Keith Tippett at Pizza Express
by Duncan Heining
Howard Riley and Keith Tippett Pizza Express London March 9, 2015 It's been a while since two of the world's great improvising pianists played together--twenty-two years to be precise. This fact alone may have brought a goodly and appreciative turn-out to Soho's Pizza Express Jazz Club. If so, Howard ...
Simians Of Swing: Simians Of Swing
by Bruce Lindsay
Sometimes the best legends are the ones you create about yourself. The Simians of Swing, whose debut release this is, understand. As this legend has it, the London-based band is co-led by an ex-member of the Russian mafia--skilled in the martial arts--and a man who spends his days playing chess on his own while meditating on ...
Kit Downes and Tom Challenger: Organ Crawling
by Duncan Heining
Pianist-organist Kit Downes is one of the brightest and most articulate talents to emerge from the British and European scenes in recent times. His refusal to be pinned down to any specific career path or musical trajectory is to his credit but even more so is his ability to produce authentic music without compromise across style, ...
Phronesis: Parallax
by Roger Farbey
Parallax (noun) “the apparent displacement of an observed object due to a change in the position of the observer." This phenomenon is exactly how the listener new to Phronesis' oeuvre would perceive this, their sixth album recorded within the last decade.“67000 MPH" for example, is a whistle stop tour of musically-defined gravitational resistance. The ...
